History and Culture
AFAM 3880. African American Folklore. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN AM FOLKLORE.
Prerequisite: ENGL 3010 or permission of department.
African American folk expressions: their functions and their relationships with folk expressions of other peoples. Folk speech (proverbs, riddles, signifying, playing the dozens), folk narrative (animal tales, slave stories, modern legends, jokes, toasts, rap songs), folk songs (African songs, gospel songs, work songs, ballads, blues songs).
Not offered on a regular basis.
AFAM 4250. African American Seminar. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN AM SEMINAR.
Prerequisite: (AFAM 2000 and AFAM 3880) or AFAM(POLS) 4200.
Recurring topics and themes in African American life from the perspective of the behavioral sciences and humanities.
Not offered on a regular basis.
AFAM 4850. Directed Major Projects in African American Studies. 3-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
An independent directed course for advanced undergraduate students with a major interdisciplinary project that goes beyond the disciplinary boundaries of a traditional department. The student has two major projects, one each for Georgia State Leadership, through the Fanning Center, and the Washington Center's Minority Leadership Fellowship Program.
EFND(HIST) 4010/6010. The Hip-Hop Mind: History, Ideology, and Pedagogy. 3 hours.
Examination of the history, ideology, and pedagogy of the Hip-Hop generation (those born between 1965 and 1984). Focuses on the connections of Hip-Hop to previous social, intellectual, and pedagogical movements. The course is interactive, includes poetry reading sessions, guest lecturers, and presentations by former students of the course.
HIST 3060. Colonial and Revolutionary America. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: COLONIAL REV AMER.
Native American, African, and European interactions; warfare, labor systems, cultures, and societies; empire building and colonial political structures; the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.
Offered every year.
HIST 3101. The Early African American Experience. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: EARLY AFR AME EXPER.
The African background of African Americans, the institution of slavery, the development of the African American community institutions, and African American participation in and impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Offered every year.
HIST 3102. Modern African American Experience. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MOD AFR AMER EXPER.
The twentieth-century struggle for civil rights, black identity, and self-determination. The response to industrialism and urbanization. The role of black institutions and political organizations. The philosophy and tactics of accommodation, integration, and separatism.
Offered every even-numbered year.
HIST 3240. The Caribbean Area. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: THE CARIBBEAN AREA.
The islands and Caribbean periphery from pre-Columbian times to the present. European intrusion and settlement, plantation societies and economies, slavery and slave rebellion, nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and economic developments, and United States policy. Approximately one-third of the course will focus on the period after World War II.
Offered every year.
HIST 3500. Seventeenth Through Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SO AFRICA 1600-1902.
Social, political, and economic changes in southern African societies (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique) as they assimilated non-African peoples, their ideas, and material culture. Independent, viable and adaptable, Africans engaged Portuguese, British, Boers, and Germans as they competed for land, cattle, and trade.
Offered every year.
HIST 3511. East Africa to the Nineteenth Century. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: EAST AFR TO 19TH.
Economic, political, and cultural history of East Africa to the nineteenth century. Growth of agricultural systems, forms and functions of states and kingdoms, the world of the Indian Ocean, slavery and rebellion.
Offered every year.
HIST(AFAM) 4055/6055. Historical Survey of African American Thought. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SURV AFR AM THOUGHT.
This course examines representative works of such nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, cultural, and political thinkers as Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Anna J. Cooper, and Angela Davis among other outstanding women and men who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the African American community.
HIST 4200/6200. Studies in Latin American History. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: STUDIES LAT AMER.
Special issues or topics in Latin American history not covered in a regular history course. Topics, methodology, and instructor vary from semester to semester. Representative topics include the Latin American revolutionary tradition, the wars of independence in the Americas, and Latin American wars.
Offered every year.
HIST 4500/6500. Studies in African or Middle Eastern History. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFR OR MIDDLE EAST.
Topics in modern and ancient Middle Eastern or African history. Non-traditional methodologies and sources are combined to introduce students to emerging issues in African or Middle Eastern history.
Offered every year.
HIST 4550/6550. Christianity and Colonialism in Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CHRISTIA/COL IN AFR.
Christianity was both ally and adversary to colonialism, threatening African "tradition" and aiding a vocal westernized elite which shaped independent African nations. African initiatives in Christian conversion, colonial Christianity, Africans in mission communities, mission education and westernized elites, independent African religious movements, and Christianity and African nationalism.
Offered every year.
POLS 4050. African American Political Thought. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRI AMER POL THGHT.
Prerequisite: POLS 1101-1101D.
African American political thought since the nineteenth century, ranging from early emigrationist sentiments to the nationalist exhortations of contemporary African American youth culture, including African American feminist and socialist thought.
Not offered on a regular basis.
POLS 4660. Southern Politics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SOUTHERN POLITICS.
Not open to students with credit in POLS 4190.
Prerequisite: POLS 1101-1101D.
Politics of individual states, emergence of the Republican party, political mobilization, consequences of reapportionment, and selected civil rights topics.
Not offered on a regular basis.
RELI (AFAM) 3000. The Bible in the Third World. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: BIBLE THIRD WORLD.
Prerequisite: RELI 1001 or RELI 1002 or permission of department. Interpretations of the Bible in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the influence upon minority communities in the United States.
Offered every even-numbered year.
RELI (AFAM) 4201/6201. African American Religious History. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRCN AM REL HIST.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of department.
The religious traditions of African Americans from Colonial times to the present; major religious movements, personalities, and ideas and their relationship to various aspects of American culture.
Offered every odd-numbered year.
RELI (AFAM) 4202/6202. Southern Religious History. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SOUTHERN REL HIST.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of department.
The origins, growth, and current practices of religion in the American South. The interaction between religion and other aspects of Southern culture, such as racial and gender concerns, education, Darwinian science, temperance, and politics.
Offered every even-numbered year.
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