Valinda W. Littlefield, Director

Overview

The African American Studies Program provides undergraduate majors and minors with the interdisciplinary tools to study the experiences of people of African descent and the resources to evalutate black historical, cultural, social, economic and political developments in South Carolina, the United States, and beyond. With courses organized around the two broad subject areas of “Society and History” and “Arts and Culture,” students will have the opportunity to explore the breadth of the discipline before focusing on an individual plan of study. The program’s principal strengths include black political and social movements, African-American literature, and comparative cultural anthropology.

Programs and Courses

Programs

• African American Studies Minor
• African American Studies, B.A.

Courses

• AFAM 201 - Introduction to African American Studies: Social and Historical Foundations
• AFAM 202 - Introduction to African-American Studies: Arts and Cultural Foundations
• AFAM 207 - Introduction to African American Religions
• AFAM 303 - African-American Cultures
• AFAM 308 - African-American Feminist Theory
• AFAM 330 - Psychology and the African American Experience
• AFAM 331 - Black Experience in the United States to 1865
• AFAM 332 - Black Experience in the United States since 1865
• AFAM 335 - The American Civil Rights Movement
• AFAM 343 - Religions of the African Diaspora
• AFAM 350 - Antiracist Education
• AFAM 353 - Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics
• AFAM 355 - Race and Ethnic Relations
• AFAM 364 - African-American Politics
• AFAM 365 - Medical Experimentation and the Black Body
• AFAM 366 - Medicine, Disease, and Slavery
• AFAM 380 - Cultural History of Hip Hop Music
• AFAM 393 - Race and Science Fiction
• AFAM 397 - Special Topics in African American Society and History
• AFAM 398 - Special Topics in African-American Arts and Cultures
• AFAM 399 - Independent Study
• AFAM 402 - African American Political Thought
• AFAM 428A - African-American Literature I: to 1903
• AFAM 428B - African American Literature II: 1903-Present
• AFAM 438D - African Literature
• AFAM 438E - Carribbean Literature
• AFAM 442 - African-American English
• AFAM 476 - Black Activism
• AFAM 486 - African American Rhetoric
• AFAM 498 - Seminar in African-American Studies
• AFAM 499 - Seminar in African-American Studies
• AFAM 515 - Race, Gender, and Graphic Novels
• AFAM 517 - An Anthropological View of Blacks in Film
• AFAM 565 - African American Theatre
• AFAM 580 - Culture and Identity in the African Diaspora