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Winter 2015
May 17,2024 |
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| ES 221 - African American Experience: Down From the Pyramids, Up From Slavery 10,000 BCE - 1877 |
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The focus of this course is on African, Afro-European, Afro-Native American, Caribbean, South and North American Maroon societies. In this course we examine various cultural constructs through which Africans in America understand and influence the world. The chronology of this course encompasses Dynastic Egypt, pre-European Conquest Africa, pre-Columbian America, to Post Reconstruction America 1877. ES 221, 222, and 223 examine culture, identity, gender and women's roles, economics, and African and Native American responses to systematic oppression towards goals of individual and group liberation. May be offered as a live interactive course..
4.000 Credit hours 40.000 TO 48.000 Lecture hours Syllabus Available Levels: Credit Schedule Types: Lecture Social Science Division Social Science Department Course Attributes: Tuition, Cultural Literacy, Social Science |
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