AFST208

This course is designed to examine the theories, thoughts and deeds of influential African-American public figures in the 19th, 20th, & 21st Centuries. Those thinkers include Booker T. Washington, David Walker, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, Maria W. Stewart, Bell Hooks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others. We will study their intellectual histories and thoughts in their attempt to advance democracy through their correspondences, essays, poems, memoirs, articles and speeches as well as through selected biographies about them. The social and political conditions and conflicts that gave rise to these leaders along with their adversaries will be explored as well. An emphasis in this course will be placed upon relevant class discussion, the ability to analyze large amounts of reading & visual material, utilization of technology, writing ability, and subject mastery that will be demonstrated through examinations and class participation. This course meets the General Education requirement category for Values and Ethics. It also meets requirements for the Africana Studies major and minor.

Arts, Humanities and Education

Gen Ed 18-Values and Ethics (GEVE)