Africana Studies Program at Vassar

Reading Courses

Note: prerequisites for all sections of 297, permission of instructor.

[ 297.04b. Psychology of Black Experience in White America ] (1/2)

Not offered 2009/10.

[ 297.05a. Multi-Ethnic Literature for Young Children: From Aesop to Zemach ] (1/2)

Not offered 2009/10.

[ 297.08a/b. Caribbean Politics ] (1/2)

Not offered 2009/10.

[ 297.09b. African Religions ] (1/2)

Not offered 2009/10.

298a or b. Independent Work (1/2 or 1)

Individual or group project of reading or research. The department.

Unscheduled. May be selected during the academic year or during the summer.

299a. Research Methods (1)

An introduction to the research methods used in the disciplines represented by Africana Studies. Through a variety of individual projects, students learn the approaches necessary to design projects, collect data, analyze results, and write research reports. The course includes some field trips to sites relevant to student projects. The emphasis is on technology and archival research, using the Library's new facilities in these areas. The course explores different ideas, theories and interdisciplinary approaches within Africana Studies that shape research and interpretation of the African and African diasporic experience. Students learn to engage and critically utilize these ideas, theories and approaches in a coherent fashion in their own research projects. They also learn how to design research projects, collect and analyze different types of data, and write major research papers. Emphasis is placed on collection of data through interviews and surveys as well as archival and new information technologies, using the facilities of Vassar libraries. The course includes some field trips to sites relevant to student projects. Required of majors and correlates, but open to students in all disciplines. Mr. Rashid.