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Course Offerings

 

Undergraduate Course Catalog

Required courses

BL 101 Introduction to Black Studies

Focus courses

 

English

  • EN 288 Colonial/Postcolonial West African Novel
  • EN 339 African-American Literature & Culture, 1900-1940
  • EN 340 Serminar on Alice Walker
  • EN 341 Early African-American Literature
  • EN 344 African-American Fiction, 1940-present
  • EN 371 African-American Women's Writing

History

  • HI 262 African-American History, 1619-1865
  • HI 263 Inventing Themselves: African-American Women's History
  • HI 264 African-American History from 1865
  • HI 291 Africans in the New World, 1500-1800
  • HI 292 Topics in the History of Africa

Politics

  • PO 141 African Politics

Visual and Performing Arts

  • MU 101 History of Jazz
  • MU 112 The Music of Black Americans

Component courses

 

English

  • EN 291 Black Bodies/White Bodies: The Angst over Race
  • EN 337 Race, Culture, and American Realism
  • EN 348 Contemporary Women Writers of Color

History

  • HI 238 The United States, 1850-1900
  • HI 239 Twentieth-Century U.S.
  • HI 342 Immigration, Ethnicity and Racein U.S. Hstory
  • HI 376 The Spanish Caribbean

Politics

  • PO 143 Caribbean Politics

Sociology

  • SO 162 Race, Gender, and Ethnic Relations
  • SO 163 Urban/Suburban Sociology

Religious Studies

  • RS 235 Liberation Theology

Visual and Performing Arts

  • AH 12 Intro to the Art History of Asia, Africa, and the Americas
  • MU 100 American Popular Music
  • MU 122 World Music History and Ensemble