BLACK  WORLD  STUDIES COURSES
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Area A.
African Experiences and Cultures
Area B.
African-American Experiences and Cultures
Area C.
Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean Experiences
Area D.
Perspectives on Gender, Race, Class & Ethnicity


Area A. African Experiences and Cultures

Two of these:

Number
Title
Hours
BWS 209 Civilizations of Africa
3
BWS/HST 224 Africa in History
3
BWS/HST 225 The Making of Modern Africa
3
BWS 267 National Cinema: African Film
3
BWS/GEO 301 Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa
4
BWS/CLS 310E Greco-Roman Egypt
3
BWS 324/HST 325 Images of Africa
3
BWS 329/ATH/REL 329 Religions of Africa
3
BWS 339/POL 338 Contemporary African Politics
3
BWS/ATH 366 African Oral Traditions
3
BWS/POR 381 African Lusophone Literature
3
BWS/POL 438 Africa and the Global Economy
3
BWS/HST 444 Ancient Egypt
3
BWS/ENG 450A Studies in Genre: The African Novel
3
BWS/HST 495 Modern African Environmental History
3
BWS/HST 496 Africa in the 20th Century:
Decolonization and Independence
3
BWS/BOT 496 Biodiversity of Kenya
5
BWS/ART 480/580A Seminar in African Art
3


Area B. African-American Experiences and Cultures

Two of these:

Number
Title
Hours
MUS 135 Understanding Jazz,
Its History and Context
3
BWS/POL 142 American Politics and Diversity
3
BWS/HST 221 African-American History
3
BWS 250.C African-American Education
3
BWS/ENG 271 Cultures and Literatures
of the American South
3
BWS/PHS 279 African Americans in Sports
3
MUS 285 Survey of African Music in the Diaspora
3
BWS/PHS 292 Dance, Culture and Contexts
3
BWS/WMS 330.A Black Women Writers
3
BWS/ENG 336 African-American Writing, 1746-1877
3
BWS/ENG 337 African-American Writing, 1878-1945
3
BWS/ENG 338 African-American Writing, 1946-Present
3
REL 343 African-American Religions
4
ENG 348 Ethnic American Literatures
3
BWS/HST 365 Civil War and Reconstruction Era
3
MUS 385

The Roots of Black Music:
Blues, Gospel & Soul

3
MUS 386 The History and Development
of Hip Hop Culture in America
3
BWS/PHS 386 African Americans and Health Issues
3
BWS/HST 395 The American South to 1877
3
BWS/HST 396 The American South Since 1877
3
BWS/ARC 427 The American City Since 1940
3
BWS/SOC 448 The African-American Experience
3


Area C. Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean Experiences

One of these:

Number
Title
Hours
ENG/LAS 254 Latin American Literature
3
BWS/LAS 306 Geography of Brazil
3
BWS/POR 383 By or About (Afro-) Brazilian Women
3
GEO 405 The Caribbean in Global Context
3
BWS/LAS 415 Cuba in Revolution:
Its History, Politics and Culture
4
GEO 461 Migrants and Diasporas
3
GEO 473 Development and Underdevelopment
3
GEO 475 Global Periphery's Urbanization
3


Area D. Perspectives on Gender, Race, Class & Ethnicity

One of these:

Number
Title
Hours
BWS/CLS 210.R Race and Ethnicity
3
HST/FST 251 Gender and Third World Film
3
BWS/ATH 325 Identity, Race, Gender, Class
3
POL 326 Comparative Ethnic Politics
3
HST 329 Lynching in America, 1865-1940
3
BWS 328/PSY 325 Psychology of Prejudice
and Minority Experience
3
BWS/SOC 348 Race and Ethnic Relations
3
BWS/FSW 362 Family Poverty
3
BWS 370.E Feminism & Diaspora:
US Women of Color
3
SOC 372 Social Stratification
3
BWS 380 Black Atlantic:
Crosscurrents of Resistance
3
BWS/HST 386 Race in U.S. History
3
BWS/WMS 410A Black Feminist Theory
3
BWS/GEO 455 Race, Urban Change, and
Conflict in America
3
BWS 470 Social and Political Activism
3
BWS/GTY 472

Minority Aging

3