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African-American and African Studies Program
AAS 1020 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies II
Instructor: Claudrena Harold
Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45, Wilson Hall 301
AAS 3250 - Motherlands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty(3)
Instructor: Kendra Hamilton
Mon/Wed. 11:00-11:50, Clark Hall 101
AAS 3500-1 Intermediate Seminar in African American & African Studies(3)
Instructor: Barbara Boswell
Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Bryan Hall 330
AAS 3559-1 African Worlds in Biography (3)
Instructor: Lisa Shutt
Thurs 3:30-6:00, 521 New Cabell Hall
AAS 3359-2 Black Protest Narrative (3)
Instructor: Marlon Ross
Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45, 2006 Mcleod Hall
AAS 3359-3 M.L. King's Political Thought (3)
Instructor: Justin Rose
Tues/Thurs. 2:00-3:15, 215 Wilson Hall
AAS 3359-4 Insiders & Outsiders in Africa (3)
Instructor: Lisa Shutt
Wed. 3:30-6:00, 345 New Cabell Hall
AAS 3359 - 5 Popular Cultures in Black Atlantic (3)
Instructor: Tyler Fleming
Mon. 3:30-6:00, 141B Wilson Hall
AAS 4080 -Thesis (4)
Instructor: Claudrena Harold
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AAS 4501 -Black Power (4)
Instructor: Claudrena Harold
Tues. 3:30-6:00PM, 341 Nau Hall
Combined with HIUS 4501-8
Over the course of the semester, students will examine the dynamic ways people of African descent in the United States have struggled for cultural, economic, and political empowerment within the context of a white supremacist culture. Much of the class will focus on the 1960s and the 1970s; however, previous and subsequent periods will also be analyzed. Students should leave this class with not only a broader knowledge of “Black Power” as a cultural, political, and ideological movement, but also with a more nuanced understanding of the research methods and interpretive frameworks utilized by historians, as well as other social scientists, interested in Black Power in particular and the Black freedom struggle in general. Students will also have the opportunity to further develop their research skills and techniques through a series of assignments designed to assist them in identifying research topics and questions, interpreting primary and secondary texts, and substantiating arguments with “sound” evidence.
It bears mentioning that this course will devote significant attention to the local dimension of Black Power by engaging student activism on UVA’s campus between 1968 and 1984. Significant attention will be given to students’ fight for a Black Studies department at UVA, their massive demonstrations against racial apartheid in South Africa, and their general struggle to make the University a more egalitarian place.
AAS 4570 -That's Ghetto! Blackness and the Modern American City (3)
Instructor: Kwame Holmes
Tues. 3:30PM - 6:00PM, 543 New Cabell Hall
AAS 4570 - Popular Cultures Black Atlantic (3)
Instructor: Tyler Fleming
Mon. 3:30-6:00, 141B Wilson Hall
AAS 4993 - Independent Study (1-3)
Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.
American Studies
AMST 2220 - Race Identity and American Visual (4)
Instructor: Carmenita Higginbotham
Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45, 141 Nau Hall
Department of Anthropology
ANTH 2156 - People and Cultures of Africa(3)
Instructor: Ivan Hultin
Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:20, G0048 Ruffner Hall
Department of Drama
DRAM 3070 - African American Theatre (3)
Instructor: Theresa Davis
Tues./Thurs., 2:00-3:15PM, Drama Education Bld. 217
This course presents a comprehensive study of 'Black Theatre' as the African-American contribution to the theatre. Explores the historical, cultural, and socio-political underpinnings of this theatre as an artistic form in American and world culture. Students gain a broader understanding of the relationship and contributions of this theatre to theatre arts, business, education, lore, and humanity. A practical theatrical experience is a part of the course offering. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Department of English
ENAM 3559 - Black Protest Narrative(3)
Instructor: Marlon Ross
Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45, 2006 Mcleod Hall
ENCR 4500- Race in American Places(3)
Instructor: Kenrick Grandison
Mon. 6:30-9:00AM, 242 Gibson Hall
ENLT 2547-001- Black Migrations (3)
Instructor: Sonya Donaldson
Mon/Wed. 5:00-6:00, 102 Dell1
ENLT 2547-002 - Black Women Writes (3)
Instructor: Jean Franziro
Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, 242 Nau Hall
Department of History
HIAF 2002 - Modern Africa (4)
Instructor: John Mason
Tues./Thurs. 11:00-12:15, Claude Moore Nursing Edu. G010
HIAF 2002 explores the history of Africa from the decline of the Atlantic slave trade, in the early nineteenth century, to the present. Our goal is to examine the historical roots of the continent's present condition. We look at the slave trade and its consequences, the European conquest of most of the African continent, African resistance to colonial rule, and the reestablishment of African independence.
We will concentrate on three regions: West Africa, especially Nigeria; Central Africa, especially the Congo and Rwanda; and southern Africa, especially South Africa. We will pay particular attention to the ways in which colonialism affected ordinary Africans and to the various strategies that Africans employed to resist, subvert, and accommodate European domination.
HIAF 2002 is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of African history. There will be two blue book exams--a mid-term and a final--and periodic quizzes on the readings.
HIUS 3671 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)
Instructor: Julian Bond
Tues. 3:30-5:30PM, New Cabell Hall 138
This course will examine the origins, philosophies, tactics, events, personalities and consequences of the southern civil rights movement from 1900 to the mid-‘1960s. The movement, largely composed of grass-roots unknowns, was based on a culture of resistance instilled by racially restrictive laws and customs institutionalized by the resistant white South following the demise of Reconstruction. By employing a variety of tactics, at the end of the ‘60s decade, it had won impressive victories against state-sanctioned discrimination. Readings, lectures and videos will be the basis for the final examination. Students will be required to write two short papers. The final grade will be determined on the basis of the two papers (25% each), the final examination (30%), and discussion section participation (20%).
Texts required: Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Thompson Learning Custom Publishing; Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, University of Washington Press; Wilkins, Roy with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo.
HIUS 4501 - Black Power (3)
Instructor: Claudrena Harold
Tues. 3:30-6:00, 341 Nau Hall
Department of Music
MUEN 3690 - African Music & Dance Ensemble Level 2
Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk
Tues./Thurs. 5:00-7:15, 107 Old Cabell Hall
MUEN 3690 - African Music & Dance Ensemble Level 3
Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk
Tues./Thurs 5:00-7:15, 107 Old Cabell Hall
Musi 2120 - History of Jazz Music
Instructor: Scott Deveaux
Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, 209 Maury Hall
Musi 3090 Perforance in Africa
Instructor: Elizabeth Sapir
Tues/Thurs. 4:00-4:50, 107 Old Cabell Hall
Department of Politics
PLAP 3700 - Racial Politics(3)
Instructor: Lynn Sanders
Mon/Wed. 11:00-11:50, 101 Nau Hall
Department of Religious Studies
RELA 2850 - Afro-Creole Religions in Americas (3)
Instructor: Jalane Schmidt
Tues/Thurs. 11:00-12:15, 211 Gibson Hall
RELG 2260 - Religion, Race and Relationship in Film (3)
Instructor: Valerie Cooper
Mon/Wed, 141 Gilmer Hall
This course will explore themes of religion, race, and relationship to the religious or racial "other" in films from the silent era to the present. It will consider film as a medium and engage students in analysis and discussion of cinematic images, with the goal of developing hermeneutic lenses through which these images can be interpreted. The films selected all deal with issues of race, religion, gender, and relationship, and ask the ultimate question, "How should we treat one another?"
Department of Sociology
SOC 3410 - Race & Ethnic Relations (3)
Instructor: Milton Vickerman
Mon./Weds. 2:00-3:15PM, New Cabell Hall 122
Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials.
SOC 4100 Sociology of African - American Community
Instructor: Hephzibah Strinic-Pawl
Tues/Thurs. 12:30-1:45, 242 Nau Hall