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• AAS 2000 Critical Perspectives in African-American Studies

  AAS 2000 Critical Perspectives in African-American Studies

  Credit Hours: 3

  An introduction to major concepts, theories, and paradigms of inquiry in African-American Studies. Students engage a variety of approaches through reading, discussion, of key works by African-American scholars and social thinkers, both contemporary and historical. Application of selected concepts, theories and paradigms of inquiry to relevant issues in contemporary Detroit. This course is normally offered every fall and winter semester.

• AAS 3000 A Black Studies Tour of Detroit: Place-based Humanities

  AAS 3000 A Black Studies Tour of Detroit: Place-based Humanities

  Credit Hours: 3

  This interdisciplinary humanities course uses place-based education to immerse students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities, and experiences via a curriculum centered on curated visits to Detroit's major sites of African American culture and history. Locations included in the course and their corresponding branches of the humanities are the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (History), Black Abolitionist Archive (History), N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art (Art), Detroit Institute of Arts (Art, Art History), Second Baptist Church of Detroit (Religion), Plowshares Theatre Company (Theater), Motown Museum (Music), Baker's Keyboard Lounge (Music), and the Detroit Association of Women's Clubs (Women's and Gender Studies). The course will be offered every Winter semester.

• AAS 3100 Science, Technology and Race

  AAS 3100 Science, Technology and Race

  Credit Hours: 3

  This course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of this field with the social category of race. The course examines the ways in which science and technology constantly recreate and reconstruct the concept of race, and how race and racial categories color research and practice in science and technology. The course includes multiple case studies detailing the links between these concepts in U.S. history, and a global, historical survey of race concepts in science and technology from pre-Darwinian racial thought to the Human Genome project. This course is normally offered every fall semester.

• AAS 4900 Integrative Seminar

  AAS 4900 Integrative Seminar

  Credit Hours: 3

  A seminar designed to allow students to integrate critical perspectives encountered in African-American Studies courses. Students design and complete an individual culminating project involving service -learning or scholarly research on a relevant topic from the contemporary or historical African-American experience.