AAAD Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Wait List
12438	AAAD 54 - 001 First-Year Seminar: African Migrations, Boundaries, Displacements, and Belonging	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	MICHAEL LAMBERT	Dey Hall - Rm 0401	4/5 (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: This discussion-oriented seminar will use the works of African authors and filmmakers to explore how this dimension of the African experience has in part shaped the everyday lives of the peoples of the African continent. 3 units.
13767	AAAD 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Maya Berry	YMCA Building - Rm 0207	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
13770	AAAD 89 - 002 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	Tu 3:30PM - 6:00PM	Robert Porter	Carolina Hall - Rm 0213	7/8 (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
7390	AAAD 101 - 001 Introduction to Africa	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Raphael Birya	Phillips - Rm 0247	Seats filled (45 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
7391	AAAD 101 - 002 Introduction to Africa	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	DAVID PIER	Murphey - Rm 0104	40/42 (45 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
7392	AAAD 101 - 003 Introduction to Africa	TuTh 7:00PM - 8:15PM	Matthew Sebastian	TBA	43/45 (45 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
8360	AAAD 130 - 001 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Alicia Monroe	Murphey - Rm 0104	30/35 (45 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
7671	AAAD 130 - 002 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Petal Samuel	Dey Hall - Rm 0206	43/45 (45 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
9159	AAAD 130 - 003 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Charlene Regester	Greenlaw - Rm 0302	26/30 (42 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
13773	AAAD 214 - 001 Africa through the Ethnographic Lens	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	MICHAEL LAMBERT	Dey Hall - Rm 0307	39/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course examines the ways by which anthropologists have used ethnographic texts to describe and frame African societies. Among the topics explored through a close textual reading of both classical and contemporary ethnographic texts are systems of thought, politics, economics, social organization and the politics of representation. 3 units.
10019	AAAD 240 - 001 African American Politics	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Ronald Williams	Hanes Art Center - Rm 0218	30/38 (38 total)	Seats filled
Description: A survey of African American political development from emancipation to the present. The course examines the dynamics of minority group politics with African Americans as the primary unit of analysis. Students consider African American politics in domestic and global contexts and issues of local, regional, national, and international relevance. 3 units.
13776	AAAD 250 - 001 The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present	Tu 2:00PM - 4:50PM	Charlene Regester	Stone Center - Rm 0210	21/36 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course will analyze the role of the African American in motion pictures, explore the development of stereotypical portrayals, and investigate the efforts of African American actors and actresses to overcome these portrayals. 3 units.
13779	AAAD 252 - 001 African Americans in the West	MoWe 5:45PM - 7:00PM	Robert Porter	Murray Hall - Rm G201	30/35 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: African Americans in the West is a survey course that examines the origins, migration, and development of African descended peoples in the United States west of the Mississippi River. 3 units.
14367	AAAD 257 - 001 Black Nationalism in the United States	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Claude Clegg	Venable - Rm G311	38/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course traces the evolution of black nationalism, both as an idea and a movement, from the era of the American Revolution to its current Afrocentric expressions. 3 units.
12234	AAAD 258 - 001 The Civil Rights Movement	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Dey Hall - Rm 0307	14/33 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: An examination of the struggle by black Americans for social justice since World War II and of the systemic responses. 3 units.
13781	AAAD 260 - 001 Blacks in Latin America	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Robert Porter	Murphey - Rm 0105	34/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: The majority of people of African descent in this hemisphere live in Latin America. This course will explore various aspects of the black experience in Latin America. 3 units.
13782	AAAD 261 - 001 Afro-Cuban Dance: History, Theory, and Practice	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Maya Berry	Kenan Music Building - Rm 2131	36/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: Course interrogates concepts such as religion, folklore, nation, blackness, gender, history, and dance. Concepts illustrated through readings, movement practice (dance classes), and spectatorship. 3 units.
7393	AAAD 284 - 001 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Peabody - Rm 2060	10/40 (40 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: An interdisciplinary survey of African-descendant communities and the development and expression of African/black identities in the context of competing definitions of diaspora. 3 units.
9559	AAAD 286 - 001 The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Alicia Monroe	Murphey - Rm 0104	17/39 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: Explores the experiences of Africans in European colonies in locations such as colonial Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, and mainland North America. Lecture and discussion format. The major themes of inquiry include labor, law, gender, culture, and resistance, exploring differing experiences based on gender, location, and religion. 3 units.
12664	AAAD 316 - 001 Public Policy and Development in Africa	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	EUNICE SAHLE	Peabody - Rm 2080	21/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course is a study of policy making in African states with respect to issues of sustainable development. 3 units.
13784	AAAD 318 - 001 Politics of Art in Africa	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:35PM	DAVID PIER	Stone Center - Rm 0210	27/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course considers a variety of African artists and art scenes in their political, economic, and cultural contexts. Likely topics include artists under Apartheid, the global trade in traditional wood carvings, and Africa's place in the global contemporary art circuit. 3 units.
11076	AAAD 330 - 001 20th-Century African American Art	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	John Bowles	Greenlaw - Rm 526A	Seats filled (6 total)	Seats filled
Description: Focus on the historical development of African American art from the Harlem Renaissance of early 20th century through the Black Arts Movement and Feminist Art Movement 1960s and early 1970s. 3 units.
13789	AAAD 335 - 001 Structure of African American English	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	JULES TERRY	Dey Hall - Rm 0304	Seats filled (5 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course treats the structural properties of African American English. Students will learn to use sentence data to test hypotheses about language structure by investigating the phonology, syntax and semantics of African American English. 3 units.
10429	AAAD 344 - 001 African American Theatre: Exploring Legacy and Contemporary Voices	Mo 3:30PM - 6:20PM	Howard Craft	Gardner - Rm 0007	11/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course investigates the history and legacy, as well as contemporary trends and ideas of African American drama through the study of its literary texts, performance styles, and cultural history. We will explore how the African American's dramatists voice is shaping cultural landscapes and ongoing conversations. 3 units.
12691	AAAD 356 - 001 The History of Hip-Hop Culture	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Christopher Massenburg	Murphey - Rm 0105	Seats filled (41 total)	Seats filled
Description: Examines the emergence and impact of hip-hop music and culture and its broad influence in mainstream culture, as a global phenomenon and as a vehicle embodying formative ideas of its constituent communities. 3 units.
10954	AAAD 389 - 001 The Caribbean Anticolonial: Caribbean Literature, Film, Aesthetics, and Politics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Petal Samuel	Peabody - Rm 2080	Seats filled (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course will examine literature, film, art, and music from the Caribbean that illustrates and critiques the past and present impacts of colonial rule in the region. What role has anticolonial Caribbean literature and art played in shaping the region's present and future, and in shaping global anticolonial politics? 3 units.
11056	AAAD 391 - 001 Human Development and Sustainability in Africa and the African Diaspora	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Shakirah Hudani	Stone Center - Rm 0209	37/40 (40 total)	Seats filled
Description: A critical introduction to the study of development and sustainability as interlinked approaches to understanding contemporary challenges in Africa and the African diaspora. Development is a concept with multiple meanings and contextual incarnations. The course emphasizes thinking of development as a field of expertise and intervention and as a modality of change, that goes beyond economistic understandings of development as simply economic growth. 3 units.
7683	AAAD 395 - 001 Undergraduate Research Seminar	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Murphey - Rm 0220	10/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/5
Description: Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Subject matter will vary with each instructor. Each course will concern itself with a study in depth of some problem in African, African American, or diaspora studies. 3 units.
13785	AAAD 400 - 001 Contemporary African Politics	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	EUNICE SAHLE	Hanes Art Center - Rm 0118	6/20 (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: This upper level seminar examines contemporary African politics with a focus on political trends in the post-1990s period. 3 units.
16380	AAAD 419 - 001 African Studies Colloquium	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Tate Turner Kuralt - Rm 0113	2/20 (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course will equip students to analyze critically cutting-edge issues concerning Africa today through readings, lectures, and research. For junior/senior majors and students with an interest in Africa. 3 units.
8714	AAAD 421 - 001 Introduction to the Languages of Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Mohamed Mwamzandi	Greenlaw - Rm 0103	14/20 (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course is an introduction to the languages of Africa. No linguistics background is required. Topics include classification, characteristic linguistic features of African languages, and their role in their respective societies. 3 units.
13787	AAAD 466 - 001 Race and Gender in the Atlantic World	Tu 3:30PM - 6:00PM	Alicia Monroe	Genome Sciences Bldg - Rm 1373	17/20 (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course examines constructions of race and gender in a comparative framework from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Students will explore how people across the Atlantic understood visual differences and human diversity in emerging concepts of race. Students will also focus on how inhabitants of Africa, Europe, North America, and South America constructed the category of "woman" and "man" and the constraints and liberties these constructions imposed. 3 units.
13788	AAAD 492 - 001 Urbanism in the Global South	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Shakirah Hudani	Dey Hall - Rm 0303	7/10 (10 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course introduces concepts and themes on the development of urbanism in the "Global South". Students engage with current debates over urbanism in the Global South, including looking at urban inequalities in contemporary cities. Through the course, students will be able to compare and critically analyze formations of contemporary urbanism in selected cities in the Global South from a comparative perspective. 3 units.