Pan African Studies (PAFS)

Prerequisite: ENGL 112. An interdisciplinary study from an Afrocentric perspective of African and African diaspora experiences. The course will focus on central issues related to the discipline. (Formerly 3002:201)

Prerequisite: ENGL 112. This course explores ideas, people and events which will allow the class to re-think their individual and collective beliefs regarding Africa, Africans, and African-Americans as well as Black people throughout the Diaspora. More specifically, the period of 1619 to 1918 examines the origins of African-Americans beginning with their unwilling departure from West Africa, slavery, abolition, the Civil War, emancipation, reconstruction, historical achievements and striving to achieve first class citizenship in America. (Formerly 3002:252)

Prerequisite: ENGL 112. This course explores ideas, people and events which will allow students to re-think their individual and collective beliefs about Africa, Africans and African-Americans as well as Black people throughout the Diaspora. More specifically, the period of 1918 to Present examines the experiences of African-Americans following the Reconstruction. Topics include, but are not limited to, separate but equal doctrine, the civil rights movement, Black nationalism, segregation, desegregation and integration as strategies to ameliorate discrimination and achieve equal opportunity. (Formerly 3002:253)

Prerequisite: ENGL 112. Survey course covering demographic, social, economic, political, and educational realities of diversity in 21st Century. Focus on diversity and unity, historical overview. (Formerly 3002:256)

Social and political actions, events and environment which produces civil rights movement in America. Legal, political and organizational strategies; philosophical arguments; prominent civil rights activists. (Formerly 3002:301)

Prerequisite: HIST 361. Exploration and intensive examination of variety of issues related to role and minority group relations which normally stand outside the compass of any one subject matter area. (Formerly 3002:401)

This course will examine the experiences of the African American Men from a historical, socio-economic, philosophical, religious/spiritual, psychological standpoint. (Formerly 3002:405)

This course explores the diversity of African American religious beliefs, experiences, and expressions from the colonial era to the present. (Formerly 3002:410)

(May be repeated for a maximum of three semester credits). Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. (Formerly 3002:420)

(May be repeated for a maximum of three semester credits). Prerequisites: PAFS 201 and [HIST 361 or HIST 362] and permission of director. Directed study in a special field of interest chosen by student in consultation with instructor. (Formerly 3002:498)