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SPRING COURSES
Spring Courses 2010
AAS 27100-1
Introduction to African American Studies
MWF 9:30 - 10:20
Instructor: Dr. Niambi Carter
This course introduces students to the conceptual and methodological principles underlying the field of African American Studies. Interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional, the course familiarizes students with literature in the field and examines historical as well as contemporary issues in a manner that crosses, intersects, and challenges traditional lines of demarcation.
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AAS 27100-2
Introduction to African American Studies
TTH 9:00 - 10:15
Instructor: Mr. Jamal Ratchford
This course introduces students to the conceptual and methodological principles underlying the field of African American Studies. Interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional, the course familiarizes students with literature in the field and examines historical as well as contemporary issues in a manner that crosses, intersects, and challenges traditional lines of demarcation.
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AAS 37300-1
Issues in African American Studies:
Literature of the African Diaspora
TTH 1:30—2:45
Instructor: Mr. Gilmer Cook
This course will examine works by contemporary writers from Africa and the African Diaspora. the term "African Diaspora" refers to the various nations Africans were dispersed to during the African slave trade, including: North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe. This course will look into how the enslavement and dispersal of African during the slave trade influences the themes and traditions represented by writers of African descent throughout the world today. In looking at these themes as emblematic of a shared cultural history partially inherited from African tradition, students will analyze how these themes also represent the traditions and values of those nations to which African slaves were dispersed.
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AAS 37100-1
African American Health
TTH 10:30 - 11:45
Instructor: Dr. Titilayo Okoror
"This course in designed to address issues involved in the health of African Americans. Students will be provided with a comprehensive overview of historical forces and social factors related to the health behavior and status of African-Americans. Students will analyze the impact of cultural, educational, social, economic, political and environmental influences on health of African Americans."
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AAS 37100-3
The Black Athlete
MWF 11:30 - 12:20
Instructor: Mr. Kevin Brooks
This course's primary objective is to assist students in developing an understanding of the historical relationship between African American professional athletes in the 21st century. Structured chronologically, it seeks to highlight and examine the affect of Black athletes on professional sports and American society.
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AAS 47300
Blacks in Hollywood Film
MW 3:00 - 3:50
T 6:00 - 8:00 film lab
Instructor: Mr. Arthur Banton
Delving into issues of race and representation in American film, this course will examine specifically the Hollywood film tradition in its myth-making and stereotyping praxes regarding Black identity, life, and culture. From "Birth of a Nation" to "Bamboozled", we will explore the role of this medium in shaping social realities. Students will also learn film theory and criticism as well as the genres, styles, and periods relevant to the evolution of Hollywood cinema.
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Spring Courses 2008
IDIS 271-3
Introduction to African American Studies
TTH 9:00—10:15
Instructor: Ms. Mindy Tan
This course introduces students to the conceptual and methodological principles underlying the field of African American Studies. Interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional, the course familiarizes students with literature in the field and examines historical as well as contemporary issues in a manner that crosses, intersects, and challenges traditional lines of demarcation.
IDIS 271-1
Introduction to African American Studies
MWF 9:30—10:20
Instructor: Mr. Jamal Ratchford
This course introduces students to the conceptual and methodological principles underlying the field of African American Studies. Interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional, the course familiarizes
students with literature in the field and examines historical as well
as contemporary issues in a manner that crosses, intersects, and challenges traditional lines of demarcation.
IDIS 271-2
Introduction to African American Studies
MWF 1:30 –2:20
Instructor: Mr. Kevin Brooks
This course introduces students to the conceptual and methodological principles underlying the field of African American Studies. Interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional, the course familiarizes
students with literature in the field and examines historical as
well as contemporary issues in a manner that crosses, intersects,
and challenges traditional lines of demarcation.
IDIS 277
African American Popular Culture
MWF 10:30—11:20
Instructor: Mr. Gilmer Cook
The course will focus on the production of popular or “pop” culture in the United States with special emphasis on linkages between “mainstream” pop culture and pop culture originating in the African American experience. The course will provide a sociological perspective for understanding and examining topics related to popular culture including Black film, R&B, literature, Disco, art, Rap, and Hip Hop and their correlates to topics such as the African oral tradition, folklore, and minstrelsy. Through the use of music, film, dance, literary and visual arts, and poetry, students will gain insight into ways that shared meanings and ways of life have emerged via U.S. traditions, in general, and the African American experience, in particular.
IDIS 371A, 371H
H&K 490 I
The African American Experience: American Health
TTH 10:30—11:45
Instructor: Dr. Titilayo Okoror
"This course in designed to address issues involved in the health of African Americans. Students will be provided with a comprehensive overview of historical forces and social factors related to the health behavior and status of African-Americans. Students will analyze the impact of cultural, educational, social, economic, political and environmental influences on health of African Americans."
IDIS 373 , 491M & 491H
Issues in The African American Experience:
Filmic Representations of Slavery
TTH 1:30—2:20/ Lab W 6:00—8:00 pm
Instructor: Dr. Joseph Dorsey
THIS COURSE WILL SUB FOR IDIS 373!!
This class will examine black slavery at the movies from three
basic viewpoints: (1) It will explore the history and cultures of
black slavery throughout the Americas--that is, the United
States, the Caribbean, and Latin America--by comparative
perspective (2) How film directors handle particular periods
and the problems peculiar to them and (3) How the films
reflect the social and cultural politics of the specific
period in which they were made.