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History Of The African Diaspora (ABC-247)

Semester:	Spring 2024
Number:	0101-247-001
Instructor:	Christopher Davis
Days:	Tuesday Thursday 10:50 am - 12:05 pm
Note:	Traditional In-Person Class
Location:	Garden City - NEX 275
Credits:	3
Status:	This Course is Filled to Capacity
Notes:	This Course Is Cross-Listed With 0136-292-001
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	Students will study peoples of African descent who reside in locales outside their home region on the continent. These people foster new regional communities while contending with the impact of racism, slavery, migration, colonialism, resistance, gender, religion, and economics in the struggle of developing a global African-descended culture. (Learning Goals:L;Distribution Reqs:Humanities)
Learning Goals:	By the end of the semester, students will be able to: Explain the concept of diaspora and how African/Black identities outside of Africa have been shaped and articulated over the past five centuries; Identify and describe the major topics and events relating to the African diaspora; Develop a historical perspective on the social and cultural constructions of race, gender, and class in the African diaspora; Deconstruct the relationships between communities of African-descended people who are geographically separated or culturally distinct; Utilize primary and secondary sources to construct thoughtful arguments relating to the African diaspora; and Go beyond discussing what things happened and hypothesize on why things happened. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.

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