Course Catalog • African & African-American Studies

Online course. An introduction to important historical developments in Africa, mainly south of the Sahara. Topics will include pre-history, empires, kingdoms and city-states, the slave trade, southern Africa, partition and colonialism, the independence era, military and civilian governments, and liberation movements. Approaches will include literature, the visual arts, politics, economics, and geography. (Same as HIST 104.) Nine written assignments; unsupervised midcourse examination; final examination. View the AAAS 105 course preview. Instructor: Elizabeth MacGonagle.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 881.70 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,950.00 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 1,036.50 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 2,163.75 USD

Textbooks and e-readings (separate purchase):

• Achebe. Things Fall Apart, Heinemann, rpt. 2000 expanded edition, ISBN 0435905252.
• Gilbert and Reynolds. Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present, Prentice Hall, 2004.
• Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Picador, 1998.
• Keim. Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind, Westview, 1999.
• Niane. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, revised ed., Pearson Longman, 2006.

Students will also be required to rent and view a selection of films on DVD or videotape.

An interdisciplinary study of the history of the African peoples of the New World, relating their cultures and institutions to the African background and to their peculiar New World experiences up to and including the nineteenth century. While the main emphasis will be on the U.S.A., attention will also be paid to the Caribbean and Latin America. Approaches will include demography, economics, social and political developments, literature, and music. Required online readings. Optional e-mail assignment submission. Seven written assignments; two book reviews; unsupervised midcourse examination; final examination. View the AAAS 106 course preview. Instructor: C.C. Herbison.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 841.70 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 841.70 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 996.50 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 996.50 USD

Textbooks and e-readings (separate purchase):

• Chapman, ed. Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature, New American Library, 1968, rpt. 1984.
• Franklin and Moss. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, 8th ed., Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
• West. Race Matters, Vintage Books, 1993.

An examination of constructions of race and ethnicity around the world. Emphasis is on the social, political, historical, cultural and economic factors that lead to the creation of ethnic and racial identities, ethnic conflict and accommodation, ethnic movements, and ethnic political organization. Racial and ethnic relations in the U.S. are compared with other countries. Major focus is placed on ethnicity in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and/or the Middle East. (Same as AMS 534 and SOC 534.) Required online readings. Optional e-mail assignment submission. Four written assignments; final examination. View the AAAS 510 course preview. Instructor: Uros Petrovic.

Only available for undergraduate credit.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 841.70 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 841.70 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 996.50 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 996.50 USD

Textbooks and e-readings (separate purchase):

• Marger. Race and Ethnic Relations: American and Global Perspectives, 6th ed., Wadsworth. 2003.

Course Description

Online course. An introduction to the life and work of Langston Hughes. The course will examine the uniqueness of Hughes’s poetry, fiction, autobiography, and character sketches as literary expression and as a means of understanding African-American life and culture.(Same as ENGL 495.) View the AAAS 690 Langston Hughes (1 hr) course preview. View the AAAS 690 Langston Hughes (2 hr) course preview. Instructor: Sarah Young.

Only available for undergraduate credit.

For 1 hour of credit: Three written assignments; final examination.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 293.90 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 650.00 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 345.50 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 721.25 USD

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Hughes. The Big Sea, Hill and Wang, 2001.
• Hughes. Not without Laughter, Scribner, 1995.
• Rampersad and Rossel, eds. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
• Lunsford. The Everyday Writer, 3rd ed., Bedford/St. Martin, 2005.

CD (separate purchase):

• Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes and accompanying booklet of poems and commentary, 2002.
  
  (Online purchase information for the CD available in syllabus.)

For 2 hours of credit: Five written assignments; final examination.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 587.80 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,300.00 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 691.00 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,442.50 USD

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• All of the texts and the CD listed for 1 hour of credit, plus:
• Hughes. The Best of Simple, Hill and Wang, 2000.