Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the individual and collective experiences of African American women are examined. Open to first-year students. Interdisciplinary 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.
Required of African American studies, American cultural studies and women's studies majors. This course is the same as African American Studies 250 and American Cultural Studies 250. Voice and Gender. This course focuses on the gender-related differences in voice from the beginning of language acquisition through learning and development of a human voice. Students explore how race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and age affect vocal expression.