AFRICAAM 15A:
IDA Integrative Seminar: Occupy Art - Immigration, Nation, and the Art of Occupation (AMSTUD 15A, COMPLIT 36, CSRE 15A, ENGLISH 15A)
This course consists of film screenings, dialogues, and performances that engage critically with the theme of Occupation across contexts, exploring both the potential and limitations of the art of Occupation. Students will engage some of the most provocative artists, writers, and thinkers of our times to consider the purpose of the arts across diverse communities that engage Occupation in local, transnational and global perspective.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-4
AFRICAAM 16N:
African Americans and Social Movements (CSRE 16N, SOC 16N)
Theory and research on African Americans' roles in post-Civil Rights, US social movements. Topics include women¿s right, LGBT rights, environmental movement, and contemporary political conservativism.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
AFRICAAM 21:
African American Vernacular English (LINGUIST 65, LINGUIST 265)
The English vernacular spoken by African Americans in big city settings, and its relation to Creole English dialects spoken on the S. Carolina Sea Islands (Gullah), in the Caribbean, and in W. Africa. The history of expressive uses of African American English (in soundin' and rappin'), and its educational implications. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 28:
Choreography: Color Purple (DANCE 28)
Students in this class will participate in the choreographic process that will ultimately lead to the dance and movement vocabulary of the Drama production of the "Color Purple". Taken through permission of the instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 30:
History and Culture of Ancient Egypt (CLASSHIS 105)
Overview of ancient Egyptian pasts, from predynastic times to Greco-Roman rule, roughly 3000 BCE to 30 BCE. Attention to archaeological sites and artifacts; workings of society; and cultural productions, both artistic and literary.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 40SI:
The Mis-Education of Black America
This course seeks to explore issues that are often taboo topics in the African American communities and Black America. Through exploration of topics regarding identity, sexuality, dating, education, heath, and media students will discuss and explore the underlying causes and possible solutions to these problems. When these topics are presented there is often contention on beliefs, various misconceptions and misinformation within the Black community and in America. Thus, the course seeks to educate about and raise awareness of these topics in order to garner a greater understanding of Black America and the diversity present within the African American community.Maybe repeat for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
AFRICAAM 43:
Introduction to African American Literature (AMSTUD 143, ENGLISH 43, ENGLISH 143)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143.) African American literature from its earliest manifestations in the spirituals, trickster tales, and slave narratives to recent developments such as black feminist theory, postmodern fiction, and hip hop lyricism. We will engage some of the defining debates and phenomena within African American cultural history, including the status of realist aesthetics in black writing; the contested role of literature in black political struggle; the question of diaspora; the problem of intra-racial racism; and the emergence of black internationalism. Attuned to the invariably hybrid nature of this tradition, we will also devote attention to the discourse of the Enlightenment, modernist aesthetics, and the role of Marxism in black political and literary history.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 47:
History of South Africa (HISTORY 47)
(Same as HISTORY 147. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 147.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evolution of African and Afrikaner nationalism; the rise and fall of the apartheid state; the politics of post-apartheid transformation; and the AIDS crisis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 48Q:
South Africa: Contested Transitions (HISTORY 48Q)
Preference to sophomores. The inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in May 1994 marked the end of an era and a way of life for S. Africa. The changes have been dramatic, yet the legacies of racism and inequality persist. Focus: overlapping and sharply contested transitions. Who advocates and opposes change? Why? What are their historical and social roots and strategies? How do people reconstruct their society? Historical and current sources, including films, novels, and the Internet.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 50B:
19th Century America (HISTORY 50B)
(Same as HISTORY 150B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register in 150B.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 54N:
African American Women's Lives
Preference to freshmen. The everyday lives of African American women in 19th- and 20th-century America in comparative context of histories of European, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women. Primary sources including personal journals, memoirs, music, literature, and film, and historical texts. Topics include slavery and emancipation, labor and leisure, consumer culture, social activism, changing gender roles, and the politics of sexuality.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 55C:
Black Childhood in American Literature (CSRE 55C)
This course will explore ways that the black child as a trope, a site, a body and a subject is represented in 20th Century American literature. With attention to the representation of black childhood in the novels, short fiction, and memoirs of Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, and others, we will also investigate the ways in which those representations reflect larger issues and dilemmas for black childhood within American institutions and cultural discourse.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
AFRICAAM 56N:
Mixed Race in the New Millennium: Crossings of Kin, Faith & Culture (CSRE 56N, ENGLISH 56N)
Preference to freshmen. How literature, theater, graphic art and popular culture shape understandings of contemporary "mixed race" identity and other complex experiences of cultural hybridity. Course explores implications for racial identity, art, and politics for the new millennium.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
AFRICAAM 75E:
Black Cinema
How filmmakers represent historical and cultural issues in Black cinema.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
AFRICAAM 101E:
AAAS Lecture Series: Race and Education
AAAS will host weekly lectures focused on issues of Race and Education. Scholars from across the country will cover topics such as the school to prison pipeline, the African America Achievement gap, how race impacts student's access to STEM careers, the environmental stress of associated with race, the need for school community partnership and understanding, and how school administrators and teachers use their understanding of race to impact schools.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
AFRICAAM 103:
Dance, Text and Gesture (DANCE 103)
Workshop geared for dance, spoken word and dramatic performers who want to explore and gain facility with written and spoken word text in relation to various modes of choreographic development and gestural vocabulary. Students will also both create original compositions and draw from existing texts, as well as participate in guest workshops by Bay Area Spoken Word artists. May be repeated for credit. All levels welcome.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 105:
Introduction to African and African American Studies
Interdisciplinary. Central themes in African American culture and history related to race as a definitive American phenomenon. African survivals and interpretations of slavery in the New World, contrasting interpretations of the Black family, African American literature, and art. Possible readings: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, and bell hooks. Focus may vary each year. This course is a WIM course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 106:
Race, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Diversity in Classrooms: Sociocultural Theory and Practices (CSRE 103B, EDUC 103B, EDUC 337)
Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 112:
Urban Education (EDUC 112X, EDUC 212X, SOC 129X, SOC 229X)
(Graduate students register for EDUC 212X or SOC 229X). Combination of social science and historical perspectives trace the major developments, contexts, tensions, challenges, and policy issues of urban education.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 114:
Universalism and its Discontents: French and US Perspectives on Race and Politics (CSRE 114)
This course offers a comparative analysis of race and politics in the US and France. Both political systems are grounded in ideology confirming equality and individual liberty, yet find `race¿ a continual problematic obscuring ideals of the Nation. This course explores how French Republicanism and US democratic theory, including Postracialism explain race; and how each approach impacts institutions and public discourse on equality. We also will consider how shifting notions about race affects political mobilization.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
AFRICAAM 121X:
Hip Hop, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language (AMSTUD 121X, ANTHRO 121A, CSRE 121X, EDUC 121X, LINGUIST 155)
Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
AFRICAAM 138:
Mind in Motion: Knowledge Creation Through Dance Practice and Design Thinking (DANCE 138)
Dance technique and movement fundamentals drawn from Liquid Flow. Looking at the body as the source of design, students will also look at concepts and principles drawn from design and engineering through a tactile, kinetic and kinesthetic lens. Improvisation and creative composition throughout the course.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 1 units total)
AFRICAAM 145A:
Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women's Literature
Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization.
Last offered: Winter 2011
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
AFRICAAM 147:
History of South Africa (HISTORY 147)
(Same as HISTORY 47. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 147.) Introduction, focusing particularly on the modern era. Topics include: precolonial African societies; European colonization; the impact of the mineral revolution; the evolution of African and Afrikaner nationalism; the rise and fall of the apartheid state; the politics of post-apartheid transformation; and the AIDS crisis.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 150B:
19th-Century America (AMSTUD 150B, HISTORY 150B)
(Same as HISTORY 50B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150B.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes and consequences of the Civil War. Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-SI
AFRICAAM 152:
DuBois and American Culture (AMSTUD 152D, ENGLISH 152D)
His life and career. Focus on first half of his life from his Harvard doctoral dissertation to the end of the Harlem Renaissance in which he played a crucial role. Sources include his books on history and sociology, scholarly essays, novels, and journals that he edited. AAAS WIM course.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
AFRICAAM 152G:
Global Harlem Renaissance (AMSTUD 152G)
Examination of the explosion of African American artistic expression during 1920s and 30s New York known as the Harlem Renaissance. Amiri Baraka once referred to the Renaissance as a kind of ¿vicious Modernism,¿ as a ¿BangClash,¿ that impacted and was impacted by political, cultural and aesthetic changes not only in the U.S. but Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Focus on the literature, graphic arts, and the music of the era in this global context.
Last offered: Autumn 2010
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 163S:
Post Black Drama in the Age of Obama (AMSTUD 163S, CSRE 163S, DRAMA 163S, DRAMA 363S)
This course will examine works of the new millennium that confront questions of African American experience. These plays are written by African American and non-black writers. In analyzing these works, this course will investigate such questions as: In a time that has been called 'Post Race' or 'Post Soul' or even 'Post Black,' what can we discern about African American drama? How do these plays reflect or contradict such labeling? How do these works speak to our times? Who does the form relate to in matters of content in these works? What do these works tell us about the contemporary constructions and meanings of blackness?
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
AFRICAAM 165E:
Residential Racial Segregation and the Education of African-American Youth (EDUC 237X, ETHICSOC 165E)
This course concerns the ongoing residential racial segregation of metropolitan areas in the U.S., how such segregation is the product of policy, rather than only unintended demographic and economic trends and personal choices, and how this segregation contributes to lower academic achievement, increased crime, public health crisis, and employment inequality for African-Americans. We will consider the enduring effects of explicit federal, state, and local policies that have created systematic residential barriers that support ongoing social, cultural, and economic inequality.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
AFRICAAM 166:
Introduction to African American History: The Modern African American Freedom Struggle (AMSTUD 166, HISTORY 166)
Focus is on political thought and protest movements after 1930. Individuals who have shaped and been shaped by modern African American struggles for freedom and justice. Sources include audiovisual materials. Research projects required for fifth unit.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
AFRICAAM 176H:
Black Women Playwrights, 1900-the present (DRAMA 176H, DRAMA 336, FEMST 140W)
From the rave reviews garnered by Angelina Weld Grimke's lynching play, Rachel to recent work by Lynn Nottage on Rwanda, black women playwrights have addressed key issues in modern culture and politics. We will analyze and perform work written by black women in the U.S., Britain and the Caribbean in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics include: sexuality, surrealism, colonialism, freedom, violence, colorism, love, history, community and more. Playwrights include: Angelina Grimke, Lorriane Hansberry, Winsome Pinnock, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan- Lori Parks, Ntzoke Shange, Pearl Cleage, Sarah Jones, Anna DeVeare Smith, Alice Childress, Lydia Diamond and Zora Neale Hurston.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
AFRICAAM 190:
Directed Reading
May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 199:
Honors Project
May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 200X:
Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Seminar
Required for seniors. Weekly colloquia with AAAS Director and Associate Director to assist with refinement of research topic, advisor support, literature review, research, and thesis writing. Readings include foundational and cutting-edge scholarship in the interdisciplinary fields of African and African American studies and comparative race studies. Readings assist students situate their individual research interests and project within the larger. Students may also enroll in AFRICAAM 200Y in Winter and AFRICAAM 200Z in Spring for additional research units (up to 10 units total).
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
AFRICAAM 200Y:
Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Research
Winter. Required for students writing an Honors Thesis. Optional for Students writing a Senior Thesis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
AFRICAAM 200Z:
Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Research
Spring. Required for students writing an Honors Thesis. Optional for Students writing a Senior Thesis.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
AFRICAAM 255:
Racial Identity in the American Imagination (AMSTUD 255D, CSRE 255D, HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D)
Major historical transformations shaping the understanding of racial identity and how it has been experienced, represented, and contested in American history. Topics include: racial passing and racial performance; migration, immigration, and racial identity in the urban context; the interplay between racial identity and American identity; the problems of class, gender, and sexuality in the construction of racial identity. Sources include historical and legal texts, memoirs, photography, literature, film, and music.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
AFRICAAM 51:
Congolese Dance (AFRICAST 51, DANCE 51)
Movements and choreography from Central Africa. Elements unique to all African dance movement: body isolation, polyrhythmic movement, and body posture. Live drumming. Open to all levels of dancers.
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 64C:
From Freedom to Freedom Now!: African American History, 1865-1965
(Same as HISTORY 164C. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 164C.) Explores the working lives, social worlds, political ideologies and cultural expressions of African Americans from emancipation to the early civil rights era. Topics include: the transition from slavery to freedom, family life, work, culture, leisure patterns, resistance, migration and social activism. Draws largely on primary sources including autobiographies, memoirs, letters, personal journals, newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, literature, film and music.
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
AFRICAAM 75C:
Black Sitcoms: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The portrayal of black life on television in the 90s. Critical framework including concepts of identity, race, gender, and class. In-class viewings. Sitcoms in relation to theoretical work including that of Toni Morrison, Marlon Riggs, Hermann Gray, Ann duCille, and Mark Anthony Neal.
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
AFRICAAM 107C:
The Black Mediterranean: Greece, Rome and Antiquity (CSRE 107)
Explore problems of race and ethnicity as viable criteria in studying ancient societies and consider the question, What is the Mediterranean?, in relation to premodern evidence. Investigate the role of blackness as a marker of ethnicity; the demography of slavery and its roles in forming social identities; and environmental determinism as a factor in ethnic and racial thinking. Consider Greek and Roman perspectives and behavior, and their impact on later theories of race and ethnicity as well as the Mediterranean as a whole.
| Units: 4-5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
AFRICAAM 123:
Great Works of the African American Tradition
Foundational African and African American scholarly figures and their work from the 19th century to the present. Historical, political, and scholarly context. Dialogues distinctive to African American culture. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAAM 156T:
Africa in the African American Imaginary: Black Drama in the United States from 1950 to the Present (DRAMA 156T)
What role has imagining Africa played in the construction of an African American identity? How do playwrights stage Afrocentric politics? We shall interrogate the intellectual questions that come to bear at the juncture where Africa meets African America and discuss themes that include Christianity, exploitation, gender relations, and more. By the end of the quarter students will have a critical understanding of how playwrights interwove politics and ideologies that articulated African/African American relationships.
| Units: 4
AFRICAAM 173S:
Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (ASNAMST 173S, CSRE 173S)
Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.
| Units: 5
AFRICAAM 196:
African Visual Art & Graphic Communication in the Americas (ARTHIST 196, ARTHIST 396, CSRE 186)
The class addresses the modes of visual expression used among the Bakongo people in Central Africa and their descendents in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil and argues that together these constitute identifiable graphic writing systems. After providing a brief overview of the forms of graphic expression in use within Kongo and Kongo Atlantic cultures, the class focuses on the most central of the traditional cosmograms, Dikenga. By mapping the meanings and forms of Dikenga, the essay attempts to demonstrate its continuity throughout the Kongo diaspora. Finally, the class highlights the rich cosmology, cosmogony, and moral philosophy that have consistently informed the use and meaning of Dikenga in its central role in religious narratives, moral philosophy and religious education among the Bakongo in Atlantic world.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
AFRICAAM 204F:
The Modern Tradition of Non-Violent Resistance (CSRE 104F, HISTORY 204F)
During the twentieth century, peasants and menial laborers who comprised the majority of humanity launched liberation movements to secure citizenship rights. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela are among the leaders whose ideas continue to influence contemporary movements for global peace with social justice in a sustainable environment.
| Units: 5
AFRICAAM 233A:
Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective (CSRE 233A, EDUC 233A)
In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, professionals face a unique challenge: How does one practice successfully when working with clients/students from so many different backgrounds? This course focuses upon the need to examine, conceptualize, and work with individuals according to the multiple ways in which they identify themselves. It will systematically examine multicultural counseling concepts, issues, and research. Literature on counselor and client characteristics such as social status or race/ethnicity and their effects on the counseling process and outcome will be reviewed. Issues in consultation with culturally and linguistically diverse parents and students and work with migrant children and their families are but a few of the topics covered in this course.
| Units: 3-5
AFRICAAM 245:
Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development (CSRE 245, EDUC 245)
African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American racial and ethnic identity development; the influence of social, political and psychological forces in shaping the experience of people of color in the U.S. The importance of race in relationship to social identity variables including gender, class, and occupational, generational, and regional identifications. Bi- and multiracial identity status, and types of white racial consciousness.
| Units: 3-5
AFRICAAM 261E:
Mixed Race Literature in the U.S. and South Africa (AMSTUD 261E)
As scholar Werner Sollors recently suggested, novels, poems, stories about interracial contacts and mixed race constitute ¿an orphan literature belonging to no clear ethnic or national tradition.¿ Yet the theme of mixed race is at the center of many national self-definitions, even in our U.S. post-Civil Rights and South Africa¿s post-Apartheid era. This course examines aesthetic engagements with mixed race politics in these trans- and post-national dialogues, beginning in the 1700s and focusing on the 20th and 21st centuries.
| Units: 5
AFRICAAM 262D:
African American Poetics (AMSTUD 262D)
Examination of African American poetic expressive forms from the 1700s to the 2000s, considering the central role of the genre--from sonnets to spoken word, from blues poetry to new media performance--in defining an evolving literary tradition and cultural identity.
| Units: 5
