48 courses with the subject ALS, 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.
A general introduction to African-American and Latinx experiences focusing on the U.S. A-E Only. Offered Fall and Spring. LA DESJ
An introduction to African history from antiquity to the present. Ancient and medieval trading empires, the impact of the slave trade and colonialism are all treated along with some attention to current issues in Africa. Pass/Fail Option. Offered Fall and Spring. LA DESJ WHGA CTR GL Cross-listed with HIST 1504 .
A focus on current, controversial, interdisciplinary, or specialized topics relating to the African-American and Latinx experience. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA
Prehistory, cultural background, and culture patterns of selected Indian, Mestizo, and Creole groups in island and mainland societies. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA WHGA Cross-listed with ANTH 2030 .
A study of works by African-American writers since 1890. The forms studied will include novels, short stories, plays, and poems. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years. LA Cross-listed with ALIT 2050 .
This course examines postcolonial literature culturally, thematically, and theoretically. Students read writers who have responded to the impact of colonialism in such geographies as North, West, and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. The cultural legacies of British and French imperialism and expressions of resistance to it are explored. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years. LA GL Cross-listed with WLIT 2070 .
This course explores popular culture in Africa and among African diasporic communities in the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe. All forms of expression—music, film, drama, video-television and popular writing—are covered but the emphasis of a particular semester may vary. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA
A critical survey of Blacks and Latinx in film and television. Special attention is given to their images as portrayed in major films and television programs. A-E Only. Offered alternate years. LA HUMA
The course examines different topics in western racism from the 16 th century to the present. The approach is multidisciplinary and covers issues such as the idea of race, the US legal system and race, segregation, busing, reparations, the US census and race, etc. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every two to three years. LA SOSC
This course examines the intellectual, social and political movements among Africans and African Diasporic peoples who have advocated the political unity or solidarity of all people of African descent. The course will cover pan-African origins among nineteenth century pan-Africanists in the USA and Caribbean, the post WWI Pan-African Congress movement, the interwar anti-colonial arts movements in Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa (including negritude) as well as later intercontinental connections due to the influence of Frantz Fanon, Black Power in the USA and pan-Africanism in West Africa. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA WHGA
This is a comparative political study of Africa south of the Sahara. Special emphasis is placed on the unique problems connected with the independence and post-independence period of a number of new African states. Political problems of the emerging nations, especially the role of the multinational corporations, will be discussed. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA GL Cross-listed with POLS 2560 .
A comparative analysis of selected Latin American political systems. The course will focus upon the manner in which political interests are articulated and aggregated, the functions and structure of governments, and the capabilities of systems in meeting the demands placed upon them. Particular attention will be given to the connection between political structure and culture. A-E Only. LA WHGA GL Cross-listed with POLS 2580 .
This course is designed to answer questions relevant to urban America, questions that have been largely ignored by academic philosophers. For instance: Is it morally wrong to snitch on your friends? If you’re from “the hood” (whatever that might be), is it morally/politically/socially wrong to want to leave it? What are the epistemological assumptions of keepin’ it real (or is this just an empty rhetorical phrase)? If you’re out to get bling bling, are you contributing to the capitalist system that often oppresses the traditionally underrepresented? At what point do artists and musicians stop being gritty and raw and start being parodies and stereotypes? A-E Only. Offered Fall and Spring. LA CVD CTR Cross-listed with PHIL 2600 .
This course uses interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to examine how race, gender, class, and culture intersect in the lives of women and men in various Africana and Latinx societies and cultures primarily in the United States. Attention is focused on the historical, economic, and political context that underlie race, gender, class, and ethnic-based inequalities that persist in contemporary societies. By exploring individual and community experiences, we assess the dynamic variation in racial-ethnic, class, and gender identities. A-E Only. Offered Fall and Spring. LA DESJ
A focus on current, controversial, interdisciplinary, or specialized topics relating to the African-American and Latinx experience. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA
Focused research designed to sharpen skills involving critical analysis involving Africana and Latinx experiences. Study may involve the use of a world language, fieldwork, or research. Culminates in a final paper or research project. A-E Only. Offered as needed. LA
A study of Black writers in Harlem between 1920 and 1929. Pass/Fail Option. Offered every 2-3 years. LA Cross-listed with ALIT 3051 .
A study of Black Literature written since 1950, using fiction, essays, poetry, and biography (or autobiography) to illustrate the development and influence of contemporary Black writers. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with WLIT 3057 .
This is an interdisciplinary course on Latinx dramatic works that reflects the experiences, struggles and successes of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, and Central and South Americans primarily in the US. Four primary themes include race, class, gender and sexuality; and the politics of identity as reflected in drama. A-E Only. Offered Fall only. LA HUMA
A survey of the political and social theories underpinning the struggle for liberation, legitimacy, and upliftment in the African diaspora, primarily the U.S. This course will examine such political and social issues as nationalism and separatism, the concept of race and identity, the problems of political representation, the notion of black authenticity and solidarity, the unsettled issues of colorism, interracial dialogue and relationships, reparations and social justice, and the influences of Marxism, Christian Socialism, and the growing black conservative movement. Readings will include selections from Du Bois, Alaine Locke, Frantz Fanon, King, Cornel West, M.E. Dyson, Lani Guinier, and others. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA HUMA Cross-listed with POLS 3070 .
This course is intended to acquaint students with the history and representative writings of African American women writers from the 19 th century to the present, and celebrates the great tradition of African American women writers, from Phyllis Wheatley to Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, and Ntozake Shange. Seeking to increase our understanding of the particular obstacles, issues and social injustice faced by African-American women, as well as the richness, complexity and diversity of their writing, we will explore the poetry and fiction of writers both famous and little known, discovering their contribution to American Literature, to African American and Women’s literature, and to social critique and social consciousness over the years. A-E Only. Offered every 2-3 years. LA Cross-listed with ALIT 3086 .
This course uses written text and cinematic text to explore the legal conditions of gender and women in diverse contemporary transnational contexts. More specifically the course addresses how laws map out gender, women’s rights and social and ideological symbols. The course emphasizes the ways in which legal definitions and representations of women have been understood in terms of race, religion, occupation and constitutional rights. Coursework and class discussions will be grounded in feminist and cultural theories and critical legal studies. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with WGS 3110 .
This course covers the period after the British succeeded the Dutch as rulers of Cape Colony, examining aspects of frontier engagements between Africans and colonizers, the effects of a mining-industrial economy and African resistance to the white state. Resistance to the South African racial formation will be discussed in its myriad expressions: labor, religious, artistic, new social groups. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA WHGA GL
A study of the institution of slavery, its origins, continuance, and contemporary residuals. Special attention is given to the Western Hemisphere. Pass/Fail Option. Offered Fall only. LA WHGA GL Cross-listed with HISW 3176 .
This course examines the relationship between power and bodies. Specifically, this course will be interested in sexed, gendered, and ethno-raced bodies. The course seeks to discuss the ways oppressive inequalities, deviance, and crime are constructed around particular bodies by the use of power. It also considers the human and structural consequences of this, as manifested through oppression, privilege, and inequalities through embodiment. Discussions include a theoretical understanding of power and of violence, the inclusion/exclusion of certain bodies, the normalization/abnormalization of somebodies, the production of structures that favor and promote certain bodies and not others, old and emerging practices of body modification and sculpting, the visibility/invisibility of various body types, the relationship of our bodies to new sciences and technologies and governmental institutions including the police, legislature, and judiciary. A-E Only. Offered every two years. LA
This course surveys the history of the Americas from 1492 until 1812. Major topics include pre-Columbian society in the Americas; the Spanish Conquest; the impact of disease on the indigenous populations & the creation of the New World. Major themes will include gender, family, the birth of individualism, and religion. We will try to get to the heart of this fascinating but painful story through a careful consideration of these themes over the course of the semester. A-E Only. Offered Fall and Spring. LA WHGA GL Cross-listed with HISW 3271 and SPAN 3271 .
This course surveys the history of Latin America from 1812 to the present day. Topics include the politics of the nineteenth-century; the abolition of slavery; urbanization and urban unrest; twentieth- century revolutions, the cold war; and contemporary unrest. We will read Latin American writing and consider Latin American culture in order to form an understanding of how the majority of the Americas lives its life. A-E Only. Offered Fall and Spring. LA WHGA GL Cross-listed with HISW 3272 .
In addition to discussing theoretical elements of the music of various cultures, discussions and readings will promote consideration of the social, historical, religious and economic constructs in which these musics exist. The course will consist of class lectures/ discussions, musical demonstrations and hands-on application of several elements of the music studied. A-E Only. Offered annually. LA WHGA CTR GL Cross-listed with MUSC 3342 .
The course examines the political, cultural, and social changes in the United States during the turbulent decade of the 1960’s. Topics include civil rights, the women’s movement, expansion of the welfare state, the war in Vietnam, the formation and demise of the liberal consensus, the emergence of the counter-culture, and the conservative backlash. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with HISA 3449 .
Survey of the migration and immigration of Latinx to and within the United States. The course examines the cultural changes induced by the immigration patterns of Mexican- Americans/Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, and other Central and South American peoples to the US. In addition to the specific immigration histories of these groups, attention is paid to the economic and political forces that push and pull individuals and groups to migrate within the context of changes to US immigration laws since the mid-19 th century. A-E Only. Offered every two or three years. LA WHGA CTR GL
This course examines graffiti and street art from around the world, with a special focus on works produced in the French-speaking world (Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe). We will consider graffiti and street art from a variety of perspectives: marginalized cultures, youth culture, punk, hip-hop, the intersections between local and international communities, as criminal activity, political protest, and as art. Students will do original research with online and/or in-situ graffiti. Taught in English. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with FREN 3553 .
This course is a survey of the various political ideologies associated with Latin America. We will begin with the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans and end with the Liberation Theology movement in the 1990’s. The course will place great significance on the Latin American struggle for recognition (and freedom) from Europe, as well as the United States. We will also spend considerable time considering issues such as colonialism (and post-colonialism), the slave trade, the decimation of the native populations, the various Christian missionary creeds, and the impact of the Europeans on the environment. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA WHGA CTR GL Cross-listed with PHIL 3630 .
This course considers the relationship between citizenship, democracy, and identity. We will examine what constitutes citizenship and how it is shaped by race, but also ethnicity, gender, class, and religion; how identity is constituted and shaped by race and these other contingent and non-contingent factors; and how citizenship and identity intersect in a democracy through forms of legitimate political representation, means of communication and participation, protest, pluralism, multiculturalism, identity politics, and voting. This course is encouraged for those considering careers in public affairs, international relations, social work, journalism, law, business, or education. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA HUMA CTR Cross-listed with PHIL 3640 .
This course is meant to examine the philosophical issues involved in the process of protest. Primarily, we will look at the development of a theory of righteous protest that coincides with the rise of democratic governance during the Enlightenment. This then gives rise to the idea of civil disobedience as the proper method for legitimate protest, as opposed to the destructive and damaging means of armed rebellion, as witnessed mainly in the French Revolution. But historical events like John Brown’s raid and Nat Turner’s rebellion complicate matters. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA OCOM CVD CTR Cross-listed with PHIL 3650 .
This course explores the social, political, cultural, labor, and gender history of African Americans beginning with African origins and concluding with the Reconstruction era. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students examine black women’s, men’s, and children’s experiences of the Middle Passage, the development of plantation slavery, the lives of free and enslaved blacks in the North and South, slave culture and resistance, interracial cooperation and conflict, African-American participation in the American Revolution and Civil War, slavery’s abolition, and Reconstruction. Major themes include African-American survival under and resistance to institutional oppression; alliances and interactions with whites and non-black people of color; African American interactions with non-blacks; class, gender, sexual, and political conflict among blacks; and personal identity, family, and community formation. Pass/Fail Option. Offered Fall or Spring. LA DESJ CTR GL
This course explores the social, political, cultural, labor, and gender history of African Americans since 1865. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students examine: black women’s, men’s, and children’s experiences during and after Reconstruction; the lives of blacks in the Jim Crow South and those who migrated North and West; racial violence and anti-racist activism; black literature, music, and political thought; African American participation in U.S. government wars; the mid-20th century Civil Rights Movement; the urban rebellions of the 1960s; pan-Africanism; black feminism; and the Black Power Movement. Major themes include: African American survival under and resistance to institutional oppression; alliances and interactions with white and non-black people of color; class, gender, sexuality and political conflict among blacks; and personal identity, family, and community formation. By the end of the course, students gain an understanding of the various ways in which African Americans envisioned and pursued freedom as well as resisted efforts to limit or wrest freedom from them. A-E Only. Offered Fall or Spring. LA DESJ CTR
This course examines the history of Islam in the African American experience from the first Anglo-American settlements in North America to the present. Islam and Islamic cultural and spiritual symbolism have intersected with African American communities since before the founding of the United States. By providing students with the intellectual and academic proficiency to analyze the complex history of African Americans Islam and Muslims, the class will enable students to understand the significant contribution African Americans Islam and Muslims have made to contemporary American Muslim communities and the larger hegemonic American society. A-E Only. Offered annually. LA DESJ
This course draws on African American, Women/Gender, LGBTQ Studies, legal, social, cultural, and political history to explore the convergent racial, gender, economic, and sexual ideas and practices that animate criminal activity, prison reform, and penal administration from colonial times to the present. Students engage with primary/secondary sources as historians, critically analyzing the evolution of crime and punishment. Ultimately, students acquire knowledge of the mutually sustaining forces of crime and the prison-industrial system, and think critically and creatively about ways to address the social problems linked to both institutions. A-E Only. Offered every four semesters. LA
This course draws primarily on the history of sexuality, Women’s and Gender, African Americans, Latinx, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, People Indigenous to the Americas, Arab Americans, and Whiteness, in order to explore lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people’s (lgbtqi) experiences in the United States from the colonial era to the present. In this course, students examine the ways in which discourses on sexuality and gender are fundamentally and inextricably enmeshed with race, class, ability, ethnicity, national identity, immigration status, and religion. Students also explore lgbtqi identity and community formation, racial, class, and ethnic conflict among lgbtqi people, the use of violence to repress homoeroticism and gender nonconformity, and the ways in which lgbtqi communities of color endured despite systematic oppression. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with WGS 3725 .
This course explores the history of the Spanish colonization of northern Mexico and what is today the southwestern United States. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with HISA 3788 .
A systematic and in-depth analysis of international political economy focusing on both state and non-state actors. Special emphases on multinational corporations in terms of their operating methods, goals and impact; multilateral organizations including the WTO, IMF, and GATT; and issues of government control. Examines issues of sovereignty, free trade, currency devaluations, labor unions, and the environment from several theoretical perspectives. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with POLS 3830 .
A focus on current, controversial, interdisciplinary, or specialized topics relating to the African-American and Latinx experience. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly. LA
This course will allow qualified students to serve as a Teaching Assistant for an ALS course. They will aid the instructor in leading discussion sections, advising fellow students on papers, research and exam preparation. In addition to these tasks at the end of the semester the student will prepare a report on their experience. The course gives students a sense of how scholarship is used in the classroom and how courses are designed. Pass/Fail Only. Offered as needed.
The ALS internship is designed to augment the ALS major or minor by providing students with the opportunity to work and learn in a setting that allows for the practical applications of their studies. The ALS internship involves work experience with a nonprofit agency, government. or a business that primarily serves the Africana or Latinx population. This includes community and social service organizations, governmental research and advocacy agencies, educational programs for children or adults such as literacy programs, or businesses. Pass/Fail Only. Offered Fall and Spring.
Women & People of Color have a special, complex & complicated relationship with science & technology. In historical moments they have been ignored & made invisible by science and technology, in others made objects without agency. Their experiences & their critique of these will be the object of this course which will seek to interrogate these histories & relationships as we consider how science & technology have treated sexed, gendered, ethno-raced, disabled individuals & groups, and how they; in their turn have, & are transforming the workings of science and technology. Topics will include the politics of health & normalcy, hormones, genes and productions of gender & identity; reflections on science & technologies as alienating or constitutive, as disconnecting or empowering, as producers of materiality & meaning, language of science, language in science & technology, Feminist and Critical Race critiques of Science & Technology, controversies over transplants, implants, conception, reproduction, surrogacy, immunity, immunization, contested illnesses & so on. Pass/Fail Option. Offered irregularly.
An intensive study of political development in the developing world focusing on issues of civil society, state legitimacy, and political economy. Comparative examination of themes, including traditionalism and modernization, political culture, ethnic divisions, and economic development. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA Cross-listed with POLS 4500 .
Brings together various theoretical and methodological approaches associated with the study of the African-American and Latinx communities in the U.S. A-E Only. Offered once a year. LA WCOM
Source: SUNY Oneonta's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
