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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog This is not the most recent catalog version; be sure you are viewing the appropriate catalog year.
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Africology |
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AFC 101 - Introduction to Africology and African American Studies [GEUS]
An introductory examination of the African American experience. Acquaints students with the trends, issues and forces that have shaped that experience; considers the concepts of cultural adaptation, institutional development, and group self-definition; and surveys the contemporary status and condition of African Americans.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall, Winter, and Summer
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Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing
AFC 101 meets the requirements for a course on U.S. Diversity because it surveys the origins, development, and current status of African Americans from the perspective of a discipline that places this group at the center of its inquiry. A historically underrepresented and oppressed group, African Americans constitute one of the largest minorities in the U.S. This group has been essential to the formation and character of U.S. society from its inception to the present. The struggle by African Americans for equality and human dignity and their contributions to U.S. and world cultures reveal much about the role and significance of diversity in American society. The course examines the interactions of African Americans with U.S. immigrant groups and with Native peoples. Cultural, economic, gender, religious, racial, and class factors in oppression are of particular concern.
Additional Information:
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology , U.S. Diversity (GEUS)
Equivalent Courses: AAS 101
Updates: Change to title 3/2018, effective Fall 2018; Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 102 - Introduction to African Civilization [GEGA]
This course is designed to provide the student with an introductory knowledge of centers of African civilization from antiquity to the 1960s. Those centers include ancient Egypt, Songhai, Kilwa, and Monomotapa.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall and Winter
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AFC 102 African Civilization is designed to provide the students with an introductory knowledge of centers of African Civilization from antiquity to the 1960s. Among those centers are Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Axum, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Kilwa, Sofola, Malinda, Mutapa (Monomotapa), etc. Apart from becoming familiar with such key centers of African Civilization, the students will explore the influence that African Civilization exerted on other cultures, as well as the impact of cross-cultural contacts on African Civilization itself. Preliminary subjects of discussion include historical and paleontological data examining the thesis of the African origin of humanity.
Additional Information:
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology , Global Awareness (GEGA)
Equivalent Courses: AAS 102
Updates: Course Rotation added 8/204; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 211 - Black Caribbean World [GEGA]
This interdisciplinary course provides an overview of the Caribbean region within a global context focusing on history and cultural production.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall, Winter, and Summer
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Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing
This course meets the Perspectives on a Diverse World - Global Awareness requirement of the General Education Program by providing an overview of the Caribbean region within a global context focusing on its history, contemporary reality, and cultural production. Through lectures, readings, writings, and discussions, students will gain insight into the Caribbean regions’ complex history, appreciate its cultural production and begin to recognize the role that the Caribbean plays in larger global systems.
Students will come away from the course more aware of the important role that the Caribbean region has played in the world historically. Topics to be addressed are: the history of the indigenous populations as well as the forced importation of African peoples and their experience. Students will also explore contemporary issues of neoliberalism and ecological pressures in relation to inhabitants’ spiritual practices as well as their musical, literary, and visual production.
The course is not meant to cover every Caribbean island in one semester, which means that the course can be kept fresh and dynamic in its ability to include different countries each semester depending on what new publications come out about the region, what artists emerge, what socio-political and economic issues the professor wants to focus on, different forms of art are to be emphasized, etc.
Additional Information:
Keywords: Africology , African American Studies , culture , Global Awareness (GEGA)
Updates: Change to title 4/2019, effective Fall 2019; Course Rotation added 4/2019; Approved for GEGA 1/2018, effective Fall 2018; New Course 10/2016, effective Fall 2017
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AFC 221 - Black Liberation Struggles
This course will explore Africa and its diaspora from the perspective of revolutions, addressing and assessing physical armed struggle as well as spiritual and ideological struggles.
We will be reading a number of texts from different parts of the globe in order to seek out and identify commonalities of purpose and method as well as investigate how black struggles for freedom have been realized both historically and contemporarily.
Students will come away from the course with a sense of some of the challenges to freedom that African and African diasporic people have faced over the centuries and their responses—quite proactive and innovative in many ways—to those challenges.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall and Winter
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Restriction by Class - Undergraduate Standing
Additional Information:
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology
Equivalent Courses: AAS 221, AAS 202
Updates: Change to title and description 4/2019, effective Fall 2019; Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 232 - Politics in the African American Experience [GEUS]
This course is designed to provide the student with knowledge of Black political behavior in the United States in its evolution from protest to contemporary institutional politics.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall and Winter
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AFC 232 - Politics in the African American Experience is a study of black political behavior in the United States and its evolution from protest to institutional, electoral politics. In examining the functioning and dynamics of the American political system from historical and contemporary perspectives, the course also compares and contrasts the black political experience with other minority group politics in the United States. This course uses the African American political experience and the transformative contributions that African American historic political struggles and minority group politics have made to the expansion and public appreciation of democratic principles, values and practices in the United States as a means of not only providing students with a multicultural perspective on the evolution and functioning of the American political system, but also exposing them to the diversity that characterizes “issues and perspectives” in the American political experience.
Additional Information:
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology , U.S. Diversity (GEUS)
Equivalent Courses: AAS 232
Updates: Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 244 - Dimensions of Racism [GEGA or GEKS]
This course examines various theoretical approaches to the concepts of race, ethnicity, and diversity. This course offers the opportunity to acquire an understanding of the interrelated dynamics that diversity of people, culture, religious beliefs, and ideologies play in the creation of new nations; how they can determine political and/or economic alliances; how they can shape or reshape the global order; how they can influence systems of exclusion and produce practices of intolerance.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
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Using the Afrocentric paradigm, a privileged critical theoretical framework and methodology to address relations of power and privilege, domination and oppression, concepts of superior and inferior civilizations, cultures, and societies that are difficult to deconstruct within traditional western perspectives, Dimensions of Racism prepares students to examine various theoretical approaches to the concepts of race, ethnicity, and diversity. The goal is to help students understand their culture and cultural practices and the interrelated dynamics that the diversity of peoples, cultures, and religious beliefs on the one hand; and ideological and political foundations of social stratification based on systems of power, oppression, and prejudice, on the other, play in the creation of new nations; how they can determine political and/or economic alliances; how they can shape or reshape the global order; how they can influence systems of exclusion and produce practices of intolerance. As such, in discussing these issues both at a national, international, and global level, this course meets the outcomes for Global Awareness .
Students will develop knowledge of ethnographic methods and techniques in social scientific research and Africology & African American Studies. In addition students learn how to develop research questions that reflect an understanding of the discipline in which they are asked; how to conduct cross-cultural analysis of data; and understand how knowledge is developed and disseminated from the perspective of the ontology and epistemology of race and the impact of its regulatory powers within society at national and international level. Students learn how to use social science methods of describing, exploring, explaining, and comparing to engage in the systematic study and understanding of societies and cultures and relations of power that govern and shape them. This course explores a broad range of topics and methods in the Social Sciences approach under the discipline of Africology both at national, international, and global level. As such, this course meets the outcomes for Knowledge of the Disciplines-Social Sciences .
Additional Information: Students may earn credit towards Global Awareness (GEGA) or Knowledge of the Disciplines-Social Sciences (GEKS) , not both.
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology , Global Awareness (GEGA) , Knowledge of the Disciplines - Social Sciences (GEKS)
Updates: Approved for GEGA and GEKS 1/2016, effective Fall 2016; New Course 11/2014, effective Summer 2015
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AFC 313 - Contemporary Africa: The Struggle and Prospects for Development [GEGA]
This course serves as a survey of Africa’s contemporary political economy. In examining postcolonial developments, the course focuses on regional and national strategies for social transformation.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall, Winter, and Summer (online)
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AFC 313 - Contemporary Africa: the Struggle and Prospects for Development is designed as a survey of Africa’s contemporary political economy. In examining post-colonial efforts at development, the course focuses on a cross-section of regional and national strategies for social transformation. Among subjects emphasized are economic cooperation and coordination initiatives on the continent, side by side with domestic and/or external constraints on national socioeconomic developmental efforts. The course also compares and contrasts Africa’s major socioeconomic trends and performances with those of Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia and Pacific regions. This course meets the Global Awareness category of the General Education program because its survey of the contemporary political-economic conditions of Africa will help to provide EMU students with a global perspective on forms of development in the contemporary world. Such a global perspective on development is all the more necessary, given the leadership role that the United States and Western Europe play within the international community.
Additional Information:
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology , Global Awareness (GEGA)
Equivalent Courses: AAS 313
Updates: Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 351 - The Social Context of African American Health [GEKS]
Examines the health status of African Americans. Explores the interplay between environment, biology, and culture; folk and popular health practices; and the organization and delivery of health care.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Winter
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Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing
AFC 351 applies an analysis of the social and cultural basis of health to the African American experience. To this end, the course provides a broad introduction to social science suppositions and techniques. AFC 351 moves well beyond the idea that medical care - its presence, absence or quality - is the singular or most critical factor determining the health of a people, community or society. It reveals the importance of social phenomena in disease resistance and health promotion. Historical shifts from the prominence of infectious to chronic diseases; the implications to health of chattel slavery, sharecropping, segregation, poverty and structured inequality; the relationship between psychosocial factors and disease, i.e., destabilized social settings that compromise resistance to disease; environmental racism; and the health status of African Americans as it relates to the organization of work, family structure and function, religious beliefs, the organization of medical care, lifestyle, consumer manipulation and post-industrial society are major issues addressed by the course.
Additional Information:
Keywords: African American Studies , Africology , health , Knowledge of the Disciplines - Social Sciences (GEKS)
Equivalent Courses: AAS 351
Updates: Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 442 - Afro-Environmentalism
Despite the association of African American people with the term “urban,” African diasporic people have a long and deep relationship with the earth.
This course will explore the continuities and ruptures that resulted from African Americans’ troubled history with the land and their renewed commitment to it in both northern and southern environments.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall and Winter
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Restriction by Class - Undergraduate standing
Additional Information:
Keywords: Africology
Updates: New Course 10/2019, effective Fall 2020
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Aging Studies |
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AGIN 212 - Introduction to Gerontology [GEUS]
This course is designed to provide an exploration of the diverse dimensions of gerontology by studying contemporary issues relevant to the field. Students will gain an understanding of the domains of theory, research, education, practice, policy and service, all of which help to define the diverse nature of gerontology.
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Winter and Summer
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This course introduces students to the study of aging. Older adults over the age of 55 comprise the largest and most diverse group within the U.S. This patchwork quilt of Americans represents a broad array of values, interests, and experiences that have significantly defined the nation. Through the study of aging, students begin to understand how differences among people have shaped the society we live. Concepts such as ageism are examined and how public policy has negatively and positively influenced the lives of the elderly. Sub-groups within the older population are explored as students learn how people throughout history have been disadvantaged based on race, ethnicity, gender, cultural and sexual identity and age itself. Trends are discussed that show how individual differences within this broad group help to re-define what it means to be an older adult. Students are challenged through reading and writing assignments that provide the foundation to enter into a larger discussion on the diverse and complex topics that impact aging in America. As such, this course meets the outcomes for a course in the Perspectives on a Diverse World - US Diversity category of the General Education program.
Additional Information:
Keywords: gerontology , aging , U.S. Diversity (GEUS)
Equivalent Courses: GERT 212
Updates: Approved for GEUS 10/2015, effective Winter 2016; Course Rotation added 9/2014; Change to prefix 1/2013; Change to description 10/2011, effective Winter 2012
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AGIN 219 - Around the World in 80 Years: Adult Development Across Culture [GEGA]
Through the study of adult development, students will consider how the aging of the world’s population is affecting diverse cultures, societies - and families - across the globe. Issues of social justice and empowerment related to population aging will be addressed, particularly the social, economic, political and policy consequences.
Cross-Listed with SOCL 219
Credit 3 hrs Normal (A-F)
May not be repeated for additional credit
Course Rotation: Fall
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This Global Awareness course offers students the opportunity to examine diverse cultures and countries through a social and demographic reality shared across the world: population aging. While variances exist in lifespan, every society, and every country - whether industrialized Western or least industrialized African or Asian- is faced with the circumstance of adults living longer than ever before in their history. How each culture has historically dealt with and currently deals with its again population, as well as aging individuals, offers a lens for considering the diversities and commonalities of societies around the world. Through the study of again issues of global relations, social justice, and empowerment will be addressed, particularly the social, economic, political and policy consequences.
Additional Information:
Keywords: Global Awareness (GEGA) , gerontology , aging , Sociology
Equivalent Courses: SOCL 219
Updates: Course Rotation added 9/2014; Change to dept. 7/2014; Change to prefix 1/2013
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