In a very real sense, American culture is multicultural.  Our food, our music, our ways of dressing, our literature, and our sciences reflect the ways in which various cultures have contributed to this rich mixture we call "America."  The African and African-American studies major aims to nurture in students an understanding of the diversity that makes for human culture, an understanding that will foster respect for difference.

 This program is housed in the History Department but comprises of courses taught across the UCA campus in art, communications, history, literature, music, philosophy and religion, political science, sociology, world languages, and writing.  Thus, it gives students an interdisciplinary understanding of the history and cultures of Africa, the effects of colonialism and slavery on those cultures and on the United States and the Caribbean nations, including the contributions of Africans to the culture of America.

Courses in African/African-American Studies

Summer and Fall 2013

 May Intersession

SPCH 4316 Special Topics in Communication (Hip Hop)*

Monika Alston-Miller MTWRF 12-2:45

PHIL 2360 Gender, Race, and Class

Taine Duncan MTWRF 9-12

Summer I

SOC 3310 Racial and Ethnic Relations

Doug George MTWRF 1-2:30

Fall Semester

AFAM 1330 Intro to African/African-American Studies

Robert (Daud) Watts 9:00 MWF (First Year Seminar)

Robert (Daud) Watts 10:00 MWF (First Year Seminar)

Robert (Daud) Watts 11:00 MWF

Robert (Daud) Watts 2:00 MW

Michael Kithinji 10:50 TR

Michael Kithinji 12:15 TR

Michael Kithinji 2:40 TR

ENGL 4362 Southern Literature and Folklore

Lori Leavell MWF 11:00

ENGL 4382 Race in American Literuare

Conrad Shumaker TR 12:15

HIST 4306 Atlantic Slave Trade

Matt Harper TR 2:40

HIST 4359 Civil Rights History

Story Matkin-Rawn MWF 11:00

HIST 4355 Arkansas in the Nation

Sonia Toudji MW 2:00

PHIL 2360 Gender, Race, and Class

Taine Duncan MWF 9:00 (First Year Seminar)

Taine Duncan MWF 11:00 (First Year Seminar)

Taine Duncan MWF 1:00 (First Year Seminar)

LING 3325 Sociolinguistics

Ramon Escamilla TR 12:15

SOC 3310 Racial and Ethnic Relations

Magalene Taylor TR 2:40

WLAN2325 Cultural Identity

TBA MWF 1:00 (First Year Seminar)

*SPCH 4316 (Hip Hop) will count as an elective for the major or minor

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