5 courses with the subject BLKS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BLKS 2000Contemporary Black Worlds3
This seminar explores culturally relevant topics in the con- temporary African American world. Changing topic with each offering, students will consider African American experiences from economic, social, historical, racial, cultural, national, and global perspectives. Themes will include such topics as Black Success, contemporary black film, movements for social justice, modern African American literature etc. The specific course description will be in the course selection guide. (Same course as P&H 2000). 299 / 615
Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle The class explores some of the characteristics of African religions; slave religion, slave narratives, and their role in slave rebellions; the central role of religion in the African-American community throughout American history; the role of religion in the context of the Atlanta Compromise, Booker T, Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois; the roles of key people such as Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Marcus Gar- vey, Elijah Muhammad, Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, James H. Cone, “womanist” thinkers writers/ theologians like Delores Williams and Emilie Townes, etc. A special focus of the course will be on the role of the black church in the struggle for civil rights, highlighting the complex relation- ship between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. The role of religion in the contemporary African-American community(ies) will also be examined. The relationship between African- American religion(s), not existing in isolation, and the dominant white society will also be explored throughout the course. (Same course as PRS 2541). This course meets the Curry Core Humanities Breadth requirement and the Information Literacy Enhancement requirement.
BLKS 3900Senior Seminar: The Black Diaspora Special Topics3
Choose three of the following electives: 9 BLKS/P&H 2000 Contemporary Black Worlds 3 BLKS/ENG 2150 African-American Literature 3 BLKS/P&H 2330 African-American History 3 BLKS/P&H 2492 African-American Cinema 3 BLKS/ WRIT 2250 Black Voices Matter: Black Lives, Rhetorics, and Literacies 3 BLKS/SOC 3600 Chocolate Cities 3
