AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

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AFAM 3123 West Africa & AFAM Experiences
This course is designed to provide a basis for understanding discourse concerning the future of West Africa and Africans in the American Diaspora. The class will provide opportunities for the study of significant issues concerning West African people, their past, their priorities and prognoses.

SP06 AFAM 3123-001 W. AFRICAN EXP. T R 12.00-1.15 pm
Momodu Kabba

AFAM 3133 Intro. To African Aesthetics
This course explores the philosophy, culture, and aesthetic expressions of African Americans before, during and after enslavement through a comparison of African and African American culture. Emphasis is placed upon developing a body of knowledge and analytical skills that will enable students to deepen their understanding of traditional and contemporary culture practiced by the African American community.

Not offered SP06

AFAM 3313 Social History of Black Military Life
Course presents a social history of black military life during the post-Reconstruction era through examining the court martial proceedings of Lt. Flipper. In 1881, in Fort Davis, Texas, a young black army officer was court-martialed for mishandling funds entrusted to him and for conduct unbecoming an army officer in the United States Army. This course will examine this trial in an attempt to assess the fairness or not of the proceedings and whether the findings were motivated by racism. (In fact, he was the only black officer in the U.S. Army).

SP06 AFAM 3313-900 BLACK MILITARY LIFE M 6.30-9.20 pm
Randy Garibay



AFAM 3323 Buffalo Soldiers
After nearly 200,000 African-American Soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of black enlisted men and white officers for service in cavalry and infantry units throughout the American West. This course brings to light the stories of African-American service and heroism to this nation from 1866 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, New Mexico, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona. This course is reading and writing intensive.

SP06 AFAM 3323-900 BUFFALO SOLDIERS R 6.30-9.20 pm
Randy Garibay

AFAM 3333 Blacks in Oklahoma
This course examines the unique interrelationshiop that ecouraged Black migration into Oklahoma prior to statehood. The experience of African Americans in Oklahoma is characterized by the chattel slavery exercised by members of the Five Civilized Tribes, a legacy of military service and law enforcement, organized efforts to establish Oklahoma as an all-Black state, significant socio-political activity (Led primarily by editors of Black newspapers) and a number of historic cultural contributions. this course will provide an in-depth exploration of the historic interrelationship, socio-political activism, economic development and culture of Black Oklahomans.

AFAM 3413 African American Education in the United States
Course introduces students to the two major historical features of African American education—the ways in which the African American community has sought to educate itself, and the ways in which white Americans have sought to educate African Americans. Emphasis is placed on the purpose of education, and alternative visions of educational possibility.

Not offered SP06

AFAM 3423 African American Men
The course examines the role of the African-American male, addressing historical and contemporary issues such as leadership, sexuality, manhood, religion, media images, and education.

SP06 AFAM 3423-001 AFRI-AMER MEN T R 12.00-1.15 pm
Ed Taylor

AFAM 3433 African American Women
Course examines the history and experience of African American women, focusing on the ways race, gender, and socioeconomic status dominate, intersect and/or compete within their lives. Emphasis will be upon the way African American women have drawn upon that internal struggle to serve as agents of social change.

Not offered SP06

AFAM 3443 African American Athlete
Course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the history, participation, and the influences of the black athlete. The course will provide a forum for discussion of the contemporary issues as they relate to the African American athlete.

Not offered SP06

AFAM 3513 Research Methods
This course is designed to introduce students to research methods in African and African American Studies. Qualitative and quantitative research methods are studied, discussed and undertaken. Course design stresses the importance of using both methods to cross-validate findings.

SP06 AFAM 3513-900 RESEARCH METHODS WEEKEND
Myron Pope March 24-26, March 31-April 2, April 7-9

AFAM 3613 Visual Culture and AFAM Identity
This course examines teh visual commodities of black and white culture producers to analyze issues of caste and class status, gender, and sexuality that historically and currently inform competing notions of blackness withing the public sphere.


AFAM 3643 African Folklore
This course investigates the continuation of traditional elements produced in diverse media and circumstances in modern, largely urban Africa. Issues such as identity, difference, diversity, tradition and history, modernity and development, wealth and power, political change and gender relations are topics to be explored through folk expression.

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