AFRO 3865 is also offered in Spring 2025
AFRO 3865 is also offered in Spring 2024
AFRO 3865 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2021 | AFRO 3865 Section 001: African American History: 1865 to the Present (67448)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Meets With:
HIST 3865 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- History of African American men and women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Discussion of internal migrations, industrialization and unionization, The Great Depression, world wars, and large scale movements for social and political change.
- Class Description:
- This course explores African American history from Emancipation to the present. It analyzes the social, political, legal, and cultural dimensions of the African American experience in the United States throughout critical historical moments such as Reconstruction, industrialization, segregation, suffrage, the Great Migrations, World War One, the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, the black power movement, and contemporary racial politics. In addition to historical texts, students will work closely with various primary sources produced by African Americans, including speeches, newspapers, memoirs, photographs, art, and film.
- Grading:
- 25% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
20% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 70% Lecture
15% Film/Video
15% Discussion
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
3 Exam(s)
Other Workload: Students will analyze a primary text in a 5-8 page paper. They will also have 2 exams that will include, in part, essay type questions.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67448/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 November 2007
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