Courses
Spring 2019
AAAS 2000.1 Intro to African & African American Studies
This course explores dimensions of African and African American thought and practice in contemporary and historical perspective.
Jas Sullivan
Online Course
AAAS 2000.2 Intro to African & African American Studies
This course explores dimensions of African and African American thought and practice in contemporary and historical perspective.
Eldon Birthwright
Tuesday & Thursdays 7:30 - 9:20a.m.
AAAS/REL 2025 African American Religion
Herman Kelly
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:00-1:20p.m
AAAS 2050 Contemporary Africa
Gibril Cole
Tuesday & Thursdays 10:30-11:50a.m.
AAAS 2410 Black Popular Culture
Explores participation by black peoples in the creation and critique of popular culture through media such as film, music and television and terms of topics such as representation and sexuality.
Dari Green
Online Course
AAAS 2511 / SOCL 2511 Race Relations
Examines relations among persons of different racial groups in an interdisciplinary setting that includes sociological, psychological, political, anthropological and historical viewpoints.
Dari Green
Online Course
AAAS 3024 African Diaspora Intellectual Thought
Survey of critical ideas and theories by select diaspora scholars and writers. Emphasizes the intellectual tensions and deliberations that undergird attempts to theorize and resolve issues involving the status of black people in the world.
Fahima Ife
AAAS 3044 Black Rhetorical Traditions
Survey of the development of black communication styles ranging from the sermonic to the academic. Examining the black world’s most effective verbal and written communicators and the tension between orality and literacy.
Herman Kelly
Tuesday & Thursday 7:30 - 9:20 a.m.
AAAS 3425 Black Women in America
Surveys intersection of race and gender in the U.S. through historical and contemporary
lenses, course examines commonalities, differences and struggles that mark black women’s
subjectivity.
Dari Green
Tuesday & Thursdays 3:00-4:20p.m.
AAAS 3902.1 Race and Identity:Global Autoethnography
Kenny Varner
Tuesday & Thursday 9:00-10:20a.m.
AAAS 3902.2 Research Methods in Africana Studies
Dari Green
Tuesday & Thursdays 10:30-11:50a.m.
THTR/ENGL 4220 Drama of Africa and the African Diaspora
Study of the form and characteristic features as expressed in the works of dramatists in Africa and African Diaspora.
Femi Euba
Tuesday & Thursdays 9:00-10:20a.m.
AAAS/ENGL 4323 Topics in Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Films and Their Fictions
Eldon Birthwright
Tuesday & Thursday 9:00 - 10:20a.m.
AAAS/REL 4440 Religious Thought MLK & Malcolm X
Stephen Finley
Tuesday & Thursdays 1:30-2:50p.m.
AAAS/KIN 4800 African Americans in Sports
Lori Martin
Tuesday & Thursdays 12:00-1:20p.m.