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Virginia Commonwealth University Bulletin All Courses Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Scholars Compass VCU Bulletins VCU University Archives 2005 Virginia Commonwealth University Bulletin All Courses Virginia Commonwealth University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/vcubulletins © Virginia Commonwealth University Downloaded from http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/vcubulletins/17 This Bulletin is brought to you for free and open access by the VCU University Archives at VCU Scholars Compass. It has been accepted for inclusion in VCU Bulletins by an authorized administrator of VCU Scholars Compass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2005-06 Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. An College of Humanities Prerequisite: AFAM 200 or permission of instructor. analysis of the role of religion in the lives of blacks The impact of modern social change upon the with an emphasis on African religions and and Sciences traditional aspects of African life. Various aspects of philosophies, the black church in America, and the social change as it applies to Africa today will be roles of the various faiths, sects and cults. African American Studies explored. AFAM 308 Modes of Inquiry in African- AFAM 206/SOCY 206/WMNS 206 African American Studies AFAM 103 Introduction to African-American American Family Relationships Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Studies Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Focuses Prerequisite: AFAM 208. This course introduces Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Using an on the African American family from the 1940s to students to the interdisciplinary processes whereby interdisciplinary approach, this course will the present. Examines the values and the those working in the field develop their arguments familiarize students with important events, interpersonal/role relationships that are involved in and interpretations concerning the black experience. developments, personalities and other phenomena forming and maintaining African American families Students will develop increased skills in library that help facilitate the study and understanding of in the contemporary United States. Topics include research and an awareness of the importance of such African Americans from their African past to their dating and sexual relationships, marital methodologies as archaeology, oral history, case present existence. relationships, parent-child relationships and studies, participant observations, experiments and AFAM 104/SOCY 104 Sociology of Racism relationships with members of the extended family. surveys. Student will be introduced to the need for critical analysis, the role of biases and frames of Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. The AFAM 208 African-American Social Thought references and the reason why scholars working in course will explore the direct and indirect ways in Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. the field often reach different conclusions with which racial attitudes are acquired, their effect on Prerequisite: AFAM 103. This course exposes reference to issues of fact, interpretation and individuals and society, and the institutional and students to the rich chronicle of the experiences and significance. ideological manifestations of racism as a "faith views of Africans in the United States that has been system," as exploitation and as a form of human preserved in the writings of scholars, activists and AFAM 314/ENGL 314 African-American conflict. The central focus of interest will be on creative artists. The course introduces students to Literature black-white relationships. this body of thought selecting a number of social Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. An AFAM 105, 106/HIST 105, 106 Survey of African critics and creative writers whose texts address examination of the culture and literature of African History persistent themes that have shaped African- Americans from their roots in Africa and the African American life. Diaspora to the present day. Authors may include Semester courses; 3 lecture hours. 3, 3 credits. A Wheatley, Jacobs, Wilson, Brown, Dubois, Hurston, survey of African civilization from prehistory to the AFAM 250/MHIS 250 Introduction to African- Wright, Gaines and Morrison. present, emphasizing the events, ideas and American Music institutions that have shaped, influenced and defined Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. An AFAM 315/ECON 315/INTL 315 Economic Africa's place in the world. First semester: To 1800. introductory survey of black involvement with the Development Second semester: 1800 to the present. development of music in America from 1607 to the Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. AFAM 121, 122/DANC 121, 122 Tap Technique I present. African-American musical styles will be Prerequisites: ECON 210-211. An introduction to studied from many aspects including their African the process of economic development including a Semester courses; 1 lecture and 2 studio hours. 2, 2 roots and contemporary popular expression. survey of development theory and a study of the credits. Beginning study and training in the experience of both underdeveloped and developed principles of tap technique with emphasis upon style, AFAM 302/POLI 302 Politics of the Civil Rights countries. Economic policies and tools of economic body alignment, spatial patterning, flexibility, Movement planning for stimulating development will be strength and kinesthetic awareness to move the body Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. The main presented. in the style required for tap dancing. objectives of the course are to introduce and AFAM 318/POLI 318/WMNS 318 Politics of AFAM 126, 127/DANC 126, 127 African- examine the personalities and activities of the Race, Class and Gender Caribbean Dance I modern Civil Rights Movement. The course provides the historical background leading up to the Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A study Semester courses; 1 lecture and 2 studio hours. 2, 2 peak years of the struggle for racial equality in of the racial, class and gender influences on the credits. Dance based on the movements and rhythms America. It has special focus on the events of the history and development of political values, of Africa and the Caribbean. 1960s and, particularly their implication for the conflicts, processes, structures and public policy in AFAM 151, 152/DANC 151, 152 Jazz Dance current state of U.S. Civil Rights. the United States. Technique I AFAM 303/THEA 303 Black Theatre AFAM 322/PSYC 322 Personality and Behavior Semester courses; 1 lecture and 2 studio hours. 2, 2 Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A study of the African American credits. Prerequisite: DANC 102 or permission of of the major developments in the evolution of black Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. instructor. Study and training in the principles and theatre through readings and studio performances in Prerequisite: PSYC 101. A study of personality concepts of jazz technique. Emphasis on body black-related and black-theatre dramaturgy. factors, such as motivation, ego functioning, and the alignment, flexibility, balance, rhythmic awareness socialization processes with special emphasis on and mastery of isolated movements of body parts. AFAM 305/SOCY 305/WMNS 305 African living conditions of African Americans. The course includes the exploration of the American Family in Social Context relationship between jazz music and jazz dance. Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. AFAM 333/GEOG 333/INTL 333 Geography of Africa AFAM 200/ANTH 200/INTL 200 Introduction to Prerequisite: SOCY 101 or SOCY/AFAM/WMNS African Societies 206. A socio-historical examination of the Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A study development of the family system of Americans of the land forms, climate, peoples, livelihoods, Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. This from Africa. Focuses on large-scale (macro level) settlement patterns, and cultural groupings of sub- course introduces the student to the African processes such as changes in the major mode of Saharan Africa. continent, its peoples and cultures. It covers such economic production and in political systems and general characteristics as the physical and AFAM 342/ANTH 342 African-American Art the corresponding changes in black family structure geographical features, climate, topography, and functioning. Presents the theoretical material on Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. traditional economies, languages, religions, social African American families and social change that Prerequisite: Advanced standing. A study of the art systems and other cultural features that are prepares students for further study of the family as a forms produced by Americans of African origin traditional to its people. social institution and for the study of family policy. from the 17th-century to the present with an AFAM 204 Africa in Transition emphasis on contemporary trends in black art. AFAM 307/RELS 307/INTL 307 Black Religion AFAM 343/POLI 343 Black Political Thought Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. An Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A study Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. A study historical and sociological perspective on the of the transformation of West African societies from of the architecture, painting, sculpture and political and social ideas of black thinkers from early times to the present, with emphasis on the rise civilizations of the major art-producing tribes of David Walker to the
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