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2016-2017 Course Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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51-2216 Afro-Futurism: Pathways to Liberation


Afro-Futurism provides artistic methods for the exploration of Black liberation. The creative ability to manifest transformation has been essential to the survival of Blacks in the Diaspora. This course considers what Blackness and liberation could look like in the future, real or imagined. It is rooted African cosmologies, using pieces of the past, technological and analog, to build the future. Themes include: identity; hybridity; alien and alienation; belonging, immigration, and migration; and the vessel–corporeal and metaphoric–as vehicle of liberation.

3 Credits
PL HU
PREREQUISITES: ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I  or 52-1151S Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710



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