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AFA 201: The African Experience: 3 credits
Introduces students to the historical, socio-economic, cultural, and political experiences of African people in Africa and Diaspora. It fulfills a core requirement for African/African-American Studies. Gen. Ed. Blocks IIIB, Block VII (AH) or Block VIII: Option 3.

AFA 202: The African-American Experience: 3 credits
An overview of the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural factors that have helped shape the experiences of African Americans in the United States. It fulfills a core requirement for African/African-American studies. Gen. Ed. Block VII (SBS) or Block VIII: Option 3.

AFA 225: African/African-American Health Issues: 3 credits
Cross listed as EHS 225. Provides the student with an understanding of the medical and public health issues relevant to the maintenance of health conditions in both the United States and Africa. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for EHS 225.

AFA 304: Slavery in the Americas: 3 credits:
Cross listed as HIS 304. The history of slavery, bound labor, and freedom in the Western Hemisphere. Special attention will be given to anti-slavery and abolitionist movements. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for HIS 304.

AFA 305: African-American History: 3 credits
Cross listed as HIS 305. African history to 1500; Europe, Africa and the Americas; trans-Atlantic and domestic slave trades; American slavery; emancipation; post-emancipation experiences and initiatives; persistence of black nationalism. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for HIS 305.

AFA 345: Minority Group Politics: 3 credits
Cross listed as POL 345. Examination and comparison of various theories, strategies, forms of participation, leadership styles, and concepts (e.g. Black Power) of minority group politics. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for POL 345. Gen. Ed. VIII.

AFA 346: Diversity and Criminal Justice: 3 credits
Cross listed as CRJ 345. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Contemporary race, gender, and other diversity issues and their relevance to criminal offenders, crime victims, and the criminal justice system. Includes such issues as the civil rights and women's movements, and equal opportunity. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for CRJ 345.

AFA 347: Special Topics in AFA Studies: 3 credits
Specialized study of selected topics not available in traditional course offerings. May be retaken with different topics to a maximum of six hours.

AFA 349: Applied Learning in AFA Studies: 1-3 credits
Work in a cooperative placement related to student's academic studies. May earn a maximum of three hours. A minimum of 80 hours work required for each semester hour credit.

AFA 360: Literatures of Africa: 3 credits:
Cross listed as ENG 360. Survey of the genres and components of African literature, oral and written; study of how key concepts in African thought, culture and experiences are reflected in the literatures composed by writers from Africa or of African origin. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for ENG 360.

AFA 385: Early African History: 3 credits
Cross listed as HIS 385. Prerequisite: three hours HIS or departmental approval. History of Africa from earliest times to 1860. Emphasis on social, political, economic, and cultural changes in states and societies; oral tradition; the environmental and human activities; slavery and the slave trades. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for HIS 385.

AFA 386: Modern African History: 3 credits
Cross listed as HIS 386. History of Africa from the 19th Century to the present. Themes include: trade and politics; European conquest and African resistance; rural survival and urban popular culture; race, class, gender, ethnicity, and age; African nationalism and independence. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for HIS 386.

AFA 495: Independent Study: 3 credits
Prerequisites: AFA 201, AFA 202, departmental approval. Individual study and/or research on a problem/topic pertaining to African, African-American and/or Afro-Caribbean experience. Student must have the independent study proposal form approved by the faculty supervisor and the program director prior to enrollment.

SOC 400: Racial and Ethnic Relations: 3 credits
[Completion of SOC 131 is advised before taking SOC 400]
Analysis of the development of the racial and ethnic relations from the perspective of sociology and related social sciences. Examination of issues related to dominant and minority group status in the United States and cross-culturally. Gen. Ed. VIII.

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