ÇAĞ UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES
Code
Course Title
Credit
ECTS
IRE 329
3 (3-0-3)
6
African American History
Prerequisites
None
Language of Instruction
Mode of Delivery
Face to face
English
Type and Level of Course
Elective/3.Year/Spring Semester EQF- Level 6
Lecturers
Name(s)
Contacts
Lecture Hours
Office Hours
Course Coordinator Ricky R. Harvey
Wednesday
Monday.14-16
13.30-16.10
Course Objective
This course seeks to help students better understand the plight of African American
Learning Outcomes of the
Course
history through the transition from ancestral Africa to present-day America.
Students who have completed the course successfully should
be able to
1
Relationship
Net Effect
Prog. Output
8
3
examine the continent of Africa through its diverse regions
of languages, religions, and cultures.
2
8
4
analyze the origins of slavery and its progression to the
western hemisphere.
3
8
3
evaluate the legalities, injustices, oppressions, and realities
slavery contributed to the expansion of civilizations.
4
8
3
analyze the process and significant events that led to the
abolishment of slavery.
Course Description: The course focuses on Africa, the slave trade, North American and European colonial slave
cultures, women’s historical contributions, lives and ideas of local people with grassroots social movements,
and the important roles of sports and the arts of literature, music, fashion, etc.
Weeks
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Topics
Course Contents: ( Weekly Lecture Plan )
Preparation
Introduction
Ancestral Africa and Beginning of
Slavery
Ancestral Africa and Beginning of
Slavery
North American, Eighteenth-Century, and
Southern Slaveries
North American, Eighteenth-Century, and
Southern Slaveries
Building Communities in the Early
Republic
Building Communities in the Early
Republic
Building Communities in the Early
Republic
Antebellum Free Blacks and Abolitionism
Antebellum Free Blacks and Abolitionism
Antebellum Free Blacks and Abolitionism
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The Civil War and Reconstruction
General Review
Teaching Methods
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
Lecture and Discussion
REFERENCES
Textbook
Franklin, John Hope; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. From Slavery to Freedom
(Ninth Edition) (New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2011)
Related links
Course Notes
Recommended Reading
Material Sharing
Activities
Midterm Exam
Project
Effect of The Activities
Effect of The Final Exam
Contents
Hours in Classroom
Hours out Classroom
Project
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
Holt, Thomas C. Children of Fire (New York; Hill and Wang, 2010)
Number
1
1
ASSESSMENT METHODS
Effect
40%
10%
50%
50%
ECTS TABLE
Number
14
14
1
1
1
Notes
Hours
3
3
26
30
40
Total
Total / 30
ECTS Credit
RECENT PERFORMANCE
Total
42
42
26
30
40
180
=180/30=6
6