AAS 101 - Introduction to African-American Studies (3)
This multidisciplinary course will survey the various theories, frameworks and methods currently employed in examining the collective history, experience, contributions and status of African-Americans in the United States and abroad.
AAS 129 - Jazz in Chicago (3)
Cross Ref: MUS 129
Offered during the spring term
A survey course in the history of jazz and Chicago's influence on the development of jazz. Coursework will include lecture, discussion and field trips. Students attend musical performances together to share and discuss common musical experiences. Ticket fee.
AAS 219 - Culture and Race in America (3)
Cross Ref: POLSC 219
Offered alternate years
Explores the historical and cultural influences of race relations in the United States from colonial times to the present. Central ideas will be examined through an analysis of treatises, literature, movies, plays, novels and speeches from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
AAS 225 - Racial and Ethnic Relations (3)
Cross Ref: SOC 225, LS 275
Offered annually
The sociological factors in racial and ethnic relations are examined. Consideration is given to the nature of institutional racism. The dynamics of prejudice and discrimination are analyzed.
AAS 228 - African-American History (3)
Cross Ref: HIST 228
Offered alternate years
This course explores the history of African-Americans from slavery to freedom, beginning with the slave trade and concluding with the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include slave religions, abolitionism and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as leading African-American voices.
AAS 241 - African-American Political Thought (3)
Cross Ref: POLSC 242
Offered alternate years
Explores the central ideas of African-American political thought through an analysis of treatises, novels and speeches. Some of the thinkers treated in this course may be Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
AAS 242 - History of Africa (3)
Cross Ref: HIST 242
Offered alternate years
A survey of major historical themes that have shaped African life over long periods of time and across the continent. Topics include trade and migration, ecology, and human adaptation, the family and sexual division of labor, colonialism and the challenges of the Post-Colonial period.
AAS 260 - Special Topics (3)
Topics for this course will vary. Previous topics have included Arts of Africa, Black Catholic Experience, and African-American Women's History.
AAS 315 - Diversity in American Education (3)
Cross Ref: EDU 315
Examines the historical, philosophical and social foundations that have shaped diversity in American education. Critically analyzes personal biases that affect teaching and learning. In addition, explores the role of schools as social-change agents that transmit cultural values and promote multiculturalism. Includes a service-learning component.
AAS 331 - Issues in African-American Literature (3)
Cross Ref: ENGL 331
Offered alternate years
A study of the major figures and issues involved in the African-American canon, one of these being the canon itself. Special attention is paid to such writers as Wheatley, Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Johnson, Toomer, Larsen, Hughes, Brooks, Hurston, Wright, Ellison and Morrison.
AAS 333 - Modern African Literature (3)
Cross Ref: ENGL 333
Selected works by modern African writers within their historical and cultural contexts. Satisfies the teacher certification requirement in non-Western and Third World cultures.
AAS 351- Colonial Legacy in Africa (3)
Cross Ref: HIST 351
Offered alternate years
Prerequisite: 3 hours in history Explores the history of Africa during the period of European rule and the continuing importance of colonial-era institutions and practices in post-colonial Africa. Emphasis on Africa south of the Sahara, with occasional comparative reference to North Africa and elsewhere in the colonized world.
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