Winter '09
AAAS Courses
* AFRICAAM 105/HISTORY 255B Introduction to African and African American Studies 5 Units (Carson, Elam M.)
The African American experience spans four hundred years, from the initial settlement of the North American continent by Europeans and the establishment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, to the present day. This interdisciplinary course examines the social thought, cultural mores, religious institutions, intellectual history, political challenges, literary traditions and expressive arts of people of African descent in the Americas. In 2009, the course also will examine the development of African American religious traditions, from the A.M.E. to Black Muslim movements, and which will also look at the relation between social activism and religion in the community.
TuTh 1:15-3:05
Location: 200-305
5 Units
AFRICAAM 144 African Women Writers 5 Units (Powell)
This course will highlight the intricacy and diversity of contemporary African women's writings. Focusing primarily on fiction, we will explore works by writers from all over the continent including Dangerembga, Ba, Okunit, Vera, Head, Aidoo, El Saadawi and more. Theoretical readings will help to locate the writings within the historical, philosophical, aesthetic traditions of the literature.
TuTh 11-12:30
Location: 160-321
5 Units
AFRICAAM 145 Writing Race, Writing Faith: The Poetics and Politics of Spirituality in Black Literature 5 Units (Powell)
How spirituality functions thematically and aesthetically in black literature; how different spiritual practices are articulated in black diasporic communities. Theoretical readings locate the writings within the historical, philosophical and aesthetic traditions of the literature. Authors include DuBois, Marshall, Walker, Phillips, Brodber, and Johnson.
TuTh 3:15-4:45
Location: Gates100
5 Units
Cognate courses
HUMANITIES
AMELANG 100B, 101B Amharic 3 units (Tesfamariam)
AMELANG 106B, 107B, 108B Swahili 4 units (Mohochi)
AMSTUD 105 From Blues to Rap: Representing Music in African American Literature
CSRE 145A/ANTRHRO 145A Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women’s Literature 5 units (Duffey)
ENGLISH 172E The Literature of the Americas (Greene)
ENGLISH 262 African American Autobiography 5 units (Rampersad)
HISTORY 48Q South Africa: Contested Transitions 3 units (Samoff)
* HISTORY 52N The Harlem Renaissance 5 units (Campbell)
HISTORY 150B 19-Century America 5 units (White)
* HISTORY 248S African Societies and Colonial States 5 units (Roberts)
HISTORY 255D Racial Identity in the American Imagination 4-5 units (Hobbs)
HISTORY 261Race, Gender, and Class in Jim Crow America 4-5 units (Hobbs)
LINGUIST 150 Language in Society 4 units (Hall-Lew)
LINGUIST 164 English Transplanted, English Transformed: Pidgins and Creoles (Rickford)
ARTS
CSRE 153/DRAMA 153 Race and Ethnicity in Stand-Up Comedy 5 units (Daube)
CSRE 171S One Love? Political and Social Consciousness in the Music of the Caribbean 2 units (Duffey)
DANCE 105 Contemporary Afro Styles and Dancemaking: Technique, Rythm, Architecture 2 units (Hayes)
DANCE 144 Intermediate Modern Jazz Dance 2 Units (Moses)
DRAMA 17N Salt of the Earth: The Docudrama in America (Moraga)
DRAMA 177 Playwriting (Moraga)
DRAMA 110 Identity, Diversity, and Aesthetics (Elam, H)
MUSIC 18A Jazz History: Ragtime to Bebop, 1900-1940 (Berry)
MUSIC 153 The Soul Tradition in African American Music (Kronengold)
SOCIAL SCIENCES
AFRICAST 112 AIDS, Literacy, and Land: International Aid and The Problems of Development in Africa (Samoff)
ANTHRO 88 Theories in Race and Ethnicity 5 units (Yanagisako)
ANTHRO 139 Ethnography of Africa 5 units (Malkki)
ANTHRO 185A/ASNAMST 185A Race and Biomedicine 3-5 units (Lee)
CSRE 189W Language and Minority Rights 3 units (Valdez)
FEMST 140J Black Feminist Theory 4-5 units (Bierria)
POLISCI 125V Minority Representation and the Voting Rights Act 5 units (Segura)
SOC 141A/HUMBIO 122S Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health 5 units (Barr)
SOC 148 Racial Identity 5 units (McDermott)
