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Descriptions of Courses Approved by the Franklin College Curriculum Committee to Satisfy Multicultural Requirements of the College

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Semester Courses (Prerequisites are listed where required) :
AFAM 2000	Introduction to African American Studies. Cultural, social, and historical movements among Americans of African descent.
AFAM/RELI 2005	African American Religious Traditions: An Introduction. Major and selected contemporary religious groups and movements among African Americans.
AFAM/SOCI 2020	African American Society. The class, status, and power relations of African Americans as part of both the United States social structure and the African diaspora.
AFAM/PSYC 2150	Understanding Cultural Diversity. Cross-cultural psychology, including a examination of issues such as conformity, leadership, and attributional style as they vary across different cultures, with consideration of their implications for the emerging world.
AFAM/SOCI 2820	Race and Ethnicity in America. The causes and consequences of racial and ethnic discrimination in America, with a focus on ethnic competition and conflict.
AFAM/CMLT 2600	Multicultural Black Diaspora Literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or 1030/1102M. Multicultural literature of the world-wide dispersion of Africans and people of African descent based on select representative works of African-American, African-Caribbean, and African literature.
AFAM/MUSI 2960	African American Percussive Music: From Africa to Americas. Traditional and contemporary African American percussive music beginning with its African heritage and tracking its development throughout the Americas, with particular emphasis on the United States. Teaching/learning strategies include in class performance, demonstrations, audiovisuals, and lectures. No previous music performance background required.
AFAM/PSYC 3150	Introduction to Black Psychology. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Deconstruction of traditional thought, behavior, and development as well as reconstruction of the same on contemporary terms; testing of nuances and varieties of multicultural and indigenous models. The designs and projected future of the Black Psychology Movement.
AFAM/ENGL 3230	Development of African American Literature. Prerequisite: Permission of department. African American literature since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, including diverse voices rooted in the folk origins for literary forms.
AFAM/SPCM 3820	Interracial Communication. An applied approach to understanding the significance of interracial communication in Western Society. The societal influences of history, language, and mass media in shaping our knowledge and understanding of positive interracial relationships.
AFAM 3880	African American Folklore. Prerequisite: ENGL 3010 or permission of department. African American folk expressions: their functions and their relationships with folk expressions of other peoples. Folk speech (proverbs, riddles, signifying, playing the dozens), folk narative (animal tales, slave stories, modern legends, jokes, toasts, rap songs), folk songs (African songs, gospel songs, work songs, ballads, blues songs)
AFAM/ENGL/LING 4040	Language Use in the African American Community. Prerequisite: LING 2100 or ENGL(LING) 3030 or CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society.
AFAM/HIST 4055	Historical Survey of African American Thought. This course examines representative works of such nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, cultural, and political thinkers as Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Anna J. Cooper, and Angela Davis among other outstanding women and men who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the African American community.
AFAM/POLS 4200	African American Social Change. Pre-requisite: POLS 1101 and AFAM 2000.. African American social movements, principally those in the United States, such as the convention and colonizing movements of the 19th century and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 20th century.
AFAM/RELI 4201	African-American Religious History. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of department . The religious traditions of African Americans from Colonial times to the present; major religious movements, personalities, and ideas and their relationship to various aspects of American culture.
AFAM/RELI 4203	The Bible in the Black Church. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of department. Biblical interpretation in black America from 1865 to the present.
AFAM/SOCI 4370	Seminar in Race and Ethnicity . Prerequisite: SOCI 1101 or 1600. Special topics in race and ethnicity for advanced undergraduates.
AFAM/PSYC 4500	Psychology of Prejudice. Prerequisite: (PSYC 1101 or SOCI 1101) and senior standing. Motivational, cognitive, social, and cultural factors that lead to discrimination in our society and various perspectives found in the research on discrimination.
AFAM/PSYC 4550	Classic Studies in Black Psychology. Prerequisite: AFAM/PSYC 3150 or permission of department. Studies that have had major social or scientific impact on (a) the lives of Black Americans and (b) the way Black people have been viewed with psychology. Approach will be historical and interdisciplinary.
AFAM/POLS 4570	African American Social Change. Prerequisite: POLS 1101 or AFAM 2000. African American social movements, principally those in the United States, such as the convention and colonizing movements of the nineteenth century and the civil rights and black power movements of the twentieth century.
AFAM/ENGL 4620	African American Poetry. Prerequisite: Permission of Department. African American poetry from the colonial period to the present, including slave and folk songs of the mid-nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, and contemporary poetry. Emphasis on such figures as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and others.
AFAM/ENGL 4630	African American Fiction. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Important African American stories and novels from the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by such authors as Frances Harper, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
AFAM/SPCM 4810	African American Rhetoric and Communication.. The history and criticism of the communication of African American speakers, wtih emphasis upon oral rhetoric relating to social-political development since 1860.
AFAM/SPCM 4830	African American Relational Communication. Prerequisite or corequisite: SPCM 1500 or SPCM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC(AFAM) 2150 or AFAM(PSYC) 3150. Interpersonal communication within African American relationships from a holistic framework. Historical, sociological, and psychological factors that affect individual behaviors within these relationships, including gender socialization from Africa to America.
AFAM/SPCM 4840	African American Family Communication. Prerequisite or corequisite: SPCM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC/AFAM 2150 or AFAM/PSYC 3150. This course provides students with an opportunity to examine communication within the African American family from an African-centered perspective. It requires students to read and critically examine various theoretical and methodological approaches to the African American family.
AFAM/ENGL 4880	Topics in African American Literature. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright and Black American literature and aesthetics.
ANTH 3410	Contemporary Native America. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Cultural diversity of contemporary Native American tribes of the United States, Canada and Mexico, including lifestyles, politics, literature, music, art and socio-economic conditions.
ANTH 3410H	Contemporary Native America (Honors). Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or ANTH 2120H and permission of Honors. Not open to students with credit in ANTH 3410. Cultural diversity of contemporary Native American tribes of the United States and Canada, including lifestyles, politics, literature, music, art, and socioeconomic conditions. Non-traditional format: When course is taken as part of a summer field school, all lectures and demonstrations will total the equivalent amount of time as the traditional three hours lecture per week during a semester. The emphasis is on direct experiental contact with Native America -- landscape, ceremony, and culture.
ANTH 3540	Multicultural Health Care Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Multicultural diversity of beliefs and practices about health and illness of ethnic groups in the United States as it impacts on health care. Specific consideration of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans.
ANTH 4020	Indians of North America. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. North American Indian cultures at the time of European contact. Additional topics include origin and development of Indian culture, impact of European contact on native cultures, and problems faced by Native Americans today.
ANTH/HIST 4470	The Rise and Fall of the Southeastern Chiefdoms. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Development of the native societies of the southeastern United States, the exploration of the area by Spain in the 16th century, and the consequences of the meeting of the two peoples.
ANTH/HIST 4480	The Indians of the Old South. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Native peoples of the southern United States from the beginnings of the Spanish misssions and the English deerskin trade through Indian removal.
ARTS 2050	Cultural Diversity in American Art. Past and present art created by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans.
ARED 5310/7310	Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Study in Art Education. Various cultural traditions in the United States with emphasis on multicultural and cross-cultural art education curricula.
CMLT 2400	Asian-American Literature. Works of literature by Asian-American writers, including works written in English and translations of works originally written in Asian languages.
CMLT 2500	Comparative Ethnic American Literatures. A comparative study of ethnic literatures in the United States, including African-American, Arabic-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Jewish-American, and Native-American literatures.
CMLT/AFAM 2600	Multicultural Black Diaspora Literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or 1030/1102M. Multicultural literature of the world-wide dispersion of Africans and people of African descent based on select representative works of African-American, African-Caribbean, and African literature.
DRAM 2110	Voice of Diversity of Contemporary American Drama. Dramatic works which foreground issues of race, gender, culture, and/or ethnicity. Concepts of perception and identity, groups relationships, and social/political protest.
DRAM 2130	American Ethnic Cinema. Cultural history of the most important ethnic filmmakers in the American cinema from the 1920s to the present. With emphasis on stories and styles of the films, as well as the underlying ecomomic and social contexts.
DRAM 4480	History of African American Drama and Theatre. A study of the emergence of a distinct and conscious African American theatre in the United States.
DRAM 4490	African and African American Women in Cinema: Image and Aesthetics. Prerequisite: Permission of Department. Selected films by and about African and African American women. A historical/critical overview of the presentation of these women in cinema with emphasis on contemporary African and African American women filmmakers.
ELAN 4620	ESOL Service Learning. Applied practice in education (tutoring) of English language learners, including discussion and application of methods, venues, strategies, and materials for supporting academic achievement. Non-traditional format: Course entails applied tutoring or teaching in approved after-school programs for English language learners enrolled in local K-12 schools. This course offers variable numbers of hours credit and must be taken for at least 3 hours in order to satisfy the Franklin College Multicultural Requirement.
ELAN 5040	Language and Culture in the Classroom. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Not open to students with credit in EDMS(EDEC)(EDEL)(ELAN) 5180/7180. Exploration of topics on the relationship between language and culture and on pedagogical principles of multicultural education.
ENGL 1030	Multicultural English Composition. Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1102 or 1050H. Themes on fiction, poetry, and drama using multicultural literature. (If taken prior to Spring 2003.)
ENGL 1102M	Multicultural English Composition. Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1102, 1030 or 1050H. Themes on fiction, poetry, and drama using multicultural literature. (Taken Spring 2003 or later.)
ENGL 1060H	Composition and Multicultural Literature. (Honors) Not open to students with credit in ENGL 1102, ENGL 1030, ENGL 1102M or ENGL 1050H. Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 or equivalent and permission of Honors. Close analysis of multicultural literary works as the basis of effective critical writing.
ENGL 2390H	Multicultural Literature in America (Honors). Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2400. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102, 1102M or ENGL 1030 and permission of Honors. Important writers and movements in the mosaic of American culture and literature with special attention paid to African American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures.
ENGL 2400	Multicultural Literature in America. Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2390H Prerequisite: ENGL 1102, 1102M or ENGL 1030. Important writers and movements in the mosaic of American culture and literature with special attention paid to African American, Native American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures.
ENGL/AFAM 3230	Development of African American Literature. Prerequisite: Permission of Department. African American literature, since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, including diverse voices rooted in the folk origins for literary forms.
ENGL/AFAM/LING 4040	Language Use in the African American Community. Prerequisite: LING 2100 or ENGL(LING) 3030 or CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society.
ENGL/AFAM 4620	African American Poetry. Prerequisite: Permission of Department. African American poetry from the colonial period to the present, including slave and folk songs of the mid-nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, and contemporary poetry. Emphasis on such figures as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and others.
ENGL/AFAM 4630	African American Fiction. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Important African American stories and novels from the 19th and 20th centuries, including works by such authors as Frances Harper, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
ENGL 4860	Multicultural Topics in American Literature. Prerequisite: Permission of department. Topics in multicultural studies, with primary focus on literature by members of one or more traditionally marginalized cultural groups within the United States and with attention to historical context and theoretical aspects.
ENGL/AFAM 4880	Topics in African American Literature. Prerequisite: Permission of department Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright and Black American literature and aesthetics.
GEOG 1103/2130H	Cultural Geography of the United States. Geographic factors underlying multiculturalism and ethnic relationships in the United States. Spatial development and organization of culture; population growth, migration and urbanization; and the spatial dimensions of political, economic and social processes.
HIST 2050H/2051	Multiculturalism in Early America. The multicultural reality of the American experience from the 1600s through the 1800s by examining the complex interactions of people of diverse races, ethnicities, classes, and gender in forging the American nation. Offered every year on a regular basis.
HIST 2052	Multiculturalism in Modern America. United States history since 1865 from a multicultural and multiethnic perspective. The course will emphasize social, cultural, and political dimensions of the American experience, paying particular attention to issues of race and ethnicity. Highlights the contributions of the many different peoples who make up America.
HIST 3050	American Indian History to 1840. Explores the impact of colonization on Native Americans to 1840. The course will focus on the creative adaptations of Indians to the great changes unleashed by the meeting of the new and old worlds.
HIST 3051	American Indian History Since 1840. Government policy towards Indians, but more importantly, exploration of how Native Americans themselves constructed their lives over the past 150 years. The readings give voice to Indians while at the same time providing a structured historical background.
HIST 3101	The Early African American Experience. The African background of African Americans, the institution of slavery, the development of the African American community institutions, and African American participation in and impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
HIST 3102	Modern African American Experience. The twentieth-century struggle for civil rights, black identity, and self-determination. The response to industrialism and urbanization. The role of black institutions and political organizations. The philosophy and tactics of accommodation, integration, and separatism.
HIST 3260	Latinos and Latinas in the United States. A history of the Latino people in the United States and Georgia, their diversity and their contributions to American culture and society.
HIST/AFAM 4055	Historical Survey of African American Thought. This course examines representative works of such nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, cultural, and political thinkers as Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Anna J. Cooper, and Angela Davis among other outstanding women and men who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the African American community.
HIST 4110	Multicultural Georgia. The history of the state, with an emphasis on its racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and regional diversity, to be examined through historical documents, novels, short stories, folklore, memoirs, music, and film.
HIST/ANTH 4470	The Rise and Fall of the Southeastern Chiefdoms. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Development of the native societies of the southeastern United States, the exploration of the area by Spain in the 16th century, and the consequences of the meeting of the two peoples. Not offered on a regular basis.
HIST/ANTH 4480	The Indians of the Old South. Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or permission of department. Native peoples of the southern United States from the beginnings of the Spanish misssions and the English deerskin trade through Indian removal.
LING/AFAM/ENGL 4040	Language Use in the African American Community. Prerequisite: LING 2100 or ENGL(LING) 3030 or CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400. History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society.
MUSI 2040	History of Popular Music: Rotating subjects in popular music, drawing upon a wide variety of influences and ethnicities. Course content will be drawn from such topics as jazz, hispanic styles and influences, folksong, and American musical theatre.
MUSI 2060	History of Rock and Roll: Rock and roll music from its origins to the present. The sociology and origins from African American Blues to present styles and the role of Georgia and Athens in the current music scene.
MUSI 2080	African American Music. African American music and musical influences involving serious and popular styles and approaches. Jazz and blues influences, slave traditions, and early vaudeville and other music for the stage, sacred and secular vocal/choral traditions ranging from European influences to concert spirituals.
MUSI/AFAM 2960	African American Percussive Music: From Africa to Americas. Traditional and contemporary African American percussion music beginning with its African heritage and tracing its development throughout the Americas, with particular emphasis on the United States. Teaching/learning strategies include in-class performance, lecture, demonstrations, audiovisuals, and lectures. No previous music performance background required.
POLS 4050	African American Political Thought. Prerequisite: POLS 1101. African American political thought since the nineteenth century, ranging from early emigrationist sentiments to the nationalist exhortations of contemporary African American youth culture, including African American feminist and socialist thought.
POLS/AFAM 4200	African American Social Change. Prerequisite: POLS 1101. African American social movements, principally those in the United States, such as the convention and colonizing movements of the 19th century and the civil rights and black power movements of the 20th century.
POLS 4560	African American Politics. Prerequisite: POLS 1101. African American political behavior, including the theoretical underpinnings of political action, the electoral preferences of African Americans, and the role of African Americans in United States political institutions.
POLS/AFAM 4570	African American Social Change. Prerequisite: POLS 1101 or AFAM 2000. African American social movements, principally those in the United States, such as the convention and colonizing movements of the nineteenth century and the civil rights and black power movements of the twentieth century.
PSYC 2100	Survey of Black Psychology. Not open to students with credit in PSYC 4130 or AFAM 4250. Black people as psychologists and as subjects of psychological inquiry. The history of Black psychology and African philosophy as a basis for Black psychology will be discussed. Other topics include self-concept and identity, intelligence and school achievement, the Black family, and Black speech and language.
PSYC/AFAM 2150	Understanding Cultural Diversity. Cross-cultural psychology, including an examination of issues such as conformity, leadership, and attributional style as they vary across different cultures, with consideration of their implications for the emerging world.
PSYC/AFAM 3150	Introduction to Black Psychology. Prerequisite: Permisssion of department. Deconstruction of traditional thought, behavior, and development as well as reconstruction of the same on contemporary terms, testing of nuances and varieties of multicultural and indigenous models. The designs and projected future of the Black Psychology Movement.
PSYC/AFAM 4500	Psychology of Prejudice. Prerequisite: PSYC 1101 or SOCI 1101 and senior standing. Motivational, cognitive, social, and cultural factors that lead to discrimination in our society and various perspectives found in the research on discrimination.
PSYC/AFAM 4550	Classic Studies in Black Psychology. Prerequisite: AFAM/PSYC 3150 or permission of department. Studies which have had major social or scientific impact on the lives of Black Americans and the way black people have been viewed within psychology. Approach is historical and interdisciplinary.
RELI 1100	Introduction to Native American Studies. A broad overview of Native American cultures and history. Focus will be on tribes in North America.
RELI 2004	Introduction to Religion in Native American Cultures. Native religious traditions of selected cultures of North America, with special attention to cultures of the Southeast, Great Plains, and Southwest.
RELI/AFAM 2005	African American Religions: An Introduction.. Major and selected contemporary religious groups and movements among African Americans.
RELI/AFAM 4201	African-American Religious History. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of department.. The religious traditions of African Americans from Colonial times to the present; major religious movements, personalities, and ideas and their relationship to various aspects of American culture.
RELI/AFAM 4203	The Bible in the Black Church. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing or permission of department. Biblical interpretation in black America from 1865 to the present.
RELI 4701	Methods in the Study of Native American Cultures. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of department. Prerequisite or corequisite: RELI 2004. Examination of the various methods used to study Native American cultures and religious traditions, including history, anthropology, literature, and history of religions.
ROML 2550	Latino Literature, Language, and Culture. Not open to students with credit in SPAN 2550. Critical analysis of the literary, socio-linguistic, and cultural presence of representative Hispanic groups in the United States. Designed for non-speakers of Spanish. Given in English.
ROML 3000	Topics in Romance Languages (temporary approval for spring 2000 semester only)
SOCI/AFAM 2020	African American Society. The class, status, and power relations of African Americans as part of both the United States social structure and the African diaspora.
SOCI/AFAM 2820	Race and Ethnicity in America. The causes and consequences of racial and ethnic discrimination in America, with a focus on ethnic competition and conflict.
SOCI/AFAM 4370	Seminar in Race and Ethnicity. Prerequisite: SOCI 1101 or 1600. Special topics in race and ethnicity for advanced undergraduates.
SPAN 2550	Latino Literature, Language, and Culture. Not open to students with credit in ROML 2550. The literary, socio-linguistic, and cultural presence of representative Hispanic groups in the United States. Intended for Spanish speakers. Given in Spanish.
SPCM 1800	Cultural Diversity in Communication. Not open to students with credit in SPCM 4800. Patterns of public and interpersonal communication among ethnic groups, especially North American minority cultures, strategies for fostering group identity, difficulties in inter-group communications, and skills for improving the quality of those interactions.
SPCM/AFAM 2810	Communication in African American Communities. Not open to students with credit in SPCM/AFAM 4810. Rhetorical strategies and patterns of orality in African American communication, cultural styles in conflict, and skill development for cultural interaction.
SPCM 3330	Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement. Exploration of the role of rhetoric in shaping civil rights discourse. Using the struggle of African Americans as an instructive case study, this course will attempt to come to terms with the philosophical concepts, political issues, moral complexities, and discursive characteristics of civil rights rhetoric.
SPCM/AFAM 3820	Interracial Communication. An applied approach to understanding the significance of interracial communication in Western Society. The societal influences of history, language, and mass media in shaping our knowledge and understanding of positive interracial relationships.
SPCM 4800	Intercultural Communication. Prerequisite: SPCM 3700 or permission of department. Factors that facilitate or impede effective communication between members of different cultural groups. Considers interactions between people from different nations as well as co-cultures within the same nations. Effects of differing world-views, value systems, language varieties, nonverbal codes, and relational norms. Skills for disseminating ideas across cultures and for building intercultural competence.
SPCM/AFAM 4810	African American Rhetoric and Communication.. The history and criticism of the communication of African American speakers, wtih emphasis upon oral rhetoric relating to social-political development since 1860.
SPCM/AFAM 4830	African American Relational Communication. Prerequisite or corequisite: SPCM 1500 or SPCM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC/AFAM 2150 or AFAM/PSYC 3150. Interpersonal communication within African American relationships from a holistic framework. Historical, sociological, and psychological factors that affect individual behaviors within these relationships, including gender socialization from Africa to America.
SPCM/AFAM 4840	African American Family Communication. Prerequisite or corequisite: SPCM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC/AFAM 2150 or AFAM/PSYC 3150. This course provides students with an opportunity to examine communication within the African American family from an African-centered perspective. It requires students to read and critically examine various theoretical and methodological approaches to the African American family.
WMST 1110	Multicultural Perspectives on Women in the United States. Experiences of women in selected racial and ethnic communities; Latinas/Chicanas, AfricanAmericans Native Americans, Asian Americans and other women in contemporary United States.
WMST 3110	Gender, Race, and Class. Prerequisite: WMST 1110 or 2010 or permission of department. Issues of gender, race, and class intersecting in the lives of women in the United States. Historical and social construction of gender, race, and class which have shaped the productive, political, and cultural experiences of women of diverse backgrounds will be examined.