10 courses with the subject AFAM, 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.
AFAM 1001Civil Rights & Civil Wrongs3
In this learning community, students will explore historical and contemporary African American Civil Rights movements, examining legal, cultural, spiritual, and/or social reasons that inspired widespread peaceful activism across the country, including the involvement of various populations (religious communities, artists, students, teachers, children, etc.) committed to activism, and the key role of nonviolence in these efforts. Students will gain a historical understanding of the importance of the 1950s-1960s Civil Rights movement, as well as making connections to current protest movements, such as Black Lives Matter. Civil “rights” can be seen in multiple contexts, such as the legal human rights for which activists fight, as well as discussing whether there a Typically offered:
This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the presence and societal impact of African American leaders in the Finger Lakes and Western New York regions. Through narrative and placed-based studies, classroom discussions and activities, and interactions with community leaders, students will investigate the historic and current impacts of African Americans on their respective communities. The course will focus on the societal settings and related leadership methods used by local African American leaders from the colonial period to the present time. Using a narrative approach, each student will independently examine and analyze an African American leader’s personal identity traits and leadership characteristics. Working in groups, the Typically offered:
As a part of this course, students will explore black speculative narratives that focus on imaginings of the future. These narratives will take a wide range of forms, including but not limited to short stories, novels, podcasts, films, and music. Through these texts, students will explore how black speculative narratives are used to discuss our historical and current political realities and imagine and work toward utopic possibilities. As students better understand these narratives and how they function, they will be encouraged to develop their writing and communication skills by creating their own speculative narratives. This LC is paired with Political Science Fiction, creating a collaborative space that blends the spaces we imagine with the spaces we live, g Attributes: LC YLIB
Students study and practice skills relates to academic and professional research through the development of independent inquiry-based projects. In their projects, students assert, support, and integrate their own positions into scholarly conversation based in research. Students develop competency in the location, evaluation, analysis and documentation of sources that represent a range of different perspectives on important issues. Typically offered:
In this course, students will read important and timely texts on racism in America today, with a particular focus on the fight for race equity of Black and Brown peoples. This course has different areas of focus each year, such as police brutality, healthcare, education, and other cultural and political issues of the moment. Each time the course is offered, students focus on a key issue, as students learn the skills to better communicate with one another and to better understand key aspects of this community issue from multiple perspectives. This class is primarily discussion-based, with multiple opportunities for self-reflection, group interaction, and dialogue. Students will engage with the community (in different forms, whether on campus or in Rochester), as Focus for fall 2021 will be “police brutality,” with selected texts, such as All American Boys, The Hate U Give, and The New Jim Crow. Typically offered:
This course introduces students to African America’s economic, social, political, religious, gender, racial, and ethnic backgrounds through an exploration of the lives, words, and deeds of the most influential minds within the race. Scholars, religious leaders, and community activists guided the largest U.S. racial minority through segregation to the present participation in political and economic institutions. Their struggle inspired freedom movements throughout the world. The course promotes an understanding of multidisciplinary learning, self-examination, and intercultural unity. The long-term goal is that pupils understand the cycle of racial oppression in the United States and how African Americans have worked to break it. Attributes: AMSS P5 YLIB
Participants conduct comparative research on the customs and mores of the social environments in communities of color in the greater Rochester area. The research methodology should infuse a deeper understanding of how factors such as poverty or race shape human lives. Students spend at least two hours weekly in the classroom and two hours on-site, interacting or working with a community-based organization. Through classroom and community activities, participants are guided to develop a comprehensive report that compares and contrasts the cultural environments. Attributes: YLIB
