在匹泽学院, 字段组 (similar to a discipline or department) organize major requirements and courses.
The Intercollegiate Department of 非洲研究 (IDAS) offers a multidisciplinary curriculum that examines the experiences of people of the African diaspora from a liberal arts perspective. 课程 accommodate the needs of majors and nonmajors, providing significant preparation for careers in education, 社会工作, 公共政策, 法律, 医学, 业务, inter国家 relations and advanced research.
非洲研究 Combined Major
需求 for the Combined Major
For the Pitzer College (only) Combined Major in 非洲研究, students are required to complete seven courses in 非洲研究:
- Two must be the two-semester AFRI 10A and AFRI 10B sequence
- Four other approved 非洲研究 courses that represent at least three disciplines: Literature (African, 非裔美国人, or Caribbean); History (African, 非裔美国人, or Caribbean); Social Science (e.g., Anthropology; Economics, 政治, 心理学, or Sociology); Art History, 音乐, Philosophy or Religion); and the 非洲研究 Senior Seminar.
样本的课程
B(L)ack to Nature: Poetry and Theory – 非洲120 pz
This course centers Blackness, nature, and 性别 in 20thC 非裔美国人 poetry. Through the study of poets Lucille Clifton, Ntozake Shange, 尼基乔凡尼, 索尼娅·桑切斯, 6月乔丹, 克劳迪娅·兰金, students explore aesthetic strategies of and practice writing free verse, 装饰图案, 三行俳句诗, choreopoem, 和蓝色. Coupled with readings in Black feminist geographies, 地球的历史, and ecologies studies students engage with critical 问题 of representation, 空间, and embodiment in 20thC 非裔美国人 poetry.
奥克塔维亚E. Butler: Wild Seed to Earth Seed – 非洲110英里
奥克塔维亚E. Butler invites readers to consider critical 问题 about ecologies, 社区, 层次结构, 爱, 性, 比赛, 性别, 殖民, 奴隶制, 首页, 位移, 移民, 监禁, 自力更生, trans-species cooperation and hybridity, 举几个例子. Butler raises 问题 about the power of narrative and the parameters of Black feminist and African diaspora literatures as she innovates sci-fi genres often blending the African diaspora historical with the Afrofuturistic.
Wokeness: 非裔美国人 Social Theory – Soc 109 pz
How have 非裔美国人s contributed to sociology? This course seeks to provide an overview of early 20th century to more contemporary 非裔美国人 contributors to the discipline such as St. Clair Drake, Dorothy Roberts, bell hooks, and Robert Staples. 此外, students will become familiar with how 比赛, 性, and class shaped these theoretical writings and expanded socio-cultural understanding of 非裔美国人s in the U.S.
顾问
Outcomes describe specific knowledge, abilities, values, and attitudes students should demonstrate
- Understand and appreciate the multi- and interdisciplinary nature of the field.
- Demonstrate their understanding of the major issues, 问题, and debates driving theory and research in the discipline through written and oral discourse, particularly the central role of 比赛 and its intersectional relationship to other socially constructed categories, 比如性别, class, 以及性取向, in the histories and lived experience of people of African descent.
- Employ acceptable methods of inquiry in order to conduct research.
- Critically evaluate scholarship in the discipline search.
Assessment of student achievement:
- Performance in 非洲研究 courses.
- Completion of the required number of breadth courses and the required number of courses in the chosen field of concentration, e.g. humanities; social sciences, arts.
- Successful completion of a senior exercise, i.e. a thesis; a project; or a comprehensive examination.
- Feedback from recent graduates about their current activities, e.g. employment; graduate or professional school; Teach for America; major honors, such as a Fulbright Fellowship.
For the Pitzer College (only) Combined Major in 非洲研究, students are required to complete seven courses in 非洲研究:
- Two must be the two-semester AFRI 10A and AFRI 10B sequence
- Four other approved 非洲研究 courses that represent at least three disciplines: Literature (African, 非裔美国人, or Caribbean); History (African, 非裔美国人, or Caribbean); Social Science (e.g., Anthropology; Economics, 政治, 心理学, or Sociology); Art History, 音乐, Philosophy or Religion); and the 非洲研究 Senior Seminar.
教育, 社会工作, 公共政策, 法律, 医学, 业务, inter国家 relations and advanced research.
