Study of African American experiences provides insight into secular cultural practices, intellectual traditions, religious doctrines and practices, and social institutions with attention to issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The Chair of African American studies provides a list of core and component courses offered each year. Thesis advisors should be chosen by each student, in consultation with the Chair, according to the subject matter of the thesis. Core Courses 250. Interdisciplinarity involves more than a meeting of disciplines.
Practitioners stretch methodological norms and reach across disciplinary boundaries.
Through examination of a single topic, this course introduces students to interdisciplinary methods of analysis. Students examine what practitioners actually do and work to become practitioners themselves. This course is the same as American Cultural Studies 250 and Women's Studies 250. This introductory course is a survey of key concepts, problems, and perspectives in ethnomusicological theory drawing upon the African diaspora as a cross-cultural framework. This course focuses on the social, political, and intellectual forces of African culture that contributed to the growth of ethnomusicology from the late nineteenth century to the present.