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OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2014-15 [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions

The course information (including course titles, descriptions, credit hours, requisites, repeat/retake information, and active status) contained in this catalog is effective as of Fall Semester 2014-15. This information is necessarily subject to change at the discretion of Ohio University.
 

Accounting
  

  • ACCT 1000 - Financial Accounting for Entrepreneurs

    An introductory course in accounting which will include recording, reporting and measuring business transactions, income, assets, liabilities and equities. The course will focus on using accounting information for strategic planning and decision-making in business organizations. Topics covered include preparation and analysis of financial statements, budgeting, break-even analysis, and time value of money.

    Requisites: Tier 1 Math requirement
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 1010 - Foundations of Accounting

    Introduction to the accounting process, external financial reporting, and analysis. Introduction to compound interest concepts, Financial Literacy concepts and budgeting. Some managerial accounting concepts will be discussed. This course is required for all Business Minors and College of Business Majors.

    Requisites: MATH 1200 or higher or D005 or PSY1110 or Math placement level 1 or higher
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 1020 - Decision Making with Accounting

    Use of accounting information for making managerial decisions. Study of cost behavior, overhead costs allocation, basic cost accumulation systems, elementary capital budgeting, master and flexible budgets, and cost control.

    Requisites: ACCT 1010 and ECON 1030
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 2900 - Special Topics in Accounting

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 2910 - Internship

    Internship experience that provides on-site exposure to general business operations and procedures with some exposure to Accounting for at least three consecutive weeks (120 hours needed to earn 1 credit hour). Intended for experiences following the freshman year.

    Requisites: Permission required and 2.5 GPA
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 3.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 40.0 field experience/internship
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3040 - Financial Accounting and Reporting I

    In-depth study of conceptual framework of accounting, disclosure standards for general purpose financial statements, and measurement standards for cash, receivables, inventories, and associated revenues and expenses, including application of compound interest techniques. Required for accounting major.

    Requisites: ACCT 1020
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3050 - Financial Accounting and Reporting II

    Measurement and reporting standards for tangible and intangible operating assets, investments, liabilities, contingencies, stockholders’ equity, and special problems of revenue recognition. Required for accounting major.

    Requisites: C or better in ACCT 3040
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3100 - Managerial Accounting

    Emphasis on manufacturing and service organizations. Topics include activity-based costing/activity-based management, analysis of cost variances, and complex capital budgeting issues. Required for accounting major.

    Requisites: ACCT 1020
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3400 - Introduction to Federal Income Tax Planning

    Overview of the impact of federal income taxes on conducting business transactions. Required for accounting major.

    Requisites: ACCT 1020 is REQUIRED and ACCT 3040 and FIN 2400 are HIGHLY recommended
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3450 - Accounting Systems and Internal Control

    Computer technology as it relates to design, implementation, and operation of accounting information systems. A major portion of the course is devoted to internal control procedures.

    Requisites: ACCT 3040
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3770 - Entrepreneurial Accounting

    This course takes accounting concepts and materials from introductory accounting and develops them in ways specifically intended to develop key financial capabilities in aspiring entrepreneurs. The focus is on the fundamental aspects of planning and control necessary for the accounting component of a business plan. These include cash management, comprehensive budgets, and forecasted financial statements. Topics in taxation are introduced such that the student can both better handle typical day to day operations and also better identify those urgent issues requiring outside experts.

    Requisites: ACCT 1010 and 1020 and FIN 2020
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 3910 - Internship

    Internship experience that provides opportunities to learn by participating in day-to-day accounting activities of a business concern for at least three consecutive weeks (120 hours needed to earn 1 credit hour). Intended for experiences following the sophomore year. No more than three credit hours can be earned for any one internship contract.

    Requisites: Permission required and 2.5 GPA
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 3.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 40.0 field experience/internship
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4200 - Assurance Services and Internal Controls

    A financial auditing course focused on risk assessment and evidence accumulation as a basis for the independent auditor’s opinion on the fair presentation of the financial statements. Examines internal controls of various business cycles needed to ensure reliable financial reporting.

    Requisites: ACCT 3040
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4400 - Single-entity Accounting and Tax Planning

    Compensation planning and multi-jurisdictional tax planning issues and additional advanced tax planning topics in corporate and partnership formation, distributions, liquidations, and restructuring.

    Requisites: ACCT 3400 and (Jr or Sr)
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4500 - Accounting for Non-Business Entities and Contemporary Professional Issues

    Accounting theory for governmental and nonprofit organizations: financial reporting; fund accounting; budgeting and control; contemporary accounting issues.

    Requisites: ACCT 3040 and (Jr or Sr)
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4520 - Advanced Auditing

    Auditing theory and practice with emphasis on current issues, professional standards, ethics, legal liability, special reports, special industries, and advanced auditing techniques.

    Requisites: ACCT 4200
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4600 - Multiple-Entity Accounting and Tax Planning

    Business mergers, consolidated financial statements, partnerships, international operations, corporate bankruptcy, and branch office accounting.

    Requisites: ACCT 3050 and ACCT 3400
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4900 - Special Topics in Accounting

    Selected topics of current interest in accounting area. Course will be research based. Deliverables may include exams, research papers, and case studies.

    Requisites: Permission required
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 9.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4910 - Internship

    Internship experience that provides opportunities to learn by participating in day-to-day accounting activities of a business or governmental concern for at least three consecutive weeks (120 hours needed to earn 1 credit hour). Intended for public accounting, corporate accounting, or State-level auditing internship experiences following the sophomore year.

    Requisites: Permission required
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 40.0 field experience/internship
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4930 - Independent Research

    Research in selected fields of accounting under direction of faculty member.

    Requisites: Permission required
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 10.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 independent study
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ACCT 4940H - Honors Thesis

    Thesis for honors students. Research is instructor directed.

    Requisites: Permission required of director of honors studies
    Credit Hours: 1.0-3.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 10.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 research
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I

Accounting Technology
  

  • ATCH 1030 - Financial Accounting Procedures

    Fundamental accounting principles for service businesses and merchandising enterprises. Topics include the accounting cycle, financial statement preparation, and financial statement analysis. Analyzes the components of asset, liability and equity accounts. Covers the income statement, balance sheet, owner’s equity statement and cash flow statement.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 1040 - Managerial Accounting Procedures

    Accounting procedures for managerial accounting including job/process costing, cost behavior, budgeting, performance evaluation, differential analysis and capital investment.

    Requisites: ATCH 1030
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2030 - Tax and Governmental Reporting Procedures

    Consideration of data sources, forms, and filing requirements for payroll taxes, income taxes, withholding taxes, FICA, sales taxes, unemployment reports, and a wide variety of other specialized local, state, and federally required reports and procedures.

    Requisites: ATCH 1030
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2040 - Electronic Data Processing Accounting Procedures

    Use of computers to perform both specialized and routine accounting functions. An integrated accounting program and an electronic spreadsheet program are used.

    Requisites: ATCH 1040 and MATH 1200 and (BMT 2000 or CTCH 1250 or MIS 2011)
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2050 - Manufacturing Accounting

    Study of cost behavior; data collection procedures and reports for manufacturing firms, job order costs; process costs; standard costs; overhead allocation methods.

    Requisites: (ACCT 1020 or ATCH 1040) and MATH 1200
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2090 - Business Statistics

    Basic statistics, demonstrated and developed through problems typical of actual business situations. Procedures and applications of statistical analysis and inference as they relate to business activity.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2250 - Federal Income Tax Procedures

    Comprehensive course in fundamentals of federal income taxation and preparation of individual, partnership, and corporation tax returns.

    Requisites: ATCH 2030
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2330 - Accounting Information Systems

    Fundamental accounting principles and practices using data accumulation and working paper techniques employed by professional accountants in reporting on merchandising, manufacturing, and service companies. Application of generally accepted accounting principles to preparation of general purpose financial statements for internal and external use. Accounting software emphasized.

    Requisites: ACCT 1010 or ATCH 1030
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2410 - Auditing Procedures

    Study of purposes and scope of audits including audit objectives, professional ethics, audit files and working papers, legal responsibilities, internal control, tests of transactions, audit procedures and disclosure requirements, and preparation of audit reports.

    Requisites: ATCH 2250
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2900 - Special Topics in Accounting Technology

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ATCH 2990 - Independent Study

    Supervised independent study projects in accounting technology.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-6.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 6.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I

Aerospace Studies
  

  • AST 1010 - Introduction to the U.S. Air Force

    Designed to introduce students to the United States Air Force and AFROTC. Topics include mission and organization or the Air Force, officership and professionalism, and military customs and courtesies.

    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 1010L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 1010 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 1020 - Air Force Missions

    Continuation of AST 1010. Introduces students to opportunities in the Air Force in regards to benefits and career classifications. Introduces students to important concepts of professionalism, leadership, and war (theory/doctrine). Continues to build on military communication skills of briefing and writing.

    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 1020L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 1020 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 2010 - History of Air Power

    History and development of air power in the U.S. from the Wright Brothers’ first flight to the conclusion of WW II and introduction to the cold war.

    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 2010L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 2010 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 2020 - Air Power Today

    History and development of USAF air power from the beginning of the Cold War to Vietnam. Changing mission of defense establishment: how air power is employed in military, nonmilitary, and strategic operations. History and development of the USAF air power from the Persian Gulf War to the War on Terrorism.

    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 2020L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 2020 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 2900 - Special Topics in Aerospace Studies

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 2910 - Field Training

    Field training experience at various U.S. locations for military training and indoctrination through practical application of common military customs and courtesies. A mandatory requirement to advance in the AFROTC program as a cadet officer.

    Requisites: Permission required
    Credit Hours: 2
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 40.0 field experience/internship
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 3010 - Management Concepts and Practices I

    Military professionalism and leadership theory; strengths and weaknesses of various leadership styles; review of responsibilities, authority, and functions of Air Force officers. Development of communication and leadership skills.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 3010L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 3010 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 3020 - Military Professionalism and Leadership Theory

    Review of selected concepts, principles, and theories of management as applied in the Air Force. Continued development of communication and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 3010
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 3020L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 3020 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 3910 - Advanced Field Training

    Field training experience at various U.S. locations to act as a cadet instructor, assisting officers in the training and evaluating of cadet trainees for their fitness to become cadet officers.

    Requisites: AST 3020 and 3020L
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 40.0 field experience/internship
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 4010 - The Military and the American Society

    Study of the military and the professional soldier in democratic society and the military as a socializing institution. Cultural immersion, provides a better understanding of cultures around the world. Prepares future military officer with tools to understand the world better and is complete with guest speakers. Communicative skills via student oral presentations and written reports emphasized.

    Requisites: AST 3020
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 4010L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 4010 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 4020 - Strategy and the Use of Force: American Defense Policymaking

    Cultural immersion, provides a better understanding of cultures around the world. Organization and case studies in defense policy-making and bureaucratic decision-making and preparation for active duty. Continues communicative skills and techniques of leadership. Examines military law and topics preparing officer candidates for active duty. Prepares future military officer with tools to understand the world better.

    Requisites: AST 4010
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 4020L - Leadership Laboratory

    Provides a progression of experience to aid each individual’s understanding of the Air Force and to develop teamwork, followership, and leadership skills.

    Requisites: AST 4020 concurrent
    Credit Hours: 1
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 laboratory
    Eligible grades: F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AST 4900 - Special Topics in Aerospace Studies

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I

African American Studies
  

  • AAS 1010 - African American History I, 1526-1875

    Examines economic, demographic, social, cultural and political topics in African American history from African origins to the Emancipation era. The evolution of race relations is an important component of this course, but the major emphasis will be placed on the experiences of Black people, the development of rural communities, and the potentiality and challenges facing interracial cooperation, within the framework of larger socio-economic and political processes in U. S. history.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2SS
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 1060 - Introduction to African American Studies

    Unlike most established disciplines, there is to be a lack of consensus among Africana Studies scholars as to what exactly is African American/Afro-American/Africana/Pan African/Black Studies, and/or what constitutes the nature and scope of the discipline. The National Council for Black Studies, the leading organization of Black Studies professionals in the world, defines it as a discipline that investigates African peoples’ experiences from the perspective of their interests, aspirations, possibilities, and envisioned destinies. Experiences that range from the earliest human civilizations to the tragic era of enslavement, colonization, forced migration, displacement and the reconstruction of African peoples humanity and life ways. This introductory course investigates the foundation, nature, scope, and structure of African American/Africana Studies in American Universities. The course will basically explore various descriptions, definitions, and meanings of the discipline/field, as well as approaches to understanding its interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary nature; survey major disciplinary literature written about it, and the perspectives advanced by scholars. The course also critiques and systematically outlines essential components of and/or arguments advanced about, for, or against the discipline. Finally, a comparative exploration of the interrelationship between African American/Africana Studies, Area Studies, and Ethnic Studies, as well as some emerging intellectual developments in Africana Studies research, teaching, and service activities will help guide us later into the semester as we engage in our focused discussions and discoveries of a satisfactory definition of the discipline, and an operational description of its basics and essentials.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 1100 - Introduction to African American Literature

    Focuses broadly on African American literature from work of the 18th century to contemporary writings with the intention of providing the student with an introduction to the topic. Reading poetry, short fiction, the novel, and other forms of writing, the course will explore such questions as how black writers address African American literary inheritance and production. A final paper will afford the student the occasion of applying a critical approach to literary texts. Topics may include slave and freeman and free woman narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, and the postmodern black novel. The aim of the course is to equip the student with a strong academic knowledge of African American literature in its cultural and historical contexts.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2HL
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 1500 - Africana Media Studies

    Africana Media Studies is an introduction to the Africana experience (primarily in the U.S) through media. This course is designed to enable scholars the opportunity to explore, critique and understand images, stereotypes, myths and counter-imaging of the Africana experience. Contemporary as well as historic notions of race, class and gender through the prism of media will be examined. In the exploration of these various themes attention will be paid to the social, political, and economic contexts that have shaped the media. The media includes, though not limited to radio, television, film, newspapers and the internet. This course will attempt to include all aspects of the media to facilitate the examination of the Africana experience. However primary attention will be given to television, film and radio. The course will follow a loose chronological approach from early media to contemporary media. While the primary focus is on Africana media it does not preclude discourse on other related media studies issues, it is however the emphasis for this course.

    Credit Hours: 4
    General Education Code: 2HL
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture, 3.0 discussion
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 1900 - Difficult Dialogues: Race, Law, and Religion in America

    Intended to help create a campus environment where sensitive subjects can be discussed in a spirit of open, scholarly inquiry and intellectual rigor and with respect for different viewpoints. (Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues RFP, 2005 at: http://www.fordfound.org/news/more/dialogues/index.cfm?print-ver) Students in this problem-based discussion and writing course will examine race in America through the lenses of law and religion. Working on teams and using a variety of resources, students will investigate five issues spanning from the founding of the country to present day New Orleans. Analyzing past and present historical events, students will gain insights into both the progressive and repressive roles that law and religion can play in creating and resolving difficult human problems. Students who take this class will become “bridge-builders” in their communities; people who bridge the gulf between groups that sometimes perceive themselves as being divided, when they have far more in common than that which may be the subject of a “difficult dialogue.”

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2020 - African American History II, 1876 to late twentieth century

    Examines a series of topics¿economic, demographic, social, cultural and political¿in African American history from 1876 to the late twentieth century. The evolution of race relations is an important component of this course, but the major emphasis will be placed on the internal experiences of ordinary African Americans, within the framework of larger socioeconomic and political processes in U. S. history. In addition to providing topical perspectives (e.g., work, family, and religion), the course will pay close attention to chronology and change over time.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2SS
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2100 - Slave Narrative and Freeman/Freewomen Fiction of the 18th and 19th Centuries

    Will cover the African American slave narrative, from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with free-woman and free-man writings of the later nineteenth century and possibly the early twentieth century. Readings typically include works by such authors as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup. The course will consider contemporary debates surrounding the question of authenticity as well as current views of how slave narratives merit aesthetically. The course also interrogates questions pertaining to how the slave narrative challenges conventional notions of autobiography and how the early black novel confronts received and developing notions of the U.S. novel.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2HL
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2110 - African American Literature II: Black Writing of the 20th and 21st Centuries

    Focuses on 20th- and 21st-century writings by African American authors with a view toward gaining an understanding of the enormous wealth of literature black writers produced during the periods in question. The course will start with the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Modernist phase, then move on to the Black Arts period, and conclude with contemporary African American literary writing. Typically, the course will read texts by writers including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Claude McKay, and Toni Morrison.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2HL
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2200 - Introduction to Black Political Economy

    Exploration of theories or political policies and economic processes, their interrelations, and their influence on the socioeconomic character of the black community.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2250 - History of the African American Worker

    African-American workers have had a profound effect on U.S. labor and its history. This course will examine the transformation of the African-American working class from the post-Civil War period through the late twentieth-century. African American workers and their community organizations played an integral role in shaping the American working class experience from the maturing industrial period through post-industrial period of U.S. history. We will analyze the changing relationship between capital and labor, employers and employees while evaluating the shifting meanings of ¿owners¿ and ¿workers¿ over time. Through the lenses of race, gender, and sexuality we will also analyze the developments in African American working-class culture and politics.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2500 - Blackness and the Arts

    Introduction to the idea of a black art by focusing on a number of different kinds of art practice that enact the idea of race (e.g., film, video, fine art, new media, television, photography, literature). Develop skills in the critical study of black art as a historiographical, cultural, and political craft. Topics are chosen to provide a wide breadth and scope of black visual and expressive culture. The course is interdisciplinary by design and necessity. Encourages a shift of hermeneutics from the black life world to black visual and expressive culture in the terms of blackness. This means repurposing the study of black art in ways other than fidelity to the social category of race and an ethics of positive and negative representation that tacitly encourages the idea of film as cultural policy. Details a commitment to how new paradigms for form and aesthetics, historiography, and intertextuality constitute blackness as the unfinalizable encounter between the idea of race and the idea of art rather than blackness as merely sociology. The approach of this course is primarily that of visual culture and post-structuralist work devoted to difference. In this way, the method is twofold. Firstly, this is an introduction to the idea of race as enacted in the arts and an introduction to critical theory.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2HL
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2540 - History of Injustice in the United States

    Designed to give a socio-legal-historical perspective respecting the patterns of injustice in various areas of African American life. American Blacks are, of course, not the only victims of racism/injustice, but in the past they have been - by far - the largest and the most active of the country’s minorities and thus the appropriate focus for review of the law and injustice.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 2900 - Special Topics in African American Studies

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3100 - Postmodern Blackness: Identity and Culture in Contemporary African American Literature

    Relying on contemporary literary criticism and theory, this course focuses on Postmodern African American literature of the 1960s and later. Typically concerns writers who emerged as major figures during this period, including such authors as Toni Morrison. Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed. Attention also given to major literary, theoretical, cultural, and aesthetic developments that developed among black writers, critics, and theorists.

    Requisites: Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3110 - Harlem Renaissance: African American Literature of the Early 20th Century

    Focuses on the extraordinary yield of interwar period (c. 1915-1940) African American authors, placing the literary study in the context of political and cultural history. The course will explore such questions as how the renaissance may be seen in terms of modernist aesthetics and transnational culture. Also of interest will be the question of the renaissance and radical politics. The class will consider the Harlem Renaissance, what’s more, vis-à-vis the sexual and gender revolution of 1920s. Typically readings will include works like Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem, Alain Locke’s The New Negro, Nella Larsen’s Passing, and Jean Toomer’s Cane, along with criticism on the Harlem Renaissance. Students will write a critically researched paper and be administered essay exams. The aim of the course is to equip the student with a strong academic knowledge of Harlem Renaissance literature in its historical context.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3170 - Black Transnational Literature: Caribbean and Transcultural African American Writing

    Covers Caribbean and related African American literary writing, with a view toward understanding the importance of the role of Caribbean literature in Black Diaspora and black transnational cultures. Readings may include works by such authors as C.L.R. James, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Derek Walcott, a cross-genre sampling of fiction, poetry, and drama. The course will also read relevant post-colonial theory and post-imperialist criticism, including writings by such figures as Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3400 - The African American Community Since World War II

    Explores how, when and why people of African descent use the concept “community” to express those social practices that make group life meaningful. This course focuses on how people of African descent in the United States respond to public policies and create social practices that affect collective efforts to build and sustain everyday life as a social and cultural collective.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3410 - African American Personality

    Examination of organization and structure of African American personality within American and African sociopsychological contexts. Special emphasis on various forces that shape African American personality.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3450 - The Black Woman

    Examines the complex experience of being a Black woman in America. It addresses such topics as identify, black male-female relations, black feminism, social mobility and activism from a sociohistorical perspective.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3460 - Black Men and Masculinities

    Black Men and Masculinities is an interdisciplinary course that examines the diverse experiences of black men and the public discourses about black masculinities primarily in the U.S. The major thrust of the course is to examine how the gendered social order influences black men’s actions and the way black men perceive themselves, other men, women, and social situations. We will use an intersectionality perspective to explore the relationships between multiple dimensions of social relations and inequalities: gender, race/ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. We will also consider how black masculinities are produced in various physical/social sites. This course evaluates the prospects for social change in how black men think, feel, and act. It addresses issues such as: black male socialization and boyhood/guyland culture, the black male body image, black male friendship, black male sexuality and fertility, black men’s experiences as fathers and their involvement in volunteer and paid youth work, male aggression and violence, the social construction of masculinities in different historical and cultural contexts, and men’s movements and networks.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3500 - African American Arts and Artists

    The class is an intensive study of a specific topic/theme of Black visual and expressive culture. The course will be structured around this specific topic/theme to illustrate the methods and traditions of black visual and expressive culture. The content of the course will rotate but always address the relationship between art practice and the idea of race. Such topics might include feminist art, the racial grotesque, Chester Himes and the noir tradition, passing and the black embodiment index, historical consciousness and Civil Rights America, hip-hop modernism, or an analysis of one literary text (Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man or Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo) and its influence of black visual and expressive culture. The purpose of this class is to promote a rigorous sense of blackness as entailing a negotiation with the necessary, creative tensions between art and distinct modalities of black visual and expressive culture. In other words, this course redraws the lines of influence, appreciation, allusion, causality, reference, and exposition by recognizing the importance of ambiguity over prescription. The approach of the class is most immediately informed by the work of Darby English (How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness), Kobena Mercer (Annotating Art’s Histories series), and Kimberly Benston (Performing Blackness: Enactments of African American Modernism). This body of literature represents a focus on black visual and expressive culture as a critical art informed by the history of African Americans but not utterly reducible to that history. Therefore, the course frames the respective topic or theme as a multi-discursive aesthetic and cultural practice. In this way, the method will be that of visual culture and black studies.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2HL
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3520 - Blacks in Contemporary American Cinema

    Explores the representation of African Americans in contemporary American cinema since the 1970s. It also examines the contributions of African Americans on both sides of the camera, as well as various themes conveyed in the films of the period. This class will not only understand film as a text, it will also critique, analyze and investigate the social and political messages within the film text.

    Requisites: AAS 1500
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3530 - Survey of Black Independent Cinema

    Black Independent Cinema is a course about seeing. Many look but few see. We will build a consciousness of the Africana experience in independent filmmaking with particular emphasis on independent filmmakers from the United States. This aim will be achieved by examining the body of work produced by independent filmmakers from the early 1900s up until present day. In addition to the study of the film diegesis, this course will explore aesthetic and theoretical issues relative to the development of an independent Black cinema. Black cinema describes a specific body of films produced in the African Diaspora which shares a common problematic (Yearwood, 2000, p5). Further this course will examine the social dynamics at work during the various stages of Black independent cinema, which has served as a counter to Hollywood’s limited portrayal of the Africana experience. This class is guided by interactive discussion and analysis of films screened.

    Requisites: AAS 1500
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3550 - History of African American Music I, Slavery-1926

    Sociohistorical examination of African American music and its role in shaping American music. Recordings and guest lecturers used as integral part of course. Examines spirituals, rural and urban blues, ragtime, and early jazz.

    Requisites: One course in Tier II Fine Arts or Humanities
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3560 - History of African American Music II, 1926-Present

    Sociohistorical analysis of African American music and its role in shaping modern American music. Recordings and guest musician/lecturers used as integral part of course. Examines big-band era, urban blues, bebop, rhythm and blues, hard bop, black classical composers, avantgarde musical performances, and hip-hop

    Requisites: One course in Tier II Fine Arts or Humanities
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3570 - Black Music Criticism: Hiphop history, culture and politics

    Designed to engage scholars in a process of discovering and developing critical analytical skills within the context of Hip-hop history, culture, and politics. This course will explore Hip-hop culture as a manifestation of Africana visual, performance and oral traditions. It will explore Africana cultural practices that have given rise to the numerous manifestations of Hip-hop over its thirty-plus year history in the United States and abroad. Hip-hop has affected/infected all facets of popular culture from the classroom to the corporate boardroom. This course examines the development, contradictions and various representations of Hip-hop culture. This course is designed to increase students’ depth of knowledge of Hip-hop within the context of Africana cultural practices, the history and various positions about what Hip-hop is/is not and provide opportunities for dialogue and further study. Toward accomplishing the goal of investigating Hip-hop history, culture, and politics, film, various media texts and possibly guest lecturers will be used to facilitate this learning experience. Scholars will be expected to submit papers, complete oral reports, and participate in class projects for successful completion of this course.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3640 - Comparative Study of Injustice

    Will take a look at different approaches to civil and human rights in selected developed and developing countries. There will also be a review of theory of justice and political consequences in chosen countries. A substantial part of the fourteen week semester will be used to examine the injustices of the past apartheid system of South African and comparing it to the struggle to end Jim Crow segregation in the United States. In addition, the Armenian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, and the Republic of the Congo genocide will be briefly reviewed and comparisons made. The course will also take a look at the attempts of ethnic cleansing in a number of different parts of the world. Our first review will start in our backyard with a look at how the Native Americans in the U.S. were subjected to a sophisticated genocide perpetrated by the U.S. government and the people of America. Racial injustices suffered by people of color in the United States are interconnected with injustices perpetrated on other people of color throughout the world.

    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3680 - African American Political Thought

    This course examines the basic tenets of Black political thought and intellectual history in the United States from 1830 to 2000. This course investigates the influences of political thinkers of African descent who shaped several social and political movements and theories, including Progressivism, liberalism, Marxism, Black Nationalism, feminism & womanism, existentialism, and anti-colonialism.

    Requisites: AAS 2020
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3691 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Pre-Civil Rights Movements

    While learning the basic principles of Constitutional Law and legal reasoning, students taking this course will also learn the critical role law plays in correcting social injustices in our society, the significance of precedents and stare decisis in a common law system; and how to distinguish cases that have similar factual bases but different judicial holdings. The course is also intended to help students develop a sharpened sense of civic responsibility, especially in relation to issues of equality and justice.

    Requisites: Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3692 - U.S. Constitutional Law: Post-Civil Rights Movements

    AAS 3692 builds on AAS 3691. Students taking this course will learn how the Supreme Court of the United States applied the Constitution to uphold the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other laws passed to secure for African Americans the Constitutional rights they had been denied for nearly two centuries. Students will also learn how other Americans have benefited from the legal paths forged by African Americans in their struggle to obtain the Constitutional rights to which all Americans are entitled.

    Requisites: AAS 3691
    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 3800 - African American Education

    Some scholars, educators and parents suggest the educational system in the United States, is designed to prepare individuals for access and inclusion into this society and also to intelligently participate in a democratic republic. Others have suggested the educational system is means of social control, both a passive and active way of maintaining the structural hegemony of inequality already present. Whatever the case may be, the debate of how to best empower and educate Africana people has been active since before 1865. This seminar will provide an overview of this discussion as well as some of the major factors contributing to the topic. Seminar in African American Education explores, critiques and examines the journey of African descendants in the United States in their quest for education. This course will examine two major historical features of this experience, how Africana people have sought to educate themselves and how the larger culture has attempted to educate them. Within this examination this course will attempt to explore both positions advanced by scholars, educators and parents as well as other developments in the field of education relating to Africana people.

    Requisites: 6 Hours Tier II Social Sciences or Education
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4110 - Literature Seminar: Black Countercultures

    Focuses on a current critical trend in African American literary studies. Students will have the opportunity to apply critical theory and criticism to, for example, black modernist, postmodernist, and/or transnational literature. Typically readings will include works by such as authors as Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, and/or Toni Morrison. The student will write a critical research paper and be administered essay exams. The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with contemporary approaches and issues in black literary studies.

    Requisites: AAS 1100 and 2100
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4300 - Social Theory, Research and Methodology in African American Studies

    This course will introduce students to the methods and techniques of scholarly research and writing. The course will examine the basic tenets of Africana Studies social theories, research methods, and intellectual inquiry. The foundation of course will begin with an appreciation and understanding of the history, culture, philosophy and worldview of the lived experiences of peoples of African descent. The thematic concerns of the course will focus on social theory and research methods in the field of Africana Studies. The course will survey and investigate the influences of various theoretical perspectives and methodological concerns and determine their intellectual uses and application , as well as discuss some of the criticisms of these methods, particularly as they relate to contemporary thinking about local, national, and international Black experiences.

    Requisites: AAS 1060 and (1010 or 2020) and (Jr or Sr)
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4400 - The Black Child

    What does it mean to be a black child in America at the beginning of the 21st century? We will consider how the meaning of childhood changes over time, place, and social context for African Americans. By moving children to the center of focus, we will see that there is no singular definition of African American childhood, but instead many different ways in which African Americans experience childhood and adolescence. Typically African American children are only studied as victims or perpetrators of social problems, but in this course we will consider African American children in many additional contexts. We will begin by examining the meaning(s) of childhood and adolescence and how they have changed over time. Throughout the course we will see how African American children’s lives are shaped by broader systems of inequality. We will also examine how African American children are active in the construction of their own peer cultures and popular culture, as well as why the relationship between Black youth and popular culture is routinely viewed as problematic, and how African American children are discussed within the popular press. Finally, we will examine how public policies shaping African Americans children and adolescents’ lives are formulated and how they sometimes serve to replicate various inequalities.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4693 - Legal Policy and Disparities in the American Health Care System

    Intended to examine the disparities in health care experienced by women, children, the elderly, Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, Appalachians, and the poor in the American health care system, in the spirit of open, scholarly inquiry. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most inhumane. He worked to raise awareness about public health concerns, particularly relating to issues that disproportionately affect minorities, people of color, and low-income communities.

    Requisites: Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: T3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4820 - The Black Family

    Focusing on the history of ideas and approaches that have shaped and defined our understanding of Black families. This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of African American social and family life. You will be introduced to historical and socio-cultural circumstances that affect the Black family and the diverse nature of Black culture. The purpose of this course is to focus on the Black family as a social institution. You will understand and appreciate the strengths of the Black family by being expose to a variety of challenges they face. This course will also attempt to heighten awareness and sensitivity to the contemporary problems affecting the Black family and thus help discover and evaluate social policies and programs geared towards Black families. Specifically, the course will provide a sociological perspective for understanding and analyzing topics and challenges that impact the Black family. The discussion is also designed to encourage and stimulate critical thinking beyond “common sense” interpretations of the Black family.

    Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
    Credit Hours: 3
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4900 - Special Topics in African American Studies

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AAS 4930 - Independent Study

    Primarily for students interested in concentrated study in specific area in cooperation with advisor.

    Requisites: Permission required
    Credit Hours: 3.0-9.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 9.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 independent study
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I

Akan
  

  • AKAN 1110 - Elementary Twi (Akan) I

    Culture based approach to increased language proficiency. Students continue to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as they study diverse history and customs of Twi speakers.

    Credit Hours: 4
    General Education Code: 2CP
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AKAN 1120 - Elementary Twi (Akan) II

    Culture based approach to increased language proficiency. Students continue to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as they study diverse history and customs of Twi speakers.

    Requisites: AKAN1110
    Credit Hours: 4
    General Education Code: 2CP
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AKAN 2110 - Intermediate Twi (Akan) I

    Culture based approach to increased language proficiency. Students continue to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as they study diverse history and customs of Twi speakers.

    Requisites: AKAN 1120
    Credit Hours: 4
    General Education Code: 2CP
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AKAN 2120 - Intermediate Twi (Akan) II

    Culture based approach to increased language proficiency. Students continue to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as they study diverse history and customs of Twi speakers.

    Requisites: TWI 2110
    Credit Hours: 4
    General Education Code: 2CP
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • AKAN 2900 - Special Topics in Akan

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 1010 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

    Students learn about the core concepts used in cultural anthropology and how anthropologists study human cultures and societies. Consideration is given to the relevance of anthropological theories, methods, and ethics in the context of contemporary culture change, taking into account processes of colonialism, globalization, and development. Students gain an appreciation of the broader goals of cultural anthropology to record cultural patterns and behaviors, represent a variety of voices and perceptions, explain cultural processes, and develop a fundamental understanding of human diversity.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2CP
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ANTH 2010 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology

    Evolutionary theory; primates; fossil record of human evolution; mechanics of evolution; human variation.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2NS
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ANTH 2020 - Introduction to World Archaeology

    Basic concepts; how archaeologists reconstruct extinct societies and explore cultural evolution.

    Credit Hours: 3
    General Education Code: 2CP
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ANTH 2900 - Special Topics in Anthropology

    Specific course content will vary with offering.

    Credit Hours: 1.0-15.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 1.0 lecture
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
  

  • ANTH 2970T - Anthropology Tutorial

    Honors Tutorial College tutorial on theories and issues in anthropology.

    Requisites: HTC
    Credit Hours: 1.0-12.0
    Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 15.0 hours.
    Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 tutorial
    Eligible grades: A-F,CR,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
 

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