African American Studies Department
African American Studies (AAS) is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary department in which a student may concentrate for the bachelor of arts degree. The department focuses primarily on the experiences of persons of African descent within the United States, yet there is also a strong emphasis on persons of African descent throughout the African diaspora. The AAS major is comprised of courses in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Majors are introduced to theories of race, class, gender, sexuality and culture as they influence the formation of identities and communities among people of African descent. The organization of the major is designed to provide students with a structured yet flexible conceptual framework within which to study African American and African diaspora experiences. In addition to course work at Emory, majors, minors and other students are strongly encouraged to participate in our study abroad programs at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, and in Cape Town, South Africa. Majors in African American Studies are required to complete an internship in spring semester of their senior year. This enables students to obtain valuable practical experience with one of the department's metro Atlanta partners.
Faculty
- Chair/Director
- Mark SandersP8976464Professor
Education
- BA, Oberlin College, 1985
- PhD, Brown University, 1992
Departments
- English, Core Faculty
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- African American literature
- twentieth-century American literature
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Nagueyalti WarrenP4823077Professor of Pedagogy
Education
- BA, Fisk University, 1972
- MA, Boston University, 1974
- MA, Simmons College, 1974
- PhD, University of Mississippi, 1984
- MFA, Goddard College, 2005
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
- Core Faculty
- Carol AndersonP2661804Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D, The Ohio State University, 1995
- MA, Miami University,
- AB, Miami University,
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Leroy Davis Jr.P3820679Associate ProfessorEducation
- BA, Howard University, 1976
- MA, Howard University, 1978
- PhD, Kent State University, 1988
Departments
- History, Core Faculty
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interest
- African American and American history
Dianne DiakitéP8008805Associate ProfessorEducation
- AB, Colgate University, 1990
- MDiv, Harvard Divinity School, 1993
- MPhil, Union Theological Seminary, 1996
- PhD, Union Theological Seminary, 1997
Departments
- Religion, Core Faculty
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interest
- African American and African Caribbean religions
Brett GadsdenP6026888Associate ProfessorEducation
- BS, James Madison University, 1991
- MA, University of Massachusetts, 1996
- MA, Northwestern University, 1998
- PhD, Northwestern University, 2006
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Leslie HarrisP4908969Winship Distinguished Associate ProfessorEducation
- BA, Columbia University, 1988
- MA, Stanford University, 1993
- PhD, Stanford University, 1995
Departments
- History, Core Faculty
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- African American history
- American labor
- social history
Michael HarrisP9592944Associate ProfessorEducation
- BS, Bowling Green State University, 1971
- MFA, Howard University, 1979
- MA, Yale University, 1989
- MA, Yale University, 1990
- MPhil, Yale University, 1991
- PhD, Yale University, 1996
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Lawrence JacksonP6645145ProfessorEducation
- BA, Wesleyan University, 1990
- MA, Ohio State University, 1992
- PhD, Stanford University, 1997
Departments
- English, Core Faculty
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
- American Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interest
- American and African American fiction and autobiography
Nathan McCallP9507057LecturerEducation
- BA, Norfolk State University, 1981
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Pellom McDanielsP7927280Assistant Professor and Faculty Curator (University Library)Education
- Ph.D, Emory University, 2007
- BS, Oregon State, 1986
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Mark SandersP8976464ProfessorEducation
- BA, Oberlin College, 1985
- PhD, Brown University, 1992
Departments
- English, Core Faculty
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Academic Interests
- African American literature
- twentieth-century American literature
Nagueyalti WarrenP4823077Professor of PedagogyEducation
- BA, Fisk University, 1972
- MA, Boston University, 1974
- MA, Simmons College, 1974
- PhD, University of Mississippi, 1984
- MFA, Goddard College, 2005
Department
- African American Studies, Core Faculty
Courses
- African American Studies 100-Level Courses
- AAS 100: Intro To Afric Amer StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIntroduces the major disciplines and topics that comprise African American studies; provides orientation to faculty, institutional, and community resources; and serves as a foundation for subsequent course work and a research project in the field.Requires weekly film screenings and discussions and an independent research project.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture and Related Component
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Scheduled Related Component
- Film Screening with discussion
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 100 - 140
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Directed study component for each student
- AAS 110: Dynamics of Black CommunitiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIdeologies and selected aspects of the black community. Focus on twentieth-century urban black experience and institutions of America. Provides basic information and a framework for further study of the black diaspora and interrelations in black/white America.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 115: Jazz: Its Evolution & EssenceGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionCritical and analytic study of jazz idioms from the turn of the century to the present, including the blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, and modern jazz. Emphasis on such figures as Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Monk, and Coleman.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 190: Fresh Sem: Africn Amer StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- FSEM
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionVariable topics
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- African American Studies 200-Level Courses
- AAS 205: Intro To EthnomusicologyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 247: Racial & Ethnic RelationsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionRelations between and within groups, and conflict and cooperation in light of a number of models of social interaction. Application of principles to racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- AAS 250: African Amer Images in MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionNo Course Description Available.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 260: Afro-Cent Health Care SystemsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor factors affecting health care and service delivery within the African American community.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 261: Survey of African-American Literature Before 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture and Related Component
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 261W: Survey of African-American Literature Before 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture and Related Component
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 262: Survey of African-American Literature Since 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 262W: Survey of African-American Literature Since 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 267: The Civil Rights MovementGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 272: Race, Gender and Visual RepresGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 275: Black Images In The MediaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionStudents in this course will study representations of African Americans in major forms of mass media, including newspapers, literature, radio, television and film. We will review the historical development of those images and trace their progression to the present. We also will study the impact of negative portrayals of African Americans on the self-images of blacks and assess the effect of those representations on whites and the society at large. Moreover, the class will examine ways that black image-makers have portrayed African Americans through Hip Hop and film, and we will attempt to predict trends and solutions for the future.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 288: Black Women's PoetryGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course introduces the lesser known poets and poetry of black women in the United States and abroad; explains the elements of poetry and how to analyze a poem; and discusses the aspects of poetry orally and in writing.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- African American Studies 300-Level Courses
- AAS 300: Civ Rts Mvmt &Cultural ChangeGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 303: Black MusicGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course considers the idea of Black Music. What is it? What does it sound like? Who created it? These musical questions are set in the context of an equally complicated web of ideas about race and the relationship between racial expectation and black music/cultural production.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 304: Music & Revolution in 1960sGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe 1960s was a decade of turbulence and dramatic social and cultural change. The war in Vietnam, the civil rights and Black Nationalist movements, the so-called sexual revolution, and the popularization of psychedelic drugs all had considerable impact in shaping the musical culture of the day. This course considers the music of the period, the relationships between musical forms, and the shifting relationships between the communities associated with them.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 305: African American MusicGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 306: Music of Harlem RenaissanceGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDesigned to introduce the student to the music associated with the so-called Harlem Renaissance. The course will examine African American and American works, composers, and performers referred to in the famous essays and controversies of this important period.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 306W: Music of Harlem RenaissanceGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDesigned to introduce the student to the music associated with the so-called Harlem Renaissance. The course will examine African American and American works, composers, and performers referred to in the famous essays and controversies of this important period.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 307: Bebop and BeyondGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis more advanced jazz history course focuses on the various styles and trends in jazz since 1945. The course will look specifically at Bebop, the Post Bop musics such as Hard Bop and Funky Bop, and the Cool School, Third Stream, avant-garde expressions, Fusion, Jazz Rock, Acid Jazz, and even
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 320: African - American ReligionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDevelopment of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 320W: African - American ReligionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDevelopment of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 326: Black Christian ThoughtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 334: Contemporary African PoliticsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionPolitics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 338: History of Afric.Amer. to 1865General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines the experiences of African Americans from the emergence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the end of the Civil War. Emphasizes social and cultural history and interpretation of race, class, and gender.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 339: Hist.of Afric.Amer. Since 1865General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 345: The Black Freedom StruggleGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe Civil Rights and Black Power struggles of the 1950s-60s-70s, which many scholars now refer to as the ¿Black Freedom Movement,¿ are central to our understanding ofmodern U.S. history. This course provides an overview of the movement, engaging major themes and debates in contemporary Black Freedom Studies including the impact of the Cold War, the roles of women, and the relationship of civil rights to black power. It alsoaddresses the relationship between historical scholarship and popular memory.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 346: African American PoliticsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionComprehensive examination of African American politics and its critical influence upon the American political system. Civil rights and black power movements; the voting rights act and redistricting; African American political participation, attitudes, and governance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 355: Afric Art&Architect Aftr 1500General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionTraditional genres of African art with a focus on masks and figure sculpture in West and Central African city-states and chiefdoms from 1500 to European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 358: African American Lit to 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- AAS 358W: African American Lit to 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 359: African American Lit.since1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor literary traditions of African American writers from 1900 to the present.Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- AAS 359W: African American Lit.since1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor literary traditions of African American writers from 1900 to the present.Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 360: Ethnic Minority FamiliesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines a variety of ethnic groups in terms of strengths as well as weaknesses, lodging these characterizations in historical socioeconomic contexts and focusing on the structure and functioning of family life.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 364: Af Civ To Era Trans-Atl TradeGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 366: Imperialsm/Dependnce:3rd WorldGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 371: Anth.of African AmericansGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration of the complexity and diversity of African American culture in the United States from the perspectives of twentieth century anthropologists. Major themes include: (i) the influence of African culture on the populations of the Caribbean and the United States, (ii) the legacy of slavery throughout the Diaspora, and (iii) the extent to which racism and sexism as systems of inequality affect everyday life in African American communities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- AAS 371W: Anth.of African AmericansGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn exploration of the complexity and diversity of African American culture in the United States from the perspectives of twentieth century anthropologists. Major themes include: (i) the influence of African culture on the populations of the Caribbean and the United States, (ii) the legacy of slavery throughout the Diaspora, and (iii) the extent to which racism and sexism as systems of inequality affect everyday life in African American communities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 379: African American ArtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSurvey of the development of African American art.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 385: Topics in Afr Amer StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 385W: Topics in Afr Amer StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 398R: Directed ReadingsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAspects of African American history and culture are the subject of in-depth reading and study for a semester. In collaboration with a faculty member, a major conceptualizes and completes a research project based upon a mutually agreed upon reading list. Opportunities for directed reading exist in such disciplines as history, sociology, literature, art history, music, religion, and health. Permission of the instructor is required.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Directed study
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- African American Studies 400-Level Courses
- AAS 410: American Human Rights PolicyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course surveys and analyses the factors shaping the U.S. response in the 20th and 21st centuries to human rights, domestically and globally. Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 410W: American Human Rights PolicyGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course surveys and analyses the factors shaping the U.S. response in the 20th and 21st centuries to human rights, domestically and globally. Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture and Related Component
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 412: War Crimes and GenocideGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will explore the development of international law, international consciousness and U.S. foreign policy on the two distinct but often related issues of war crimes and genocide during the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 412W: War Crimes and GenocideGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will explore the development of international law, international consciousness and U.S. foreign policy on the two distinct but often related issues of war crimes and genocide during the late 19th and throughout the 20th centuries.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 481: Atlanta Civil Rights HistoriesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will examine the ways in which the twentieth-century black Civil Rights Movement and the movement for LGBT rights have intersected through the activism of black LGBT activists in the city of Atlanta. Students will conduct ground-breaking research in Atlanta's black LGBT community
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 481W: Atlanta Civil Rights HistoriesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course will examine the ways in which the twentieth-century black Civil Rights Movement and the movement for LGBT rights have intersected through the activism of black LGBT activists in the city of Atlanta. Students will conduct ground-breaking research in Atlanta's black LGBT community
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 482: Black Women WritersGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionCourse focuses on the works of 19th and 20th century black women writers. Writers vary but may include the works of Harriet Jacobs,Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 175
- AAS 483: Reading Alice WalkerGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIn this seminar on the writings of Alice Walker students will write a total of four 5-6 page critical essays that examine the issues addressed in the reading assignments and discussed in class. Each essay will be critiqued and the student will submit it again in a revised form. These essays will become part of a cumulative collection that will be due at the end of the course. Students will make an oral presentation for their peers and incorporate the peer comments and suggestions in the final version of the collected essays due at the end of the term. Due to the intense focus on writing and revision there will be no midterm or final examination.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 483W: Reading Alice WalkerGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HAPW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIn this seminar on the writings of Alice Walker students will write a total of four 5-6 page critical essays that examine the issues addressed in the reading assignments and discussed in class. Each essay will be critiqued and the student will submit it again in a revised form. These essays will become part of a cumulative collection that will be due at the end of the course. Students will make an oral presentation for their peers and incorporate the peer comments and suggestions in the final version of the collected essays due at the end of the term. Due to the intense focus on writing and revision there will be no midterm or final examination.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 484: Maj. Figs: E Gaines & A WalkerGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 175
- AAS 485: Special Topics SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 485W: Special Topics SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 490R: Senior SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Multidisciplinary in nature, the readings of the senior seminar reflect the centrality of the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans to American history and culture.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 490RW: Senior SeminarGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCW
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpring. Multidisciplinary in nature, the readings of the senior seminar reflect the centrality of the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans to American history and culture.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- AAS 491R: InternshipGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 12
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Experiential
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Scheduled Related Component
- Community engaged learning
- AAS 495A: Honors ResearchGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionFall semester. Variable credit with a maximum credit of eight hours. Prerequisite: approval of adviser and the director of undergraduate studies. Open to majors and minors writing honors thesis.Includes writing proposal for thesis requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Honors seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Directed study component for each student
- AAS 495B: Honors ThesisGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course Descriptionspring semester. Variable credit with a maximum credit of eight hours. Prerequisite: approval of adviser and the director of undergraduate studies. Open to majors and minors writing honors thesis. Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Honors seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 150 - 190
- AAS 495BW: Honors ThesisGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 1 - 8
- GERs
- WRT
- Variable GER
- None
Course Descriptionspring semester. Variable credit with a maximum credit of eight hours. Prerequisite: approval of adviser and the director of undergraduate studies. Open to majors and minors writing honors thesis. Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Honors seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- variable
- Weekly Contact Minutes in Related Component
- 150 - 190
- Writing Requirement
- Yes
- Africa and the Diaspora (Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas)
- ARTHIST 355: Afric Art/Architec After 1500General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionTraditional genres of African art with a focus on masks and figure sculpture in West and Central African city-states and chiefdoms from 1500 to European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ARTHIST 365: Postcolonial African ArtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionTreatment of the major issues raised by the new genres of art that have resulted from the African experience of European colonization. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- HIST 334: Diplom History Of U.S. To 1914General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAmerican diplomacy from revolution through continental expansion, Civil and Spanish wars, to world power under Wilson. Emphasizes the influence of commercial growth, political pressures, imperial ideologies, and rising national consciousness.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- HIST 338: History of Afric.Amer. to 1865General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines the experiences of African Americans from the emergence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the end of the Civil War. Emphasizes social and cultural history and interpretation of race, class, and gender.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- HIST 360: Mexico: Aztecs to NarcosGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course examines 500 plus years of Mexican history, from the Aztec Empire to today's
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- HIST 362: History Of The CaribbeanGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDevelopment of the major islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes evolution of plantation societies, slavery and race relations, international rivalries, economic dependence, political independence, and social revolutions.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- HIST 365: Africa In The Modern WorldGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionContact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- HIST 367: The Making of South AfricaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionEvolution of South Africa from a society based on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a multiracial democracy. Origins of racial segregation and apartheid, nationalist struggles, challenges of post-apartheid development.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- IDS 263: Intro to African StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionIntroduction to the African humanities and social sciences through in-depth study of three African regions. Explores major historical trends and their impact on culture, including the slave trade, colonialism, and postcolonial international contacts. Content is drawn from literature (both written literature and oral traditions), film, history, religion, anthropology, sociology, and art.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- POLS 334: Contemporary African PoliticsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionPolitics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REL 320R: African - American ReligionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDevelopment of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Expressive Arts and Culture
- AAS 115: Jazz: Its Evolution & EssenceGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionCritical and analytic study of jazz idioms from the turn of the century to the present, including the blues, ragtime, Dixieland, swing, bop, and modern jazz. Emphasis on such figures as Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Monk, and Coleman.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AAS 358: African American Lit to 1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor literary traditions of African American writers to 1900.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- AAS 359: African American Lit.since1900General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor literary traditions of African American writers from 1900 to the present.Writing requirement.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ARTHIST 319R: Spec Stud:Ancient Egyptian ArtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- HSC
Course DescriptionTopics could include the treasures of Tutankhamun; images of women in Egyptian art; and the art of New Kingdom Egypt. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ARTHIST 367: 20th C African American ArtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDevelopments in African American art in the United States in the twentieth century considering the key artists/movement/moments and larger themes in African American society and culture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ARTHIST 379R: Spec Studies American ArtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- HSC
Course DescriptionTopics could include romanticism in England and the United States, issues in American painting; African diaspora ritual arts; and African American painting and sculpture. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ARTHIST 389R: Spec Studi African Art ArchGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- HSC
Course DescriptionCredit, two to four hours. Topics could include African art and architecture; colonial and contemporary African art; and arts of ancient Africa. May be repeated for credit when topic changes, up to a maximum of twelve hours.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions
- AAS 247: Racial & Ethnic RelationsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionRelations between and within groups, and conflict and cooperation in light of a number of models of social interaction. Application of principles to racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- AAS 260: Afro-Cent Health Care SystemsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionMajor factors affecting health care and service delivery within the African American community.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- HIST 339: Hist.of Afric.Amer. Since 1865General Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinctions within black communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped black life, thought, and resistance.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- POLS 385: Spec Tops: Political ScienceGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSelected topics and problems in political science. Content will vary in successive offerings of this course. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REL 320R: African - American ReligionGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionDevelopment of religion among African Americans; trends and tendencies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- REL 326: Black Christian ThoughtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionSpiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- SOC 360: Ethnic Minority FamiliesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines a variety of ethnic groups in terms of strengths as well as weaknesses, lodging these characterizations in historical socioeconomic contexts and focusing on the structure and functioning of family life.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- Contributing Courses
- AAS 385: Topics in Afr Amer StudiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionWide range of topics pertinent to the African American experience. Among topics that have been offered in the past are: Black Political and Social Movements, Afro-Centric Cultures and Human Services, Black Images in American Film, Black Families, Education and the Black Community, and Social Psychological Perspectives on Black Men and Women in the United States.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- AFS 366: Development Issues for AfricaGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThis course is designed to provide students the opportunity to explore issues in economic development viewed from the perspective of sub-Saharan Africa from the impact of slavery and colonialism to the modern era of globalization.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- ANT 202: Concepts & Meth In Cult AnthGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionBasic concepts and theories of cultural anthropology and linguistics. Comparative economic and political systems, social organization and the family, belief systems, and modes of communication. Diverse levels of sociocultural complexity from primitive tribes to industrial societies.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ANT 314: Race&Racism:Myths&RealitiesGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- None
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe social construction of race relies on differences that lack biological significance. The social and biological cast of racism from the continued entrenched concept of race in America is considered.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- ARTHIST 345: The Formation Of Islamic ArtGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionAn introduction to the early formative period of Islamic art in the sixth through the thirteenth centuries, drawing upon architecture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and manuscript illumination.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- HIST 342: The Old SouthGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExamines the South from its colonial origins to the Civil War, with emphasis on the social, political, and economic development of a slave society.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- HIST 349: The New SouthGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe agrarian South and the growth of an industrial ideal, segregation, dilemmas of political reform, race and politics, assaults upon segregation and its defenders, and modernization and change.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- MESAS 315: The Qur'anGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe Qur'an in translation, from historical and literary perspectives, looking at its use in Islam, its language, stylistics, modes of narrative, and its relationship to Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- POLS 347: The South In National PoliticsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionThe changing roles of the South in national politics since World War II, with attention to presidential elections, the two-party system, and the United States Congress.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- SOC 247: Racial & Ethnic RelationsGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionRelations between and within groups, and conflict and cooperation in light of a number of models of social interaction. Application of principles to racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Lecture
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
- Additional Course Plus Component
- Not Applicable
- WGS 381: Stud In Afro-Amer Women's LitGeneral Information
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAP
- Variable GER
- None
Course DescriptionExplores the diversity of African American women's writing, with special attention to their self-representation.
Contact Hour Information- Course Type
- Seminar
- Weekly Contact Minutes
- 150
Language Study
All majors are encouraged to fulfill the degree requirements of Emory College by studying one of the following foreign languages: French, Spanish, and Arabic.
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