9 courses with the subject AFR, 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.
AFR 0100INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES3
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary filed of Africana Studies and the foundational concepts and institutional experiences upon which the filed is built. Intro to Africana Studies provides a basic understanding of the history of the field and how various American interest groups fought to establish and develop academic programs that focused on the study of Africa and its diaspora populations.
This course introduces students to the kingdoms and queendoms of Africa prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade. We Were Kings and Queens provides a basic understanding of the great civilizations throughout the continent of Africa and their ways of life, ruling, organization, technological advancements, and more.
This course explores the arrival of the European traders, the Triangular Slave Trade, and the Middle Passage. The Atlantic Slave Trade provides an understanding of how Africans were captured, transported, and sold into slavery. This course fulfills the Humanities requirement in the SGPS General Education program.
AFR 0175AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS: A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE3
This course introduces students to the multiple disciplines contributing to knowledge about early Africa and shows the centrality of Africa and African for humanity in general. Among the principal themes that the readings and discussion focus on are pre-history of African and the genesis of humankind; the complexity of migration, and state formation; and African and European earlier contact. A fundamental approach will be to look at African from the inside out and to analyze African societies from the perspective of their internal development and reaction to external influences. Its basic goal is to promote an appreciation of Africa's contributions to world civilization.
AFR 0210BLACK CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE US
This course journeys through centuries of Black inventions and innovations that have led to the advancement of the United States. Black Contributions to the Development of the United States provides an overview of 525
This course addresses mass incarceration of Black people and the concept of school to prison pipeline. The New Jim Crow provides an examination of different pieces of literature, such as Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow, to explore real-life experiences that demonstrate the rebirth of a caste like system in the United States.
AFR 0250SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ELIMINATING SYSTEMIC RACSISM3
This Course challenges and transforms the student into a change agent. Social Responsibility in Eliminating Systematic Racism develops a sense of social responsibility and strong intellectual and practical skills. This course fulfills the Multiculturalism and Gender or Global Awareness-Culture requirement in the SGPS General Education program.
This course in "special topics" addresses specific issues within African Studies and current events that are not currently explored in other existing courses within the discipline. The course subject matter or content may vary within specific sections across terms as indicated by that course's title and description.
This course investigates the African beginnings of Black people in America, how black identity evolved from disparate and diverse origins, and how people built a new culture from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The Black Experience provides an overview of the cultural influence of black lives and broader issues of the African Diaspora as it pertains to the advancement of the United States.
