AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICAL THEORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing and ( POLI SCI 160 or AFROAMER 151 ) or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze how African American thinkers simultaneously reflect and complicate liberal, conservative, nationalist, and materialist political thought. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine how African American thinkers understand sexism in African American political thought and racism in feminist thought. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interrogate contemporary debates in African American political theory including, but not limited to, the parameters of effective black leadership. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze how African American thinkers simultaneously reflect and complicate liberal, conservative, nationalist, and materialist political thought. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Examine how African American thinkers understand sexism in African American political thought and racism in feminist thought. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Interrogate contemporary debates in African American political theory including, but not limited to, the parameters of effective black leadership. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate