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Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-113268 RELC 152-1 The Black Church and Underground Railroad Experience Fall 2021 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
W 200 PM 440 PM Meliora Room 218
Enrollment: Enrolled     
5 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 152-1, RELC 152-1 (P)
Instructors: Cona Marshall
Description: This course will provide students first-hand experience on the 2.5-mile route of the Underground Railroad here Rochester, NY, known to many runaway enslaved Africans as “The Last 100 Miles”, in their quest for freedom to Canada. This class will situate the institution of the Black Church within the context of the institution of slavery on American soil. We will compare the roles of the Christian God of the enslavers and the enslaved.

To gain a better understanding of the context, we will take three trips in total (Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, The Last 100 Miles Underground Railroad Tour, and a Virtual Reality Rosa Parks Experience). We will read the works of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois and other Black freedom writers to better understand the perspective of Black Christianity.
Offered: Fall Spring
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-99050 RELC 152-1 Black Church Studies Fall 2020 4.0 - 0.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
M 200 PM 440 PM Online Room 13 (ASE)
Enrollment: Enrolled     
11 		Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AAAS 152-1, RELC 152-1 (P)
Instructors: Cona Marshall
Description: As a target for Dillan Roof and payday loan lending initiatives as well as an acknowledged source of homophobia and sexism, the Black church continues to be vital in American society—more poignantly, African American communities. While many continue to support social justice initiatives, The Black Church becomes a varied space for cultivating worship practices, homiletic praxis, musical selections and theological offerings. This course is designed to aid understanding African American Christian Traditions in the context of American (church) history. We will study what the Black church is, its construction, maintenance as well as its theological and social standings. We will listen to sermons, gospel music and attend a Black Church in the greater Rochester area as a cohort. The goal is to introduce major concepts produced by the Black Church including, but not limited to: womanist theology and ethics, Black liberation theology, Black social ethics, African American homiletics, and African American hermeneutics. Students will be asked to locate
Offered: Fall Spring