Undergraduate Course Catalog 2007-2008

College of Liberal Arts

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http://www.unh.edu/afamstudies/

The African American studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary approach to a central dimension of United States history, literature, and culture. Many aspects of African American history and culture have been central to the development of the United States, highlighting both the nation’s problems and its promise, and affecting virtually all areas of academic study through the years, from the humanities to the sciences. The minor therefore is designed to serve the needs of all students, regardless of their ethnic or cultural background, complementing their work in their major fields of study while serving also as a focused corrective to traditionally marginalized approaches to African American experience.

African American studies consists of five 4-credit courses, including an introductory course, a required history course, and three other approved offerings. Students must take at least one course at the 600 or 700 level. The required core courses provide students with a general understanding of the broad and diverse spectrum of African American history, literature, and culture. Electives enable students to develop that understanding by way of special topics courses in their major fields of study, including some that provide students with an opportunity to relate African American issues to African history and culture. Students must earn a C- or better in each course, and maintain a 2.00 grade-point average in courses taken for the minor. Electives may include a senior seminar.

Students interested in minoring in African American studies should contact the coordinator, Funso Afolayan, Department of History, 415 Horton Social Science Center, (603) 862-3026, e-mail fsa@unh.edu; or the African American Studies office, 329 Huddleston Hall, (603) 862-3753; e-mail afam.minor@unh.edu.

Required Courses
ENGL 517/AMST 502, Introduction to African American Literature and Culture or
INCO 450, Introduction to Race, Culture, and Power
HIST 505 or 506, African American History

Elective Courses
Electives are approved for the minor and announced each semester in the Time and Room Schedule and on the African American Studies Web site, www.unh.edu/afamstudies. Although the minor is focused on African American Studies, this focus does not exclude the global context for African American Studies. Accordingly, courses in African, Caribbean, and other histories and cultures can count towards the minor. Often, too, courses that are only partly devoted to the concerns of African American Studies can count for the minor, if the instructor will allow the students to focus a significant amount of coursework to this field of study. Approval by both the minor coordinator and the course instructor is required for such courses.

Among the courses that had been approved in the past are:

ANTH 500B, Peoples and Cultures of South America
ANTH 500D, Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 627, Urbanization in Africa
ANTH 686, Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 760, Race in Global Perspectives
ARTS 671, Egypt and Nubia: Art, Architecture, and Rediscovery
CMN 632, Communication Theory
EDUC 797/ANTH 790, Seminar: Teaching Race
ENGL 581/581H, Introduction to Post-Colonial Literature in English
ENGL 609, Ethnicity in America: The African American Experience in the 20th Century
ENGL 681, Introduction to African Literatures in English
FREN 526, Introduction to Francophone Cultures
FREN 676, Topics in Francophone Cultures
FS 757/851, Race, Class, Gender, and Families
HIST 444D, Slavery and Society in Pre-Colonial Africa
HIST 497, The Civil Rights Movement
HIST 531, Introduction to Latin America & the Caribbean
HIST 587/588, History of Africa
HIST 589, Islam in Africa
HIST 600.02, Race, Gender, Science & African-American Experience
HIST 611, History of the Civil War Era
HIST 625, Southern History and Literature Since the Civil War
HIST 684, History of Southern Africa Since 1652
HIST 688, African Religions
HUMA 592, Topic: The Blues
HUMA 609, Ethnicity in America: The Black Experience in the 20th Century
MUSI 460, Jazz Band
PHIL 540, Philosophy of Race and Racism
POLT 519, Civil Rights and Liberties
PSYC 791A02, Psychology of Race
SOC 530/530W, Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 745, Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
WS 401.06, Intro to Women’s Studies
WS 595, Black Women in America