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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with AFST Humanistic Inquiry · returned 26 results
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AFST 115 Black Heroism in the Diaspora and Early America 6 credits
This course examines motifs of Black Heroism throughout the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and Early America. We take an interdisciplinary and Black Studies approach to topics like slave life and maroonage, freedom suits, military enlistment, and more. The course material will include fiction like Frederick Douglass’ The Heroic Slave as well as theoretical texts like Neil Roberts Freedom as Maroonage. The aim of the course is to provide a look at the multifacted lives of Black people in the diaspora and early America with an emphasis on complex and quotidian resistance to domination.
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AFST 115.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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AMST 225 Beauty and Race in America 6 credits
In this class we consider the construction of American beauty historically, examining the way whiteness intersects with beauty to produce a dominant model that marginalizes women of color. We study how communities of color follow, refuse, or revise these beauty ideals through literature. We explore events like the beauty pageant, material culture such as cosmetics, places like the beauty salon, and body work like cosmetic surgery to understand how beauty is produced and negotiated.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AMST 225.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 265 Black Feminist Thought 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to thirty years of black feminist politics, writing, social and cultural analysis, and research. This course begins with a sketch of contemporary thinking about blackness by noted scholars who illuminate the relationship between blackness, black life, systems of sex/gender, biopolitics, and black/queer feminist knowledge production. We go on to historicize the formation of black feminism as a dynamic and fluid area of study within and across the humanities and social sciences. The history of black feminist thought presented in black women’s studies as an inherently decolonial and transformative praxis that centers intellectual radicalism both inside and outside of the academy.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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GWSS 265.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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GWSS 289 Pleasure, Intimacy, Violence 6 credits
This is an interdisciplinary course that explores how pleasure, intimacy, and violence are shaped by historic and ongoing processes of inequality in the United States. We will explore how our understandings of sexuality are influenced by discourses and practices of race and race-making in the U.S. by focusing on the relationship between micro-level (interpersonal) and macro-level (societal) violence. The topics of rape, family violence, and intimate partner violence will be examined from a structural vantage point, emphasizing the mutually constituting roles of gender, race, class, and nationality. The concepts of “pleasure” and “enjoyment” are foregrounded throughout the course.
- Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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GWSS 289.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 125 African American History I 6 credits
This survey begins with the pre-enslavement history of African Americans in West Africa. It proceeds to the transition of the slave from an African to an African American either directly or indirectly through the institution of slavery until 1865. Special attention will be given to black female activists, organizations, and philosophies proposing solutions to the African-American and Euro-American dilemma in the antebellum period.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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HIST 125.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 125.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 125.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 125.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 127 Early Africa in the Global Context 6 credits
Africa is woefully misunderstood and stereotyped as inherently violent, poor, grossly corrupt, and uncivilized. In response to these misconceptions and misrepresentations, this survey studies the diverse communities and states which existed across Africa and were part of global networks before the nineteenth century. Broadly, it explores the roots of the global hierarchies of power which perpetuate this positioning of Africa as inferior to the West. We will analyze the representations of Africa and its histories and an understanding of how these representations shape our conscious and unconscious opinions about and perceptions of the continent, its people, and their cultures.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 127.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 180 Modern Africa, 1800-Present 6 credits
This course is a general survey of modern sub-Saharan African history from the 19th century to today through primary and secondary sources and works of fiction. The course will challenge recurring colonial stereotypes of modern Africa and its peoples as inherently chaotic, unchanging, poor, diseased, corrupt and conflict-ridden. It starts with an overview of the cultural developments in Africa before 1800, including African slave systems and the Atlantic Slave Trade. It then turns to European conquest of Africa and the dynamics of colonial rule, following which we explore how the rising tide of African nationalism, in the form of liberation movements, ushered out colonialism. Finally, we examine the problems of independent African nations as they grapple with neo-colonialism, China’s presence in Africa and a changing global epidemiology in the face of HIV/AIDS and the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 180.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 181 West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade 6 credits
The medieval Islamic and the European (or Atlantic) slave trades have had a tremendous influence on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora. This course offers an introduction to the history of West African peoples via their involvement in both of these trades from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. More specifically, students will explore the demography, the economics, the social structure, and the ideologies of slavery. They also will learn the repercussions of these trades for men’s and women’s lives, for the expansion of coastal and hinterland kingdoms, and for the development of religious practices and networks.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 181.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 181.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 181.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 184 Colonial West Africa 6 credits
This course surveys the history of West Africa during the colonial period, 1860-1960. It offers an introduction to the roles that Islam and Christianity played in establishing and maintaining colonial rule. It looks at the role of colonialism in shaping African ethnic identities and introducing new gender roles. In addition, we will examine the transition from slave labor to wage labor, and its role in exacerbating gender, generation, and class divisions among West Africans. The course also highlights some of the ritual traditions and cultural movements that flourished in response to colonial rule.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 184.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 218 Black Women’s History 6 credits
This course focuses on the history of black women in the United States. The class will offer an overview of the lived experiences of women of African descent in this country from enslavement to the present. We will focus on themes of labor, reproduction, health, community, family, resistance, activism, etc., highlighting the diversity of black women’s experiences and the ways in which their lives have been shaped by the intersections of their race, gender, sexuality, and class.
- Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 218.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 319 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 218.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 220 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits
This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.
- Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 220.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 220.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 224 Disease, Health, and Healing in African History 6 credits
This interdisciplinary survey is structured around case studies of epidemics and pandemics from pre-colonial times to the present. It explores the history of disease, health, and healing in the context of changing economic, cultural, and political relations in Africa beginning in the 1800s. Broadly, this course addresses the bigger question of the coalescence of power, agency, race, gender, and environment around health and disease to today. We will also learn about the variety of interventions made by biomedicine in African history to provide students with perspectives on Africa’s place in the history of global health.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 224.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 228 Civil Rights and Black Power 6 credits
This course treats the struggle for racial justice from World War II through the 1960s. Histories, journalism, music, and visual media illustrate black and white elites and grassroots people allied in this momentous epoch that ranges from a southern integrationist vision to northern Black Power militancy. The segregationist response to black freedom completes the study.
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HIST 228.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 230 Black Americans and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction 6 credits
What does a most turbulent period in U.S. history look like from the perspectives of Black women and men? What role did Black thought and resistance play in shaping the outcome of the war? What was interracial democracy during Reconstruction and why was it ultimately overthrown? These are a few of the myriad questions we will seek to answer by studying the central role of Black Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. We will examine how Black people participated in and shaped the politics of this period and we will critically engage the meanings of freedom, emancipation, and democracy.
- Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 230.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 230.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 282 African Diaspora in Arabia 6 credits
This course offers a broad historical overview of African men’s and women’s experiences as religious, political, and military leaders, as merchants and poets, and in agricultural and maritime industries in Arabia. Situated primarily in Bahrain, with travel to Oman, the course will examine longstanding historical, cultural, and commercial exchanges between Africa and the Gulf from medieval times to the present day. The course will question the ideologies that assume that Africa and Arabia represent racial and cultural difference.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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100 or 200 level Africana Studies or History course and participation in OCS program
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HIST 282.07 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 282.07 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 283 History, Culture, and Commerce Africa and Arabia Program: Thinking Historically in the Present 2 credits
This course explores how people in the countries associated with the Africa-Arabia program use notions of the past, heritage, and culture to forge national identities. It involves foundational reading material based on available field trips and experts. Students also will be tested on knowledge that they amass from a range of sources by the end of the first week of the term. These sources include lectures, museums, and local archives. Students will demonstrate this knowledge during presentations before an audience of their peers and scholars, heritage practitioners, and staff from institutional partners.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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Participation in OCS Program
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HIST 283.07 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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HIST 284 History, Culture and Commerce Program: Heritage in Africa and Arabia 6 credits
Through lectures, readings, and extensive site visits to museums and archaeological sites, this course examines the rich cultural heritage of East Africa and Arabia. Students will investigate Persian, Arab, Indian, and Islamic sites in Zanzibar, Oman, and Bahrain, reflecting on the deep influence of the Indian Ocean on the region’s historical trading systems and modern-day relations. The course also examines the influence of various European colonial powers during the era in which they ruled or wielded influence.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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100 or 200 level Africana Studies or History course and participation in OCS program
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HIST 284.07 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 284.07 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 285 History, Culture and Commerce Program: Critical Historical Research 6 credits
This course focuses on ethnographic research and writing with an emphasis on the practice of fieldwork. Students will conduct group research projects that include actively guiding and evaluating the work of their peers. The content of these projects will include maritime activities, health, music, economics, and heritage. Students will learn the benefits and challenges of examining oral tradition, oral history, poetry, visual art, material culture, and embodied practice. Service or experiential learning is another major point of emphasis. Students will develop their ability to question their knowledge, method, evidence, interpretation, experience, ethics, and power.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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100 or 200 level Africana Studies or History course and participation in OCS program
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HIST 285.07 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 285.07 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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PHIL 228 Freedom and Alienation in Black American Philosophy 6 credits
The struggle of freedom against forms of alienation is both a historical and contemporary characteristic of Black/African-American philosophy. In this course we will explore how a variety of Black/African-American philosophers theorize these concepts. The aim of the course is to both offer resources for familiarizing students with African-American philosophers and develop an appreciation for critical philosophical voices in the Black intellectual tradition. The course will range from slave narratives, reconstruction, and civil rights to contemporary prison abolitionism, intersectionality, and afro-pessimism. The texts of the course will include: Angela Davis’ Lectures on Liberation, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells Southern Horrors, George Yancy’s African-American Philosophers 17 Conversations, and Afro-Pessimism: An Introduction. As well as select articles from historical and contemporary Black/African-American philosophers.
- Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 228.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 301 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 301 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 228.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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PHIL 228.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 260 Critical Philosophy of Race 6 credits
This course serves as an introduction to the philosophical subfield of Critical Philosophy of Race. In this course students examine issues raised by the concept of race, practices and methods of racialization, and the persistence of racism across the world despite efforts to end it. This method of doing philosophy opposes racism in all forms; it rejects racial pseudoscience and religious determinism, biological racialism, all forms of racial supremacy, and all forms of racial eliminativism. Instead, critical philosophy of race aims to help students understand how race is constructed and the multi-faced ways it operates in the world today.
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PHIL 260.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 260 Philosophy of Race 6 credits
What is race? How do we define racism? How have philosophers defined race historically? What does it mean to examine race philosophically? US history, culture, and politics are haunted by the specters of race, racism, and slavery. Ideas about race and racism permeate nearly all aspects our lives evidenced by the mainstream media’s obsession with questions like: Does racism still exist? Should critical race theory be taught in schools? Do “Black Lives” or “All Lives” matter? In this course, we will investigate the ways in which ideas about race and racism in the US have been and are continuously re-defined for the sake of preserving white supremacy and white-supremacist institutions.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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PHIL 260.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 212 Black Religious Thought 6 credits
Although Black thinkers are well-known for discussing religion, the relationship between Blackness and religious thought is ambiguous. Much like religion can be understood in numerous ways, so does “Black” carry several meanings. In this course, we will investigate this ambiguity by unpacking how Black thinkers have expanded upon, reimagined, and rejected various forms of religious practices, beliefs, and institutions. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which these engagements are shaped by thinkers’ identification with, definition of, and politics surrounding Blackness and the African diaspora. The syllabus may include Baldwin, Hurston, Malcolm X, and Cone.
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RELG 212.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 220 Justice and Responsibility 6 credits
How have religious thinkers understood the demands of justice, the work of love, and the relation of both to power and politics? Is resistance or compromise the most appropriate way to bring justice to human relations? How should the ideals of faith inform questions about political authority, struggles for equality, and engagement with difference? This course draws on Christian theology, African American religious thought, and Jewish thought to explore a range of questions about ethics and social change. Along the way, we encounter diverse models of human selfhood, moral obligation, and the role of religion in public life.
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RELG 220.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 227 Liberation Theologies 6 credits
An introduction to liberationist thought, including black theology, Latin American liberation theology, and feminist theology through writings of various contemporary thinkers. Attention will be directed to theories of justice, power, and freedom. We will also examine the social settings out of which these thinkers have emerged, their critiques of “traditional” theologies, and the new vision of Christian life they have developed in recent decades. Previous study of Christianity is recommended but not required.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 227.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 236 Black Love: Religious, Political, and Cultural Discussions 6 credits
In 2021, the passing of Black feminist bell hooks led the scholarly journal Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) to publish a special issue on Black love: hooks’ expertise. As is often the case in discussions of Blackness and love, the issue included many allusions to the divine and suggested some ties between race, love, and religion. Drawing inspiration from WSQ, this class will investigate the role religion, spirituality, and belief play in conversations about Blackness, love, and their intersection. The syllabus will include an array of academic essays, personal reflections, and creative works, including those by Lorde, Hartman, and Wonder.
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RELG 236.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 267 Black Testimony: Art, Literature, Philosophy 6 credits
Throughout Black history, testimony–a discourse in which an individual uses personal stories to convey ideas of broader meaning–has played an essential role in Black religion, politics, and daily life. In this course, we will identify the significance, history, and particularities of Black people’s testimonies, and outline their presence and potential today. Remaining mindful of testimony’s religious dimensions will include particular attention to the role of religion and spirituality in the assigned materials. The syllabus may include testimonial art by Romare Bearden and Kenrick Lamar, writings by Angela Davis and Frederick Douglass, and films by Barry Jenkins.
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RELG 267.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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