Department Summary GenEd Form
African American Studies
Tobin Miller Shearer
Changes requested:
course number, title, proposed change, and a brief justification
Course
Number
Title
Proposed Change
Justification
AAS 161
Introduction to African
American Studies
Requesting Historical
and Cultural Studies
general education
classification
AAS 262
African American
History to 1865
Requesting Historical
and Cultural Studies
general education
classification
AAS 263
African American
History since 1865
Requesting Historical
and Cultural Studies
general education
classification
AAS 450
Prayer and Civil Rights
New course requesting
UD writing expectation
designation
This multidisciplinary course requires
students to study the reasons for
changes in the African American
experience over time from slavery
through reconstruction to the Civil
Rights Movement and beyond.
This historical class requires students
to comprehend and analyze the
diversity of African-American
experiences from the colonial period
through the Civil War.
This historical class requires students
to comprehend and analyze the
diversity of African-American
experiences from Reconstruction
through the twentieth century.
This class requires students to apply
religious theory and historical analysis
to primary documents in a series of
three writing assignments.