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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with HISTAFRDIASPORA · returned 12 results
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HIST 112 Freedom of Expression: A Global History 6 credits
Celebrated as the bedrock of democracy, freedom of expression is often seen as an American or western value. Yet the concept has a rich and global history. In this course we will track the long and turbulent history of freedom of expression from ancient Athens and medieval Islamic societies to the Enlightenment and the drive for censorship in totalitarian and colonial societies. Among the questions we will consider are: How have the parameters of free expression changed and developed over time? What is the relationship between free speech and political protest? How has free speech itself been weaponized? How does an understanding of the history of free speech help us think about the challenges of combating hatred and misinformation in today’s internet age?
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 112.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 126 African American History II 6 credits
This course analyzes Black Freedom activism, its goals, and protagonists from Reconstruction until today. Topics include the evolution of racial segregation and its legal and de facto expressions in the South and across the nation, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, Black activism in the New Deal era, the effects of World War II and the Cold War, mass activism in the 1950s and 1960s, white supremacist resistance against Black rights, Black Power activism and Black Internationalism, the “War on Drugs,” racialized welfare state reforms, and police brutality, the election of Barack Obama, and the path to #BlackLivesMatter today.
- Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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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 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 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.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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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 282 History, Culture, and Commerce Africa and Arabia Program: 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 in Zanzibar and in various Gulf societies, the course will examine long standing 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 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 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 Africa and Arabia Program: Heritage in Africa and Arabia 4 credits
Through lectures, readings, and visits to museums and archaeological and other heritage sites, this course examines the rich cultural heritage of East Africa and Arabia. Students will investigate a range of sites, reflecting on the deep and enduring connections between Africa’s and Arabia’s historical trading systems and cultures. The course also examines the influence of various European powers.
Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia
- 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 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 285 History, Culture, and Commerce Africa and Arabia 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 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 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
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HIST 286 Ecology and Society in African History 6 credits
Scholarship about the multiple arenas in which colonialism wrought wide-ranging ecological transformations in Africa captures imagination. Through the lens of ‘history from below’ approach, this course interrogates African environmental history across pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial temporal spaces. It pays particular attention to how Africans’ indigenous knowledge and practices of natural resource access have been in perpetual conflict with neo-protectionist conservationist policies that threaten Africans’ bio-cultural heritage today. Themes to be addressed include African ideas about landscape, culture-nature relationality, sustainable natural resource utilization, disease ecologies, gender and the environment, resource-based conflicts, climate change, ecological imperialism, and negotiations for environmental justice.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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HIST 286.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 334 Voyages of Understanding 6 credits
This seminar will examine the phenomenon of travel across historical periods and around the globe. We will look at motivations for travel; ideas about place, space, and geography; travel as site of encounter and conflict with peoples of different religions, ethnicities, and cultures; the effect of travel on individual and group identity; and representations of travel, cultural contact, and geography in texts, maps, and images. We will work on key research skills, and each student will carry out an original research project leading to a ca. 25-page research paper.
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HIST 334.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLibrary 344 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Applies to multiple history fields. Consult the instructor.
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