| COURSE | DESCRIPTION |
| AFAM 2000 | Introduction to African American Studies. Cultural, social, and historical movements among Americans of African descent. |
| AFAM(PSYC) 3150 | Introduction to Black Psychology. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Deconstruction of traditional thought, behavior, and development as well as reconstruction of the same on contemporary terms, testing of nuances and varieties of multicultural and indigenous models. The designs and projected future of the Black Psychology Movement. |
| AFAM 3880 | African American 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 narative (animal tales, slave stories, modern legends, jokes, toasts, rap songs), folk songs (African songs, gospel songs, work songs, ballads, blues songs). |
| AFAM(POLS) 4200 |
African American Social Change. Prerequisite: POLS 1101-1101D and AFAM 2000. African American social movements, principally those in the United States, such as the convention and colonizing movements of the nineteenth century and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the twentieth century. |
| AFAM(DRAM) 4490/6490 |
African American Women in Cinema: Image and Aesthetics. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Selected films by and about African and African American women. A historical/critical overview of the presentation of these women in cinema with emphasis on contemporary African and African American women film makers. |
| AFAM(PSYC) 4500/6500 |
Psychology of Prejudice. Prerequisite: (PSYC 1101 or SOCI 1101) and senior standing. Motivational, cognitive, social, and cultural factors that lead to discrimination in our society and various perspectives found in the research on discrimination. |
| AFAM(PSYC) 4550/6550 |
Classic Studies in Black Psychology. Prerequisite: AFAM(PSYC) 3150 or permission of department. Studies which have had major social or scientific impact on the lives of Black Americans and the way black people have been viewed within psychology. Approach is historical and interdisciplinary. |
| ANTH 3410 |
Contemporary Native America. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Cultural diversity of contemporary Native American tribes of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including lifestyles, politics, literature, music, art, and socioeconomic conditions. |
| ANTH 3410H |
Contemporary Native America(Honors). 3 hours Oasis Title: COMTEMP NATIVE AMER. Prerequisite: (ANTH 1102 or ANTH 2120H) and permission of Honors.. Cultural diversity of contemporary Native American tribes of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including lifestyles, politics, literature, music, art, and socioeconomic conditions. Non-traditional format: When course is taken as part of a summer field school, all lectures and demonstrations will total the equivalent amount of time as the traditional three hours lecture per week during a semester. The emphasis is on direct experimental contact with Native America -- landscape, ceremony, and culture. Not offered on regular basis. |
| ANTH 3540 | Multicultural Health Care. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Multicultural diversity of beliefs and practices about health and illness of ethnic groups in the United States as it impacts on health care. Specific consideration of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans. |
| ANTH 4020/6020 | Indians of North America. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of major. North American Indian cultures at the time of European contact. Additional topics include origin and development of Indian culture, impact of European contact on native cultures, and problems faced by Native Americans today. |
| ANTH(HIST) 4470 | The Rise and Fall of the Southeastern Chiefdoms. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Development of the native societies of the southeastern United States, the exploration of the area by Spain in the 16th century, and the consequences of the meeting of the two peoples. |
| ANTH(HIST) 4480 | The Indians of the Old South. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Social history of the native peoples of the southern United States from the beginnings of the Spanish missions and the English deerskin and slave trade through Indian removal. |
| ARTS 2050 | Cultural Diversity in American Art. Past and present art created by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans. |
| CMLT 2400 | Asian American Literature. Works of literature by Asian American writers, including works written in English and translations of works originally written in Asian languages. |
| DRAM 2110 | Voice of Diversity in Contemporary American Drama. Dramatic works which foreground issues of race, gender, culture, and/or ethnicity. Concepts of perception and identity, group relationships, and social/political protest. |
| DRAM 2130 | American Ethnic Cinema. Cultural history of the most important ethnic film makers in the American cinema from the 1920s to the present. With emphasis on stories and styles of the films, as well as the underlying ecomomic and social contexts. |
| DRAM 4480/6480 | History of African American Drama and Theatre. The emergence of a distinct and conscious African American theatre in the United States. |
| ENGL 1030 | Multicultural English Composition. Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1030. Themes on fiction, poetry, and drama using multicultural literature. |
| ENGL 1060H | Composition and Multicultural Literature (Honors). Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1030 or ENGL 1050H. Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 and permission of Honors. Close analysis of multicultural literary works as the basis of effective critical writing. |
| ENGL 2390H | Multicultural Literature in America (Honors). Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2400. Prerequisite: (ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1030) and permission of Honors. Important writers and movements in the mosaic of American culture and literature with special attention to African American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures. |
| ENGL 2400 | Multicultural Literature in America. Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2390H. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1030. Important writers and movements in the mosaic of American culture and literature with special attention paid to African American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures. |
| ENGL(AFAM) 3230 | Development of African American Literature. Prerequisite: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. African American literature since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, including diverse voices rooted in the folk origins for literary forms. |
| ENGL(AFAM)(LING) 4040 | Language Use in the African American Community. Prerequisite: LING 2100 or ENGL(LING) 3030 or CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society. |
| ENGL(AFAM) 4620 | African American Poetry. Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. African American poetry from the colonial period to the present, including slave and folk songs of the mid-nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, and contemporary poetry. Emphasis on such figures as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and others. |
| ENGL(AFAM) 4630 | African American Fiction. Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. Important African American stories and novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by such authors as Frances Harper, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. |
| ENGL 4860 | Multicultural Topics in American Literature. Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. Topics in multicultural studies, with primary focus on literature by members of one or more traditionally marginalized cultural groups within the United States and with attention to historical context and theoretical aspects. |
| ENGL(AFAM) 4880 | Topics in African American Literature. Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright and Black American literature and aesthetics. |
| GEOG 1103 | Cultural Geography of the United States. Not open to students with credit in GEOG 2130H-2130D. Geographic factors underlying multiculturalism and ethnic relationships in the United States. Spatial development and organization of culture; population growth, migration and urbanization; and the spatial dimensions of political, economic and social processes. |
| GEOG 2130H-2130D | Cultural Geography of the United States (Honors). Not open to students with credit in GEOG 1103-1103D. Prerequisite: Permission of Honors. Geographic factors underlying multiculturalism and ethnic relationships in the United States. Spatial development and organization of culture; population growth, migration and urbanization; and the spatial dimensions of political, economic and social processes. |
| HIST 2050H | Multicultural America (Honors). Not open to students with credit in HIST 2051 or HIST 2052. Prerequisite: Permission of Honors. United States history from a multicultural and multiethnic perspective. Examines the roles Native Americans, European Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans have played in the making of America. The course begins in seventeenth-century Virginia and continues to the present. |
| HIST 2051 | Multiculturalism in Early America. The multicultural reality of the American experience from the 1600s through the 1800s by examining the complex interactions of people of diverse races, ethnicities, classes, and gender in forging the American nation. |
| HIST 2052 | Multiculturalism in Modern America. United States history since 1865 from a multicultural and multiethnic perspective. The course will emphasize social, cultural, and political dimensions of the American experience, paying particular attention to issues of race and ethnicity. Highlights the contributions of the many different peoples who make up America. |
| HIST 3050 | The American Indian History to 1840. 3 hours. Oasis Title: AM INDIANS TO 1840. Explores the impact of colonization on Native Americans to 1840. The course will focus on the adaptations of Indians to the great changes unleashed by the meeting of the new and old worlds. Offered every year. |
| HIST 3051 | The American Indian History Since 1840. 3 hours. Oasis Title: AM INDIANS SINCE 1840. Government policy towards Indians, but more importantly, exploration of how Native Indians themselves constructed their lives over the past 150 years. The readings give voice to Indians while at the same time providing a structured historical background. Offered every year. |
| HIST 3101 | The Early African American Experience. 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. |
| HIST 3102 | Modern African American Experience. 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. |
| HIST(AFAM) 4055/6055 | Historical Survey of African American Thought. This course examines representatives 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 4110/6110 | Multicultural Georgia. The history of the state, with an emphasis on its racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and regional diversity, to be examined through historical documents, novels, short stories, folklore, memoirs, music, and film. |
| MUSI 2040 | History of Popular Music. Rotating subjects in popular music, drawing upon a wide variety of influences and ethnicities. Course content will be drawn from such topics as jazz, Hispanic styles and influences, folksong, and American musical theatre. |
| MUSI 2060 | History of Rock and Roll. Rock and roll music from its origins to the present. The sociology and origins from African American Blues to present styles and the role of Georgia and Athens in the current music scene. |
| MUSI(AFAM) 2960 | African American Percussive Music: From Africa to the Americas. Traditional and contemporary African American percussive music beginning with its African heritage and tracking its development throughout the Americas, with particular emphasis on the United States. Teaching/learning strategies include in-class performance, demonstrations, audiovisuals, and lectures. No previous music performance background required. |
| POLS 4050 | African American Political Thought. Prerequisite: POLS 1101-1101D. African American political thought since the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging from early emigrationist sentiments to the nationalist exhortations of contemporary African American youth culture, including African American feminist and socialist thought. |
| POLS 4560 | African American Politics. Prerequisite: POLS 1101-1101D. African American political behavior, including the theoretical underpinnings of political action, the electoral preferences of African Americans, and the role of African Americans in United States political institutions. |
| POLS(AFAM) 4570 | African American Social Change. 3 hours Prerequisite: POLS 1101-1101D or AFAM 2000. African American social movements, principally those in the United States, such as the convention and colonizing movements of the nineteenth century and the civil rights and black power movements of the twentieth century. Not offered on a regular basis. |
| PSYC 2100 | Survey of Black Psychology. Not open to students with credit in PSYC 4130 or AFAM 4250. Black people as psychologists and as subjects of psychological inquiry. The history of Black psychology and African philosophy as a basis for Black psychology will be discussed. Other topics include self-concept and identity, intelligence and school achievement, the Black family, and Black speech and language. |
| PSYC(AFAM) 2150 | Understanding Cultural Diversity. Cross-cultural psychology, including a examination of issues such as conformity, leadership, and attributional style as they vary across different cultures, with consideration of their implications for the emerging world. |
| RELI 2004 | Introduction to Religion in Native American Cultures. Native religious traditions of selected cultures of North America, with special attention to cultures of the Southeast, Great Plains, and Southwest. |
| RELI(AFAM) 2005 | African American Religions: An Introduction. Major and selected contemporary religious groups and movements among African Americans. |
| RELI(AFAM) 4201/6201
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African American Religious History. 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. |
| RELI(AFAM) 4203/6203
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The Bible in the Black Church. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of department. Biblical interpretation in black America from 1865 to the present. |
| ROML 2550 | Latino Literature, Language, and Culture. Not open to students with credit in SPAN 2550. Critical analysis of the literary, socio-linguistic, and cultural presence of representative Hispanic groups in the United States. Designed for non-speakers of Spanish. Given in English. |
| SPAN 2550 | Latino Literature, Language, and Culture. Not open to students with credit in ROML 2550. The literary, sociolinguistic, and cultural presence of representative Hispanic groups in the United States. Intended for Spanish speakers. Given in Spanish. |
| SOCI(AFAM) 2020 | African American Society. The class, status, and power relations of African Americans as part of both the United States social structure and the African diaspora. |
| SOCI(AFAM) 2820 | Race and Ethnicity in America. The causes and consequences of race and ethnic discrimination in America, with a focus on ethnic competition and conflict. |
| SOCI(AFAM) 4370 | Seminar in Race and Ethnicity. Prerequisite: SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1600 or permission of department. Special topics in race and ethnicity for advanced undergraduates. |
| SPCM 1800 | Cultural Diversity in Communication. Not open to students with credit in SPCM 4800. Patterns of public and interpersonal communication among ethnic groups, especially North American minority cultures, strategies for fostering group identity, difficulties in inter-group communication, and skills for improving the quality of those interactions. |
| SPCM(AFAM) 2810 | Communication in African American Communities. Not open to students with credit in SPCM(AFAM) 4810. Rhetorical strategies and patterns of orality in African American communication, communication styles in conflict, and skill development for cultural interaction. |
| SPCM 4800 | Intercultural Communication. Prerequisite: SPCM 3700 or permission of department. Factors that facilitate or impede effective communication between members of different cultural groups. Considers interactions between people from different nations as well as co-cultures within the same nation. Effects of differing world-views, value systems, language varieties, nonverbal codes, and relational norms. Skills for disseminating ideas across cultures and for building intercultural competence. |
| SPCM(AFAM) 4810 | African American Rhetoric and Communication. The history and criticism of the communication of African American speakers, with emphasis upon oral rhetoric relating to social-political development since 1860. |
| WMST 1110-1110D | Multicultural Perspectives on Women in the United States. Not open to students with credit in WMST 1110H. Experiences of women in selected racial and ethnic communities: Latinas/Chicanas, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and other women in contemporary United States. |
| WMST 3110 | Gender, Race, and Class. Prerequisite: WMST 1110 or WMST 2010 or permission of department. Issues of gender, race, and class intersecting in the lives of women in the United States. Historical and social construction of gender, race, and class which have shaped the productive, political, and cultural experiences of women of diverse backgrounds will be examined. |