3000

A study of the African-American experience from enslavement in Africa until the end of Reconstruction. Major themes will include: the creation of African American identity, black resistance, white oppression, the impact of gender on the black historical experience, African American cultural expression, and black community life in both slave and free communities. This course is non-repeatable.

A study of the African-American experience from the end of Reconstruction until the present. The topics covered will include: African-American political activism, economic and labor struggles, and cultural and intellectual life. This course is non-repeatable.

An examination of racial and ethnic population composition with emphasis on the origin and maintenance of conflict-based race relations. (Cross-listed as SOCI 3444.) This course is non-repeatable.

This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental concepts of African world view and to see how the traditional educational system in Africa relies on these concepts. Students will become aware of the essential role of symbolism in the African cultures, and will focus on the notion of multiple meanings for each symbol and each experience in African culture. Students will also be introduced to the changes in African culture as the European educational system (a result of colonialism) began to dominate the formative years of children in Africa. Students will learn about the problems that occur when a very different world view is juxtaposed onto a traditional world view. Students should exit the course with an enhanced understanding of the foundations of traditional African culture and how subsequent generations of colonialism, and then independence, have altered that world view.

A survey of the development and evolution of jazz as an American art form. Emphasis will be placed upon the musical styles and major innovations in each of the various eras of jazz history. This course can be taken for three credits by special arrangement with the instructor. (Cross-listed as MUSC 3650.) This course is non-repeatable for credit.