2 courses with the subject BST, 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.
BST 101Black Cultural Identity, Past & Present3
This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of the global black experience through an examination of the roots, culture, and politics of the modern world with an emphasis on the ideas of black social thought, political protests, and social change. The course is organized chronologically, covering the historical foundations and backgrounds of people of African descent throughout the diaspora, classic works in Black Studies with emphasis on continuities among African peoples worldwide, and the social forces that have shaped contemporary life, and particularly black life, in Africa and the Americas. Lecture
BST 255Jazz: Music, Race, Politics, and American Culture3
Jazz is sometimes referred to as “America’s original art form” because it was shaped by the disparate, and often opposing cultural forces in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Frequently viewed in the modern day as analogous to classical music, jazz has consistently straddled the blurry line between “high art” and “pop art” for over a century, with all of the artistic and societal baggage that such a balancing act entails. This course examines jazz from both a musical and societal lens. In particular, this course focus on jazz’s relationship to race, understanding jazz as a musical tradition rooted in Black American culture which has subsequently had a vast global impact on music and people of all backgrounds. Students will study jazz music, the musicians who create it, the politicians who react to it and/or influence artistic works, the educators who teach about it, and listeners who love, hate, praise, and deride it, all while trying to fully comprehend the answer to the deceptively complex question, “what is jazz?” Lecture
