ETH2208 Intro to African American Studies

Course Overview

Educational Level: Lower undergraduate, Associate
Credit Hours: 3 Credits
Instructor: Dr. Darryl Tukufu

Course Description:

An interdiscipinary introduction to the sociological, cultural, historical, and political issues impacting those citizens of African descent living in America. Emphasis is placed on various movements that have resulted from the African American experience, Christ-centered and otherwise, from the slave trade until the present.

How This Course Benefits Students:

Students are able to review and develop an understanding of the multiple views in which people, in this case, African Americans, have protested and resisted oppression.

Why This Course Is Important:

This is an essential course, a study of how an oppressed group of people can defy the odds, keep their faith, and survive and/or personally grow and develop.