• AAST 3933: African Philosophy

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the work of philosophers of Africa, of African descent and others who deal with the African diaspora. Topics include the nature of African Philosophy and the African American struggle, African colonialism, philosophy, political philosophy and gender, traditional African thought. Prerequisite: A prior course in either African American and Diaspora Studies, Global and Area Studies, or Philosophy.
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• AAST 4000: Black Freedom Movement

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Presents the struggle of African Americans for self-definition, self-development, and self-determination from the inception of the modern civil rights movement to the contemporary period. Prerequisite: 3 hours of AAST coursework.
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• AAST 4020: The Black West

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Historically surveys African pioneers in the west, and legacy of the Black West (i.e. the black cavalry and cowboy). Prerequisite: AAST 1000.
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• AAST 4050: Development, Africa, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with INST 4050. Dual listed with AAST 5050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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• AAST 4060: NGOs, Development, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Dual listed with AAST 5060. Cross listed with INST 4060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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• AAST 4065: Black American Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Study of rhetoric through Black lives and experiences, from enslavement and Civil Rights to #Black Lives Matter. What does understanding Black American experiences mean for civil rights movements across the world and the U.S.? Explores how Black American speech challenges inequities in the United States and strives for racial equality and justice.
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• AAST 4066: Rhetorics of Social Justice

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Focuses on learning about social justice issues and how injustice from the past, as well as previous social movements, influence our current lives. Analyzes language of social justice over time. Studies how marginalization, disenfranchisement, and erasure inform the rhetorics and movements of social justice. Students put theoretical concepts of social justice into real-world practice. Prerequisite: Junior Standing
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• AAST 4067: Race, Gender, Media, &Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Explores media (film, newspaper, radio, television, and social) from the perspective of marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Analyzes the role of media, both past and present, in the framing of groups left out of the center, as well as how such mediated framing shapes cultural attitudes, values, and beliefs. Prerequisites: Junior Class Standing
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• AAST 4075: Culture, Identity, & Place

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course explores how lived experiences, sociocultural relations, and connections to place shape the constructs of individual and collective identities. Students will develop a conscious awareness of place by critically engaging with the Manito diaspora, Indigenous ways of knowing, Anglo-Texan working-class culture, Mexican-American borderlands, and Black rural and urban experience. Prerequisite: junior standing. Cross Listed AMST 4075 ANTH 4075 ,GWST 4075 , LTST 4075 , NAIS 4075 ,SOC 4075
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• AAST 4100: AA Rel Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This mid-level writing-intensive seminar is a comparative study of African American religious celebration, primarily in the context of Afro-Christianity, but touching on Islam, Candomble, "Voodoo," Santeria, and Rastafarianism. Cross listed with RELI 4100. Prerequisites: 3 hours in African American studies or history.
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