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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with AFST Survey Course · returned 12 results
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AFST 100 Blackness and Whiteness Outside the United States 6 credits
Racial categories such as “black” and “white” are social constructions that change across national boundaries. In the U.S. “black” and “white” have historically been defined by ancestry, and have been mutually exclusive. But how are these categories defined elsewhere? In this course, we consider how blackness and whiteness are defined and constructed in non-U.S. contexts. We examine a range of topics that will help us to understand not only racial categories, but also the meanings and narratives that accompany them and the way that these play into racial inequalities. Course topics include skin color stratification, colorblindness, ethnicity and nationhood, migration and citizenship, media representations, segregation, and transnationalism and globalization.
Held for new first year students
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AFST 100.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AFST 100 Sports, the Black Experience, and the American Dream 6 credits
With an emphasis on critical reading and writing in an academic context, this course will examine the role of sports in American politics and social organizations. The course pays attention to the African American experience, noting especially the confluence of race and sports. What can sports tell us about freedom, equality, and the pursuit of happiness? How has the Black community contributed to our appreciation of these American virtues? We will read short texts and biographies, and we will watch movies such as King Richard and The Blind Side. Students will produce short writing exercises aimed at developing their critical thinking and clear writing.
Held for new first year students
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AFST 100.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 8:15am-10:00am
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AFST 113 Introduction to Africana Studies 6 credits
This survey course introduces students to the content and contours of Africana Studies as a field of study–its genealogy, antecedents, development, and future challenges. The course focuses on historic and contemporary experiences of African-descended peoples, particularly in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. We will also give some attention to how members of the Diaspora remember and encounter Africa, and to how Africans respond to the history of enslavement, colonialism, apartheid, racism and globalization.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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AFST 113.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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AFST 113.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AFST 113.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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AFST 120 Race and Racism Outside the U.S. 6 credits
In this course, we examine the ways that race structures difference and inequality in non-U.S. contexts with varying degrees of racial “diversity.” As a construct fundamentally grounded in white supremacy through encounters between Europe and its “Others,” race from its inception has been a global construct for organizing and stratifying human difference. Yet the specific ways that race is constructed varies across societies, with ethnicity and other related concepts of difference substituting for race. Foundational to this course will be how the notions of blackness and whiteness figure into the creation of racial categories, boundaries, and inequalities. Course topics include skin color stratification, “colorblindness,” ethnicity and nationhood, migration and citizenship, media representations, anti-blackness as a global phenomenon, transnational and global flows of racial ideas and categories, and social movements for racial justice.
- Fall 2022
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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AFST 120.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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AFST 215 Contemporary Theory in Black Studies 6 credits
This course examines the work of a major theorist in the Black intellectual tradition within the last seventy years. Students are invited to take a dedicated dive into primary scholarship by focusing on a figure such as bell hooks, Derrick Bell, Angela Davis, Charles Mills, Saidiya Hartman, Frank Wilderson, Maya Angelou, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and/or Cornel West. Students should expect an opportunity to examine primary scholarship and build analytical skills to trace themes and methods. This year’s focus will be on ethical, social, and political theory of bell hooks (1952 – 2021).
- Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AFST 215.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AFST 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 140 African Art and Culture 6 credits
This course will survey the art and architecture of African peoples from prehistory to the present. Focusing on significant case studies in various mediums (including sculpture, painting, architecture, masquerades and body arts), this course will consider the social, cultural, aesthetic and political contexts in which artistic practices developed both on the African continent and beyond. Major themes will include the use of art for status production, the use of aesthetic objects in social rituals and how the history of African and African diaspora art has been written and institutionally framed.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 140.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARTH 140.02 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
- FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 238 African Literature in English 6 credits
This is a course on texts drawn from English-speaking Africa since the 1950’s. Authors to be read include Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Benjamin Kwakye, and Wole Soyinka.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENGL 238.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kofi Owusu 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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HIST 126 African American History II 6 credits
The transition from slavery to freedom; the post-Reconstruction erosion of civil rights and the ascendancy of Booker T. Washington; protest organizations and mass migration before and during World War I; the postwar resurgence of black nationalism; African Americans in the Great Depression and World War II; roots of the modern Civil Rights movement, and black female activism.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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HIST 126.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 126.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 305 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 126.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 126.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 126.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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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 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 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