CENTER FOR AFRICANA STUDIES

362.101 (H,S)

INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES (3) Staff Limit 20 Introduction to the content and contours of Africana Studies as a field of study – its genealogy, development, and future challenges.  Focuses on historic and contemporary experiences of African-descended peoples in the Americas.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

362.240 (H,S)
(W)

WHERE IS THE LOVE?: IMAGINING LOVE IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (3)  Bynum Limit 20 This course explores the various ways in which African American authors use love - eros (erotic), agape (religious/God) and phlia (brotherly/sisterly/ familial) to consturct and nurture a self and/or communities that surrond them. Course added 11/09/06

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-12

362.260 (H,S)
(W)

HERETICAL POLITICAL THEORY: HANNAH ARENDT AND C.L.R. JAMES (3) Roberts   Limit 20 This course situates political theorist Hannah Arendt and Trinidadian thinker C.L.R. James as heretics – those persons existing at the margins of society whose thought seeks to transform the prevailing normative structures of a society’s order of things. Exegesis of select primary texts followed by secondary interpretations of those works will be emphasized within the context of the recurring trope of the heretic and the perspective of heretical political theory. Cross-listed with Political Science

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

362.320 (H,S)
(W)

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICAN MEDICINE (3)  Mulla Limit 20 This course looks at the tensions between anthropology's insistence that race constitutes a meaningless biological category and the social realities of African Americans with American medical institutions both historically and in the contemporary context.
Cross-listed with Women, Gender, & Sexuality Course added 11/09/06

Sec. 01

ThF 9-10:30

362.330 (H,S)

AFRICAN AND NATIVE INTERSECTIONS IN THE AMERICAS (3) Coleman Limit 20 This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions that have characterized African American and Native American lives in the region now known as the Americas. During the term we will examine several key themes including the struggle of Native Americans and African Americans to maintain traditions as independent, self-defining communities and the broader phenomenon of Red/Black intermarriage, conflict, and common historical experiences.

Sec. 01

W 1-4

362.385 (H,Q,S)
             
             

COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION (4) Furr-Holden Limit 20    This course is an introduction to the salient features of Community Health and Community Health Promotion. Community health promotion is understanding a community, its health status and evolution, its needs and assets, its resources and activities and understanding how the community situation might be changed (and health improved) by action on the part of the community and outside experts. The course aims to provide students with learning opportunities that will enable them to be conversant in topics of community health promotion by applying basic conceptual models of community health to local health scenarios. Students will become familiar with resources, agencies, data, and techniques that are involved in a wide array of community health promotion initiatives. Cross-listed with Public Health Studies Course added 10/27/06

Sec. 01

M 2-5

362.457 (H,S)
(W)

RICHARD WRIGHT AND MODERNISM: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS (3) Hayes Limit 25 This seminar provides an examination of the modern black writer Richard Wright. We will interrogate Wright’s critique of modern Western civilization, his interpretation of the black experience, and his involvement in radical politics. The broad purpose of this course is to develop an analysis that accounts for Wright's philosophical, literary and political commitments. In order to understand his development as a writer and intellectual activist, we will examine his life experiences in the South and later in the Communist Party, as well as the complex philosophical ideas that shaped his thinking and writing. Through a critical reading of works by and about Wight, seminar members will examine his contribution to Africana existential thought, which is premised upon concerns of freedom, anguish, resentment, responsibility, embodied agency, sociality, and liberation.  
Cross-listed with Political Science and Sociology.

Sec. 01

T 2-5

362.500 (H,S)
(W)

AFRICAN DIASPORA RESEARCH PRACTICUM: THE DIASPORA IN BALTIMORE (3) Vinson    Limit 12  This research intensive course is designed to introduce and familiarize students with basic research techniques for conducting historical and ethnographic work (oral histories) on the African Diaspora, using Baltimore as a research site.  Students will be responsible for employing a number of methodologies in the field to gain a deeper understanding of a set of fundamental questions: 1) how have African-Americans historically interpreted the migration of immigrants into the Baltimore region? 2) how have migrants themselves processed their interaction with local African-American communities 3) what are the implications of these interactions for our understanding of the greater African Diaspora? 

Sec. 01

T 2-5

379.152

BEGINNING KISWAHILI II (3) Mugambi Limit 15  Continuation of 379.151. Continuation of 379.151
Cross-listed with Language Teaching Center

Sec. 01

MW 4-5:30

379.162

BEGINNING HAUSA II (3) Mamane Limit 18  Continuation of 379.161. Continuation of 379.161
Cross-listed with Language Teaching Center

Sec. 01

TTh 5:45-7pm

379.252 (H)

INTERMEDIATE KISWAHILI II (3) Mugambi   Limit 18  Prereq: 379.151-152 Continuation of 379.251

Cross-listed with Language Teaching Center

Sec. 01

M 5:30-7pm
F 10:30-12

360.339 (H,S)
(W)

BLACK POWER FANTASIES (AP) (3) Spence/ Carpenter   Limit 16   This course will look at the origins and evolution of Black Power and notions of Black Empowerment  from political, anthropological, media and arts perspectives. The class will also be engaged in a dialogue with a similar course taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cross-listed with Political Science

Sec. 01

T 1-4

213.408 (H)

THE LITERATURE OF BLACKS AND JEWS IN THE 20TH CENTURY (3) M. Caplan  Limit 10
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

W 1-3

360.469 (H,S)

ISSUES IN GLOBALIZATION (IR) (3) Grovogui  Limit 25
Cross-listed with Sociology and Political Science

Sec. 01

Th 4-6pm