Framework for Afro 005 Class

AFRO-005, Section 04 [3 Credit Hours], CRN 10015[1]

Introduction to Afro-American Studies I[2], Spring, 2010 Semester

Tuesdays/Thursdays, Ernest Everett Just[3] Hall (Biology) Auditorium, 9:40-11:00 a.m..

Greg E. Carr, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Professor; Office: Founder’s Library, Room 318 [202.806.7581, gcarr@howard.edu]

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m.; Thursdays, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; By Appointment

This course introduces and teaches students to apply major concepts and methods of the stand-alone academic field, discipline and meta-discipline of Africana Studies[4].

General Course Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course[5] will be able to:

• Identify and discuss the broad contours and some key specifics of the African intellectual tradition and genealogy, from antiquity to the present;

• Utilize vocabulary, comparative and evaluative techniques explicitly associated with the academic field, discipline and meta-discipline of Africana Studies to analyze texts, practices and narratives; and

• Relate a working knowledge of the African historical experience as a discrete element of world history, and demonstrate greater acquaintance with and interpretive acuity for institutions and forces shaping Africana life in the period of late modernity [1800 to the present], for the African experience in Latin, Caribbean, and North America and Africa in general and the United States in particular.

Interdisciplinary Course Objectives

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Describe and use basic academic vocabulary, concepts and methods (skills) associated with the academic field, discipline and meta-discipline of Africana Studies in their bi-weekly response essays;

• Apply basic academic vocabulary, concepts and methods (skills) associated with other academic fields, including (but not limited to): History, Literature, Art History and Physics and Mathematics in an...