AAAD Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
11828	AAAD 50 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Defining Blackness	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Nadia Mosquera Muriel	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0207	0/3	Seats filled	0/3
Description: Blackness and whiteness as racial categories have existed in the United States from the earliest colonial times, but their meanings have shifted and continue to shift. Over the semester we will attempt to define and redefine blackness in the United States. 3 units.
11829	AAAD 58 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Health Inequality in Africa and the African Diaspora	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	LYDIA BOYD	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1373	0/3	Seats filled	0/3
Description: This first-year seminar examines the ways that healthcare access and health itself are shaped by social, racial, and economic inequalities in our society and others. The geographic focus of this course is Africa and the United States. Drawing on research in medical anthropology, sociology, public health, and history, we will gain an understanding of the political, economic, and social factors that create health inequalities. 3 units.
10829	AAAD 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Rhon Manigault-Bryant	Gardner Hall-Rm 0001	0/3	Seats filled	0/3
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
10831	AAAD 89 - 002 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Alicia Monroe	Phillips Hall-Rm 0220	1/3	Seats filled	1/3
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
14280	AAAD 89 - 003 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Robert Porter	Murphey Hall-Rm 0302	0/3	Seats filled	0/3
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
6473	AAAD 101 - 001 Introduction to Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Raphael Birya	Gardner Hall-Rm 0008	19/45	Seats filled	19/45	0/999
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
6475	AAAD 101 - 003 Introduction to Africa	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	samba camara	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm G010	Seats filled	Seats filled	60/60	1/999
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
7329	AAAD 130 - 001 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Petal Samuel	Wilson Hall-Rm 0128	20/45	Seats filled	20/45	0/999
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
6712	AAAD 130 - 002 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	MoWe 5:45PM - 7:00PM	Robert Porter	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm G010	14/45	Seats filled	14/45	0/999
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
8033	AAAD 130 - 003 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Charlene Regester	Phillips Hall-Rm 0265	0/45	Seats filled	0/45	0/999
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
11831	AAAD 231 - 001 African American History since 1865	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Brandi Brimmer	Peabody Hall-Rm 2060	2/40	Seats filled	2/40	0/999
Description: Special emphasis on postemancipation developments. 3 units.
10833	AAAD 250 - 001 The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present	Mo 3:30PM - 6:20PM	Charlene Regester	Hanes Hall-Rm 0125	5/40	Seats filled	5/40	0/999
Description: This course will analyze the role of the African American in motion pictures, explore the development of stereotypical portrayals, and investigate the efforts of African American actors and actresses to overcome these portrayals. 3 units.
14290	AAAD 257 - 001 Black Nationalism in the United States	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Claude Clegg	Dey Hall-Rm 0206	22/40	Seats filled	22/40	0/999
Description: This course traces the evolution of black nationalism, both as an idea and a movement, from the era of the American Revolution to its current Afrocentric expressions. 3 units.
10836	AAAD 260 - 001 Blackness in Latin America	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Nadia Mosquera Muriel	Phillips Hall-Rm 0265	44/60	Seats filled	44/60	0/999
Description: The majority of people of African descent in this hemisphere live in Latin America. This course will explore how blackness is understood and reproduced in Latin America, as well as Black history, cultures, experiences, and social movements in the region. 3 units.
6476	AAAD 284 - 001 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Joseph Jordan	Woollen Gym-Rm 0304	3/32	Seats filled	3/32	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary survey of African-descendant communities and the development and expression of African/black identities in the context of competing definitions of diaspora. 3 units.
8353	AAAD 286 - 001 The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Alicia Monroe	Bingham Hall-Rm 3006	2/40	Seats filled	2/40	0/999
Description: Explores the experiences of Africans in European colonies in locations such as colonial Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, and mainland North America. Lecture and discussion format. The major themes of inquiry include labor, law, gender, culture, and resistance, exploring differing experiences based on gender, location, and religion. 3 units.
11833	AAAD 303 - 001 Islamic Cultures of Contemporary Africa	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	samba camara	Peabody Hall-Rm 2028	4/40	Seats filled	4/40	0/999
Description: By examining the social history and meaning of various cultural practices, literature, art, and popular music among Muslim Africans, this course introduces students to how Islam has influenced contemporary African identity and to the practices that came to be associated with Africa as a land of Islam. 3 units.
9507	AAAD 330 - 001 20th-Century African American Art	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	John Bowles	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0117	Seats filled	Seats filled	6/6	0/999
Description: Focus on the historical development of African American art from the Harlem Renaissance of early 20th century through the Black Arts Movement and Feminist Art Movement 1960s and early 1970s. 3 units.
14298	AAAD 332 - 001 Remembering Race and Slavery	Tu 7:30PM - 10:00PM	Robert Porter	Peabody Hall-Rm 2028	7/40	Seats filled	7/40	0/999
Description: The course provides an examination of the ways that the past plays out in the present. Specifically this course examines memorials, monuments, and museums that remember and reinvent slavery and race in the United States and throughout the rest of the Diaspora. 3 units.
12425	AAAD 340 - 001 Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Joseph Jordan	Woollen Gym-Rm 0303	2/40	Seats filled	2/40	0/999
Description: Examines the socio-political dimensions of African diaspora art and culture with a focus on African Americans in the 20th century. 3 units.
14305	AAAD 385 - 001 Emancipation in the New World	Th 3:30PM - 6:00PM	Alicia Monroe	Peabody Hall-Rm G050	1/40	Seats filled	1/40	0/999
Description: Students will examine the way that the process of emancipation unfolded in Haiti, Antiqua, and Cuba, with major emphasis on emancipation in the United States. 3 units.
14307	AAAD 387 - 001 HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Diaspora	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	LYDIA BOYD	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0302	23/40	Seats filled	23/40	0/999
Description: This course explores the history and contemporary politics of HIV/AIDS in African communities and across the Diaspora. The differing trajectories of the epidemic on the continent, in the West, and in the Caribbean and Latin America will be explored. 3 units.
14309	AAAD 389 - 001 The Caribbean Anticolonial: Caribbean Literature, Film, Aesthetics, and Politics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Petal Samuel	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	45/60	Seats filled	45/60	0/999
Description: This course will examine literature, film, art, and music from the Caribbean that illustrates and critiques the past and present impacts of colonial rule in the region. What role has anticolonial Caribbean literature and art played in shaping the region's present and future, and in shaping global anticolonial politics? 3 units.
9491	AAAD 391 - 001 Human Development and Sustainability in Africa and the African Diaspora	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Shakirah Hudani	Bingham Hall-Rm 1014	24/40	Seats filled	24/40	0/999
Description: A critical introduction to the study of development and sustainability as interlinked approaches to understanding contemporary challenges in Africa and the African diaspora. Development is a concept with multiple meanings and contextual incarnations. The course emphasizes thinking of development as a field of expertise and intervention and as a modality of change, that goes beyond economistic understandings of development as simply economic growth. 3 units.
6720	AAAD 395 - 001 Undergraduate Research Seminar	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Murphey Hall-Rm 0105	6/20	Seats filled	6/20	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Subject matter will vary with each instructor. Each course will concern itself with a study in depth of some problem in African, African American, or diaspora studies. 3 units.
7645	AAAD 421 - 001 Introduction to the Languages of Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Mohamed Mwamzandi	Manning Hall-Rm 0307	6/40	Seats filled	6/40	0/999
Description: This course is an introduction to the languages of Africa. No linguistics background is required. Topics include classification, characteristic linguistic features of African languages, and their role in their respective societies. 3 units.
13728	AAAD 486 - 001 Africa in the American Imagination	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	CAROL MAGEE	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	Seats filled	Seats filled	12/12	0/999
Description: Examines the ways African art appears in United States popular culture (advertisements, magazines, toys, films, art) to generate meanings about Africa. Addresses intersecting issues of nationalism, multiculturalism, imperialism, nostalgia, and race. Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. 3 units.
11836	AAAD 490 - 001 Colloquium in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Brandi Brimmer	Peabody Hall-Rm 2080	3/20	Seats filled	3/20	0/999
Description: This course is designed to give students a broad-ranging, interpretative perspective on-and analytical tools for studying-the migration and settlement of African peoples in various parts of the world, largely over the past several centuries. Based on selected secondary readings, students will study and compare the ways in which people of African descent have created political, cultural, and territorial communities in Africa and beyond the continent, especially in the slave and post-emancipation societies of the Americas. 3 units.
14320	AAAD 491 - 001 Class, Race, and Inequality in America	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0215	14/20	Seats filled	14/20	0/999
Description: Examines the origins of race in America, the relationship of racial oppression to class struggle at key points in American history, the proliferation of versions of the concept of privilege, and approaches to eliminating class and racial privilege. 3 units.
9021	AAAD 691H - 001 Honors Research I	We 2:30PM - 5:20PM	Erica Johnson	Global Education, F-Rm 3033	Seats filled	Seats filled	2/2	0/999
Description: Permission of the department. Beginning of mentored research on an honors thesis. Required of all candidates for graduation with honors in African, African American, and Diaspora studies. 3 units.
15549	AAAD 700 - 001 Africana Social Theories	Tu 3:30PM - 6:00PM	EUNICE SAHLE	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0118	1/20	Seats filled	1/20
Description: This seminar aims to engage with theoretical debates in the field of Africana Studies with a focus on key theoretical approaches to selected thematic issues as they pertain to people of African descent in Africa and the African Diaspora. 3 units.
14321	AAAD 701 - 001 CULTURES OF COLONIALISM IN THE AFRICANA WORLD	Mo 3:30PM - 6:00PM	DAVID PIER	Murphey Hall-Rm 0112	1/20	Seats filled	1/20	0/999
Description: Introduction to important scholarship on colonialism in Africa, especially in its cultural manifestations (education, arts, sport, religion, health) 3 units.
14322	AAAD 731 - 001 Crisis and renewal in the American city	Fr 3:00PM - 5:30PM	Shakirah Hudani	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0116	1/20	Seats filled	1/20	0/999
Description: This graduate-level course is structured as a reading seminar where we will collectively examine significant academic texts on the 'great American city', looking at themes of race, place, class, crisis, and renewal that have attended urbanism, primarily focused on the US. Readings will examine cities that include Detroit, Oakland, Chicago, and Baltimore. Themes include urban de-industrialization and renewal, disinvestment, the politics of activism and power, public housing, and environmental toxicity. 3 units.