Course Description: This course offers several perspectives in examining the Black experience in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. The course is intended to serve as an introduction to the diversity and the rich cultural heritage of peoples of African descent. Particular attention is placed on investigating discrimination, prejudice, as well as several theories of oppression. Attention is given to the social conditions of Blacks through extensive discussion of the processes that create and maintain structural inequalities in the political, economic, educational, and health institutions. In this connection, students will read both primary and interpretive texts and examine these issues in the context of a liberal arts education and black culture. (Group I) (Diversity)
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Course Description: A course emphasizing oral proficiency and comprehension and developing introductory reading and writing skills. Students are guided through the process of acquisition following an oral approach that stresses classroom participation in a cooperative atmosphere. The aim is to give students threshold oral fluency in the language and the ability to read simple text. Also listed as SWAH 110, SWAH 111. Fall, Spring.
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Course Description: Beginning with a comprehensive analysis of the institution of slavery and its effect upon Afro-Americans, and from a Black perspective, the basic ideas, institutions, and social and political problems that greatly influenced the role of the Black man in United States history. Recommended for history students. Meets distribution requirements in Group I. F.
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Course Description: This course examines the lives, philosophies, contributions, and legacies of three leaders in the struggles of people of African descent for civil rights and racial empowerment of Blacks in the 20th century. Specifically, we will explore how their lives, ideas, and actions may have affected our personal lives and social discourse on race, identity, and progress of Blacks in the 21st century. In reading both primary and interpretive texts of these individuals, we will explore the connections, the differences, and the similarities between the experiences of Blacks in America and in South Africa.
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Course Description: Is medicine dying as a profession/ How is the professional power of physicians developed in different kinds of societies? Are the forms taken to strengthen or limit professional power different in societies with different contrasting political economies? Is state power central in the analysis of professional power? What is the relationship between the state and the medical profession and where are doctors better off? In this seminar we will examine the changing status of the medical profession in six countries - the United States, Britain, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Canada. We will explore the extent to which nation states have singled out the profession guilds for control. Readings will include Mckinley and Hafferty, The Changing Medical Profession, Kruase, Death of the Guilds, and OECD‚ Internal Markets in the Making. Honors Seminar. No prerequisites. Open to first or second year honors students only.
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Course Description: Variable course focusing on a specific genre‚ "narrative, poetry, novel, drama, essay‚" within African American literary tradition. The course will examine both literary and socio-political factors that have influenced the development of the specific genre. Possible topics include: Toward a Re- Definition of Slave Narrative and Contemporary Black Drama. Also listed as ENG 369. F.
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