Courses
AFCS 1990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions.
AFCS 2330. Afro-Latin American Studies. (4 Hours)
Introduces the history of Afro-Latin America and of Black identities particular to this region. Frameworks such as transnational migration and diaspora provide an entry to the specific histories of African-descended people in the countries in the region known as Latin America and contemporary interpretations and revisions of that history. Covers topics including the history of slavery in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution; debates about "racial democracy"; and the relationship between gender, race, and empire. Explores the relationship between scholarship and struggle, social analysis, and social transformation.
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions
AFCS 2380. Black Families and Incarceration. (4 Hours)
Focuses on how the Black family functions, both interpersonally and as a social unit within a carceral state. Introduces the diverse institutional, cultural, and historical issues relating to past and present circumstances from the effects of slavery and colonization on the Black family structure. Explores policies and practices within carceral institutions dealing with childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood. Assesses the social and psychological harms of incarceration on Black children and their families.
Prerequisite(s): ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1113 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1114 with a minimum grade of C
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity
AFCS 2990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions.
AFCS 3210. Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance. (4 Hours)
Analyzes how Black people have resisted carcerality in social and political organizing from the 16th century to the present. Explores historical understandings of abolition as the end of slavery and the current abolition project of ending prisons, policing, and other institutions that are shaped by the legacy of slavery. Offers students an opportunity to critically analyze and engage contemporary social movements and political discourse in their everyday lives. Topics include the Haitian Revolution, maroon communities, 19th-century slavery abolitionists, anti-lynching organizing, chain gangs, Black political prisoners, contemporary carceral abolition, and abolitionist texts and films.
Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity
AFCS 3990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for course taken at other academic institutions.
AFCS 4990. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions.
AFCS 6962. Elective. (1-4 Hours)
Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions.