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2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIS 221 - African-American History

Class: 3 Lab: 0 Clinical: 0 Work: 0 Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): DRE 098 or ENG 002  or ENG 025 
Corequisite(s): None
This course covers African-American history from the Colonial period to the present. Topics include African origins, the slave trade, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the civil rights movement, and contributions of African Americans. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze significant political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in the history of African Americans. This course is inherently global/diverse in content. This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA as a premajor and/or elective course requirement. This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA and ICAA as a premajor and/or elective course requirement.
Offered: Spring