AAAD Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
13679	AAAD 50 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Defining Blackness	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Nadia Mosquera Muriel	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1373	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: Blackness and whiteness as racial categories have existed in the United States from the earliest colonial times, but their meanings have shifted and continue to shift. Over the semester we will attempt to define and redefine blackness in the United States. 3 units.
13680	AAAD 58 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Health Inequality in Africa and the African Diaspora	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	LYDIA BOYD	Graham Memorial-Rm 0210	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: This first-year seminar examines the ways that healthcare access and health itself are shaped by social, racial, and economic inequalities in our society and others. The geographic focus of this course is Africa and the United States. Drawing on research in medical anthropology, sociology, public health, and history, we will gain an understanding of the political, economic, and social factors that create health inequalities. 3 units.
12035	AAAD 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Maya Berry	Peabody Hall-Rm 2080	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
12037	AAAD 89 - 002 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Alicia Monroe	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0319	2/12	Seats filled	14/24
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
6942	AAAD 101 - 001 Introduction to Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Raphael Birya	New West-Rm 0219	Seats filled	Seats filled	45/45	0/999
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.
6943	AAAD 101 - 002 Introduction to Africa	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	MICHAEL LAMBERT	Wilson Hall-Rm 0128	42/45	Seats filled	42/45	0/999
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.
6944	AAAD 101 - 003 Introduction to Africa	TuTh 7:00PM - 8:15PM	Matthew Sebastian	TBA	32/39	Seats filled	38/45	0/999
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.
7859	AAAD 130 - 001 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Alicia Monroe	Dey Hall-Rm 0206	30/34	Seats filled	41/45	0/999
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.
7209	AAAD 130 - 002 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Robert Porter	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	40/45	Seats filled	40/45	0/999
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.
8615	AAAD 130 - 003 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Charlene Regester	Dey Hall-Rm 0206	24/36	Seats filled	31/43	0/999
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.
13684	AAAD 200 - 001 Gender and Sexuality in Africa	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	LYDIA BOYD	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	22/33	Seats filled	29/40	0/999
Description: Introduction to the study of gender and sexuality in African societies. Theoretical questions relating to the cross-cultural study of gender will be a primary focus. Topics include historical perspectives on the study of kinship and family in Africa and the impact of colonialism and other forms of social change. 3 units.
12040	AAAD 214 - 001 Africa through the Ethnographic Lens	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	MICHAEL LAMBERT	Murray Hall-Rm G201	37/40	Seats filled	37/40	0/999
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.
13686	AAAD 231 - 001 African American History since 1865	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Brandi Brimmer	Stone Center-Rm 0209	22/32	Seats filled	25/35	0/999
Description: Special emphasis on postemancipation developments. 3 units.
12043	AAAD 250 - 001 The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present	Tu 3:30PM - 6:20PM	Charlene Regester	Peabody Hall-Rm 2080	10/30	Seats filled	10/30	0/999
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.
12046	AAAD 252 - 001 African Americans in the West	MoWe 5:45PM - 7:00PM	Robert Porter	Gardner Hall-Rm 0007	16/30	Seats filled	18/32	0/999
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.
11055	AAAD 258 - 001 The Civil Rights Movement	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Phillips Hall-Rm 0328	15/36	Seats filled	19/40	0/999
Description: An examination of the struggle by black Americans for social justice since World War II and of the systemic responses. 3 units.
12048	AAAD 260 - 001 Blackness in Latin America	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Nadia Mosquera Muriel	Gardner Hall-Rm 0210	Seats filled	Seats filled	38/38	0/999
Description: The majority of people of African descent in this hemisphere live in Latin America. This course will explore how blackness is understood and reproduced in Latin America, as well as Black history, cultures, experiences, and social movements in the region. 3 units.
12049	AAAD 261 - 001 Afro-Cuban Dance: History, Theory, and Practice	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Maya Berry	Kenan Music Bldg-Rm 2131	37/40	Seats filled	37/40	0/999
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.
6945	AAAD 284 - 001 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Phillips Hall-Rm 0328	6/31	Seats filled	7/32	0/999
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.
8981	AAAD 286 - 001 The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800	Tu 7:30PM - 10:00PM	Robert Porter	Gardner Hall-Rm 0007	15/32	Seats filled	15/32	0/999
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.
13687	AAAD 288 - 001 Global Black Popular Cultures	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	samba camara	Gardner Hall-Rm 0007	29/36	Seats filled	33/40	0/999
Description: Through an interdisciplinary analysis of key aspects of black popular cultures in their global diversity, this course tackles fundamental questions about the meanings of black identity, identification, and belonging. 3 units.
13688	AAAD 303 - 001 Islamic Cultures of Contemporary Africa	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	samba camara	Stone Center-Rm 0209	34/37	Seats filled	37/40	0/999
Description: By examining the social history and meaning of various cultural practices, literature, art, and popular music among Muslim Africans, this course introduces students to how Islam has influenced contemporary African identity and to the practices that came to be associated with Africa as a land of Islam. 3 units.
13689	AAAD 320 - 001 Music of Africa	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	DAVID PIER	Hamilton Hall-Rm 0420	9/15	Seats filled	13/19	0/999
Description: An introduction to African music new and old, focusing on the continent's distinctive techniques and concepts, and on its musical interactions with the rest of the world. The politics of music making in various historical settings will be explored. Prior musical experience is helpful, but not required. 3 units.
10291	AAAD 330 - 001 20th-Century African American Art	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	John Bowles	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0117	5/6	Seats filled	5/6	0/999
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.
14645	AAAD 340 - 001 Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Stone Center-Rm 0210	10/30	Seats filled	10/30	0/999
Description: Examines the socio-political dimensions of African diaspora art and culture with a focus on African Americans in the 20th century. 3 units.
11309	AAAD 356 - 001 The History of Hip-Hop Culture	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Christopher Massenburg	Phillips Hall-Rm 0247	Seats filled	Seats filled	40/40	0/999
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.
10274	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	Seats filled	37/40	0/999
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.
7217	AAAD 395 - 001 Undergraduate Research Seminar	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	EUNICE SAHLE	Murphey Hall-Rm 0105	8/20	Seats filled	8/20	0/999
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.
8197	AAAD 421 - 001 Introduction to the Languages of Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Mohamed Mwamzandi	Dey Hall-Rm 0210	12/20	Seats filled	12/20	0/999
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.
13692	AAAD 430 - 001 African American Intellectual History	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0116	7/20	Seats filled	7/20	0/999
Description: An examination of major intellectual trends in African American life from the 19th to the early 21st century. 3 units.
12053	AAAD 466 - 001 Race and Gender in the Atlantic World	Tu 3:30PM - 6:00PM	Alicia Monroe	Murphey Hall-Rm 0302	7/20	Seats filled	7/20	0/999
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.
13693	AAAD 490 - 001 Colloquium in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Brandi Brimmer	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0118	10/20	Seats filled	10/20	0/999
Description: This course is designed to give students a broad-ranging, interpretative perspective on-and analytical tools for studying-the migration and settlement of African peoples in various parts of the world, largely over the past several centuries. Based on selected secondary readings, students will study and compare the ways in which people of African descent have created political, cultural, and territorial communities in Africa and beyond the continent, especially in the slave and post-emancipation societies of the Americas. 3 units.