African and African American Studies (AAST)
The African and African American Studies program promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the history, culture, and identity of Africans and African Americans. Students may pursue African and African American Studies as a dependent major alongside a primary major in Fulbright College. Students in any college may declare a minor. Advice on suitable primary majors to be taken with an African and African American Studies second major may be obtained from the program director of African and African American Studies.
Courses
- AAST 10003 — Introduction to African and African American Studies
- AAST 20203 — The African American Experience
- AAST 20503 — The Black Student-Athlete
- AAST 30003 — Black Horror in Films
- AAST 30103 — Black Love in Films
- AAST 30203 — African Americans in Sport
- AAST 31003 — Diversity, Pedagogy, & Visual Culture
- AAST 31203 — African American Students in Higher Education
- AAST 32903 — Black Politics
- AAST 33503 — Black Digital Storytelling
- AAST 35103 — Black Indians in America
- AAST 35203 — Black in the City
- AAST 36703 — Distant Relatives: The Global Black Diaspora
- AAST 39703 — South Africa: The Long, Ongoing Walk to Freedom
- AAST 399HV — Honors African & African American Studies Thesis
- AAST 40503 — Historic Black Northwest Arkansas
- AAST 41803 — Black Environmental Justice
- AAST 45203 — Black Utopias/Dystopias
- AAST 4890V — African & African American Independent Study
- AAST 4990V — African and African American Studies Seminar
- ADPR 37203 — Advertising Principles
- ADPR 37403 — Public Relations Principles
- ADPR 44703 — Account Planning
- ANTH 48503 — Cultures of Africa
- ARED 30003 — Curriculum Design & Teaching Practices in Art Education
- ARED 31003 — Diversity Theory & Pedagogy
- ARHS 21003 — Art History Survey II
- ARHS 46203 — African American Art History
- COMM 32603 — African Americans in Film
- COMM 32703 — African Americans in Documentary Film
- COMM 41003 — Communicating Body Image
- COMM 43603 — Gender, Race and Power
- ENGL 10203 — Composition II
- ENGL 32603 — African Americans in Film
- ENGL 38503 — Topics in African-American Literature and Culture
- ENGL 48503 — Studies in African American Literature and Culture
- HIST 12003 — History of Football
- HIST 12303 — History of Race and Medicine
- HIST 31303 — History of Sports in Africa
- HIST 31903 — The Making of the Modern Caribbean
- HIST 32303 — African American History to 1877
- HIST 32403 — African American History Since 1877
- HIST 32503 — The History of Sub-Saharan Africa
- HIST 39103 — Black in the City
- HIST 41203 — Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- HIST 42603 — Modern Africa
- HIST 43803 — The American Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 45603 — The Old South, 1607-1865
- HIST 45703 — The New South, 1860 to the Present
- HIST 48103 — Africans and Slavery in Colonial Latin America
- HIST 48203 — Black Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
- HIST 48303 — Race: History and Theory
- HIST 49603 — Third World Underdevelopment and Modernization
- INST 35003 — Issues in the Global South
- ITAL 40403 — Black Italia
- JOUR 10303 — Media Writing
- JOUR 32603 — African Americans in Film
- JOUR 32703 — African Americans in Documentary Film
- JOUR 49203 — History of the Black Press
- LALS 30303 — Carnival in Latin America
- LALS 31903 — The Making of the Modern Caribbean
- LALS 48103 — Africans and Slavery in Colonial Latin America
- LALS 48203 — Black Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
- PLSC 32903 — Black Politics
- PLSC 33903 — Civil Rights Policy and Politics
- PLSC 43203 — Racial Identity, Politics, and Public Policy
- PLSC 49303 — African American Political Ideology
- PORT 30303 — Carnival in Latin America
- PORT 32003 — Brazilian Cultural and Social Issues
- SCWK 41603 — African American Perspectives of Adversity, Grief, and Recovery
- SCWK 41703 — Social Work with African American Families
- SOCI 10103 — General Sociology
- SOCI 41503 — Race and Society
- SWAH 10103 — Elementary Swahili I
- SWAH 10203 — Elementary Swahili II
- SWAH 20103 — Intermediate Swahili I
- SWAH 20203 — Intermediate Swahili II
- THTR 44603 — African American Theatre History -- 1950 to Present