Spring 2020
Course Number | Title | Course Description | Instructor |
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AAAS 103 | INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES | A range of disciplinary perspectives on key topics in contemporary African Studies: nationalism and... | Daly, Samuel Fury Childs |
AAAS 133S | GTWY SEM: CIV RGHTS/ASIAN AMER | Study of crucial legal and political moments in the struggle for equal civil rights of minorities,... | Mazumdar, Sucheta |
AAAS 146 | MOTOWN AND AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC | During the 1960 s, in Detroit, Michigan, a landmark in music was established: The Motown Sound.... | Kelley, Anthony |
AAAS 190S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Seminar version of African & African American Studies 190. Instructor: Staff | Fischer, Julien |
AAAS 190S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Seminar version of African & African American Studies 190. Instructor: Staff | Shapiro, Karin |
AAAS 224 | AFRICAN DIASPORA LITERATURE | Late-nineteenth-century to contemporary writers, including African American, Caribbean, and African... | Jaji, Tsitsi |
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 228S | FICTIONS THAT MARK THE MOMENT | Course is an engagement with novels from spectacular moments of history, an imagination of the... | Jaji, Tsitsi |
AAAS 232 | RACE, POWER, AND IDENTITY | Exploration of historic and contemporary psycho-social and socio-cultural aspects of the African... | Smith, Martin |
AAAS 246 | SOCIOLOGY OF RACISM IN AMERICA | Examines social history of major racial groups in the US and relationships to contemporary standing... | Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo |
AAAS 249 | MARTIN LUTHER KING | Situates Martin Luther King as a preacher in the black Christian tradition with a liberationist... | Safi, Omid |
AAAS 251 | ANTHROPOLOGY OF RACE | Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race; science and scientific racism;... | Baker, Lee |
AAAS 252S | GIANTS OF JAZZ | In the Giants of Jazz Seminar, students will delve deeply into the music and lives of the biggest... | Brown, John |
AAAS 257 | RACIAL/ETH MINORITIES AMER POL | The politics of four of the United States principal racial minority groups blacks, Latinos, Asians... | Staff, Departmental |
AAAS 264 | LATIN AM WARS OF INDEPENDENCE | This course covers the conspiracies, uprisings, and wars that led to the independence of Haiti and... | French, John |
AAAS 274S | ISLAM IN THE AMERICAS | Explores how Muslim communities live and practice Islam in the American context. Examines diverse... | Hassan, Mona |
AAAS 283S | DEATH, BURIAL & JUSTICE | This interdisciplinary course explores the phenomenon of necroviolence: attacks on the dignity,... | Rosenblatt, Adam |
AAAS 290S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Seminar version of African & African American Studies 290. Instructor: Staff | Daniels, Kisha N |
AAAS 320 | BLACK DANCE | Exploration of composition and performance structures commonly described as black dance. Working... | DeFrantz, Thomas |
AAAS 331 | BLACK POPULAR CULTURE | The production and circulation of African American popular cultural forms including, but not... | Douthit, Patrick |
AAAS 335 | HISTORY OF HIP-HOP | What began as a localized activity designed to provide a safe haven for Black and Latino youth in... | Douthit, Patrick |
AAAS 348 | AFRICAN ART: COURT/MARKETPLACE | Explores traditional, modern, and contemporary African art from the ever-shifting perspectives of... | Powell, Richard |
AAAS 390 | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | de Almeida, Silvio |
AAAS 390 | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Lubiano, Wahneema |
AAAS 390S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Seminar version of African... | Chafe, William |
AAAS 406S | SOUTH AFRICAN LIFE HISTORIES | Explores the last century of South African history through the lens of biography and autobiography... | Shapiro, Karin |
AAAS 420S | ROLE RACE/CULTURE ON DEVL | Critical examination of racial, cultural, and social influences on development of African American... | Wilbourn, Makeba |
AAAS 490S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics vary from semester to semester | Darity, William |
AAAS 490S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics vary from semester to semester | Darity, William |
AAAS 490S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics vary from semester to semester | Aidoo, Lamonte |
AAAS 499S | SENIOR SEMINAR | Open to seniors majoring in African... | Neal, Mark |
AAAS 512S | THE FETISH | This course explores the social relationships produced by debates over the value and agency of... | Matory, J. |
AAAS 544S | RACE AND AMERICAN POLITICS | A broad overview of the salience of race in the American political fabric and how it structures... | Jardina, Ashley |
AAAS 621S | BLACK PERFORMANCE THEORY | Exploration of methods and research approaches relevant to the construction of black performance... | DeFrantz, Thomas |
AAAS 642S | GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH | Engagement of vertically integrated research teams in projects exploring racial and ethnic... | Hollowell, Adam |
AAAS 642S | GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH | Engagement of vertically integrated research teams in projects exploring racial and ethnic... | Darity, William |
AAAS 660 | HEALTH IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA | Exposes and explores the individual and joint contributions of biological and non-biological... | Royal, Charmaine |
AAAS 699S | GATEWAY/PROSEMINAR | The proseminar is the required gateway course in the AAAS Certificate Program. It is designed to... | Daly, Samuel Fury Childs |
AAAS 780S | TEACHING RACE, TEACHING GENDER | Interdisciplinary analyses of the problematics of teaching about social hierarchies, especially... | Lubiano, Wahneema |
AAAS 890S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics will vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | Dubois, Laurent |
AAAS 890S | SPECIAL TOPICS | Topics will vary from semester to semester. Instructor: Staff | DeFrantz, Thomas |
AAAS 891 | SPECIAL READINGS | Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff | Lubiano, Wahneema |
AAAS 89S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Shapiro, Karin |
AAAS 89S | FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP) | Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff | Lentz-Smith, Adriane |