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Department of African American Studies

Course Schedule

Spring 2024

sculpture AFAM 200: Freedom Papers; Narrative of Race and Nation 
A study of the United States founding documents that emphasizes how the experiences of African American citizens throughout history and culture shape the country’s values, norms, and ideals.

(This course is only a requirement for non-AFAM majors and minors)

  • 01 54136 MW 2:20-3:35PM TRAD Shaw PETRIGRU 111
  • 02 54137 TR 10:05 – 11:20AM TRAD Tolson GAMBRELL 150
  • Y01 50808 TR 2:20 – 3:35PM TRAD Howard HUMANITIES 417
  • Y02 50809 TR 3:55 – 5:10PM TRAD Howard HUMANITIES 402
  • Y03 50810 MW 11:40 – 12:55PM TRAD Deas PETRIGRU 212
  • Y04 50811 MW 1:15 – 2:30PM TRAD Deas GAMBRL 104
  • Y05 53197 N/A ONLINE WEB Tolson (12/26/23 – 1/15/24)

AFAM 201: Intro to African American Studies: Social & Historical Foundations (Carolina Core) 
Introduction to the key debates, figures, and concepts that are fundamental to the interdisciplinary study of the historical, political, and social development of Black life in America.

  • 002 49151 TR 6:00 – 7:15PM TRAD Singleton GAMBRL 201
  • J10 45334 N/A ONLINE WEB Watson WEB

AFAM 202: Intro to African American Studies: Arts & Cultural (Carolina Core)
Introduction to the key debates, figures, and concepts that are fundamental to the interdisciplinary study of the artistic, literary, and cultural development of Black life in America.

  • 001 54138 TR 1:15 – 2:30PM TRAD Lee HUMANITIES 417
  • J10 50065 N/A ONLINE WEB Bowman WEB
  • J11 52875 MW 8:05 – 9:20AM WEB Davis WEB

AFAM 303: African American Cultures (ANTH 303)
An examination of African American cultures in the New World.

  • 001 52870 MW 2:20 – 3:35PM TRAD Simmons HAMILTON 143

AFAM 308: African American Feminist Theory (WGST 308)
An interdisciplinary survey of the contributions of African American women to feminist theory.

  • 001 41157 MW 3:35 – 5:10PM TRAD Collins GAMBRL 103

AFAM 330: Psychology and the African American Experience (PSYC 330)
Psychological theory and research as it applies to African Americans. Explores Afrocentric and other perspectives and roles of culture, racism, and historical phenomena.

  • 001 56811 TR 4:25 – 5:40PM TRAD Martin GAMBRL 005

AFAM 331: Black Experience in the United States to 1865 (HIST 212)
The social, cultural, economic, and life of Black people in the United States since 1865.

  • 001 54139 ONLINE Watson WEB

AFAM 348:Environmental Racism and Justice (ENVR 348)
History of the environmental justice movement and the unequal distribution of environmental harms on low income, minority, and historically marginalized groups.

  • 001 55422 TR 10:05 – 11:20AM TRAD Barro CLOSE-HIPP 791

AFAM 350: Antiracist Education (EDFI 350)
Examination of the origins of Jim Crow and the multi-faceted struggle against it, and other forms of racial inequality, in the American South and the rest of the US since the early 20th century.

  • 001 50813 TR 1:15 – 2:30PM TRAD Cook WARDLAW 101

AFAM 353: Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics (POLI 353)
Examination of the origins of Jim Crow and the multi-faceted struggle against it, and other forms of racial inequality, in the American South and the rest of the US since the early 20th century.

  • 001 54684 MW 3:55 – 5:10PM TRAD Shaw GAMBRL 151

AFAM 397: Special Topics in African American Society and History:
Race, Crime and Criminal Justice (CRJU 563)
This course examines the complex race crime relationship and the controversies surrounding it from a criminological theoretical perspective.

  • 001 46560 TR 1:15 – 2:30PM TRAD BURROW PETIGR 111
  • 001 46711 MW 2:20 - 3:35PM TRAD Isom ROTC 513

Homage to My Young Black Sisters (1968) by Elizabeth Catlett AFAM 380:Cultural History of Hip Hop Music (MUSC 310) 
Roots of rap/hip hop music from African bardic tradition to African American vernacular traditions and development as a musical genre; rap’s musical and verbal traits and political ideologies; hip hop’s influence on mainstream American society and global youth.

  • 001 54140 TR 2:50-4:05PM TRAD Johnson PETIGR 212

AFAM 398: Special Topics in African American Arts and Culture:
Art and Afrofuturism (ARTH 544)
 
This course will examine how various artists across the African Diaspora in the twentieth century have rejected documentary traditions in favor of the “marvelous.”

  • 001 44351 TR 1:15 –2:30PM TRAD Schriber McMaster 329

Introduction to Art of the Global Diaspora (ARTH 390.02/GLST 391)
This course introduces students to art of the African Diaspora.

  • 002 45814 TR 11:40 - 12:55PM TRAD Schriber McMaster 239

Music of Africa (MUSC 544) 
This course is an introductory survey to music of various Cultures within the continent of Africa

  • 006 53034 TR 10:05 - 11:20AM TRAD Johnson SCHOOL OF MUSIC 232

Introduction to Afro-LatinX Literature of the 20thand 21stCentury (ENGL 301) 
Examination of major social and cultural developments of American South from early exploration to 1900.

  • 007 53095 TR 2:50 - 4:05PM TRAD Jimenez HUMANITIES 504

Working Through a Visual Archive of Blackness: Performative Practice of Making and Presenting
An introduction to Black creative art making, community building, performance, and critique as a means of creating new visual cultures.

  • 008 53515 MW 8:05 – 9:20PM WEB Wideman-Davis ONLINE

Womanist Ethics (WGST 398/ RELG 491.02) 
This course is an introductory survey to music of various Cultures within the continent of Africa

  • 009 53876 TR 11:40 - 12:55PM TRAD Mitchem HUMANITIES 416

image reads hip hopPsychology of Hip Hop
This course explores the educational, racial, gendered, classist, and sexual politics of Hip Hop.

  • 010 57696 TR 1:15 – 2:30PM TRAD Martin CLHIPP 463

AFAM 428B: African American Literature II: 1903 - Present (ENGL 428B)
Representative works of African American writers 1903 to Present.

  • 001 52862 MW 2:20 - 3:35PM TRAD Whitted CLHIPP 303

AFAM 498: Seminar in African American Studies: Toni Morrison & American Culture 
A multi-disciplinary research seminar that explores American history and culture through the work of Toni Morrison.

  • 001 54141 MWF 10:50 - 11:40AM TRAD Whitted GAMB 354

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