African American studies at The University of Montana-Missoula offers
a broad historical link of African, Caribbean, and African American
experiences into the 21st century. The overall goal of the curriculum
is to develop appreciation for a wholistic paradigm that is applicable
to any discipline. This interdisciplinary emphasis explores a socio-historical
perspective of the evolving status of African-Americans with courses
internal and external to liberal studies including: anthropology,
Asian studies, the arts, economics, geography, international studies,
psychology, and sociology. Topics concern African heritage and African-American
cultural identity, ancient African civilizations, peoples of Africa,
middle passage, holocaust of African enslavement, civil war, reconstruction,
Harlem renaissance, civil rights movements, Gandhi and King, and the
plight of African-Americans into the 21st century.
The following courses also relate to African-American studies:
Anthropology
180S Race and Minorities
Dance
107A Jazz Dance I
Economics
332 International Economic Relations
Geography
101S Introduction to Human Geography
321S Urban Geography
History
355 The Age of the Civil War: U.S., 1830 1880
Political Science
326H Politics of Africa
Sociology
220S Race and Ethnic Relations
Courses
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U = for undergraduate credit only, UG = for undergraduate or graduate
credit, G = for graduate credit. R after the credit indicates the
course may be repeated for credit to the maximum indicated after the
R.
U 195 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 6) Experimental offerings
of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or
one time offerings of current topics.
U 208H Discovering Africa 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as
HIST 208H. Interdisciplinary study of the history of pre-colonial
Africa, focusing on social, economic, political and cultural institutions
and traditions including the wealth, diversity and complexity of ancient
and classical African civilizations and cultures.
U 278H African American Institutions and Perspectives 3 cr.
Offered intermittently. Study of social, political, economic and cultural
institutions that Blacks developed and utilized in their struggles
from slavery to freedom, and the ideological schools of thoughts and
perspectives that have defined, and continue to define and shape,
the Black experience and struggle.
U 295 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-6) Offered intermittently.
Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings
of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.
U 368 Gandhi and King: Ethics of Nonviolence 3 cr. Prereq.,
lower-division course in Perspective 5 or consent of instr. An examination
of the writings of Gandhi and King in search of the ethical basis
for their struggles for justice.
U 378H African American History to 1865 3 cr. Offered intermittently.
Same as HIST
378H. Survey of the African American experience from the African background
to the end of the Civil War. Focus on Black American quest for the
American Dream, and how Blacks attempted to deal with the challenges
of enslavement and racism.
U 379H African American History Since 1865 3 cr. Offered intermittently.
Same as
HIST 379H. Study of the African American experience since the Civil
War. Change and continuity in the African American experience, the
fight against Jim Crow, the struggle for civil rights, and post-civil
rights economic, political, social and cultural developments and challenges.
U 388H Africa to 1880 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same as
HIST 388H. History of Africa from the earliest of times. Evolution
of African societies and states, social, economic, political, and
cultural developments; the dynamics, nature and consequences of Africa's
interaction with Europe up to 1880.
U 389H Africa Since 1880 3 cr. Offered intermittently. Same
as HIST 389H. Historical development in Africa since the imposition
of colonial rule. Analysis of colonialism and emergence of nationalism.
U 395 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 9) Prereq., consent of
instr. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental
offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
U 396 Independent Study Variable cr. (R 9) Prereq., consent
of instr.
UG 408 Africa and the Black Diaspora 3 cr. Offered intermittently.
Same as HIST 408. History of Blacks in the diaspora. Focus on comparative
examination of experiences in the United States, Latin America, South
America, Africa and the Caribbean.
UG 409 History of Southern Africa 3 cr. Offered intermittently.
Same as HIST 409. Historical survey of developments in southern Africa
from the earliest of times to the present. Focus on the evolution
and growth of societies and states; economic, social and political
developments; external interventions and impacts on race relations.
UG 478 Martin, Malcolm and the Civil Rights Movement 3 cr. Offered
intermittently. Same as HIST 478. Examination of two leading and dominant
leaders of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Backgrounds, ideological
orientations, idiosyncracies, and dynamics of change, continuity,
conflict and consensus in their respective programs; lasting impacts
and legacies.
U 493 Omnibus Variable cr. (R 6) Prereq., consent of instr.
UG 495 Special Topics Variable cr. (R 9) Prereq., consent of
instr. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental
offerings of new courses, or one time offerings of current topics.
U 496 Independent Study Variable cr. (R 9) Prereq., consent
of instr.
Faculty
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Professor
Ulysses S. Doss, Ph.D., The Union Institute, 1974 (Emeritus)
Tunde Adeleke, Ph.D., Western Ontario, 1985
Instructor
Jim Hogan, M.A., 1984
George Price, M.A., The University of Montana, 1996