AFAM 380 | Special Topics in Race & Ethnicity

Special Topics in Race & Ethnicity provide students with content related to racial and ethnic groups not primarily covered in African American Studies (AFAM) courses, while using the foundations of the discipline to interrogate the experiences, knowledge, impact, and engagement of different peoples with the plight and knowledge of Black people. The course topic is determined by the instructor. Courses under this theme provide an in-depth examination of particular racial or ethnic groups alongside unique transdisciplinary theoretical approaches to interrogating their experiences. As a breadth course in AFAM Studies, topics show a distinct relationship to African American studies; allow application of methods and theories from AFAM Studies; and expands lenses and extends contexts for understanding on topics instructive to African American experiences. Through these courses, students gain a critical appreciation for the range and relevance of the conceptual frameworks of African American Studies as a discipline as they engage with additional racial identities, their histories, and current impacts of their oppression, resistance, collective voice, and strategies of critique and transformation.