20803240African American History
Course Information
Description
Broad introductory survey of significant experiences that have shaped U.S. race relations, beginning with the west coast of Africa during the Middle Ages and moving through the last 30 years of this century in the United States. Special attention is given to slavery, family, politics, education and civil rights.
Total Credits
3
Course Competencies
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Describe how aspects of African cultures have survived and changed throughout the centuriesAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaAnalyze the dynamics of how Africanisms morph over timeExplore the global contributions of Africanisms
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Identify ways that African Americans have obtained an education throughout historyAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaRecognize how African Americans have seen education as progressDemonstrate how educational systems have oppressed and liberated African Americans
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Discuss the importance of the practice of religion for the African American peopleAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaAcknowledge how religious practices have sustained African AmericansDescribe the relationship between religion and politics in Black communities
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Explore how the definition of race has changed and remained consistent over timeAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaEvaluate sources that describe the fixity and fluidity of raceCompare ideas about the nature of race from different periods
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Analyze the persistent advocacy for human and civil rights by African AmericansAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaRecognize how Black-led movements have benefitted non-Black communitiesAcknowledge how this advocacy by Afro-America has inspired other movements
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Examine the evolution of self-help ideas in African American communitiesAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaExplore how Blacks have engaged in business within their own communitiesIdentify Black social movements that have employed the strategy of “for us, by us”
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Explain how African-Americans have demonstrated “Americanness” from the seventeenth century to the presentAssessment StrategiesWritten product, discussion, and/or examCriteriaTrace Black participation in the militaryEvaluate how Blacks have held the United States to its ideals