AFRO 498

Fall 2014 All Classes

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Spec Topics African Am Studies

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Seminar on selected topics with particular emphasis on current research trends.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Upper level AFRO course (300 or above) or consent of instructor.

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AFRO 498 class schedule data for fall 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
60635	Lecture-Discussion	A	9:00AM -11:50AM	W	336 Gregory Hall	Dash, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Immersion Journalism Section Info: This seminar will introduce students to the journalistic techniques of immersion journalism. The methodology examines contemporary social phenomena through the lives of individuals and families gathered by repeat interviews. Students will learn the techniques by doing an actual project of their own choosing. Students will have to recruit a participant, interview the person extensively with digital recorder, transcribe the interviews, and write a midterm and final paper based on the interviews. The interview methodology students will use is seen as the best way to provide the ethnographer/writer/reporter/oral historian with insight into social phenomena. The methodology can be used to examin the living conditions, family history and attitudes of any ethnic group at any class level--wealthy, affluent, middle class, poor or underclass. The student with an insatiable curiosity about human behavior will be able to extract from willing participants surprising revelations about their needs, desires and motivations. Importantly, the student will learn how the personalities, the circumstances, and the choices made by a participant's parents and forebears still have bearing on the life of the participant today.
63827	Lecture-Discussion	AG	9:00AM -11:50AM	W	336 Gregory Hall	Dash, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Immersion Journalism
55348	Conference	JL3	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Loewen, J	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/14-12/10/14 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Info: 3 hours Directed Research Instructor Approval Required Students allowed to enroll in this course will be expected to work independently. The supervising professor resides off-campus and interaction will be limited to once a week via conference call or through email exchanges. Once in the class, students must build a strong knowledge base on 'sundown towns' (communities that are, or were, all-white on purpose). Course requirements include reading "Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism", researching the professor's database, retrieving population data from census and "manuscript census", and updating the sundown town interactive map on the web. Additional research activities include visiting a 'probable' sundown town to research the claims made for/against the town's diversity (or lack of), updating Wkipedia or other web encyclopedias, and serve as an ambassador and a resource for knowledge on sundown towns long after completing the course.