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BLCK 200 Black Studies and the Politics of Liberation: An Introduction Units: 3.00
This course will introduce students to black studies. Focusing on liberation struggles that are nested in black scholarly and creative works, the course maps out how black diasporic communities have navigated and resisted racism, white supremacy, and other forms of oppression.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion GNDS 380/3.0 (Topic Title: Introduction to Black Studies - Fall 2020).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Critically analyze race as a historical and contemporary social construct and its relationship to blackness, sexuality, class, and other identifications.
- Assemble critical tools and theoretical concepts, and develop interdisciplinary methodological tools, in the area of black studies.
- Describe major trends across various black liberation movements.
- Explain theories and practices of anti-racism.
- Compose, critique, and critically engage creative texts as sites of struggle.
- Research and write independently; research and write collaboratively.