AFAM 131 - Introduction to African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Laboratory Hours

Prerequisites: This course is a general interdisciplinary survey that traces the African American experience, spanning five hundred years from the colonization of the US and the installation of trans-Atlantic slavery to the present day. Throughout their expansive history, African Americans developed rituals, traditions, music, art, science, inventions, dance, literature, and spiritual practices; kinship structures and communities; and political and social theories and practices that negotiate the contradiction at the core of the uneven experience of US democracy. Satisfies the engaged citizenship competency.