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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

AFS 396 - Topics in African-American History


Topics may include titles such as Urban African-American history Since 1865; and Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation 1600-Present. Designed for upper-division students, this course provides an in-depth study of a specific topic relating to American history. Students are expected to demonstrate knowledge of 1) a basic narrative of American history, political, economic, social, and cultural, including knowledge of unity and diversity within American society; 2) knowledge of common institutions in American society and how they have affected different groups; and 3) an understanding of America’s evolving relationship with the rest of the world.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): AFS 101  or AFS 102  or HIS 103  or HIS 104  

DEC: K & 4

SBC: SBS+

Repeatable: May be repeated as the topic changes.