• AAST 4066: Rhetorics of Social Justice

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Focuses on learning about social justice issues and how injustice from the past, as well as previous social movements, influence our current lives. Analyzes language of social justice over time. Studies how marginalization, disenfranchisement, and erasure inform the rhetorics and movements of social justice. Students put theoretical concepts of social justice into real-world practice.
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• AAST 4067: Race, Gender, Media, &Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Explores media (film, newspaper, radio, television, and social) from the perspective of marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Analyzes the role of media, both past and present, in the framing of groups left out of the center, as well as how such mediated framing shapes cultural attitudes, values, and beliefs
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• AAST 4075: Culture, Identity, & Place

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course explores how lived experiences, sociocultural relations, and connections to place shape the constructs of individual and collective identities. Students will develop a conscious awareness of place by critically engaging with the Manito diaspora, Indigenous ways of knowing, Anglo-Texan working-class culture, Mexican-American borderlands, and Black rural and urban experience. Prerequisite: junior standing.
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• AAST 4100: AA Rel Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This mid-level writing-intensive seminar is a comparative study of African American religious celebration, primarily in the context of Afro-Christianity, but touching on Islam, Candomble, "Voodoo," Santeria, and Rastafarianism. Cross listed with RELI 4100. Prerequisites: 3 hours in African American studies or history.
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• AAST 4233: Race Gender Ethnicity Media

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examine the role mass media plays in the Black community and other racial, ethnic, gendered, and socioeconomic communities. Students will develop a critical understanding of the way the mass media uses stereotypes and prejudice to influence society's views about ethnic minorities and women in in contemporary United States society. Cross listed with WMST 4233 and COJO 4233. Dual listed with AAST 5233. Prerequisite: three credit hours in AAST, COJO, or WMST, WB, and junior standing.
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• AAST 4250: Harlem Renaissance

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the florescence of African American creativity, centered in Harlem, New York, between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. This movement had a tremendous impact on African American culture in and outside of the U.S., including Africa and the Caribbean. Cross listed with AMST 4250. Dual listed with AAST 5250. Prerequisites: CH and WB: graduate standing.
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• AAST 4260: Rhetoric and Social Justice

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Analyzes concepts of ableism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, and socioeconomic class through a critical/social construction framework. It attempts to develop a "working" definition of these concepts by analyzing historical and current conceptualizations and identifying marginalization and disenfranchisement as it is woven in the fabric of American society. Cross listed with COJO 4260. Dual listed with AAST 5260 and COJO 5260. Prerequisite: minimum 9 credit hours in AAST or COJO and junior standing.
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• AAST 4450: The African American Novel

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Considers aesthetic dimension and cultural matrix of novels written by Black Americans. Cross list with ENGL 4450. Prerequisites: AAST 1000, any AAST 2000 level course, junior/senior standing, six hours of 2000-level literature courses in ENGL.
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• AAST 4455: Slavery and Freedom

  1.00 - 4.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Engage in an in-depth study of the literary voices that emerged from the history of enslavement in the Americas from colonial times through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Cross listed with ENGL 4455. Dual listed with AAST 5455. Prerequisites: AAST 1000 or any AAST 2000 level course, and Junior or Senior Standing, OR six credit hours of literature courses in ENGL: Graduate student status.
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• AAST 4675: US Women of Color

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines in comparative perspective the social conditions that shape the experiences of Chicanas/Latinas in the U.S. Students gain an understanding of how the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality shape the lived experiences of U.S. women of color through ideological, economic, and political forces. Cross listed with CHST/WMST 4675. Prerequisite: junior standing or 6 hours of CHST or AAST or WMST coursework.
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