Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

92 / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
AFAM 199
Independent Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
AFAM 208
Social Research Methods
3 Semester Hours
An introduction to scientifi c inquiry and research methods
in the social sciences with special emphasis on African
Americans.
AFAM 298
Special Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
AFAM 299
Independent Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
AFAM 301
Black Identities, Families, and Cultures
3 Semester Hours
This course examines relevant issues about life within the
Black Family and the impact that these issues have on
the identity, community, and culture. Emphasis is placed
on myths, gender roles, socialization, parenting styles,
and male/female relationships. The course gives students
an opportunity to select an aspect of Black life and do an
in-depth critical analysis of it with a focus on the current
research, competing views, and implications for the future.
AFAM 335
Sociology of the Black Community
3 Semester Hours
A survey of the effects of long-standing discrimination and
deprivation upon family structure, occupational patterns,
health and educational conditions, motivation, and personal
as well as group identity. An analysis of the Black power
concept and its infl uence upon the growing community
control of the ghetto.
AFAM 337
Black Arts Movement
3 Semester Hours
A survey of the critical, fi ctional, poetic, and dramatic
writings of Black Americans in the 1920s-1930s and the
1960s-1970s.
AFAM 395
Black Drama
3 Semester Hours
A survey of dramatic literature written by African American
playwrights from the 19th century to the current day.
Representative playwrights include Garland Anderson,
Theodore Ward, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Lorraine
Hansberry, Charles Gordone, Charles Fuller, Ntozake Shange,
and August Wilson. Students will have opportunities to
attend live performances of African American drama in L.A.
communities and to stage readings of selected works.
AFAM 396
Survey of African American Literature
3 Semester Hours
A study of the major themes in selected works of African
American literature; examination of their social, historical,
cultural, and contemporary signifi cance.
AFAM 397
Hip Hop Culture
3 Semester Hours
This course will explore how and why hip hop has become
a global phenomenon, examining themes within hip
hop culture with a primary focus on race, gender, class,
sexuality, and youth politics of hip hop.
AFAM 398
Special Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
AFAM 399
Independent Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
AFAM 435
Sex, Race, and Violence
3 Semester Hours
This course examines the issues of sex, race, and violence
and their implications for the individual, the family, and the
community. Emphasis is placed on the role of socialization
and the myths that impact societal attitudes about sex and
violence. Students have an opportunity to identify and to
explore factors that infl uence the manifestation of physical
violence (including dating violence, child abuse, and
domestic violence) and sexual violence (including date rape,
stranger rape, and marital rape) across the dimensions of
race, ethnicity, and gender.