Subject Description
African American Studies

AFAM 215 | On the Real: Black Popular Culture is Art

This course provides historical understandings alongside the analysis and discussion of contemporary Black popular culture with a focus on its artistic value. Pop culture is authentic, as opposed to commercial culture. African American culture was formed under the reign of white supremacy. A very under-observed component to African American cultural expressions is the artisan work needed to create and perform them.

AFAM 205 | Survey of Race and Culture in Ethnic Literature

This course aims to provide a panoramic view of the operations of race and culture in the literature of a racially ethnic community of the Americas, from early oral traditions through the first written and published works. Captivity narratives, autobiographies, poems, prose, and different genres of resistance writing, allow students to examine anew, colonial, emancipatory, anti-colonial, and pivotal modern socio-political and aesthetic movements and eras.

African American Studies

African American Studies is interdisciplinary, with focal fields such as history, sociology, communication, political science, psychology, arts, economics, education, and the sciences with a social justice lens.