Wesley Carter, Ed. Michael Hill, Coordinator, Community Service Program. Y. G-M Lulat Crosslisted with CPM 100 Approaches and methods are designed to explore and understand the African American experience and the African diaspora. The course aims to acquaint students with the nature of African American Studies as a field of intellectual inquiry and as a degree program offered by the University at Buffalo. This course therefore develops a cultural analysis of the African experience from antiquity to the present.
All history is a current event.
This course introduces students to major themes in the development of African American music. It traces the African roots of African American music in the period of slavery, and the establishment and elaboration of the African American genre in music from slavery through emancipation, to the turn of the nineteenth century, and right up to the present time. Students will therefore be required to write on a weekly basis through the utilization of correct English grammar and construction. The purpose and objective of this course is to bring a new contribution to the body of literary and socio-cultural scholarship dealing with African writers in general. Through the thematic study of selected readings we will have an opportunity to discuss salient issues such as tradition, family, female circumcision, marriage and other domains pertaining to African women's experiences, from the 1960s to the present.