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Academics, Past
| African American Studies | ||||||
FALL 2007 COURSE SCHEDULE |
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| Course | Class # | Title | Day/Time | Room | meets with | Professor |
| AAS 112/ ANT 112 | 12788 | Intro Afrca Amer Stdes Soc Sci | M 12:45 - 2:05 | Eggers010 | Gradywillis | |
| 16354 | Dis M002 | M 3:45 - 5:05 | PB104 | |||
| 16355 | Dis M003 | F 2:15 - 3:35 | LYMAN126 | |||
| 16356 | Dis M004 | F 3:45 - 5:05 | LYMAN126 | |||
| 16357 | Dis M005 | Th 12:30 - 1:50 | OG 2 Rm. A | |||
| AAS 138 | ||||||
| Sec M001 | 12789 | Writing About Black Culture | MW 8:00 - 9:20 | SIMS337 | Abdullah | |
| Sec M002 | 19160 | Sec M002 | MW 3:45 - 5:05 | SIMS337 | Abdullah | |
| AAS 200 Selected Topics | ||||||
| Sec M002 | 22537 | Afro-Latin America | M 5:15pm - 8:00pm | SIMS241 | AAS 400 | Dixon |
| AAS 207 | 22339 | A Survey of African Music | TTH 11:00 - 12:20 | SIMS219 | Cole | |
| AAS 231 | 12790 | African Amer Lit: to 1900 Century | TH 2:00 - 3:20 | SIMS137 | Simson | |
| 16358 | Dis M002 | M 3:45 - 5:05 | MAX111 | |||
| 16359 | Dis M003 | F 12:45 - 2:05 | SIMS331 | |||
| 16360 | Dis M004 | M 12:45 - 2:05 | SIMS123 | |||
| 19507 | Dis M005 | F 8:00 - 9:20 | SIMS219 | |||
| AAS 241/REL 281 | 18306 | African Religion | MW 2:15 - 3:35 | SIM237 | Brengpong Osei-Tutu | |
| AAS 303/WSP 303 | 21664 | African Women Writers | TTH 12:30 - 1:50 | SIMS219 | Mayes | |
| AAS 304 | 12791 | wrkshp: Afr. Amer. Theatre | T 7:00pm-10:00pm | SIMS137 | ||
| AAS 305 | 21661 | African Orature | MW 12:45 - 2:05 | SIMS219 | Mugo | |
| AAS 306/ PSC 306 | 12792 | Afr. Amer. Politics | TTH 11:00 - 12:20 | SIMS137 | Sangmpam | |
| AAS 309/ SOC 309/WSP 309 | 22155 | Black Sexuality | TTH 12:30 - 1:50 | SOM304 | Carty | |
| AAS 332/HST 332 | 12793 | Afr. Amer. Hist. thru 19th. C | MW 2:15 - 3:35 | MAXAUD | Gradywillis | |
| AAS 345/ REL 345 | 19180 | Afr. Amer. Rel. History | TTH 5:00pm - 6:20pm | PB104 | Bryant | |
| AAS 346/ PSC 346 | 19368 | Comparative 3rd. World Politics | TTH 2:00 - 3:20 | SIMS331 | Sangmpam | |
| AAS 353/ SOC 353 | 12795 | Sociology: Afr. Amer. Experience | TTH 12:30 - 1:50 | SIMS241 | Animashaun | |
| AAS 364/ PSC 364 | 12797 | African Int'l Relations | TTH 8:00am - 9:20am | SIMS219 | Campbell | |
| AAS 400/ 600 Selected Topics | ||||||
| Sec M004 | 22156 | Afro-Latin America | M 5:15pm - 8:00pm | SIMS241 | AAS 200 | Dixon |
| Sec M005 | 22157 | Global Resistance:Cultural Democ. | TTH 9:30am - 10:50am | SIMS331 | AAS 600 | Dixon |
| AAS 409 | 22341 | History of Jazz | TTH 2:00 - 3:20 | SIMS219 | AAS 609 | Cole |
| AAS 433 | 21687 | Harlem Renn.:Lit. & Ideology | T 3:30 - 6:15 | TOLLEY204 | Mayes | |
| AAS 445/645/SOC445/645 | 22160 | Caribbean: Sex, Cap. & Tourism | TH 3:30pm - 6:15pm | SIMS219 | AAS645 SOC445/645 WSP445/645 |
Carty |
| AAS 470 | 17714 | Intrnshp African American St. | ||||
| AAS 525 | 19181 | Rsch. Methods: Afr. Amer. Stud. | W 2:15 - 5:00 | SIMS219 | Animashaun | |
| AAS 600 Selected Topics | ||||||
| Sec M003 | 22159 | Global Resistance:Cultural Democ. | TTH 9:30am - 10:50am | SIMS331 | AAS 400 | Dixon |
| AAS 609 | 20547 | History of Jazz | TTH 2:00 - 3:20 | SIMS219 | AAS 409 | Cole |
| AAS 610 | 19182 | Seminar: Pan-Afr. Rsh. Meth. | M 3:45 - 6:30 | SIMS219 | Campbell | |
| AAS 611 | 19183 | Arts, Culture/Literature | T 3:30 - 6:15 | SIMS219 | Simson | |
| AAS 645/445/ SOC445/645 | 22161 | Caribbean: Sex, Cap. & Tourism | TH 3:30pm - 6:15pm | SIMS219 | AAS 445 SOC445/645 WSP 445/645 |
Carty |
| AAS 690 Independent Study | ||||||
| M002 | ||||||
| M003 | ||||||
| M004 | ||||||
| M005 | ||||||
| AAS 997 | 21162 | Master's Thesis | ||||
Courses: Maymester, 2007 |
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Course # |
Course Name |
Course Description |
| AAS 200/400 | Gender & Sexuality in the African Diaspora |
Intro to an antiracist understanding of the historical and social construction of Black sexuality. Representations of Black sexuality from the slavery period in the Americas to the present, including significance & manifestation of sexualized racism & racialized sexism in popular notions of Black sexuality. Black female sexuality: sexualization and objectification in popular culture; how Black women exercise sexual agency despite assault on their womanhood. Intersection of race with ethnicity, gender and class; role of religion; role and impact of homophobia; commodification By U.S. capitalism. |
AAS 200/400 |
Films of Spike Lee | This class will view Lee's work in chronological order, beginning with his first commercial film, She's Gotta Have it , to his most recent works, including bamboozled, and 25th Hour, Inside Man. There will be comprehensive viewing that provides a basis for discussion and dialogue aimed at gaining a better understanding of Lee's works, his vision as a director and why his works have gained the attention of intellectual , critical and political thinkers throughout the country. |
Summer Session Two: |
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Course # |
Course Name |
Course Description |
AAS 138 |
Writing About Black Cuture |
Expository writing based in cogent analysis of African American literature, art,
music, and history ideas.
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DIPA |
Paris Noir: Literature, Art and Contemporary Life in Diaspora |
June 12th thru July 19th Paris Noir is James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Aimee Cesaire. Chester Himes, Richard Wright, Jessie
Fauset and Jake Lamar. It is a dynamic concept, a lived and imagined metaphor that swings-from New York to Paris
via Africa, Guadeloupe and Martinique-into trans-Atlantic expressions of literature, art, and contemporary life.
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| FILLING OF LIBERAL ARTS CORE REQUIREMENTS | ||
AAS 138 - Fills Writing Intensive requirement- One writing intensive course in addition to WRT 105 and WRT 205 is required. |
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Courses: Spring, 2007 |
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Course # |
Course Name |
Course Description |
| AAS 112 | Introduction to African American Studies in Social Sciences |
Historical and sociopolitical materials. Approaches to studying the African American experience, antecedents from African past, and special problems. |
AAS 138 |
Writing About Black Culture | Expository writing based on cogent analysis
of African American literature, art, music, and history ideas. |
AAS 200 |
Survey of African Music |
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AAS 232 |
African American Literature: 20 & 21st Century |
African American literary practices
in the twentieth century. Baldwin, Hughes, Wright, Hurston, Morrison,
Naylor, and Walker. |
AAS 235 |
African American Drama |
African American drama from its beginnings
to the present. Anderson, Brown, Baraka, Childress, Bullins, Ward,
and Wilson. |
AAS 302 |
Contemporary African American Theatre |
Themes, images, and aesthetics of contemporary
African theater examined through works of contemporary Black playwrights,
scholars, and critics. Includes behind-the-scenes study of an African
American theater production. |
AAS 307 |
African American Women Writers |
Study and analysis of literature by
African women writers, writing from a variety of locations in Africa,
Europe, and North America. When offered in Harare, the course includes
lectures and work by members of the Zimbabwe Women Writers Group. |
| AAS 310 | Elements of Theatre Production |
A practical look at various steps of production,
while accessing factors which contribute to
successful theater. |
AAS 326 |
Africa since 1800 |
Second half of the survey, studying
Africa when it was affected by European peoples and cultures. Topics:
penetration by European explorers and missionaries, imperialism and
colonialism, African resistance and rebellion, nationalism and liberation,
neocolonialism and other problems of independence. AAS/HST 325 is
not a prerequisite. |
AAS 333 |
African American History:
After 19th |
Continuation of AAS/HST 332. |
| AAS 400 | African Diaspora: Race,
Gender, Sex |
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| AAS 434 | Underground Railroad |
Myth and history of the Underground
in the context of African American freedom efforts. Emphasis on events,
personalities, and sites in upstate New York. Student field research
and exploration of archival and Internet resources. Additional work
required of graduate students. |
| AAS 445 | Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital& Tourism | A political economy approach to educating
students about the human and capital costs of tourism to the Caribbean.
The integral relationship between sex work and Caribbean tourism exposes
the region's development that has resulted in its current configuration.
Permission of instructor. |
| AAS 465 | Image-Blacks in |
Discussion based on series of short
films dating from the 1900s, together with slides and reproductions
representing the image of blacks in art from antiquity to the present. |
| AAS 470 | Internship in African American Studies |
Supervised internship with a local community
agency. Prereq: permission of instructor. |
| AAS 600 | History of Jazz |
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| AAS 612 | Societies, Political Economies |
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| AAS 634 | Underground Railroad |
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| AAS 645 | Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational
Capital & Tourism |
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| AAS 681 | Comparitive St-Society Relations |
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Courses: Fall, 2006 |
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Course # |
Course Name |
Course Description |
| AAS 112 | Introduction to African American Studies in Social Sciences |
Historical and sociopolitical materials. Approaches to studying the African American experience, antecedents from African past, and special problems. |
AAS 138 |
Writing About Black Culture | Expository writing based on cogent analysis of African American literature, art, music, and history ideas. |
AAS 200 |
Survey of African Music |
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AAS 231 |
African American Literature to 1900: Intro |
African American literature and orature from colonial days to 1900. Slave narrative, autobiography, Wheatly, Douglass, Harper, Dunbar, Sojourner Truth. |
AAS 234 |
African Fiction |
Fiction by leading African novelists. Achebe, Aidoo, Bâ, Dadie, Head, Ngugi, Sembene, and Soyinka. |
AAS 306 |
African American Politics |
Introduction to the African American experience in the American political system, from the colonial period to the present. Organization/leadership, federal institutions/relations, sociopolitical movements, and electoral politics. |
AAS 331 |
African American Novels: 20th & 21st Cent |
Modern African American novelists. Baldwin, Ellison, Hurston, Morrison, Toomer, A. Walker, S. Williams. |
| AAS 346 | Comparative 3rd World Politics |
Examines thematically and comparatively the political systems of South America, Asia, and Africa, exploring topics such as colonization, decolonization, nation-building, the postcolonial state and its institutions, the recent wave of democratization, and the challenges of socioeconomic development. |
AAS 353 |
Sociology: African American Experience |
Theory and research of African American sociologists in the historical, social, and political context of American sociology. Relation of their work to the African American experience and its reception and impact in the public policy arena. |
AAS 361 |
Art of the Black World |
Survey of the art and crafts of people of African origin. Postcolonial America up to black artists of the W.P.A. Federal Arts Project. |
| AAS 400 | African Diaspora: Race, Gender, Sex |
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| AAS 427 | NYC: Black Women Domestic Workers |
Historical understanding of Black women’s engagement in paid domestic work in the United States, increasing need for domestic workers in the ever-changing economy and family, and the social construction of Black women as “ideal” domestic workers. Permission of instructor. |
| AAS 513 | Toni Morrison's Black Book Sem |
A multi-dimensional study of Morrison’s bookwork: fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. Involves conceptual frameworks and ideas that link this project with broader understandings and interpretations of Blacks in the world. A wide range of questions (i.e., aesthetics, feminisms, knowing-politics, language, race) derives from Morrison’s literary witnessing of Black community life. Juniors, seniors, and graduate students. |
| AAS 525 | Research Methods: African American Studies |
Methods of conducting research in black communities and procedures for gathering data about the black experience. Principles of conceptualization, interviewing techniques, participant observation, historiography, and archival methods. |
| AAS 600 | History of Jazz |
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| AAS 610 | Seminar: |
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| AAS 611 | Arts, Culture, & Literature | |
| AAS 627 | NYC: Black Women Domestic Workers |
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