Education General Segment III Cluster
Africana Experience in the U.S.
General Education, Segment III Rules:
To receive Segment III credit for a course approved for Segment III, a student must complete the cluster as described in the Class Schedule and Bulletin, including the requirement that they must have earned 60 units by the end of the semester in which they take the course. Students must complete all four GE Segment I requirements (i.e. written communication, oral communication, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning) before beginning Segment III. Segment III courses are required to include a minimum of 10 pages of writing corrected by the instructor. Students must complete at least one course in the Segment III cluster that fulfills the Cultural, Ethnic, or Social Diversity (CESD) Requirement. At least one course in the Segment III cluster must be both outside the major department and outside the major program submitted on the Application for Graduation.
Cluster Theme:
The cluster will provide students with an understanding of the experience of Africana American people in the United States. Students will learn how to identify cultural retentions vs. inventions, investigate and interpret the intersect of class, caste, gender and culture and utilize and develop culturally congruent epistemes and paradigms in the investigation and appreciation of the complexity of Black (individual and collective) nullification. Students will acquire an understanding of how Black people in the US have shaped and are shaped by the dual themes of Africana cultural retentions and American racial oppression. Students will study the relationship between the forces and factors of domination and the creative actions, reactions, and recreations of agency by Black people. Students will examine how issues of aesthetics, power and human development are inextricably connected in the content and context of the Black experience in the US. Students will learn how to integrate and synthesize themes, concepts, and constructs, methods and techniques within individual multi-dimensional courses and across three different investigatory domains.
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Learning Outcomes for the Cluster:
1. Students will acquire knowledge of the African cultural heritage that servers as the historical and contemporary grounding of the Black experience in the US.
2. Students will acquire an understanding of the intellectual and creative legacy that
has influenced and in some instances shaped the experience of Black people in the US.
3. Students will be able to analyze and critique different theories, methods and
approaches to the understanding of the struggles and achievements of Black people in the US. 4. Students will be able to integrate ideas and concepts drawn from different investigatory domains and the multi-dimensionality of the Black experience in the US. 5. Students will be able to write literate and thoughtful essays (at least 10 pages written outside of class and graded by the class instructor) that illustrates their knowledge, analytical skills and ability to utilize the internal cohesiveness, contrast and synthesis of the different courses and domains of the cluster.
Cluster Courses and Requirements:
Specific Requirements: Take one course from each category Category A Course: AFRS 312 Arts and Humanities Kalifa, The Black Heritage of California (3 Units) CESD CESD Prerequisite Upper division standing or consent of instructor. None None Upper division standing. Prerequisite None
AFRS 400 AFRS 411 AFRS 450 Category B Course: AFRS 301
Black Arts and Humanities (3 Units) African and African American Literature (3 Units) African Philosophy and Cosmology (3 Units) Politics and Economics in African Global Perspective (3 Units)
CESD CESD CESD
CESD
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Category B Course: AFRS 320 AFRS 340 AFRS 382 Category C Courses: AFRS 355 AFRS 515 AFRS 525
Politics and Economics Black Politics, Mass Movement and Liberation Themes (3 Units) Economics of the Black Community (3 Units) African American Economic History (3 Units) Education and Socialization CESD CESD CESD
Prerequisite None None None Prerequisite
Black Women: A Cultural CESD Analysis (3 Units) Black Family Studies (3 Units) CESD Black Child Development (3 CESD Units) Women, Class and Race (3 Units) Urban Black Children and Youth (3 Units) Black in Urban American (3 Units) CESD CESD
None upper division standing or consent of instructor. upper division standing or consent of instructor. upper division standing or consent of instructor.
AFRS 571 AFRS 678
AFRS 345
CESD
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Course Descriptions:
Course: Category A Course: AFRS 312 Descriptions
AFRS 400 AFRS 411 AFRS 450 Category B Course: AFRS 301
African American presence in the Golden State; the Black heritage in the establishment, development, and evolution of California from the Gold Rush era to the present. Creative efforts of Black writers and artists. Values expressed in these works and their relation to African-American culture. Literature of Blacks of two continents. Cultural phenomenon of the critical impact of American Black authors on African writing and perspective. Foundations of Black philosophy from ancient Africa to the present. Theories of knowledge and thought within the social and political context. Physical, social, cultural, political, technological, economic, and business environment of Africa; policy determinants influencing economy; polity and business systems; interactions between modern development theory, world political economy, and domestic policy; strategies and constraints to reverse underdevelopment. Theoretical constructs and basic premises that draw on political experiences of Black people. Review of political science theories as they have been applied to Blacks in the U.S. Economic problems of Black people. Role of Black labor in the American capitalistic...