Curricular Items
Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2023Curricular Items
From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the President
The following has been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the president for review:
Course Revision:
BUS 488 Internship (formerly BUS 378 Professional Business Practice)
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Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Curriculum Committee for review:
New Courses:
AAS 300 Black Thought. Prepares students to engage with conceptual frameworks within Africana studies. Focuses on works from thinkers from Africa and the African diaspora to understand the varied ways African people globally have made sense of and tried to change the world, before and since the holocaust of enslavement. Offered fall semester.
AAS 357 Blacks in Technology. Equips students with technical competency in groundbreaking technology and critical understanding of tech segregation that disproportionately affects Black people. Offered fall semester.
Course Revisions with General Education 2023 Designations:
DIVERSITY: EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
AAS 100 Introduction to Africana Studies. Origins of Africana studies in the social movements of the 1960s. Africans as humanity’s first people and creators of complex civilizations. Exposing white supremacy and anti-Blackness as philosophical pillars of the modern world. Critical review of traditional majors and professions through the lens of Africana studies. Offered every semester.
WORLD HISTORY AND GLOBAL AWARENESS
AAS 305/ANT 305 Mother Africa (formerly AAS 305/ANT 305 Peoples of Africa). Survey of Africa’s contributions to the human genome, world history, and advanced civilizations, from ancient Nile Valley civilizations to current political formations. Understands Blacks in the diaspora as part of Africa’s legacy to the making of the modern world. Emphasizes African people’s values, perspectives, and calls for Black liberation. Offered every other spring semester.
