Sociology of the HBCU.

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This course will provide an in-depth exploration of the ways in which the socio-cultural, political, economic, and intellectual movements inspired the need for and establishment of the HBCU’s during different epochs in American culture. Through this exploration, students will analyze the ways in which socio-historic phenomena, such as enslavement, segregation, exclusion, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the quest for self-identity, influenced the need for higher education in the HBCU.