PHIL 373 - African-American Philosophical Perspectives

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Diversity
Examination of the social, political, and cultural issues of African Americans from the perspective of African American philosophers. Topics include the continuing impact of the black physical self upon whites and white hegemonic power structures, black self-respect, alienation, and nihilism.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

read complex texts, create original arguments, analyze the arguments of others, and express these criticisms orally and in writing;
demonstrate knowledge of African American philosophical traditions, their relevant concepts, theories, methodologies and historical contexts;
write clear, academically rigorous, argumentative essays;
demonstrate a comprehension of the extent to which the unacknowledged labor, art, and culture of African Americans have shapwd America and continue to do so.
cultivate an understanding of the continuing struggles of African Americans to have their personhoods acknowledged and the psychic toll this has wrought.

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.