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| Course: AFR203 First Term: 2024 Fall
Final Term: Current
Final Term: 9999
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Lecture 3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load
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| 1. Identify significant African kingdoms, empires, and civilizations in the pre-colonial era and their contributions to world history. (I, II, III)
2. Analyze the ways in which enslaved Africans, African Americans, and their allies resisted their bondage and strove for freedom, including the utilization of legal, physical, and cultural means of resistance. (II-VII) 3. Interpret various primary sources, such as slave narratives, plantation records, abolitionist speeches, and legal documents, as context for the diverse experiences and perspectives of African-Americans. (II-VIII) 4. Explain the transatlantic slave trade, including its origins, the conditions of the Middle Passage, and the economic and political factors that drove the trade. (III, IV, V) 5. Analyze the economic, political, and cultural impacts of slavery on broader society. (III-VIII) 6. Describe the key features of slave life, including work, family, community, religion, and culture. (IV, V) 7. Describe the impact of African American cultural production. (IV-VII) 8. Analyze the consequences and legacies of race-based enslavement upon contemporary American society and culture. (VII, VIII) | |||
| MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements. | |||
| MCCCD Official Course Outline | |||
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I. Significance of African-American History
A. For African-Americans 1. Self-Knowledge and understanding 2. Role models 3. Identity questions 4. Cultural crisis questions B. For Other Americans 1. Corrective for racist myths and stereotypes 2. Elimination of historical amnesia II. Africa A. African Origins of Humankind B. Early African Societies 1. West African Empires 2. Other regional societies C. Systems of slavery and freedom in Africa III. Early African Presence in the Americas A. Age of Exploration B. Atlantic Creoles C. Status of African immigrants IV. Foundations of Early American Society A. TransAtlantic Slave Trade 1. Misconceptions related to trade 2. Basis for trade 3. Impacts of trade 4. Dehumanization system 5. Colonial and domestic slavery 6. Resistance to slavery 7. Closing of legal slave trade B. Impacts on American Development 1. Great Awakening 2. American Revolution 3. The Early Republican Period V. The Antebellum Era A. Free African-Americans B. The Slave Quarter C. The Domestic Slave Trade D. Social and economic impacts 1. Cotton Culture 2. Plantation society 3. Social class 4. Industrialization E. Cultural production 1. African-born religious traditions 2. Black musical expressions 3. Scientific contributions 4. Other VI. The Civil War A. Pre/Post Civil War conditions B. Reconstruction C. African-American Participation 1. Civil War 2. Rebuilding of South D. Migration and Urbanization 1. Causes 2. Impact E. African-American Diaspora VII. African-American Social and Cultural Movements A. Key African-American figures associated with cultural, social, intellectual, and/or artistic movements B. Accommodations C. Black Nationalism and Emigrationism D. Civil Rights/Human Rights 1. Struggles of 1950-1960s 2. Post -Sixties Generation VIII. Major Challenges of 21st Century A. Education B. Employment C. Politics D. Economics E. Housing F. Other | |||
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: February 27, 2024 | |||