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The African Heritage and the American Experience. Syllabi for Undergraduate Courses in the Humanities r DOCUMENT RESUME ED 241 359 SO 015 088 TITLE Southern Black Culture: The African Heritage and the American Experience. Syllabi for Undergraduate Courses in the Humanities. INSTITUTION Spelman Coll., Atlanta, Ga. SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DC. Div. of Education Pr:grams. PUB DATE 83 NOTE 284p.; For a related document, see SO 015 089. Syllabi prepared by participants at the Humanities Institute at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA, June 22-July 29, 1981). PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use - Guides (For Teachers) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC12 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *African Culture; African Literature; Art Appreciation; *Black Culture; Black History; Black Literature; *Black Studies; College Curriculum; Course Descriptions; Curriculum Guides) Educational ObjeCtives; Higher Education; *Humanities Instruction; Lesson Plans; Music Appreciation; Psychology; Religious Factors; Spanish; Womens Studies IDENTIFIERS *United States (South) ABSTRACT The document presents 17. syllabi for undergraduate humanities courses treating black culture. This first volume of syllabi was prepared by participants in a 1981 Humanities Institute at Spelman College as part of an National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. The document is divided into two parts. Part one, the bulk of the document, is comprised.of 17 syllabi designed to cover the history of Afro-Americans from their roots in Africa to the American South at the beginning of the 20th century. Courses cover such topics as American literature, art and music appreciation, black psychology, elementary Spanish, African literature, Afro-American literature, Southern black culture, women in literature, and the religious dimension in literature. each course is presented in various forms, including course objectives, resources, activities, bibliographies, and evaluation. Part two contains reviews and syntheses of discussions designed to provide formal opportunities to identify unifying strains in each week's lectures and to explore ways of presenting information to the students. (CK) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** dm. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION NATIONAL INSTITUTE Or EDUCATION ECIUCATIONAI. RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTERmato TAB locumeolas been oepioduced as etteivaa bor. The person w OrWortku /0ogioaldloi .t Mow thong.. iwve Wen mad.10 00WO.e CN ceacoductx aualm, Powt;e1 y. .r. or oplowouS Wod m tPidOWI re\ mein do out .K...S.Iray ...present ol14.4NI E Pout*.00oobsy PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS Ci MATERIAL HAS SEEN GRANTED BY LLI Pauline E SOUTHERN BLACK CULTURE: THE AFRICAN HERITAGE AND TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." THE. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SYLLABI FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN THE HUMANITIES NEH HUMANITIES INSTITUTE Spelman College Atlanta, Georgia June 22 - July 29, 1981 2 . , I L , Q 1983 by Spelitan College Atlanta, Georgia 30314 e CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE: COURSE SYLLABI American Literature 212. Once Upon a Time: African 5 Folk Tradition Reflected in African-American Literature Janie Coombs Epps Atlanta Junior College (GA) Art 131. Art, Appreciation 15 Music 121. Music Appreciation Dr. Laurence M. Hayes Dr. Ellen LarkinA Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL Black (African-American) Psychology 35 Charlyn Harper-Bolton Atlanta Junior College (GA) Black Culture in White America 53 Dr. Alan Schaffer Clemson University (SC) Elementary Spanish 101. An Ethnic Approach to 63 Language Learning Dr. Earlene F. Frazier Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA English 201. Introduction to Literture: 83 Perspectives of the African Diaspora'- Dr. Janice Liddell Clark College, Atlanta, GA English 250. Interdisciplinary Studies: 105 Religious Dimensions in Literature Dr. Alice A. Calhoun Morris College, Sumter, SC English 326. African and Afro-American Literature 119 Dr. Georgie B: Latimer Bennett College, Greensboro, NC English 335. Women in Literature 151 Yakini B. Kemp e Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL English 2301. World Literature 159 Dr. Adnee'Bradford , Dr. Elwanda Ingram Winston-Salem State University (NC) 4 -iv- English 3381. Black Writcrs in American Literature 167 Dr. Elwanda Ingram Winston-Salem State University (NC) History 130. Afro-American History: 179 A Study of Southern Black Culture Joseph Taylor Bethune-Cour.man College, Daytona Beach, FL Afro-American History 320. New Introductory Unit: 193 The African Heritage Dr. Norman Rothman Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA Humanities 120. Art and Music Appreciation 201 Ellen Douglas Timothy Hicks Marva Stewart Paine College, Augusta, GA Humanities and Arts 254. Black Philosophy: 215 The Salt Eaters Dr. Charles Frye Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Interdisciplinary Explorations - Cultural: 227 African-American Culture Unit Mildred G. N. McMillan Sylvester W. Oliver, Jr. Rust College, Holly Springs, MS Music 101. Music Appreciation as a Study of 253 African-American Musical Culture, 1619-1900 Ojeda L. Penn Atlanta Junior College (GA) PART TWO: REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS REPORTS Week Two: Africans into Afro-Americans 267 Week Three: Lives of Slaves and Free Blacks 274 in the South, 1800-1860 Week Four: After Emancipation: The Self- 283 Definition of Black Southerners, 1860-1900 INTRODUCTION The syllabi in this report were prepa'redby partici- pants in the Humanities Institute entitled "Southern Black Culture: The African Heritage and the American Experience." The Institute, held at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, June 22-July 29, 1981, was supported by a grant from the Division of Education Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The goal of the Institute was for pafticipants to de- velop interdisciplinary materials focusing on Southern black culture. Each syllabus contains some elements pertaining to Afro-American culture; however, the amount may bu as little as one instructional unit or as much as an entire course. All syllabi are for undergraduate courses. Mdst of the syllabi reflect the content of the 1981 Institute which traced the history of Afro-Americans from their roots in Africa to the American South at the beginning of the twentieth,century. Southern black culture in the twentieth century was the subject of the 1982 Institute. The 1982 syllabi are contained in a separate volume. The review and synthesis summaries appear in Part Two of this report. The weekly review and synthesis sessions, led by Institute participants, were intended to provide for- mal opportunities to identify the unifying strains in each week's lectures and explore ways to present the information to students. The reports were prepared by small groups and presented to all Institute participants for further discussion. - - 6 ..-11. -2- I In the preparation of the syllabi, Institute. partici- pants were advised by the core faculty: Dr. Vada E. Butcher Formerly Professor of Music, Spelman College Jenelsie W. Holloway Associate Professor of Art, Spelman College Dr. Alton Hornsby, Jr. Professor of History, Morehouse College Dr. Norman M. Rates Professor of Religion,Spelman College Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Associate Professdr ofEnglish, Tougaloo College The Institute faculty and participants combined their schol- arship, experience, and special intere'..:ts to produce these syllabi.which should be of value to college instructors who recognize the study of black culture as an integral pact of the humanities curriculum. Pauline E. Drake, 'Project ,Directo June 1983 7 - b a . s PART ONE COURSE SYLLABI 4 gi, 8 Janis Coombs Epps Americas Literature 212 Spring Quarter, 1981-82 Course Title: Once Upon A Time: African Folk Tradition Reflected in African-American Literature Course Description The purpose of this course is to discover the African Folk traditipn which is reflected in'African-American Literature. Through examining tales, proverbs, ancedotes and jokes we can begin to see the underlying thought patterns and belief systems which were shared by all traditional Africans. It is this shared African worldview which survived the middle passage and is retained in African-American oral and written literature a from the time the earliest slave ships arrived on American soil until today. This connection--a commonly shared world- view--does away with the notion that African-American litera- ture begins during slavery times, but rather provides a vital link to the source from which our rich literature comes and impacts on our present day understanding of African-American literature. In order to study African-American literature we will first examine the African oral tradition. Our approach will be an hiseorical one as we study how that African oral tradition not only provided a foundation for the emergence'of early African-American literature but has becbme interwoven into the fabric of our literature down through the ages. Through- out the course, the primary goal will be to examine the folk, O tradition in our literature as a revealer of our rich cultural heritage, while simultaneously seeing the "folk" in our own lives, validating the richness of our own experiences and thus becoming more clear about who we as African-Americans are. Course Objectives Hopefully, this course will help you to accomplish the following: 1. To discover that in African-American literature, writers take raw experience blended with folk wisdom which has passed down through generations and give those experi-
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