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Overview of the history of African-Americans from the development of colonial slavery and the rise of African-American communities and culture. African background; Black protest tradition including abolitionism; the distinct experience of Black women. (Gen.Ed. HS, U)

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The focus of this course is academic and social adjustment to the University community. This course will also explore how to cope with life issues. Course Objectives: To make academic excellence the #1 priority; to provide first-year students with tips on how to succeed academically; to help first-year students adjust academically and socially to the campus; to explore various topics that deal with academics and life issues; to provide first year students with internships, co-ops and summer employment opportunities; and, to match fist year students with peer mentors and academic advisors.

This course is about cultural diversity in the University community and how we can better understand ourselves and others through an appreciation of college education as a cultural experience, with its own unique set of rules, biases, and expectations. The course is designed for first year students. (Gen.Ed. I, U)

Even though Hawai'i is often referred to as the "Paradise on Earth," the history of Hawai'i is rife with controversial U.S. imperialism and its legacies. This course examines the history of U.S. annexation of Hawai'i as a case study of U.S. imperial ambitions. We will examine the history of the rise and fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, the establishment of Hawaii as a U.S. territory, and finally the current status of Hawai'i as the 50th state of the United States.

Studying selected short stories and short novels of major American fiction writers who span the beginning to the end of the twentieth century: Henry James, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Joyce Carol Oates, Z Z Packer and others, this course traces historical, cultural, and literary contexts and looks comparatively at distinctively American themes and modernist techniques such as unreliable narration, shifting points of view, black humor, grotesqueries, religious symbolism, apocalyptic transformations and other elements which complicate and e