AF AMER 201ASurvey of Black Studies Research: Themes, Issues, and Concepts
African American Studies · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Exploration of selected theoretical constructs, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches in discipline of African American studies. Interrogation of some of more significant debates in field as students consider how to engage and utilize these ideas—and epistemological debates around them—in their own work. Students think critically about different forms of intellectual production and scholastic inquiry in field that is now quite broad and interdisciplinary.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
AF AMER 201A
- AF AMER 201BSurvey of African American Studies Research Part 2: Introduction to Research Methods
- AF AMER 201CResearch Proposal Writing Seminar
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.