Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 31, 2019 7:14PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 31, 2019 7:15PM EST
Classes
ASRC 1120
Course Description
This course brings together students, faculty, and invited guests to discuss the art of leadership and the opportunities and challenges women in leadership roles have encountered in their careers and how ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: DSOC 1120, MUSIC 1520
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit S/U NoAud(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Mews Residence Hall 101
Instructors
Leonard, L
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Additional Information
This is a Learning Where You Live course.
ASRC 1201
Course Description
This two-course sequence assumes no previous knowledge of Arabic and provides a thorough grounding in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It starts with the alphabet ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B04
Instructors
Owayez, K
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Younes, M
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Uris Hall 438
Instructors
Owayez, K
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Malott Hall 230
Instructors
Owayez, K
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Al-Omar, B
ASRC 1203
Course Description
In this two-course sequence learners continue to develop the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing and grammar foundation through the extensive use of graded materials on a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1203
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR Goldwin Smith Hall 158
Instructors
Weatherspoon, M
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 1203
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B04
Instructors
Weatherspoon, M
ASRC 1330
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the music of Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to exploring the diversity of indigenous musics throughout the continent, students will learn how migration, colonialism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 1330
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Lincoln Hall B21
Instructors
Appert, C
ASRC 1500
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas. This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 1500, GOVT 1503
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
Farred, G
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Additional Information
This course will not fulfill the introductory course requirement for Government.
ASRC 1595
Course Description
Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction "Nadir" of black life; the mass black ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 1595, HIST 1595
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 105
Instructors
Rickford, R
ASRC 1822
Course Description
The short story is an ideal genre through which one might gain a basic introduction to African American literature and its major themes. The foundational contributions to the development of the antebellum ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B07
Instructors
Richardson, R
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ASRC 1832
Course Description
We have a range of expressions that deal with thinking. For example: She is very good at "thinking on her feet" or he "thinks fast" both denote speed of thought – or, the ability to command the response ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
Farred, G
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ASRC 1841
Course Description
How did Blackness become an object of curiosity, desire and fascination? How did it become exotic? In this course, we will see that this is not the result of a recent development in the representation ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Lenoble, A
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ASRC 1845
Course Description
This course explores the many ways that Black families are depicted on stage, with an emphasis on the work of 20th and 21st century African-American playwrights. Students will read plays by Lorraine Hansberry, ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall 331
Instructors
Wright, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
ASRC 1996
Course Description
This seminar and its accompanying immersion offer undergraduates the unique opportunity to explore the abolition movement of upstate New York. This course provides an introductory examination of antebellum ... view course details
Seven Week - First.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Africana Ctr B01
- Aug 23 - Oct 12, 2018
Instructors
Aching, G
ASRC 2003
Course Description
An introductory interdisciplinary course focusing on Africa's geographical, ecological, social and demographic characteristics; indigenous institutions and values; multiple cultural heritage of Africanity, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Assie-Lumumba, N
ASRC 2020
Course Description
The central questions of philosophy are perennial and universal, but the answers that are given to them are always historical and idiomatic. This course will introduce its enrollees to how these questions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2525
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Taiwo, O
ASRC 2105
Course Description
This course is designed for students who can speak and understand a spoken Arabic dialect (Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc.) but have little or no knowledge of written Arabic, known as Classical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 2201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWF Uris Hall 494
Instructors
Younes, M
ASRC 2235
Course Description
This undergraduate course introduces the formal and topical innovations that African cinema has experienced since its inception in the 1960s. Sections will explore, among others, Nollywood, sci-fi, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2235, ENGL 2935
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall B06
Instructors
Diabate, N
ASRC 2260
Course Description
In this class, we will examine how musicians working in such genres as rock, jazz, folk, classical, soul, and experimental music responded and contributed to the major themes of the 1960s in the US: the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2260, MUSIC 2260
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall B20
Instructors
Piekut, B
ASRC 2354
Course Description
This seminar examines some of the political and cultural visions of Africa and Africans held by African-American intellectuals and activists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2354, HIST 2354
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Stimson Hall 105
Instructors
Rickford, R
ASRC 2511
Course Description
This course explores the social, cultural and communal lives of black women in North America, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade, and ending in 1900. Topics include Northern and Southern enslavement, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2511, FGSS 2511, HIST 2511
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 104
Instructors
Washington, M
ASRC 2770
Course Description
Designed for the general student population, this course specifically appeals to students traveling abroad, or who in the future will work with diverse communities (for example, students with interests ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2770, ENGL 2770, LSP 2770
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
Instructors
Diaz, E
Ngugi, M
ASRC 3100
Course Description
In this two-semester sequence, learners will be introduced to authentic, unedited Arabic language materials ranging from short stories, and poems, to newspaper articles dealing with social, political, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARAB 3201
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR Malott Hall 230
Instructors
Al-Omar, B
ASRC 3330
Course Description
Put into questions, the aims of this course are as follow: Should anyone worry about China's presence in Africa? Is China's presence part of the recolonizing of the Continent? Alternatively, is China's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3333
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr B07
Instructors
Grovogui, S
ASRC 3470
Course Description
This course explores Caribbean literary, sonic, and visual cultures in New York City from the late 19th century to the present, and examines the ways in which Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican diasporic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3475, LATA 3470, LSP 3470, SPAN 3470
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
McDaniel, S
ASRC 3501
Course Description
This course is a survey of the visual artistic traditions of Africa. It investigates the different forms of visual art in relation to their historical and socio-cultural context. The symbolism and complexity ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3510
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Hassan, S
ASRC 3505
Course Description
Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3515, ARTH 3505, FGSS 3505, PMA 3505, VISST 3505
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G24
Instructors
Finley, C
ASRC 3612
Course Description
Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble is an introductory performance course where students learn performance traditions from across West Africa. No prior experience is necessary. Students may choose to focus ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 3612, PMA 3212
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Lincoln Hall B20
Instructors
Anim, I
Appert, C
ASRC 3630
Course Description
From "Defending our Name" efforts in the late nineteenth century to #SayHerName and #Me, Too in the new millennium, black women have been visible in this nation's public sphere standing at the vanguard ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B07
Instructors
Richardson, R
ASRC 3652
Course Description
What impact did Africa's involvement in the slave trade and its colonization by Europe have on its long-term economic health? What role have post-independence political decisions made within Africa and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3652
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
Instructors
Greene, S
ASRC 4151
Course Description
No description available. view course details
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall 204
- Oct 15 - Dec 4, 2018
Instructors
Staff
ASRC 4304
Course Description
It is almost a truism that the United States is the world's most litigious society. As a polity founded on an almost sacralized constitutional foundation, it is no surprise that law and the legal system ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4104, ASRC 6340
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
Taiwo, O
ASRC 4390
Course Description
This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4039, ASRC 6391, HIST 4390, HIST 6391
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Washington, M
ASRC 4402
Course Description
Hip hop has been dependent on women's contributions, yet female artists have had to work hard to contest their marginalization and objectification in the music and culture. Some of the most heated debates ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4402, ANTHR 4102, FGSS 4402, LGBT 4402
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
LaBennett, O
ASRC 4514
Course Description
This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4514, ARTH 6514, ASRC 6514
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Hassan, S
ASRC 4601
Course Description
This course deals with educational innovations geared to promoting equal opportunity based on gender, race and class, in Africa and the African Diaspora. After an introduction of the concepts and theories ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: EDUC 4590
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Assie-Lumumba, N
ASRC 4650
Course Description
This seminar examines the dynamics of modern collective identities which dominated the Egyptian public sphere in the long twentieth century. We will explore the underpinnings and formation of territorial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4091, NES 4605, NES 6605
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T White Hall 114
Instructors
Fahmy, Z
ASRC 4733
Course Description
How should anti-racist people respond to the new racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States? What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? How can ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4733, AMST 6733, ENGL 4733, ENGL 6733
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Goldwin Smith Hall 232
Instructors
Mohanty, S
ASRC 4900
Course Description
For senior Africana Studies majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty. view course details
ASRC 4902
Course Description
For students working on special topics, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty. view course details
ASRC 4947
Course Description
In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4947, FGSS 4947
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Klarman Hall KG42
Instructors
Diabate, N
ASRC 6022
Course Description
This course examines racial and ethnic politics in the United States, highlighting its fundamental and constitutive role in shaping American politics more broadly. We will explore the political origins ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6022
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Michener, J
ASRC 6132
Course Description
This graduate seminar seeks to familiarize students with some of the most recent takes on transnational history that have emphasized the experiences of individuals and groups whose lives were affected ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 6132
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 104
Instructors
Bassi Arevalo, E
ASRC 6330
Course Description
African-American views of the questions of race in the decolonization in Africa, the question of freedom, and US foreign policy, including but not limited to W.E.B Dubois's internationalism, Richard Wright's ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Africana Ctr B07
Instructors
Grovogui, S
ASRC 6340
Course Description
It is almost a truism that the United States is the world's most litigious society. As a polity founded on an almost sacralized constitutional foundation, it is no surprise that law and the legal system ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4104, ASRC 4304
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr B01
Instructors
Taiwo, O
ASRC 6391
Course Description
This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4039, ASRC 4390, HIST 4390, HIST 6391
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 260
Instructors
Washington, M
ASRC 6514
Course Description
This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4514, ARTH 6514, ASRC 4514
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Africana Ctr 111
Instructors
Hassan, S
ASRC 6900
Course Description
Independent study course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details
ASRC 6902
Course Description
This class is the first in a two-part course sequence offered in the fall and spring semesters annually. In this hybrid theory and methods course, students will read historiographic, ethnographic, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: History, Political and Social Analysis
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Africana Ctr B07
Instructors
LaBennett, O