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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

SUNY Oneonta offers students more than 1,400 courses—from Accounting to Zoology—from over 25 separate departments. Requirements for majors and minors and course descriptions are listed under the departments that offer them; and these departments are arranged in alphabetical order. See the “Course Index” for details.

Please note that requirements, courses, and course descriptions are subject to change after publication of this catalog. Contact the appropriate departments for updated information. Also note that some course descriptions have been edited for clarity and consistency. Complete descriptions are available from the instructors or the departments concerned.

Key to Course Descriptions

Abbreviation   Meaning
(PACT)   Activity course in Health & Fitness
CWE   College Writing Exam
(LA)   Liberal Arts (course is a Liberal Arts offering)
SUSF   Sustainability Focused Courses
s.h.   Semester Hour(s)
SoS   Sophomore standing
JrS   Junior standing
SrS   Senior standing

Course Numbering System

100 - 199   Lower-division undergraduate-level courses.
200 - 299   Upper-division intermediate undergraduate-level courses.
300 - 499   Upper-division advanced courses.
500 - 699   Graduate-level courses.
 

Africana and Latino Studies
  

  • ALS 100 - Black and Latino Experiences  3 s.h.

    A general introduction to African-American and Latino experiences in the U.S. Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    BC3
  

  • ALS 104 - Introduction to African History  3 s.h.

    An introduction to African history from antiquity to the present. Ancient and medieval trading empires, the impact of the slave trade and colonialism are all treated along with some attention to current issues in Africa. Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as HIST 104 .
  

  • ALS 160 - Urban Philosophical Dilemmas  3 s.h.

    This course is designed to answer questions relevant to urban America, questions that have been largely ignored by academic philosophers. For instance: Is it morally wrong to snitch on your friends? If you’re from “the hood” (whatever that might be), is it morally/politically/socially wrong to want to leave it? What are the epistemological assumptions of keepin’ it real (or is this just an empty rhetorical phrase)? If you’re out to get bling bling, are you contributing to the capitalist system that often oppresses the traditionally underrepresented? At what point do artists and musicians stop being gritty and raw and start being parodies and stereotypes? Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    BC3
    H3
    Cross-listed as PHIL 160 .
  

  • ALS 194 - Special Topics  1 s.h. - 3 s.h.

    A focus on current, controversial, interdisciplinary, or specialized topics relating to the African-American and Latino experience. Offered as needed.
    LA
  

  • ALS 202 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa  3 s.h.

    A survey of cultures and societies of Africa with particular emphasis on population, languages, socio-culture systems of the Sub-Sahara, and African cultural survivals in the New World. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as ANTH 202 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 203 - People and Cultures of the Caribbean  3 s.h.

    Prehistory, cultural background, and culture patterns of selected Indian, Mestizo, and Creole groups in island and mainland societies. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as ANTH 203 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 205 - LGBTQ U. S. Communities of Color  3 s.h.

    This course draws on the history of Sexuality, Women’s and Gender, Whiteness, Latino/as and Chicano/as, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, People Indigenous to the Americas, Arab Americans, and African Americans in order to explore lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people’s (lgbtqi) experiences in the United States from the colonial era to the present. In this course, students examine the ways in which discourses on sexuality and gender are fundamentally and inextricably enmeshed with race, class, ability, ethnicity, national identity, immigration status, and religion. Students also explore lgbtqi identity and community formation, racial, class, and ethnic conflict among lgbtqi people, the use of illegal and extra-legal violence to repress homoeroticism and gender nonconformity, and the ways in which lgbtqi communities of color endured in a context of oppression. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Cross-listed as AHIS 205  and WMST 205 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 206 - Latino Drama: Teatro Campesino  3 s.h.

    This is an interdisciplinary course on Latino dramatic works that reflects the experiences, struggles and successes of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Central and South Americans. The focus is around four themes: culture; history and society; politics and politics of identity; and gender and sexuality as reflected in drama. Offered Fall only.
    LA
    OW3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 207 - Black Drama  3 s.h.

    This course studies and analyzes African, African American and Afro-Caribbean drama, playwrights and theatre groups. As a comparative survey of modern Black drama, the course explores common themes in world Black drama in major works of Africana dramatists, e.g., Amiri Baraka, Charles Fuller, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, National Black Theatre, Derek Wolcott, Sistren Theatre Collective, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ola Rotimi, District Six and Market Theatre companies, and others. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
  

  • ALS 208 - African-Americans and Latinos in Film and Television  3 s.h.

    A critical survey of Blacks and Latinos in film and television. Special attention is given to the image of these minorities as portrayed in major films and television programs. Offered every two to three years.
    LA
    OW3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. THTR or MCOM.
  

  • ALS 211 - Contemporary Black Social and Political Thought  3 s.h.

    A survey of the political and social theories underpinning the struggle for liberation, legitimacy, and upliftment in the African diaspora, primarily the U.S. This course will examine such political and social issues as nationalism and separatism, the concept of race and identity, the problems of political representation, the notion of black authenticity and solidarity, the unsettled issues of colorism, interracial dialogue and relationships, reparations and social justice, and the influences of Marxism, Christian Socialism, and the growing black conservative movement. Readings will include selections from Du Bois, Alaine Locke, Frantz Fanon, King, Cornel West, M.E. Dyson, Lani Guinier, and others. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    H3
    Cross-listed as POLS 211 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 212 - Music of the Caribbean  3 s.h.

    Survey of folk and popular music trends, including reggae, salsa, calypso, highlife, steel-band, and Afro-Caribbean ritual music. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    H3
    Cross-listed as ANTH 212 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 215 - History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa  3 s.h.

    A survey of the social, political and intellectual history of the Middle East and Maghreb in the 19th and 20th centuries. Islamic reform, resistance to imperialism and the development of modern nationalism are covered along with attention to ‘street-level’ changes. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 215 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 219 - Sexualities & Community in Africa since 1800  3 s.h.

    A politico-economic survey of Africa since 1800 this course focuses on the construction of sexual and social identities before, during, and after colonialism. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 219 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 220 - History of Crime and Prisons  3 s.h.

    This course draws on African American, Women/Gender, LGBTQ Studies, legal, social, cultural, and political history to explore the convergent racial, gender, economic, and sexual ideas and practices that animate criminal activity, prison reform, and penal administration from colonial times to the present. Students engage with primary/secondary sources as historians, critically analyzing the evolution of crime and punishment. Ultimately, students acquire knowledge of the mutually sustaining forces of crime and the prison-industrial system, and think critically and creatively about ways to address the social problems linked to both institutions. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Cross-listed as AHIS 220 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 100-level course in ALS or HIST.
  

  • ALS 235 - African Americans and Islam  3 s.h.

    This course examines the history of Islam in the African American experience from the first Anglo-American settlements in North America to the present. Islam and Islamic cultural and spiritual symbolism have intersected with African American communities since before the founding of the United States. By providing students with the intellectual and academic proficiency to analyze the complex history of African Americans Islam and Muslims, the class will enable students to understand the significant contribution African Americans Islam and Muslims have made to contemporary American Muslim communities and the larger hegemonic American society.  Offered annually.
    LA
    AHIS 235 . 
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. of 100-level ALS or HIST course.
  

  • ALS 242 - Music Cultures of the World  3 s.h.

    In addition to discussing theoretical elements of the music of various cultures, discussions and readings will promote consideration of the social, historical, religious and economic constructs in which these musics exist. The course will consist of class lectures/ discussions, musical demonstrations and hands-on application of several elements of the music studied. This course is offered only one semester each academic year.
    LA
    Cross-listed as MUSC 242 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 249 - History of U.S. in the Sixties  3 s.h.

    The course examines the political, cultural, and social changes in the United States during the turbulent decade of the 1960’s. Topics include civil rights, the women’s movement, expansion of the welfare state, the war in Vietnam, the formation and demise of the liberal consensus, the emergence of the counter-culture, and the conservative backlash. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Cross-listed as AHIS 249 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. of 100 level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 250 - African-American Literature  3 s.h.

    A study of works by African-American writers since 1890.  The forms studied will include novels, short stories, plays, and poems.   Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Cross-listed as ALIT 250 .
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100  or ALS 100 .
  

  • ALS 251 - Cultures of Pan Africanism  3 s.h.

    This course examines the intellectual, social and political movements among Africans and African Diasporic peoples who have advocated the political unity or solidarity of all people of African descent. The course will cover pan-African origins among nineteenth century pan-Africanists in the USA and Caribbean, the post WWI Pan-African Congress movement, the interwar anti-colonial arts movements in Western Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa (including negritude) as well as later intercontinental connections due to the influence of Frantz Fanon, Black Power in the USA and pan-Africanism in West Africa. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS and ALS 104 .
  

  • ALS 252 - Latinos: Cultures on the Move  3 s.h.

    This is a survey of the migration and immigration of Latino(a)s to, as well as within, the United States. The course examines the immigration patterns of Mexican- Americans/Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, and other Central and South American groups. In addition to the specific immigration histories of these groups, attention is paid to the economic and political forces that push and pull individuals and groups to migrate and to historical changes in US immigration laws since the mid 19th century. Offered every two or three years.
    LA
    BC3
    OW3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 255 - Marked Bodies  3 s.h.

    This intermediate level class in Women’s and Gender Studies as well as Africana and Latino Studies will work to trace the relationship between power and bodies. Specifically, this course will be interested in sexed, gendered and ethno-raced bodies. The course shall seek to discuss the ways oppressive inequalities, deviance and crime are constructed around particular bodies as power acts on them. It also considers the human and structural consequence of this, as power manifests itself in oppression, privilege and inequalities constructed by and around embodiment. Our discussions will include an attempt at a theoretical understanding of power and of violence, the inclusion/exclusion of certain bodies, the normalization/abnormalization of some bodies, the production of structures that favor and promote certain bodies and not others, old and emerging practices of body modification and sculpting, the visibility/invisibility of various body types, the relationship of our bodies to new sciences and technologies as well as to institutions such as the police, legislature and judiciary. Offered every two to three years.
    LA
    Cross-listed as WMST 255 .
  

  • ALS 257 - Modern Black Literature  3 s.h.

    A study of Black Literature written since 1950, using fiction, essays, poetry, and biography (or autobiography) to illustrate the development and influence of contemporary Black writers. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WLIT 257 .
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100  or ALS 100 .
  

  • ALS 258 - Latin American Political Theory  3 s.h.

    This course is a survey of the various political ideologies associated with Latin America. We will begin with the colonization of the Americas by the Europeans and end with the Liberation Theology movement in the 1990’s. The course will place great significance on the Latin American struggle for recognition (and freedom) from Europe, as well as the United States. We will also spend considerable time considering issues such as colonialism (and post-colonialism), the slave trade, the decimation of the native populations, the various Christian missionary creeds, and the impact of the Europeans on the environment. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    BC3
    OW3
    Cross-listed as PHIL 258 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 259 - Citizenship, Democracy, and Identity  3 s.h.

    This course considers the relationship between citizenship, democracy, and identity. We will examine what constitutes citizenship and how it is shaped by race, but also ethnicity, gender, class, and religion; how identity is constituted and shaped by race and these other contingent and non-contingent factors; and how citizenship and identity intersect in a democracy through forms of legitimate political representation, means of communication and participation, protest, pluralism, multiculturalism, identity politics, and voting. This course is encouraged for those considering careers in public affairs, international relations, social work, journalism, law, business, or education. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    BC3
    H3
    Cross-listed as PHIL 259 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 260 - Philosophy of Protest  3 s.h.

    This course is meant to examine the philosophical issues involved in the process of protest. Primarily, we will look at the development of a theory of righteous protest that coincides with the rise of democratic governance during the Enlightenment. This then gives rise to the idea of civil disobedience as the proper method for legitimate protest, as opposed to the destructive and damaging means of armed rebellion, as witnessed mainly in the French Revolution. But historical events like John Brown’s raid and Nat Turner’s rebellion complicate matters. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    BC3
    H3
    Cross-listed as PHIL 260 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 262 - Topics in Racism  3 s.h.

    The course examines different topics in western racism from the 16th century to the present. The approach is multidisciplinary and covers issues such as the idea of race, the US legal system and race, segregation, busing, reparations, the US census and race, etc. Offered every two to three years.
    LA
    OW3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 263 - Slavery and Resistance  3 s.h.

    This course explores the social, political, cultural, labor, and gender history of African Americans beginning with African origins and concluding with the Reconstruction era. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students examine black women’s, men’s, and children’s experiences of the Middle Passage, the development of plantation slavery, the lives of free and enslaved blacks in the North and South, slave culture and resistance, interracial cooperation and conflict, African-American participation in the American Revolution and Civil War, slavery’s abolition, and Reconstruction. Major themes include African- American survival under and resistance to institutional oppression; alliances and interactions with whites and non-black people of color; African American interactions with non-black; class, gender, sexual, and political conflict among blacks; and personal identity, family, and community formation. Offered Fall only.
    LA
    Cross-listed as AHIS 263 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 264 - Jim Crow to Black Power  3 s.h.

    This course explores the social, political, cultural, labor, and gender history of African Americans since 1865. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students examine: black women’s, men’s, and children’s experiences during and after Reconstruction; the lives of blacks in the Jim Crow South and those who migrated North and West; racial violence and anti- racist activism; black literature, music, and political thought; African American participation in U.S. government wars; the mid-20th century Civil Rights Movement; the urban rebellions of the 1960s; pan-Africanism; black feminism; and the Black Power Movement. Major themes include: African American survival under and resistance to institutional oppression; alliances and interactions with white and non-black people of color; class, gender, sexuality and political conflict among blacks; and personal identity, family, and community formation. By the end of the course, students gain an understanding of the various ways in which African Americans envisioned and pursued freedom as well as resisted efforts to limit or wrest freedom from them. Offered Spring only.
    LA
    Cross-listed as AHIS 264 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 265 - African Politics  3 s.h.

    This is a comparative political study of Africa south of the Sahara. Special emphasis is placed on the unique problems connected with the independence and post-independence period of a number of new African states. Political problems of the emerging nations, especially the role of the multinational corporations, will be discussed. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as POLS 265 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. POLS.
  

  • ALS 269 - Women of Color in the U.S.  3 s.h.

    This course will use a multidisciplinary approach to survey the contemporary experience of women of color in the United States. We will explore the lives of African American, Asian American, Latinas and Native American Women in the context of historical, economic and political arrangements that give meaning to and shape their lives. We will also examine the cultural patterns which under-lie race, class, sexuality, and gender-based inequalities as a basic element of contemporary society. Focusing on individual and community experiences, we will assess the dynamic variation in women’s class, racial-ethnic and gender identity formation, their differential treatment based on race, class, and gender at different levels of society, and their responses to the structural arrangements that affect their lives.
    LA
    Crosslisted with WMST 269 .
  

  • ALS 270 - Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Africa  3 s.h.

    This course examines postcolonial literature culturally, thematically, and theoretically.  Students read writers who have responded to the impact of colonialism in such geographies as North, West, and Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. The cultural legacies of British and French imperialism and expressions of resistance to it are explored. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WLIT 270 .
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100  or ALS 100 .
  

  • ALS 271 - Colonial Latin America  3 s.h.

    A survey of the history of colonial Latin America from 1492 to 1762, which covers pre-Hispanic society, the conquest and colonial politico-economic and cultural patterns. Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 271 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 272 - Modern Latin America  3 s.h.

    Survey of modern Latin America that begins with the Bourbon/Pombaline reforms c. 1760 and covers independence movements, liberalism and other ideologies as well as U.S.-Latin American relations. Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 272 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 273 - Race, Gender, Class and Culture  3 s.h.

    This course will use a multidisciplinary approach to examine some of the ways race, gender, class, and culture intersect in the lives of women and men in various Africana and Latino societies and cultures in the Americas (including the Caribbean and the United States). Attention is focused on the historical, economic, and political context that underlie race-, gender- class- and ethnic- based inequalities that persist in contemporary societies. By exploring individual and community experiences, we will assess the dynamic variation in women and men’s racial-ethnic, class and gender identity formation. Offered Fall and Spring.
    LA
    OW3
  

  • ALS 274 - Gender and Power in Africa  3 s.h.

    This course examines the social conditions and gendered experiences of women and men in Africa contrasting the precolonial, colonial and postcolonial eras. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 274  and WMST 274 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 275 - South Africa: Race and Resistance Since 1800  3 s.h.

    This course covers the period after the British succeeded the Dutch as rulers of Cape Colony, examining aspects of frontier engagements between Africans and colonizers, the effects of a mining-industrial economy and African resistance to the white state. Resistance to the South African racial formation will be discussed in its myriad expressions: labor, religious, artistic, new social groups. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 276 - History of Slavery  3 s.h.

    A study of the institution of slavery, its origins, continuance, and contemporary residuals. Offered Fall only.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 276 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
  

  • ALS 278 - African Atlantic: Popular Culture  3 s.h.

    This course explores popular culture in Africa and among African diasporic communities in the Caribbean, the Americas and Europe. All forms of expression—music, film, drama, video-television and popular writing—are covered but the emphasis of a particular semester may vary. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
  

  • ALS 279 - Hip-Hop Culture  3 s.h.

    An exploration of Hip-Hop culture, its origins in African American and Latino music, dance and poetry, Asian martial arts and experimental art forms. Offered Spring only.
    LA
  

  • ALS 283 - International Political Economy  3 s.h.

    A systematic and in-depth analysis of international political economy focusing on both state and non-state actors. Special emphases on multinational corporations in terms of their operating methods, goals and impact; multilateral organizations including the WTO, IMF, and GATT; and issues of government control. Examines issues of sovereignty, free trade, currency devaluations, labor unions, and the environment from several theoretical perspectives. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Cross-listed as POLS 283 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS or 3 s.h. POLS.
  

  • ALS 286 - African-American Women Writers  3 s.h.

    A study of the history and representative writings of African American and Caribbean American women writers from Phyllis Wheatley in the 18th century to Toni Morrison, Rita Dove, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou and Alice Walker in the 20th. Offered every 2-3 year
    LA
    H3
    Cross-listed as ALIT 286  and WMST 286.
    Prerequisite(s): COMP 100  or ALS 100 .
  

  • ALS 288 - Borderlands: Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.  3 s.h.

    This course explores the history of the Spanish colonization of northern Mexico and what is today the southwestern United States. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Cross-listed as AHIS 288 .
  

  • ALS 290 - Women, Race, and the Law  3 s.h.

    This course uses written text and cinematic text to explore the legal conditions of gender and women in diverse contemporary transnational contexts. More specifically the course addresses how laws map out gender, women’s rights and social and ideological symbols. The course emphasizes the ways in which legal definitions and representations of women have been understood in terms of race, religion, occupation and constitutional rights. Coursework and class discussions will be grounded in feminist and cultural theories and critical legal studies.
    LA
    Cross listed with WMST 290 .
    Prerequisite(s): WMST 130  or WMST 255  or ALS 255  or ALS 273 . 
  

  • ALS 291 - Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Popular Culture  3 s.h.

    This course addresses how popular culture - film, television, music, mass and digital media - reinforces conceptions of gender and sexuality, race, and class. Using methodologies of gender, sexuality, and media studies, as well as critical race theory, we will examine the popular production, consumption, and reception of gendered social relations and roles. The course emphasizes critical inquiry regarding the production of normative and alternative gender and sexual identities, while noting their intersection with multiple, complex categories of identity, including most notably race, ethnicity, class, and nationality.
    LA
    Cross-listed as WMST 291 .
    Prerequisite(s): None.
  

  • ALS 292 - The City in African History  3 s.h.

    A survey on the history of Africa’s urban past from the urban centers of antiquity to the megacities of contemporary Africa. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    OW3
    Cross-listed as WHIS 292 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 294 - Special Topics  1 s.h. - 3 s.h.

    A focus on current, controversial, interdisciplinary, or specialized topics relating to the African-American and Latino experience. Offered as needed.
    LA
  

  • ALS 295 - Teaching Assistant  3 s.h.

    This course will allow qualified students to serve as a Teaching Assistant for an ALS/Africana & Latino Studies course. They will aid the instructor in leading discussion sections, advising fellow students on papers, research and exam preparation. In addition to these tasks at the end of the semester the student will prepare a report on their experience. The course gives students a sense of how scholarship is used in the classroom and how courses are designed. The course will be only pass/fail. Offered as needed.
    Prerequisite(s): JrS.
  

  • ALS 299 - Independent Study in Africana-Latino Studies  1 s.h. - 6 s.h.

    Problem-oriented research designed to sharpen awareness and powers of analysis in intra-cultural and cross-cultural experiences. Study may involve the learning of a foreign language, fieldwork, or research. Offered as needed.
    LA
  

  • ALS 320 - Urban Ghana: Past & Present  3 s.h.

    This is a course in African urban history which contains an experiential learning or field component in which the class visits Accra, Tema, Cape Coast, Elmina and Kumasi, Ghana. Urbanization is examined as an important feature of Ghana’s history since 1500 with certain changes that broadly reflect West African history. This course has a distance-learning component involving ten days of fieldwork in Ghana (20 hours). Additionally, students will spend ten weeks in the classroom at SUNY Oneonta (25 hours). Offered irregularly.
    LA
    Cross-listed as WHIS 320 .
    Prerequisite(s): SoS.
  

  • ALS 351 - Literature of the Harlem Renaissance  3 s.h.

    A study of Black writers in Harlem between 1920 and 1929. Offered every 2-3 years.
    LA
    H3
    Cross-listed as ALIT 351 .
    Prerequisite(s): JrS and COMP 100  or ALS 100  and ALS 273  or LITR 250 .
  

  • ALS 353 - Sex & Race in Science & Technology  3 s.h.

    Women & People of Color have a special, complex & complicated relationship with science & technology. In historical moments they have been ignored & made invisible by science and technology, in others made objects without agency. Their experiences & their critique of these will be the object of this course which will seek to interrogate these histories & relationships as we consider how science & technology have treated sexed, gendered, ethno-raced, disabled individuals & groups, and how they; in their turn have, & are transforming the workings of science and technology. Topics will include the politics of health & normalcy, hormones, genes and productions of gender & identity; reflections on science & technologies as alienating or constitutive, as disconnecting or empowering, as producers of materiality & meaning, language of science, language in science & technology, Feminist and Critical Race critiques of Science & Technology, controversies over transplants, implants, conception, reproduction, surrogacy, immunity, immunization, contested illnesses & so on.
    Cross-listed as WMST 353 .
    Prerequisite(s): WMST 130  or ALS 273  or WMST 255  or ALS 255 .
  

  • ALS 368 - Political Development: Problems of Nation-Building  3 s.h.

    An intensive study of political development in the developing world focusing on issues of civil society, state legitimacy, and political economy. Comparative examination of themes, including traditionalism and modernization, political culture, ethnic divisions, and economic development. Offered irregularly.
    LA
    BC3
    Cross-listed as POLS 368 .
    Prerequisite(s): JrS, passed CWE.
  

  • ALS 394 - Special Topics  1 s.h. - 3 s.h.

    A focus on current, controversial, interdisciplinary, or specialized topics relating to the African-American and Latino experience. Offered as needed.
    LA
  

  • ALS 395 - Senior Seminar in Africana-Latino Studies  3 s.h.

    Brings together various theoretical and methodological issues associated with the study of the African-American and Latino ethnic communities in the U.S. Offered once a year.
    BC3
    Prerequisite(s): ALS major, JrS, and completion of 15 credits in the major and/or consent of department chair.
  

  • ALS 397 - Africana and Latino Studies Internship  1 s.h. - 15 s.h.

    The ALS internship is designed to augment the ALS major or minor by providing students with the opportunity to work and learn in a setting that enables them to see the practical applications of their studies. The ALS internship, like those in other departments, involves a work experience with a not-for profit agency or a business that primarily serves an Africana or Latino population. This includes community and social service organizations, governmental research and advocacy agencies, educational programs for children or adults such as literacy programs, or businesses, especially in the arts.
    Prerequisite(s): JrS and have a minimum GPA of 2.0.
  

  • ALS 398 - Seminar in Women’s and Gender Studies  3 s.h.

    Group discussions and independent research studies in gender, race, class, and sexuality.
    LA
    BC3
    Cross-listed as WMST 398 .
    Prerequisite(s): JrS required, 3 s.h. in Women’s and Gender Studies recommended.