Sep 26, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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AFST 329 - Black History in Tennessee 1796-1980

3 Credit Hours
This course explores Black history in Tennessee, and allows students to engage with the Knoxville TN community partners preserving TN history. Students examine the rich cultural heritage, experiences, contributions and culture of Black people in the state. The course will explore a variety of topics related to the political, social, economic and spiritual history of Black people. As part of the course students spend time working in the Beck Cultural Exchange Center in the city of Knoxville. Students apply the academic knowledge, critical thinking skills, and primary source analysis to meet the needs of this nonprofit community center by helping to organize, document, and digitize materials donated to the archive. Through reflections, assessments, and hands on community archive experiences, students will learn the process and importance of historical preservation while meeting a community need.

Recommended Background: Recommended students take AFST 201  or AFST 202 



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