Introduces foundational skills of listening, interviewing, and basic counseling used to build rapport and enact change in a variety of healthcare settings.

Interdisciplinary exploration of some of the pivotal themes and issues in the study of peoples of African descent.

Sociological approaches to inequality and contemporary social issues regarding race, ethnicity, class, gender.

The nature and origin of jazz and its development as an American folk idiom: European and African heritages, blues, ragtime, dixieland, boogie-woogie, swing, bop, cool, funky, gospel, jazz-rock, free-form, and progressive.