Fall 2018

Course Number Title Course Description Instructor
AAAS 102 INTRO AFR-AMER STUDIES A range of disciplinary perspectives on key topics in African American Studies: slavery and... Cobb, Jasmine
AAAS 103 INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES A range of disciplinary perspectives on key topics in contemporary African Studies: nationalism and... Daly, Samuel
AAAS 103 INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES A range of disciplinary perspectives on key topics in contemporary African Studies: nationalism and... Staff, Departmental
AAAS 104 INTRO TO LATINO/A STUDIES Introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Latino/a Studies, and how it reconfigures the study... Viego, Antonio
AAAS 134 OLD WORLDS/NEW HISTORIES New approaches to history of the world from ca. 500 to 1500 CE. Examines the world before European... Kaiwar, Vasant
AAAS 140 INTRODUCTION TO JAZZ Lecture version of Music 140D. Instructor: Brown Brown, John
AAAS 163S GTWY: GANDHI, KING, MANDELA Focuses on the words and actions of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela, in... Ramaswamy, Sumathi
AAAS 171 BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY Introduces students to the various applications of anthropological theory and ethnographic method... Makhulu, Anne-Maria
AAAS 190FS FOCUS SEMINARS (TOP) Topics vary semester to semester. Open only to students in the Focus Program. Instructor: Staff Winters, Joseph
AAAS 190S SPECIAL TOPICS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 190. Instructor: Staff Karklina, Anastasia
AAAS 190S SPECIAL TOPICS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 190. Instructor: Staff Kelley, Anthony
AAAS 196FS PATIENT ACTIVISM AND ADVOCACY In the 1960s, patients appropriated the language and tactics of the civil rights movement to... Angrist, Misha
AAAS 211 ANTHROPOLOGY OF MONEY We will explore the history and theory of money what it represents, how it circulates, the... Piot, Charles
AAAS 217S THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE The development of the slave trade from the fifteenth century to its abolition in the nineteenth... Ewald, Janet
AAAS 218 CARIBBEAN 1492-1700 The Caribbean region from the arrival of Columbus (1492) to the emergence of sugar and slavery as... Gaspar, Barry
AAAS 225S DOCUMENTING BLACK EXPERIENCES Interpretations of the black diaspora in documentary film from slavery to the present.... Tyson, Timothy
AAAS 226 CRIME AND THE CITY Compares representation of crime and the city in two key "texts": Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist"... Thorne, Susan
AAAS 232 RACE, POWER, AND IDENTITY Exploration of historic and contemporary psycho-social and socio-cultural aspects of the African... Smith, Martin
AAAS 242S RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY Gender's relationship to race and sexuality explored through a variety of issues, including health... Douglass, Patrice
AAAS 243 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT An interdisciplinary examination of the civil rights movement from World War II through the late... Lentz-Smith, Adriane
AAAS 246 SOCIOLOGY OF RACISM IN AMERICA Examines social history of major racial groups in the US and relationships to contemporary standing... Brown, Tyson
AAAS 247S SOCIAL MOVEMENTS/SOCIAL MEDIA Examines uses and abuses of social media by social movements. Interested in a broader historical... Mottahedeh, Negar
AAAS 251 ANTHROPOLOGY OF RACE Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race; science and scientific racism;... Baker, Lee
AAAS 257 RACIAL/ETH MINORITIES AMER POL The politics of four of the United States principal racial minority groups blacks, Latinos, Asians... Jardina, Ashley
AAAS 261D RACE, GENOMICS, AND SOCIETY The field of genetics has been at the forefront of discourse concerning the concept of race in... Royal, Charmaine
AAAS 261D RACE, GENOMICS, AND SOCIETY The field of genetics has been at the forefront of discourse concerning the concept of race in... Royal, Charmaine
AAAS 261D RACE, GENOMICS, AND SOCIETY The field of genetics has been at the forefront of discourse concerning the concept of race in... Royal, Charmaine
AAAS 261D RACE, GENOMICS, AND SOCIETY The field of genetics has been at the forefront of discourse concerning the concept of race in... Royal, Charmaine
AAAS 261D RACE, GENOMICS, AND SOCIETY The field of genetics has been at the forefront of discourse concerning the concept of race in... Royal, Charmaine
AAAS 290 SPECIAL TOPCS Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff Haynie, Kerry
AAAS 290 SPECIAL TOPCS Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff Murphey-Brown, Rachael
AAAS 290 SPECIAL TOPCS Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff Kirk, Robin
AAAS 290S SPECIAL TOPCS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 290. Instructor: Staff Meintjes, Louise
AAAS 290S SPECIAL TOPCS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 290. Instructor: Staff Kirk, Robin
AAAS 290S SPECIAL TOPICS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 290. Instructor: Staff Murphey-Brown, Rachael
AAAS 307 DEVELOPMENT AND AFRICA Addresses the vexed issue of economic development in Africa - its many failures, its occasional... Piot, Charles
AAAS 310S CONFLICT ANALYSIS IN AFRICA Utilizes four case studies to outline components of conflict analysis in Africa. Examines regional... Smith, Stephen
AAAS 312 WAR & PUBLIC HEALTH IN AFRICA An inquiry into the nature of contemporary war in sub-Saharan Africa and its human cost. Uses... Smith, Stephen
AAAS 317S AFRICA BEFORE COLONIALISM This undergraduate seminar considers the history of Africa south of the Sahara from the beginning... Daly, Samuel
AAAS 325S HIP-HOP PRODUCTION Introduction to Hip-Hop Production examines the history, background, functionality, and techniques... Douthit, Patrick
AAAS 338 IMAGES OF BLACK MASCULINITY The course will examine the production and circulation of representations of "Black Masculinity" in... Neal, Mark
AAAS 348 AFRICAN ART: COURT/MARKETPLACE Explores traditional, modern, and contemporary African art from the ever-shifting perspectives of... Powell, Richard
AAAS 352 PIGGING OUT: CULTURAL POL/FOOD Examines cultural influences of food while linking class, geography, and ethnicity to food... Crichlow, Michaeline
AAAS 385S RACE/CULTURE OF AFRI DIASPORA Course reveals the diversity of black life in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East through... Matory, J.
AAAS 390 SPECIAL TOPICS Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff Lubiano, Wahneema
AAAS 390S SPECIAL TOPICS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 390. Topics vary from semester to semester... Glymph, Thavolia
AAAS 390S SPECIAL TOPICS Seminar version of African and African American Studies 390. Topics vary from semester to semester... McInnis, Jarvis
AAAS 407S CAP SEM: GLOBALIZATION ASIA "Globalization": a shorthand for describing the period of extraordinary change that we are living... Mazumdar, Sucheta
AAAS 490S SPECIAL TOPICS Topics vary from semester to semester Aidoo, Lamonte
AAAS 499S SENIOR SEMINAR Open to seniors majoring in African and African American Studies and to others with consent of... Crichlow, Michaeline
AAAS 510S AFRICA IN A GLOBAL AGE Africa's participation in globalization has not simply been a matter of "joining the world economy... Makhulu, Anne-Maria
AAAS 515S RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER body of scholarship examined addresses the nature and transformation of social relations in Great... Thorne, Susan
AAAS 580S RACE THEORY Topics to include: Biological classification theory and its applications to humans; The fit, or... Matory, J.
AAAS 641S CITIZEN/SUBJECT:NEOLIBERAL AGE Explores studies of citizenship, quests to belong to a place, and institutional mechanisms people... Crichlow, Michaeline
AAAS 642S GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Engagement of vertically integrated research teams in projects exploring racial and ethnic... Darity, William
AAAS 740S RACIAL/ETH MINORITIES AMER POL Graduate-level course on politics of the United States' four principal racial minority groups... White, Ismail
AAAS 780S TEACHING RACE, TEACHING GENDER Interdisciplinary analyses of the problematics of teaching about social hierarchies, especially... Lubiano, Wahneema
AAAS 89S FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff Aidoo, Lamonte
AAAS 89S FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff Ewald, Janet