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A-S 3200 - Interinstitutional Study
Students may take classes at Davenport College, Kalamazoo College, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College through a cooperative program using this course number for credit toward a WMU degree. Information and enrollment forms may be obtained from the Registrar’s Office. Where credit toward the major or minor is desired, prior approval must be obtained from the student’s major and/or minor department. Repeatable.
Credits: 1 to 12 hours
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A-S 3900 - Arts and Sciences Seminar
A variable topics course in interdisciplinary studies or other subjects that fall outside the traditional disciplines. May be taken as an elective or for credit in an Arts and Sciences major or minor by special arrangement with the department. Topics will be announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated once when topic differs.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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A-S 4960 - Writing-Intensive Mentored Portfolio
A student portfolio will be developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor will aid the student in the development of the portfolio and will evaluate its contents. The portfolio may be Based upon information about their “life experience,” professional experience, credits from professional job training seminars and/or significant classroom projects. The course will include at least four significant writing experiences to meet the Baccalaureate Writing requirement. Mentored Portfolio credit can be used for all or part of the Professional Studies capstone experience. Students are required to seek advising prior to taking their first capstone experience. The course may be repeated for a total of six credit hours. Application forms are available from the College of Arts and Sciences advising office, the advising office at the WMU Regional Locations and on the advising page of the College website www.wmich.edu/cas/advising. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may satisfy the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student’s curriculum.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
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A-S 4970 - Mentored Portfolio
A student portfolio will be developed in conjunction with a faculty mentor. The faculty mentor will aid the student in the development of the portfolio and will evaluate its contents. The portfolio may be Based upon information about their “life experience,” professional experience, credits from professional job training seminars and/or significant classroom projects. Mentored Portfolio credit can be used for all or part of the Professional Studies capstone experience. Students are required to seek advising prior to taking their first capstone experience. The course may be repeated for a total of six credit hours. Application forms are available from the College of Arts and Sciences advising office, the advising office at the WMU Regional Locations and on the advising page of the College website www.wmich.edu/cas/advising.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 2 to 6 hours
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A-S 4980 - Directed Independent Study
A program of independent study (reading or research) that allows the student to pursue a subject that falls outside of the traditional disciplines. The initiative for describing the project, planning the method(s) of investigation, determining appropriate product or results, and securing the cooperation of a faculty member to supervise the work must come from the student. Application forms may be picked up in the College of Arts and Sciences Advising Office and must be approved by the Dean of the College. Approval is contingent on the merit of the proposal. Repeatable up to the maximum of 6 credit hours.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Department approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
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A-S 4990 - Cooperative Education and Practical Training
Cooperative education, internship or practical training experience during a semester involves full-time planned and supervised work related to the student’s major or minor and is performed outside the department, unit or university. This work is to be summarized in a written report. Students enrolled in this course will be classified as having full-time student status for the purpose of loan deferments and insurance eligibility. Students may take up to a maximum of 6 credit hours in A-S 4990.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 - 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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AAE 2500 - Materials Science
First course in the science of engineering materials. Relationships between microscopic structure and the mechanical properties of metals, polymers, and ceramics. Effects of environment on material properties.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: CHEM 1100 and 1110, MATH 1220 or 1700.
Credits: 3 hours
Cross-Listed: ME 2500
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3 - 0)
When Offered: Spring, Summer II
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AAE 2610 - Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering
An overview of aeronautical engineering disciplines; the history of aeronautics, fundamental elements of aerodynamics and aerodynamic experiments, airfoils and wings, aircraft performance, stability and control, propulsion, and structures leading toward the aircraft conceptual design.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: (MATH 1220 or Math 1700), may be taken concurrently.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to Pre-Aeronautical Engineering students.
When Offered: Spring
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AAE 3610 - Aerodynamics I
A study of incompressible aerodynamics of flight vehicles with emphasis on the combined application of the basic theory and experiments for solving practical aerodynamic problems in the design of flight vehicles. Flow similarity, governing equations, potential flows, thin airfoil theory, lifting line theory, and basic aerodynamic measurement techniques.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: MATH 2720, (AAE 2610 or ME 3560), PHYS 2050; PHYS 2060.
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (4 - 0)
When Offered: Fall
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AAE 3710 - Aerodynamics II
An introduction to compressible aerodynamics and boundary layer theory, including subsonic and supersonic flows over wings and bodies and viscous flows. Emphasis is placed on application of the basic theory for solving practical aerodynamic problems in the design of flight vehicles.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: AAE 3610; MATH 3740; ME 2580.
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Spring
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AAE 4500 - Flight Vehicle Performance
A study of flight vehicle performance with an emphasis on the effect of aerodynamics on vehicle design. Computer applications to the solution of the problems of flight vehicle performance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AAE 3710
Credits: 3 hours
When Offered: Fall
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AAE 4590 - Flight Test Engineering and Design
Analysis and design of in-flight experiments, excluding expansion of the aircraft’s flight envelope. Includes microprocessor based data acquisition system and electronic sensor interfacing. Laboratory projects emphasize the pre-test, flight and post-flight phases of flight testing with an emphasis on safety of flight issues.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: AAE 4500 and AAE 4600.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (1 - 6)
When Offered: Spring
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AAE 4600 - Aircraft Stability and Control
A study of fixed wing aircraft stability and control; estimation of fixed wing stability derivatives, longitudinal and lateral/directional static stability and control analysis and synthesis. Introduction to dynamic stability and control characteristics including stability and mode shapes, responses to control input, and handling/flying qualities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AAE 3710 and ME 3600.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
When Offered: Fall
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AAE 4630 - Aircraft Structural Design
Structural design of aircraft emphasizing structural integrity under imposed static and dynamic loads. Design considerations include weight, cost, and mission constraints.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ME 3650
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
When Offered: Fall
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AAE 4660 - Aeronautical Propulsion Systems
Thermodynamics and fluid dynamics of aeronautical rotating turbomachines, including axial turbines, compressors, mixed flow, and centrifugal machines. Analytical and computational methods will be used to design and determine performance of aircraft propulsion systems.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ME 2320; and either (ME 3560 or AAE 3710).
Credits: 4 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
When Offered: Fall
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AAE 4690 - Aircraft Design
Conceptual and preliminary design of aircraft emphasizing performance, stability and control, and total vehicle efficiency.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: AAE 4500 and AAE 4600 and ME 3650.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
When Offered: Spring
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AAE 4950 - Topics in Aeronautical Engineering
A specialized course dealing with a particular area of aeronautical engineering not included in other course offerings.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Restrictions: This course restricted to majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
Notes: May be repeated for credit with a different topic for up to a total of six credits.
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AAE 4990 - Independent Study
An independent study assignment available only by special arrangement with an instructor and approved by the department curriculum committee. A written report will be required and filed with the department on completion.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Departmental approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for up to a total of six hours.
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer I, Summer II
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ACTY 2100 - Principles of Accounting I
This is an introductory course in accounting, which includes an examination of the recording and reporting of business transactions, and the measurement of business income, assets, liabilities and equities. Emphasis is placed on financial reporting for decision-makers inside the organization.
Credits: 3 hours
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ACTY 2110 - Principles of Accounting II
A study of the role of accounting information in the planning and decision-making of business organizations. The course focuses on financial analysis, manufacturing cost flows, budgeting, and planning for long-term financing and investing activities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 2100 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
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ACTY 3100 - Financial Accounting I
This course examines the underlying concepts of financial accounting. It reviews the accounting cycle, related accounting records, and the financial statements. Accounting principles and reporting requirements for current assets, plant and equipment, intangibles, and other assets are also studied.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ACTY 2100 and 2110 with a grade of 2.5 (“CB”) or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or General Business.
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ACTY 3110 - Financial Accounting II
This course is a continuation of Accounting 3100. Accounting principles and reporting requirements for liabilities, long-term investments, and stockholders’ equity are studied. Other topics included are accounting for pensions, income taxes, leases, accounting changes, and the Statement of Cash Flows.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or General Business.
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ACTY 3130 - Accounting Information Systems
This is an introductory survey course in accounting information systems. It includes consideration of issues such as transaction processing and transaction processing cycles, the use and effects of computers and other relevant technology on accounting, database and file systems, internal accounting and administrative controls, and information technology audits. The course emphasizes use of common business software, which may include spreadsheets, flowcharting software, communications, general ledger, and database management systems.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or General Business.
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ACTY 3220 - Managerial Accounting - Concepts and Practices
A study of the accounting methodology and concepts that have been developed to serve managers in decision-making for planning and control. This course covers budgeting, standard cost variance analysis, incremental analysis, cost and profit analysis, relevant costing, and product costing concepts and practices.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 2100 and ACTY 2110 with a grade of 2.5 (“CB”) or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy, General Business, Management or Public Administration: Business.
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ACTY 3240 - Introductory Tax Accounting
A study of the federal tax laws that apply to business entities. The course focuses on concepts of income, deductions, and credits that apply to all reporting entities and emphasizes tax planning as well as tax compliance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ACTY 2100 and ACTY 2110 with a grade of 2.5 (“CB”) or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy, Personal Finance Planning or Public Administration: Business.
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ACTY 4100 - Internship in Accounting
Under the direction of a faculty coordinator, students obtain full-time, accounting-related employment. Participation is limited to available internships and competitive selection by the faculty coordinator and prospective employers. Students are required to write a final report. Each employer will provide an evaluation of the student. A student must be enrolled in ACTY 4100 while meeting the requirements of the course. This course must be taken on a credit/no credit basis and does not count toward the accounting major.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Written approval of the faculty coordinator.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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ACTY 4110 - Advanced Accounting
The study of entities and special transactions not covered in Financial Accounting I and II. Particular emphasis is given to partnership equity accounting, governmental accounting, business combinations, reporting by parent-subsidiary consolidated entities (including foreign subsidiaries), and accounting for foreign currency transactions.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3110 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
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ACTY 4130 - Advanced Accounting Systems
This course examines the types of accounting systems used by business enterprises. It includes in-depth examinations of database accounting systems, including the analysis of information, database design and implementation, and the creation of applications.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3130 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
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ACTY 4140 - Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting
A comprehensive study of the recording of transactions by governmental units and the financial statements required by generally accepted accounting principles for governmental units. Governmental units are the basic unit of study; however, colleges and universities, healthcare entities, and other not-for-profit organizations are given brief coverage to illustrate accounting and financial reporting for all not-for-profit entities.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 2110 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to the following: minors in Accountancy; or majors in Accountancy or Public Administration: Business.
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ACTY 4160 - Auditing
A study of auditing of business and non-business organizations. Topics include audit risk, audit procedures during the planning and performance phase of an audit, internal control concepts, ethics and the legal environment, statistical audit tools, types of audit reports, auditing standards, and the relationship of internal auditing to financial statement auditing.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ACTY 3110 and 3130 with a grade of “C” or better in both.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
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ACTY 4220 - Cost Accounting - Theory and Practice
A study of the use of cost accounting information within a planning and control framework. Topics include the information needs of managers, costing of products and services, cost allocations among departments of an enterprise, activity-based costing, the theory of constraints, cost of quality, budgeting, income effects of absorption and variable costing, transfer pricing, and performance measurement.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3220 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
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ACTY 4240 - Advanced Tax Accounting
A study of the federal tax laws that govern the transactions during a corporation’s life cycle. The tax effects of organizing, operating, making distributions, reorganizing, and liquidating corporations are analyzed. The differences in the taxation of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies also are addressed.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ACTY 3240 with a grade of “C” or better.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
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ACTY 4310 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
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ACTY 4320 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
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ACTY 4330 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topic within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeateable for credit under different topics.
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ACTY 4340 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics with the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
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ACTY 4350 - Special Topics in Accountancy
The study of special topics within the discipline of accountancy.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: ACTY 3100 with a grade of “C” or better, or Department Chair approval.
Credits: 3 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to minors or majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Repeatable for credit under different topics.
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ACTY 5980 - Readings in Accounting
Directed individual study of topics not covered in other departmental courses.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Written consent of instructor.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
Restrictions: This course is restricted to majors in Accountancy.
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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ADA 2250 - Drug Use: Personal and Social Impact
This course is designed to increase understanding of substance abuse, alcohol and other drug use through the public health disease model with an emphasis on psychological, physiological and social consequences of use and abuse. An overview of prevention, case finding and treatment strategies are provided.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VIII: Health and Well-Being.
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ADA 3200 - Legal and Illegal Drugs
To increase understanding of substance abuse; alcohol and other drug use is examined through the public health disease model with an emphasis on psychological, physiological, and social consequences of use and abuse. An overview of prevention, case-finding, and treatment strategies is provided.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3250 - Substance Abuse Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
This course addresses the diagnostic categories for abuse and dependency across the spectrum of drugs of abuse. Emphasis is placed on individual-specific diagnosis and individual-specific treatment plans.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3260 - Substance Abuse Treatment Processes
This course focuses on the continuum of care for substance abusers. Modalities of prevention, casefinding, detoxification, inpatient treatment, residential treatment, therapeutic communities, day care, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, and aftercare are presented both in theory and practice areas.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3270 - Individual, Group, and Family Treatment
This course provides an overview of individual, group, and family treatment modalities. Concepts, intervention, strategies, and specific methods of current treatment models are presented through lecture, assigned reading, handouts, and film. Included also are three sessions on demonstrating and practice of micro-counseling skills. Treatment focus is the employed adult whose job performance is affected by mental health and/or substance abuse problems.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3300 - Addiction and the Addiction Process
This foundational course will focus on the various models and theories of addiction as well as the behavioral, psychological, physical, and social effects of substance abuse. In addition, students will be provided an overview of the various medical and mental health conditions that may mimic or coexist with addiction.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3360 - Clinical Approaches to Substance Use Disorders
This course examines the various aspects of substance use disorder treatment processes and interventions. Students will learn about the development of an individualized treatment plan through the screening and intake process that addresses an identified substance use disorder, as well as other issues related to treatment progress. The importance of referral and service coordination with civic groups, agencies, and other professional or governmental entities to help address the individual’s needs is also addressed. Students will gain an understanding and an appreciation of the contributions of various addiction counseling models as they apply to modalities of care for individuals, groups, families, couples, and significant others.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3370 - Substance Abuse Treatment Strategies
This course will introduce students to a variety of helping strategies to use with substance abuse clients. The course will focus on treatment services, medical and pharmacological resources, and crisis management.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 3380 - Addiction Assessment, Recovery, and Illness Management
This course will introduce students to different philosophies, procedures, policies, and outcomes most generally accepted for the treatment, recovery, relapse prevention and continuing care of addiction. There will also be a strong focus on how to include all resources within an individual’s life system to help them with their addictions.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5200 - Family and Addiction
This course provides students with knowledge on the effects of substance abuse on the family. Included is theory and practice regarding dysfunctional relationships, children of substance abusers, and resulting disorders.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5250 - Women and Substance Abuse Treatment
This course provides knowledge on gender specific treatment of substance abusers. This includes physiological aspects of women, as well as cultural aspects and methods to enhance the treatment of women substance abusers.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5300 - Clinical Theory in Substance Abuse Services
This course covers selected theories which form the foundation for Substance Abuse Services practice in specific areas. Students are expected to master the content as a basis for building foundation knowledge for applied practice. The specific topics are announced with each semester offering.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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ADA 5350 - Drug Testing
This course explores the theory and practice of drug testing and its applications in both clinical practice and employment settings. The spectrum of testing ranges from field dexterity to gas chromotography. Federal requirements are reviewed for application in both clinic and work settings.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5370 - Constructive Confrontation and Referral in Substance Abuse Services
This course provides students with knowledge of intervention strategies for active substance abusers. Emphasis is placed on strategic constructive confrontation techniques and effective referral processes.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5400 - Current Issues in Alcohol and Drug Abuse
This course, taught in seminar, reviews basic and applied research advances in prevention and treatment of substance abuse. Emphasis is on bridging research advances to practice areas. The focus of the course is research published in the previous year.
Credits: 1 hour
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ADA 5410 - Group Home Treatment
This course reviews custodial, milieu, and function aspects of group home treatment. Theories and practices are presented with emphasis on long-term treatment outcomes.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
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ADA 5450 - Alcohol, Drugs and Aging
The problems of alcohol, medication, and legal and illegal drug use, misuse and abuse among older persons will be discussed. Prevention, intervention, and treatment will be considered. This course is cross-listed with GRN 5450.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5600 - Clinical Practice in Selected Substance Abuse Services Areas
This course covers variable topics in clinical substance abuse services practice. It is a skills development course which helps students to become proficient in specific techniques and procedures related to client service. The specific areas are announced with each semester.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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ADA 5650 - Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence
This course provides the student with knowledge of the multiple relationships of substance abuse and violence. Specific foci are the relationships of substance abuse and domestic violence, child abuse, and other assaultive behaviors.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5670 - Legal Offenders and Substance Abuse
This course provides the student with knowledge on the theories associating substance abuse with criminal and civil offenses. Specific focus is the treatment strategies and techniques related to the offending population and long-term outcomes of decreased recidivism.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5700 - Field Education: Substance Abuse
A clinical, prevention, research, or administrative field experience meeting practice requirements in certification of substance abuse services. The field experience involves direct supervision by faculty and clinical supervisors.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor Approval.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
Notes: Graded on a Credit/No Credit basis.
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ADA 5800 - Substance Abuse Prevention
This course explores the multiple theories and techniques used in the prevention of substance abuse. The history and evolution of prevention is presented, as well as cognitive, affective, and behavioral strategies.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5850 - Student Assistance Programs
This course provides students with knowledge of the theories and practices of student assistance programs. The course focuses on objective indicators of student involvement with drugs, intervention strategies, referrals, and follow-up.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5900 - Applied Alcohol and Drug Dependence Recovery Techniques
This course provides the student with knowledge of self-help groups and formal relapse prevention strategies. Application of relapse prevention strategies is integrated into multiple aspects of the continuum of care.
Credits: 3 hours
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ADA 5980 - Readings in Substance Abuse Services
Individualized, independent study and reading under guidance of a faculty member. Initiative for planning topic for investigation and seeking the faculty member comes from the student with consultation of the advisor.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Instructor and program advisor approval.
Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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AFS 2000 - Introduction and Foundations to Africana Studies
Provides an overview of the origins of black people, the philosophical underpinnings of the discipline, the evolution of the field of Africana Studies, its theoretical and practical applications, and the holistic method of studying African peoples and their social evolution. Historically oriented, the course is designed to be interpretive rather than chronological. The course covers the African civilization in the western hemisphere, including the United States, folklore, mythology, customs, rise of Black nationalism, role of black consciousness, and present day alternatives.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 2100 - Comparative Approaches to Forms of Black Consciousness
This course focuses on the history of Black consciousness in the African Diaspora from the seventeenth to twentieth century. It is concerned with forms of Black expression and social action as they are manifested in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts using comparative approaches. Some of the themes include Africa in African American thought and culture, naming and identity, feminism and gender, movement and migration, and the rhetoric of freedom in Black ideology.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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AFS 2140 - Black Religion and Liberation
This course is designed to introduce students to the social, political, and theological sources that inform Black Theology. In doi8ng so, the course emphasizes the role of Old Testament motifs in the social construction of black theology. Students will address the writings and interpretations of prominent black theologians and activists on the subject of liberation, faith and blackness. A primary component of this course centers on how race, class, and faith impact an individual, the community, and a nation’s understanding of God and divine redemption. In essence the course is an introduction to what liberation theologians term the “God of the Oppressed.” Students will have an opportunity to critically analyze, for example, the image of the Black Jesus and the Black Virgin Mary.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area II: Humanities.
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AFS 2230 - African American Literature/Criticism and Culture
This course is designed both to introduce students to key issues, themes, and methods in African American literature/criticism and culture as well as to pique interest in an effort to encourage further study of the discipline. It surveys texts by African American authors and examines the relationship between the literature, criticism, and theories serving to explain it.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Either (AFS 2000 or ENGL 1100), and ENGL 1110 and ENGL 2220.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 2240 - Africana Autobiography
This course will examine autobiographies and autobiographical novels from different parts of Africa and the United States. Some of the texts in the course will refer to a remote period of the African and African-American experience, while others will refer to the current developments in Africa and the United States. Through these texts, an attempt will be make to understand and assess the African and African-American experience, past and present.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENGL 1050.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area II: Humanities.
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AFS 2800 - Topics and Themes in Africana Studies
This course builds upon the African diaspora experiences through selected topics and themes that address complex social and historical issues such as gender, politics, economics, slavery, civil/human rights, affirmative action, sexual identity/orientation, lynching, genocide, gentrification, cultural mutilation, and modes of cultural production. The course will interrogate theories of ethnicity, diversity, multiculturalism, colonialism/post-colonialism, modernism/post-modernism, structuralism/post-structuralism in tandem with the proposed topic(s) and theme(s) being examined.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisies General Education Area II: humanities. This course is repeatable under a different topic.
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AFS 3000 - Black Experience: From the African Beginnings to 1865
This course will examine the myriad patterns of adaptation and adjustments made by the enslaved Africans and free people of color to the continuing oppressive character of American Society prior to 1865. Slave narratives and abolitionists tracts written by freed people reveal much about the African-Americans’ interpretation of their presence in the New World. The Black presence created a commonality of experience, the characteristics of which became and remain a distinctive American co-culture. It aims to examine how the Black presence altered the idea of race and how this alteration became a function of the institutional forms that Black Americans have shaped to survive in a hostile environment.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 3010 - Black Experience: From 1866 to the Present
The Black Experience 1866 to the present will concentrate on the plight of the newly freed African-American. The development of the family in post bellum years, the Euro-American reaction to the change in status, the rise of pseudo scientific racist thought, the long-term psychological effects of slavery on both the victims and the victimizers, the search and the rise of Black Messianic leaders, the migration from the rural-agricultural South to the urban-industrialized North, the emergence of Black Nationalism-Civil Rights Movement and the non-Black backlash. AFS 3000 is highly recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 3100 - The Black Woman: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Status
This course is an examination of the historical perspective and contemporary status of the Black woman and her story, paying critical attention to her image as reflected in her role in the American society. The course emphasizes the problems, issues, and concerns of the Black woman. Students will participate in securing visiting Black female speakers and documenting their story as Black women.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 3130 - Radical Activism and the Black Community
This course is designed to introduce students to the role and influence of black religious leadership in movements of liberation. This course addresses issues of race, gender and violence within the cultural realities of black ministers, by blending the disciplines of history and theology. A key focus of the course is on the role and influence of the “black sermon” as a vehicle for change and protest against abusive power structures. The course is comparative in that the lives and activities of African American ministers like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Minister Malcolm X are contrasted with that of South African ministers such as Bishop Desmond Tutu and Re. Allan Boseak.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AFS 2000 or AFS 2140.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area II: Humanities.
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AFS 3140 - The Black Community
An investigation of the social forms and structures within the Black community from the unique Black perspective. The course will focus on the sociological, political, economic, psychological, and physical aspects of community building by a subordinated group.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 3220 - West Africa in Colonial America
This course will cover the cultural, social, and political background in West Africa of African-Americans. It will also treat African origins of aspects of American culture. It will provide students with the opportunity to explore the cultural, material, and social contributions of West Africans and later African Americans to the development of America from 1607 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. The course will therefore be a foundation for other courses covering African Americans, especially their experiences in America.
Credits: 3 hours
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AFS 3350 - Research Procedures in Africana Studies
This course will consider the current comparative and transcontinental research on emerging issues in the field of Africana Studies. The course participants will have opportunities to consider debates in the literature from representative sites in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. We will also look at the pioneer researchers in the field, and their innovative procedures/techniques. The students will become familiar with the research procedures needed to conduct literature reviews, interviews, direct observations, participate in community problem solving, and work with personal and official documents. The result should help the students prepare research papers and theses.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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AFS 3400 - African and African-American Cinema
African filmmakers capture Africa’s past and present experiences and imagine themselves in the future. The course examines African cultures and peoples through films, within the light of film theory and culture studies, and it addresses a wide variety of topics such as tradition and modernity, globalization, economic development, colonial and post-colonial identities, power and resistance, and gender issues.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGL 105 and one of the following: (AFS 2000 or COM 2410 or ENGL 2100).
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area I: Fine Arts.
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AFS 3580 - The African Diaspora: Peoples and Cultures
The African Diaspora in the Americas, product of the transatlantic slave trade, has impacted every society in North America, the Caribbean, and Central and South America and has produced a diverse array of distinctive cultures and communities. And yet, the communities, cultures, and cultural influences of the African Diaspora are often neglected within the usual regional divisions of area studies courses, despite a solid tradition of anthropology dealing with the peoples and cultures of the African Diaspora. This body of research raises many issues at the cutting edge of anthropological thinking about the nature of cultural continuity and change, identity, consciousness and tradition, and the co-construction of race and nation, to list but a few. This course will introduce the work of pioneering anthropologists of the African Diaspora throughout the Americas, situating their work in the context of various intellectual and political currents of the 20th century, and tracing their legacy in contemporary anthropology and related fields, such as cultural studies and ethnohistory. Much of this recent work reconceptualizes an Atlantic World or “Black Atlantic” that is rich with contemporary interconnections and movements of people between points in the Americas, Europe, and Africa that complicate earlier notions of unidirectional influences from Africa to the New World. We will attempt to map a dialogue between anthropological work on African diasporic culture(s) (situated within the predominately white/Euro academy) and the political and social concerns and consciousness of Afro-American people themselves (not just U.S. African-American, but all of the Americas).
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations. Cross-listed with ANTH 3580
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AFS 3600 - Black Woman-Black Man Relationships
This course is a study of the dynamics of the Black male/Black female relationships in a variety of contemporary settings. Students are expected to assist in the conduct and documentation of the proceedings of the annual Black Male-Female Panel Discussion of social issues of special interest to the Black community, including family dynamics, male-female relationships and strategies for the improvement of those relationships.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AFS 3100
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AFS 3700 - Black Historical Movements/Moments
This spring travel-course is designed to examine Black historical movements/moments related to the African diaspora (African American, African, and Caribbean). Students will have the opportunity to interface with historical locations, sites, and documents relevant to the era of study. Topics will vary each spring offered and may be repeated under different topics with the approval of advisor/professor from Africana Studies.
Credits: 4 hours
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AFS 3800 - Special Topics in Africana Literature and Culture
This seminar is designed both to examine critical issues central to the African diaspora and to produce quality research through investigating African, African American, and diaspora literature, history, philosophy, and culture from an African-centered or Afrocentric perspective. This course may be repeated once under different topics with approval of the advisor. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may satisfy the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student’s curriculum.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: AFS 2000 or AFS 3000 or AFS 3010.
Credits: 4 hours
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AFS 3880 - Introduction to African Civilization
Overview of major aspects of African history and civilization from earliest times to the present. Emphasis upon elements which contribute to the uniqueness of the African experience. The course is cross-listed with HIST 3880.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations.
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AFS 4000 - Blacks in the Arts
An examination of the creative dimension of the Black Experience as found in music, art, literature, religion, and dance. This course will also explore the influence of science and technology on the arts and identify the universal elements in these areas.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area I: Fine Arts.
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AFS 4100 - Bridging the African Diaspora in the New Millennium: An Interdisciplinary Approach
The African presence in Asia, Europe, and the Americas is not a recent phenomenon. The dynamic, continuous, and complex phenomenon of the African Diaspora also reveals the voluntary and involuntary dispersion of Africans throughout history, the emergence of a cultural identity based on origin and social condition, and the physical or psychological return to the African homeland.
Credits: 3 hours
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AFS 4650 - Internship in Africana Studies
Students will participate in an internship/practicum where their knowledge will be put directly into practice. They will be led through this experience with a seminar led by an approved faculty member from the AFS core faculty and, where appropriate, a person from the student’s disciplinary major department.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 15 credit hours in the AFS major. Call number obtained from AFS administrative assistant.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit.
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AFS 4860 - Africa and the Slave Trade
This course will examine Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Course is cross-listed with HIST 4860.
Credits: 3 hours
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AFS 4980 - Directed Independent Study
A program of independent study, directed by an approved AFS faculty member, that allows the student to pursue readings relating to the Black Experience not dealt with in other courses. The initiative for describing the project, planning the method(s) of investigation, determining the appropriate results, and securing the cooperation of a faculty member to advise the work must come from the student. Applications are available in the AFS office and must be approved by the director.
Credits: 1 to 6 hours
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AMEL 5000 - Special Topics in World Languages
This topic to be announced in the Schedule of Course Offerings. The content of the course will vary from semester to semester.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit as long as the subject matter is different. Open to Upperclass and Graduate students.
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AMS 2000 - Introduction to American Studies
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history, focusing on the theme of the place of the individual in the community. Students will gain an understanding of the social forces that have shaped men’s and women’s experiences in American culture such as region, gender, ethnicity, and race. The course explores American culture in such areas as religion, politics, sport, literature, labor, popular culture, and social reform.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area III: The United States: Cultures and Issues.
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AMS 3000 - Topics in America Studies
This course looks closely at a region in America, considering ways scholars work across traditional disciplinary boundaries to construct a coherent understanding of what is meant by culture. The region studied will vary but students will take up similar questions about the history and culture, including native and immigrant populations, rural and urban spaces, diversity in its many forms, as well as regional uniformity and sense of identity in juxtaposition to notions of the nation as a whole.
Credits: 3 hours
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AMS 3900 - Internship
After completing at least 18 hours of course work in the AMS program, a student may choose to work outside the University on a regional or national project, such as an archaeological field school, or work as an intern for the Maritime Museum, a political party, or a social service agency. The program director will help to make arrangements and will evaluate the student’s performance.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: 18 hours of AMS course work and departmental approval.
Credits: 3 to 6 hours
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AMS 4900 - American Studies in a Global Context
This final seminar for the American Studies major and minor is designed to broaden students’ conception of American Studies by challenging them to place their knowledge of the culture of the United States within a global context. Students will be asked to compare some element from American culture to similar elements in other cultures from around the globe. In this way, students will come to better appreciate what is unique and what is universal in American culture.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: At least 20 hours of work in the American Studies major or minor, including AMS 2000 and AMS 3000.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course is approved to satisfy the Baccalaureate-level writing requirement.
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AMS 5000 - Seminar in American Studies
This course provides group study of special topics in American Studies. Topics will vary with the training and scholarship of the professor or professors involved.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: At least 12 hours of courses approved in the American Studies Program, including AMS 2000 and AMS 3000, or graduate-student status in any participating department.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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AMS 5900 - Interdisciplinary Theory and Methods
This course will allow students to understand the development of American Studies from the early history and literature syntheses to the symbol and myth school to the social and cultural studies approaches that have drawn their techniques from anthropologists and other social and natural scientists.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: At least 18 hours of courses approved in the American Studies Program, including AMS 2000 and AMS 3000, or graduate-student status in any participating department.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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AMS 5980 - Independent Study
An individual project is available to advanced students by special permission from the director of American Studies.
Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: At least 18 hours of courses approved in the American Studies Program, including AMS 2000 and AMS 3000, or graduate-student status in any participating department.
Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Notes: Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students.
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ANTH 1100 - Lost Worlds and Archaeology
An introduction to the archaeological record relating to the development of culture from its stone age origins through the development of village agriculture and the beginnings of urban life.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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ANTH 1200 - Peoples of the World
A survey of the rich variety and range of non-Western peoples throughout the world, with emphasis on the role of culture in shaping human thought and behavior.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area IV: Other Cultures and Civilizations.
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ANTH 1500 - Race, Biology, and Culture
This course is an introduction to the anthropological study of human biological variation in modern populations. We will examine from a biocultural perspective how human populations adapt to life in difficult environments (e.g., tropics, high altitude, arctic) and in so doing, we will explore the biological and social meanings of human racial variation.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area VII: Natural Science and Technology: Applications and Implications.
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ANTH 2100 - Introduction to Archaeology
The science of archaeology is explored in terms of the methods and concepts used to discover and interpret past human behavior. Select portions of the Old and New World prehistoric cultural sequences provide the frame of reference.
Credits: 3 hours
Notes: This course satisfies General Education Area V: Social and Behavioral Sciences.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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