Undergraduate 2019-2020

AFS 201 African American History I

A survey of the black experience from the African homeland to initial capture, enslavement and emancipation – 1619 - 1865.
3

Course Attribute

LC4-History and GT History

AFS 202 African American History II

Examines the lives of African Americans from emancipation to the present.
3

Course Attribute

LC4-History and GT History

AFS 205 Survey of African American Literature

Literature by people of African descent receives selective attention: African, Latin American, Caribbean, African American works are explored. Genres: political tract, novel, essay, autobiography, folk literature considered at various historical junctures.
3

Course Attribute

LC3b-Literature & Humanities and GT Literature

AFS 240 Dynamics of Racism

Racism, its social connection to human physical difference (i.e. race) studied. References made to African/European relations, development of racist thought, major sociological models used in United States, re: race relations.
3