Methods in African American Studies

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Methods in African American Studies offers an introduction to the interdisciplinary methods employed in African American Studies. This writing intensive, required course for the major in African American Studies exposes students to a wide range of scholarly method used in allied academic disciplines. Students will be given the opportunity to identify a research question in African American Studies that interests them, and then to use various methods to develop a research topic. Every couple of weeks students will be required to write response papers in which they analyze and identify AFAM methods as they are used in various disciplines. Toward the end of the course, students will write a research prospectus that will serve as the basis for their capstone seminar research paper and will undergo a process peer review to developed a final draft. The research prospectus will be presented in the final class in a student colloquium.