Course Descriptions

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Africana Studies Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
AFRS 100 General Studies Colloquium (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 101 Introduction to Africana Studies (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 110 Critical Thinking and the Black Experience (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 111 Black Cultures and Personalities (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 125 Black Community Involvement Workshop (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 200 Introduction to Black Psychology (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 201 Kemet, Afrocentricity, and the Dawn of Science (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 203 Black Social Sciences (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 204 Black Creative Arts (3) Fall 2006
AFRS 205 Issues in Black Gerontology (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 210 Introduction to Africana Literature (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 213 Science and Spirituality in Ancient Africa (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 214 Second Year Written Composition: Africana Studies (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 215 Introduction to Black Family Studies (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 217 African Rhythm and Drum Expression (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 221 African American Music: A 20th Century Survey (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 225 Images and Issues in Black Visual Media (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 233 African Mythology and Black Consciousness (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 256 Hip Hop Workshop (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 260 Introduction to African Languages (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 260 Variable topics:
  AFRS 260 Lingala I (Bantu) (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 266 Black On-line: Cyberspace, Culture, and Community (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 270 Egyptian Language (Hieroglyphics) (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 280 Introduction to African Philosophy (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 290 Malcolm X in the Context of Black Nationalism (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 300 From Africa to Olmec America: Ancient African Prehistory and History (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 301 Africa in Global Perspective (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 302 Black Diaspora (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 303 African American History (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 304 Black People and the American Experience (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 305 Ancient Egypt (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 306 Blacks in the Caribbean (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 310 Anthropology of Blackness (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 312 Kalifia: The Black Heritage of California (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 320 Black Politics, Mass Movements, and Liberation Themes (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 326 Black Religion (3) Fall 2008
AFRS 330 African American Gospel Workshop (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 335 The Black Woman: A Cultural Analysis (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 340 Economics of the Black Community (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 345 Blacks in Urban America (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 350 Black-Indians in the Americas (3) Spring 2008
AFRS 370 Health, Medicine, and Nutrition in the Black Community (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 375 Law and the Black Community (3) Spring 2008
AFRS 376 Government, the Constitution, and Black Citizens (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 382 African American Economic History (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 400 Black Arts and Humanities (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 411 African and African American Literature (3) Summer 2009
AFRS 420 Black Fiction (3) Effective Summer 2007
AFRS 440 Black Oratory (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 450 African Philosophy and Cosmology (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 456 The History of Funk (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 515 Black Family Studies (3) Spring 2008
AFRS 516 Research Methods (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 525 Black Child Development (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 540 Landscapes of Power and Privilege: Race, Space and Place (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 545 Race in Post-Civil Rights America (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 551 Fieldwork in Africana Studies (3) Fall 2007
AFRS 600 Proseminar in Africana Studies (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 630 Sponsored Travel and Study (3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 645 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 646 Frantz Fanon's Psychology of Violence, Negation, and Liberation (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 650 Teaching the Black Experience (3) Fall 2006
AFRS 655 The Battle for Black Studies (3) Effective Fall 2008
AFRS 660 Civil Rights Movement and Education (3) Fall 2007
AFRS 665 Black Journalism (3) Spring 2009
AFRS 678 Urban Issues of Black Children and Youth (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 685 Projects in the Teaching of Africana Studies (1-4) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 685 Variable topics:
  AFRS 685 Projects in the Teaching of Africana Studies (1) Fall 2009
  AFRS 685 Projects in the Teaching of Africana Studies (2) Fall 2009
  AFRS 685 Projects in the Teaching of Africana Studies (3) Fall 2009
  AFRS 685 Projects in the Teaching of Africana Studies (4) Fall 2009
AFRS 694 Community Service Learning (1-3) Effective Summer 2006
AFRS 694 Variable topics:
  AFRS 694 Community Service Learning (1) Effective Summer 2006
  AFRS 694 Community Service Learning (2) Effective Summer 2006
  AFRS 694 Community Service Learning (3) Fall 2009
  AFRS 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
AFRS 705 Seminar in Africana Studies (3) Fall 2009
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