| BLS 110 |
African Civilization I (Formerly CUB 3103) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre-requisite: ENG 091 or ESL 091
This course is designed to provide a broad acquaintance with
African history, civilization, and culture from the earliest times to
the 16th century. The course will discuss the origins and
development of civilization in Africa, focusing on the oral
civilizations, ancient African kingdoms, the African middle ages,
traditional and foreign missionary religions, and Africa before
the advent of the Europeans. |
| BLS 112 |
African Civilization II (Formerly CUB 3104) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre-requisite: ENG 091 or ESL 091
This course is designed to provide a broad acquaintance with
modern African social history, civilization, and culture. After a
quick overview of the period of Oral Civilization and the colonial
partition of Africa, the continuity and development of African culture
and civilization will be analyzed: its social and political
institutions, its people and the growing social issues which confront
African society today. The course will explore the social,
political, economic, and intellectual dimensions of African life
through a wide variety of readings from the various disciplines
of history, anthropology, political science, literature, music, and
the arts. |
| BLS 114 |
The African-American Experience (Formerly CUB 3106) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
| The student will be introduced, through a series of guided readings,
to the experiences of peoples of African descent from
Africa's genesis through the middle passage, slavery, emancipation,
the reconstruction and the aftermath of de jure slavery
in the Americas.The literary, economic, socio-psychological, and
cultural aspects of the African-American experience till the end
of the 19th century will be discussed and analyzed. |
| BLS 116 |
African-American Religion (Formerly CUB 3119) |
3 credits, 3 hours |
| The student will trace the history of African-American religion as
a continuation of African religions as well as a response to the
experience of the Diaspora. Major emphasis will be placed on
the church as an integral part of the African-American community. |
| BLS 119 |
Diversity & Pluralism in America |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Co-requisite: SPA 121 or ENG 091
This foundation course is the study of various racial, ethnic and
cultural and cultural components of the Americas society from
the 16th century to the present. Historical and contemporary
issues of the American mosiac will be surveyed as they relate
to race, ethnicity, religion, cultural diversity and pluralism. The
course will explore a variety of theoretical perspectives and
empirical cases in assimilation, discrimination and reverse discrimination,
integration, racism, segregation, social harmony,
coexistence, and the future of racial and ethnic groups and cultures
in the United States. This is, therefore, a course aimed at
understanding and analyzing the various situations of our different
and differing American populations, suggesting a comparative
comprehension of various patterns of group relations. |
| BLS 120 |
Social Problems of the Minority Communities (Formerly CUB 3124) |
3 credits, 3 hours |
| The student will analyze various aspects of social problems
which affect disadvantaged and multicultural communities,
including drugs, housing, welfare, and crime, with respect to
their etiology, as well as strategies for amelioration. |
| BLS 121 |
African Literature (Formerly CUB 3172) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre-requisite: ENG 111
The student will identify the main sources and trace the thematic
development of African oral and written literature. The student
will discuss and evaluate the contribution of literature to
African historiography. The student will discuss, analyze, and
criticize representative works from such countries as Nigeria,
Kenya, and Ethiopia. The works considered will be from the
earliest times to the present. Credit will be awarded in either
English or Africana Studies. |
| BLS 122 |
Negritude
(Formerly CUB 310) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre/Co-requisites: ENG 091; ESL 091
This course is designed to explore the cultural, literary, intellectual,
political, moral, artistic and social values of people of
Africa and the African Diaspora as represented in the literature
of the Negritude Movement. The course will trace the development
of Negritude as a political, literary, cultural, moral movement
which attempts to rehabilitate the people of African
descent from the psychological and moral degradation of slavery,
colonialism and imperialism. The inter-relationship between
the Negritude Movement, the Harlem Renaissance and the Pan
Africanist Movement will be explored. The critique of Negritude
by Anglo-phone African writers and intellectuals will be examined.
The issue of alienation, and the dilemma of the assimilated
African (l'evolue, l'assimile) will be emphasized. |
| BLS 123 |
African-American Literature
(Formerly CUB 3174) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
| The student will survey the literature from the slave narratives
to the present time. S/he will relate the literature to the historical
and cultural context in which it is set. S/he will analyze and
criticize such writers as Isaac Jefferson, Langston Hughes,
Richard Wright, and John A. Williams. Credit will be awarded in
English and Africana Studies. |
| BLS 125 |
The Harlem Renaissance (Formerly CUB 320) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre/Co-requisites: ENG 110
This course is designed to explore the socio-political environment
and evolution of Afro-Americans as reflected in the literature
of the Harlem Renaissance (1919-1939) in drama, fiction,
poetry and other forms of artistic expression. Students will study
the relation of the various changes taking place on the social
and political scenes during the first four decades of the twentieth
century. The birth of the "New Negro", the impact of black
Art and Music first in Europe and in the United States will be
treated through its literature of justification/revolt or literature of
racial/ethnic promotion, cultural awareness and identity. The
course will compare the works of key figures of the Harlem
Renaissance such as Claude Mckay, Counte Cullen, Langston
Hughes, Jean Toomer and those of writers of the "lost generation"
such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. New themes and
forms developed by the Renaissance writers and their influence
on succeeding generations will be studied. |
| BLS 131 |
Black-American Art (Formerly CUB 3178) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
| The student will be able to trace the major works of art from the
earliest times to the present. S/he will analyze the works of art
in relation to the cultural and social conditions under which they
were produced. The works of Henry Tanner, Aaron Douglas,
Charles White, and others will be considered. |
| BLS 133 |
African-American Music (Formerly CUB 3180) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre-requisite: VPA 141- Music Appreciation
The students will trace the music of African-Americans from
Africa, their development in the Diaspora and the various musical
forms up to the present time. The student will analyze the
functions of the "holler," work songs, blues, jazz, and other
forms. |
| BLS 141 |
The African-American & Latino Family (Formerly CUB 3116) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
| The student will consider the family as a social institution and
those behavior patterns that are specific to the African-
American and Latino family. Emphasis will be placed on the
affective influence of the family environment |
| BLS 150 |
Ethnicity, Health & Illness (Formerly CUB 3130) |
3 credits / 3 hours |
Pre-requisite: ESL 091
The student will survey the literature from the slave narratives to the present time. S/he will relate the literature to the historical and cultural context in which it is set. S/he will analyze and criticize such writers as Isaac Jefferson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and John A. Williams. Credit will be awarded in English and Africana Studies. |
