HIST 2550 - Survey of Africana Studies

(3) Credit Hours

This course offers a survey of Africana Studies. It is concerned with the histories, ideas, social and political life of Africa and the African Diaspora, including literature, the arts, cultural studies, history, politics, philosophy, feminism, and the legacy of scientific racism. In this course, you will be introduced to the concepts and methods of the discipline of Africana Studies, and will use them to study select narratives, data, and or text derived from and or related to African world experience, with particular emphasis the period of late modernity (1500 to the present). As such, this course provides students with an alternative to traditional Western orthodoxy by exploring new and alternative paradigms and theories. Once an academic year. Effective Spring 2024.
General Education Category: Individual and Global Citizenship.