• AAST 4970: Internship

  1.00 - 12.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Internships are an integral part of higher education where theory meets application through practice. The Internship is designed for students to utlize the knowledge and skills obtained in their program of study to be applied at an organization or institution. Students will provide a job description, sign an internship contract, keep daily work journals, provide work samples, submit a paper, and include a final evaluation by their Internship supervisor. Prerequisites: 9 houyrs of AAST.
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• AAST 4975: Ind Rsrch: AAST

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Independent study in African American Studies. Prerequisites: AAST 1000 and consent of instructor.
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• AAST 4990: Topics:

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  In-depth study of a topic not offered as regular course. Prerequisite: AAST 1000.
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• AAST 5050: Development, Africa, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with AAST 4050. Dual listed with INST 5050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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• AAST 5060: NGO's, Development, Culture

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Dual listed with AAST 4060. Cross listed with INST 5060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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• AAST 5065: Black American Rhetorics

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Study of rhetoric through Black lives and experiences, from enslavement and Civil Rights to #Black Lives Matter. What does understanding Black American experiences mean for civil rights movements across the world and the U.S.? Explores how Black American speech challenges inequities in the United States and strives for racial equality and justice.
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• AAST 5066: 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 5067: 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, beliefs.
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• AAST 5160: African American Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  African American discourse and its relationship to equality and participation. Through examiniation of various media, music, speeches, and art this course uses the struggle of African Americans as an instructive exemplar, to come to terms with the philosophical concepts, political issues, moral complexities, and discursive characteristics of African American Rhetoric. Dual listed with AAST 4160; cross listed with COJO 5160. Prerequisites: 9 credit hours in AAST or COJO.
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• AAST 5233: 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 5233 and COJO 5233. Dual listed with AAST 4233. Prerequisite: three credit hours in AAST, COJO, or WMST, WB, and junior standing.
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