This course helps students pursuing an AOS, AAS, or BS degree gain an understanding of the experiences of black people in America. This course offers a historical perspective of black people from their origins in Africa to their settlement in America. This perspective includes the period of slavery, the reconstruction period, the civil rights struggle and modern race relations among black people (hearing and deaf) and other groups in America. (0882-200 or permission of instructor) Class 3, Credit 3 (S)

Spring 2009