57 courses with the subject AAS, 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.
Introduces the history and evolution of the discipline, key scholars, idea and themes, and central disciplinary questions in African American and African Studies.
Survey of jazz music from its origins to the present in cultural and historical contexts. Also listed as MSC 103. (CD, D)
Examines the continent of Africa from prehistory to the present in global perspective, as experienced and understood by Africans themselves. Also listed as HST 105. (CD, D)
Examines the major developments that have linked the civilizations bordering the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to the present. Themes include exploration; commerce; European colonization and indigenous responses; disease; religious conversion and revivalism; mestizo and creole culture; imperial warfare; enlightenment; revolution; slavery and abolition; extractive economies; nationalism; 'scientific racism;' invented traditions; the black diaspora and negritude; decolonization; the Cold War; segregation and apartheid; dictatorship; neoliberalism; and globalization. Also listed as HST 110. (CD, D)
Introduces the history and development of Africana philosophy and explores significant issues, themes, and texts in the field.
Introduces the rise of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, discussing its key leaders, examining questions of power, freedom, and democracy, and engaging the movement’s enduring lessons for Black politics and the ongoing pursuit of justice.
Introduces the history and development of Black Women's Studies and explores significant themes and topics in the field.
Examines critical topics, themes, and issues in Black Queer and Trans life, thought and culture.
Introduces the diverse histories, thoughts, practices and movements within African American religious experience by engaging the theology, philosophy, literature, and cultural expression of how religion shapes Black life, freedom struggles, and community.
Survey of the key themes, topics, and linkages of the histories, cultures, politics, and ideas of continental and diasporic African communities across space and time.
Surveys the histories, experiences, and cultures of mixed heritage, mixed race, and transnational adoptee individuals, families, and communities.
(3 h) Examines the major analytical, conceptual, methodological, and theoretical frameworks in African American and African Studies and interdisciplinary approaches that inform the discipline.
Surveys the history, practices, politics, and discourses of prisons, policing, and the development of the carceral state. s, AAS 205. Black Cultural Studies. (3 h) Interdisciplinary exploration of the conceptual, material, and theoretical dimensions of Black Cultural Studies and the key debates informing the politics and cultures of representation in African American and African diasporic cultural productions.
3 AAS 210 African American Intellectual Traditions 3 3 AAS 240 Black Theology and Black Power 3 3 AAS 300 Black Feminist Theory 3
Introduces hip hop as a cultural, artistic, intellectual and political movement in shaping American and African American cultural expression and society by examining its historical roots, musical innovations, and global influence while engaging critical perspectives on race, class, gender, and politics.
Explores the various forms of Black popular culture and the cultural and intellectual politics the inform its reception and representation by scholars and the general public. Also listed as COM 246.
Explores significant figures and schools of thought in African American intellectual history.
Examines the cultural criticism of significant African American cultural critics and development and evolution of distinctive forms of African American cultural criticism.
Explores the histories and cultures of Black musical, media, and visual practices and aesthetics across African diasporic communities in the Americas.
Explores history, aesthetics, and politics by examining how Black filmmakers create new visual languages, aesthetic techniques, and engage questions of identity, representation, and power, situating Black film within broader cultural, social, and historical contexts.
Introduces key texts, thinkers, and movements in the dynamic interplay between Black theology and Black Power in exploring Black religious responses to political injustice, visions of liberation, and the shaping of Black religious thought in the modern Black freedom struggle.
Examines slavery and southern distinctiveness, from the first interactions of Europeans, Native Americans and Africans through the Civil War and Emancipation. Also listed as HST 266. (CD)
Examines the experiences of African-descended people from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom, with each experience - the slave trade, enslavement, and emancipation - marking a fundamental transformation in black lives. Also listed as HST 271. (CD)
Examines the experiences of African-descended people from the destruction of slavery to Reconstruction, from rural to urban, and from Jim Crow to Civil Rights, with each experience - emancipation, migration, and enfranchisement - marking a fundamental transformation in black lives. Also listed as HST 272. (CD)
Explores how the United States became an urban nation and how urban life has shaped its history and culture with special attention given to the role of race in the development of cities and the formation of urban cultures across the nation.
Introduces the history of Black participation in business and the economy alongside the economic theories and methods advanced by African American Studies scholars, highlighting how Black intellectual traditions reimagine markets, labor, and wealth in shaping struggles for freedom, justice, and collective flourishing.
Examines the confluence of issues at the intersection of race, environment, and justice in the United States and the African diaspora.
Introduces the histories and experiences of women working in and outside of the formal labor market in the United States.
Examines representative text tracing the histories, themes, and trends in Black self-writing.
Charts the development of Black Art in the United States and Great Britain from 1945 to the present through Paul Gilroy's notion of the "Black Atlantic" -- the ways that a distinct aesthetic emerged from a fusion of West African, American, and British traditions. Also listed as ART 294. (D, POR)
Examines the history and evolution of Black Feminist theory with a focus on key questions, issues and thinkers that inform Black Feminist thought.
Examines the histories of Black mothers and Black motherhood in the United States from to the present.
Examines significant figures, themes, and traditions in African American social and political thought.
Examines how and in what ways race is interrogated by African American philosophers and philosophers of African descent with critical attention to issues of identity, ethics, and politics.
Explores conceptions of race informed by Critical Race Theory and other forms of critical thought.
Interdisciplinary examination of the intersections of ideas, institutions, ideologies, and practices that have defined race and processes of racialization in the modern era. (POR)
Examines biological myths of race and race as a social construction; historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and implications of anthropological teaching and research for understanding social class and race discrimination in the U.S. Credit not allowed for both ANT 325 and AES 251/WGS 251, Cross-listed as ANT 325. (CD, POR)
An examination of issues surrounding race, class, and gender in the United States. Topics include income and wealth, theories of discrimination, public education, gender bias, and patterns of occupational and industrial segregation. Also listed as AES 310 and EDU 310.
Examines the complex intersection of politics and Black religion with particular consideration to how political ideas, theories, and movements are influenced by the knowledges, rituals, traditions, and practices of Black religion.
Examines the ethical dimension of Black Power and the cultural, ideological, and political movements influenced by theories and politics of Black Power.
Explores Africans' experience in the Atlantic world (Africa, Europe and the Americas) during the era of the slave trade by examining their encounters with Indians and Europeans and their adjustment to slave traders in West Africa. Also listed as HST 341, AES 341. (CD)
Explores the histories, concepts, and ideas of Black political movements that make explicit claim to enacting liberatory politics.
Critical examination of the political philosophy of significant Africana thinkers and traditions.
Expressive Cultures in African American and African Studies
Explores both the lived experience and the historical reality of African Americans. Black lives are profoundly shaped by their group experience, influenced in no small part by the role of racism. The biographical approach individuates historical figures struggling to fashion identity. Topics include character development, intimacy, gender roles, public and private personas, self-deceptions or defenses, and personal perceptions of biases. The craft of writing biography is taught throughout the semester. Also listed as HST 375. (CD)
A social and religious history of the African-American struggle for citizenship rights and freedom from World War II to the present. Also listed as HST 376. (CD)
Explores the collective memory and identity of American-Indian and African-American communities and their response to historical trauma in their cultural imagination, spirituality, and political and social activis Also listed as HST 378, REL 348. (CD)
Society in African American and African
Examines the key concepts, texts, theories, and thinkers in the Black Radical Tradition.
Theory in African American and African and Studies (subject to approval)
Select topics and themes in Africana philosophy. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Offered by members of the African American Studies faculty on a topic of their choice. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
Examines how race, sexuality, class, and gender shape definitions of family by examining discourses of Black family life and engaging family photographs, oral histories, and historical documents to critically and creatively narrate histories of kinship, belonging, and identity.
3 African Studies
3 African Studies 3 ANT 325 Roots of Racism: Race and Ethnic Diversity 3 3 in the U.S. 3 ANT 370 Origins to Empires: The Archaeology of 3
Capstone seminar for African American Studies majors to develop original research projects engaging key theoretical, methodological, and conceptual issues in the discipline.
Source: Wake Forest University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
