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AFRAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies (5) I&S
History, culture, religion, institutions, politics, economics, arts, and psychology of peoples of African descent as developed from experience in both the old and new worlds. Multidisciplinary analysis of social life from a Black perspective as illustrated in selected historical and contemporary writings.
Instructor Course Description:
Wanda M. Brown
Ernest B. Johnson
AFRAM 150 Introduction to African-American History (5) I&S
Introductory survey of topics and problems in Afro-American history with some attention to Africa as well as to America. Basic introductory course for sequence of lecture courses and seminars in Afro-American history. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 150.
AFRAM 214 Survey of Afro-American Literature (5) VLPA Butler
A chronological survey of Afro-American literature in all genres from its beginnings to the present day. Emphasizes Afro-American writing as a literary art; the cultural and historical context of Afro-American literary expression and the aesthetic criteria of Afro-American literature. Offered: jointly with ENGL 258.
Instructor Course Description:
Sonnet H. Retman
AFRAM 220 Third World Images in Film (5) I&S/VLPA
AFRAM 246 African American Politics (5) I&S P. Rivers
Survey of African Americans within the U.S. socio-political processes. Situates African Americans within a post-civil rights context where there is debate about race's centrality to an African American politics. Recommended: either AES 150, AFRAM 201, or POL S 202. Offered: jointly with POL S 246.
AFRAM 260 African American Family (5) I&S
This course explores the structures and functioning of various types of black families. Single-parent families, two-parent families, extended families, and consensual families are explored. Their consequences for male/female relationships are linked and critiqued. Offered: jointly with SOC 260.
AFRAM 261 The African-American Experience Through Literature (5) I&S/VLPA Scott
Instructs students in hermeneutical and sociological methods of analyses. Analyzes selected novels, essays, poems, short stories, and plays with the purpose of understanding the structures and functions of both society and personality. Offered: jointly with SOC 261.
AFRAM 270 The Jazz Age (5) I&S Walter
Interdisciplinary study of period after World War I to Great Crash. Afro-American and Anglo-American currents and impulses that flowed together in the Roaring Twenties. Covers politics of normalcy, economics of margin, literature of indulgence and confusion, transformation of race relations, and cultural influence of jazz. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 270.
AFRAM 272 History of the South Since the Civil War (5) I&S Walter
Reconstruction and its aftermath, the Agrarian (Populist) revolt, disfranchisement and segregation, the effects of urbanization and subsequent depression, desegregation, and the struggle for civil rights. Examines the New South, the conflict of ideology with structural and material change, and the place of the South in contemporary America.
AFRAM 306 Basic Swahili (5) Maulana
Structure of spoken and written Swahili. Concentration on the acquisition of elemental conversational skill and an introduction to written texts of graded difficulty.
Instructor Course Description:
Seyed M Maulana
AFRAM 307 Basic Swahili (5) Maulana
Structure of spoken and written Swahili. Concentration on the acquisition of elemental conversational skill and an introduction to written texts of graded difficulty. Prerequisite: AFRAM 306.
AFRAM 308 Basic Swahili (5) Maulana
Structure of spoken and written Swahili. Concentration on the acquisition of elemental conversational skill and an introduction to written texts of graded difficulty. Prerequisite: AFRAM 307.
AFRAM 309 Intensive Basic Swahili (15) Maulana
First-year Kiswahili language. Introduces students to Kiswahili and allows them to explore and understand not only the language but also the diverse cultures and customs of the people of East Africa. Provides a basic foundation in speaking, reading, and writing. Primary emphasis on basic structure of Kiswahili and its operation. Offered: S.
AFRAM 315 Black Identities and Political Power (5) I&S Rivers
Relates the deployment of political power within institutions to shifting racial identities. Shows how racial identities both reflect and inflect relations of domination and resistance within and between cultures in the black diaspora. Prerequisite: either AES 150, AFRAM 150, AFRAM 201, or POL S 201. Offered: jointly with POL S 315.
Instructor Course Description:
Ernest B. Johnson
AFRAM 320 Black Women in Drama (5) VLPA
Character types of Black women as represented in plays by Black women. Some Black male playwrights are juxtaposed with Black female writers for comparative analysis. Playwrights include Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Grimke, Alice Chidress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ira Aldridge, LeRoi Jones.
AFRAM 321 History of Afro-American Women and the Feminist Movement (5) I&S
"Feminist Movement" from early nineteenth century to present. Treats relationship between Black and White women in their struggle for independence, at times together and at times apart. Discusses the reasons, process, and results of collaboration as well as opposition. Examines recent and contemporary attempts at cooperation. Offered: joint with WOMEN 321.
AFRAM 323 African-American Women's History (5) I&S Yee
Survey of African-American women's experience in United States, 1600 to present. Includes: social, political, economic status of Black women in slavery, freedom, education, activism, Civil Rights, women's rights, other social movements. Explores individual and collective interactions with African-American men, white men and women, other people of color.
AFRAM 334 The Sixties in America: Conflict, Confrontation, and Concession (5) I&S Walter
Politico-cultural movements that collided in the sixties. Includes politics of confrontation and civil disobedience, economics of "guns and butter," literature of conflict and angst, polarization of arts, transformation of race relations, role of Rock, and influence of domestic politics on foreign relations. Recommended: AFRAM 150; AFRAM 270. Offered: jointly with HSTAA 334.
AFRAM 337 Music and Social Change in the Sixties Era (5) I&S/VLPA Walter
Introduction of popular music and social change in 1950s and 1960s. How this interaction effects significant change. Considers political activism for civil rights and against the Vietnam War as they intersect with the development of rock and roll, R&B, acoustic and political folk music, and post-bebop jazz.
AFRAM 340 The Harlem Renaissance: A Literary Study (5) VLPA
Highlights Harlem Renaissance -- 1912 through mid-1930s -- as establishing a role for twentieth-century African-American writer, encompassing literature, politics, and decolonization of the image of Africa, and solidifying integrationist and nationalist schools of thought. Examines images, themes, and characterizations in creating a literary aesthetic simultaneously American and African-American.
Instructor Course Description:
Sonnet H. Retman
AFRAM 350 The Black Aesthetic (3) I&S/VLPA
AFRAM 358 Literature of Black Americans (5) VLPA Butler, Moody
Selected writings-novels, short-stories, plays, poems-by Afro-American writers. The historical and cultural context within which they evolved. Differences between Afro-American writers and writers of the European-American tradition. Emphasis varies. Offered: jointly with ENGL 358.
Instructor Course Description:
Habiba Ibrahim
AFRAM 370 Afro-American Political Thought (5) I&S
Political ideologies and philosophies of pivotal Afro-American historical figures and the conditions under which these ideologies are developed, rejected, and transformed. How ideologies relate to solution of Afro-American political problems.
AFRAM 401 Intermediate Swahili (5) VLPA
Readings from prose to traditional poetry. Emphasis on acquiring an ability to manipulate ideas in Swahili. Review of structure. Prerequisite: either AFRAM 308 or AFRAM 309.
Instructor Course Description:
Seyed M Maulana
AFRAM 402 Intermediate Swahili (5) VLPA
Readings from prose to traditional poetry. Emphasis on acquiring an ability to manipulate ideas in Swahili. Review of structure. Prerequisite: AFRAM 401.
AFRAM 403 Intermediate Swahili (5) VLPA
Readings from prose to traditional poetry. Emphasis on acquiring an ability to manipulate ideas in Swahili. Review of structure. Prerequisite: AFRAM 402.
AFRAM 437 Blacks in American Law (5) I&S Walter
Historical continuity for changing relationship between American jurisprudence and Black Americans, 1640-1986. Statutory and case law which determined role of Blacks in American society, and use of law by Blacks to gain civil and personal rights.
AFRAM 498 Special Topics in African American Studies (3-5, max. 15) I&S
Topics in which students and faculty have developed an interest as a result of work done in other classes or as a result of the need to investigate in greater depth Afro-American Studies issues. Topics vary.
Instructor Course Description:
Berhane Mehary
Sonnet H. Retman
AFRAM 499 Independent Study and Research (1-5, max. 10)
Identification and investigation of the problems and needs of the Black community. Methods and alternatives of approaching these problems and needs. Students designate their areas of interest and subsequently pursue research and problem solving.
