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AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES (L90)  (Dept. Info) Arts & Sciences  (Policies) FL2018 L90 AFAS 1002 Foundations in African & African-American Studies 1.0 Unit Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Designed to introduce the student to issues in African & African American Studies and how students with AFAS degrees utilize their knowledge in graduate and professional programs or the working world. Particular attention will be paid to the discipline of African & African American studies, which engages with the artistic, cultural, historical, literary, and theoretical expressions of the peoples and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. Faculty members as well as Saint Louis professionals will give one-hour lectures on their particular disciplinary approach, their research, or their professional life. Students will be required to attend 3 outside lectures or performances. May be taken before declaring major, and may be taken by non-majors. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M------ 3:00P-4:30P Seigle / 306 Toliver-Diallo See instructor 30 19 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 103D Beginning Swahili I 5.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is the first in a two-course sequence at the beginning level of Swahili. Designed to provide rapid acquisition of conversational skills, written expression, and reading comprehension, the course also introduces students to various aspects of culture across the Swahili-speaking countries in east and central Africa. The course also focuses on contemporary Swahili expressions in music, social media, Hollywood productions, advertising, political campaigns, and youth slang. Additionally, students will participate in community-based learning projects that entail teaching and mentoring Swahili-speaking refugees at a St. Louis public school. The course also prepares students for study abroad in any of the dozen Swahili-speaking countries in Africa. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, LSBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 MT-R--- 11:30A-1:00P Eads / 14 Mutonya Dec 13 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM 17 14 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 178 First-Year Seminar: Imagining and Creating Africa: Youth, Culture, and Change 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: The goal of this course is to provide a glimpse into how youth reshape African society. Whether in North Africa with the Arab Spring, in West Africa with university strikes, or in East Africa through a linguistic full bloom, youth have been shaping social responses to societies for a long period. In this course, we will study social structures, including churches, NGOs, developmental agencies as well as learn about examples of Muslim youth movements, and the global civil society. The course will also explore how youth impact cultural movements in Africa and how they influence the world. In particular, we will examine Hip-Hop movements, sports, and global youth culture developments that center on fashion, dress, dance, and new technologies. By the end of the course, students will have enriched ideas about youth in Africa and ways to provide more realistic comparisons to their counterparts in the United States. Attributes: A&S: FYSA&S IQ: LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L61 178A  L66 178 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Seigle / 303 DIALLO Dec 19 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM 20 18 0 Desc: This course is for Freshman only. Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 190 First Year Seminar in African American Literature and Culture: Race, Representation, and Renaissance 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: What does it mean to fashion blackness in its own image? What is at stake in black representation? This course examines black cultural expression during the periods known as the Harlem or New Negro Renaissance and the Black Chicago Renaissance. We will examine the historical context that enabled this cultural rebirth, including World War I and II and the Great Migration; analyze the creative works produced in the era, ranging from Langston Hughes' poetry to Bessie Smith's blues, from Oscar Micheaux's films to Gwendolyn Brooks' and Zora Neale Hurston's writings; and interrogate the representational politics set forth by producers within the movement. How and to what extent was black expression liberated in this era? How and to what extent was it policed, stifled, and constrained? These and other questions will be central to our exploration of the period. Attributes: Arch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L61 190 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 11:30A-1:00P Seigle / 205 Morrison Dec 17 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM 20 11 0 Desc: First Year Seminar - First Year Students ONLY Actions: Books L90 AFAS 200A Introduction to African Literature 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: James Bond, in Casino Royale, introduces us to Africa with a group of men betting on a fight between a mongoose and a snake; Hotel Rwanda creates an Africa of beautiful landscapes marred by the violence of genocide; Casablanca positions Africa as the site of wartime fantasy, intrigue and romance. These imaginary Africas, however, obscure the continent's irreducible complexity. As many as 3,000 languages are spoken across Africa's 54 countries, each defined by a unique blend of urban and rural cultures. The people of the Central African country of Chad belong to more than 100 ethnic groups. From their regional affiliations to their sociocultural perspectives, Africa's writers are no less diverse, its literary traditions no less dynamic. By examining texts from various genres and regions, we will trace the development of African literature by considering its roots in the oral traditions and colonial history of the continent, its role in the articulation of African subjectivity on the road to independence, its response to the challenges of the post-independence era, and its present-day stronghold within the global literary marketplace. Readings will include works by Ferdinand Oyono, Nadine Gordimer, Ousmane Sembène, Assia Djebar, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Dinaw Mengestu, among others. No prior knowledge of the literature of Africa is required. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L16 200A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 11:30A-1:00P Cupples II / L007 Ganapathy See instructor 15 15 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 203D Intermediate Swahili III 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is the first in a two-course sequence at the intermediate level of Swahili. Designed to enhance Swahili skills acquired at the beginning level, the course emphasizes conversation practice and vocabulary enrichment that enables a learner to use contemporary Swahili in different situations. A broad range of authentic Swahili texts will be introduced. Learners will continue to interact meaningfully with Swahili speakers in St. Louis during community-based learning at a refugee school and elsewhere. Prereq: AFAS 103DQ-104DQ or the equivalent. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, LSBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-4:00P Eads / 203 Mutonya No final 15 4 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 215 Topics in African American Studies: Native Sons and Daughters Gender & Sexuality of African American 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will focus on the relationship of race, gender and sexuality in the context of the cultural and political transformations of the two postwar periods, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Sexual Revolution, the "war on drugs" and the Obama era. The primary focus will be to consider how gender and sexuality inform cultural imaginings and representations of African American experience since WWII. Emphasizing close reading of canonical literature paired with critical representations of blackness in film and visual art we will examine how African American artists employed aesthetic expression for cultural critique of American racism and how fiction served as an arena for advancing a critique of racist injustice and for raising fundamental questions about the concept of race itself. Course content will be guided by the following questions: Why are gender and sexuality important to consider when reading African American cultural texts? How do discourses of gender and sexuality affect the meaning of blackness? How does gender impact racial representation and its political meanings? Finally, what are the cultural impacts of these gendered sexualized and politicized racial representations? Attributes: A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / 303 Manditch-Prottas Default - none 20 18 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 2674 Sophomore Seminar: Slavery and Memory in American Popular Culture 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Sophomores receive priority registration. The history of slavery has long created a sense of unease within the consciousness of many Americans. Recognizing this continued reality, this seminar examines how slavery is both remembered and silenced within contemporary popular culture. Although slavery scholarship continues to expand, how do everyday Americans gain access to the history of bondage? Taking an interdisciplinary approach to these intriguing queries, we will examine a range of sources: literature, public history, art/poetry, visual culture, movies and documentaries, as well as contemporary music including reggae and hip hop. The centerpiece of this course covers North American society, however, in order to offer a critical point of contrast students will be challenged to explore the varied ways slavery is commemorated in others parts of the African Diaspora. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 2674  L98 2674 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P January Hall / 10A Mustakeem Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 15 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 301 A History of African-American Theater 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: A survey of African American theatre from post-Civil War "coon" shows and reviews to movements for a national black theatre, such as Krigwa, Lafayette and Lincoln, and the Black Arts Movement. Early black theatre and minstrels; black theatre movement and other ethnic theatre movements in America. Critical readings of such plays as Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman," Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's "Mulebone." Also works by August Wilson, Ed Bullins, Charles Fuller, Georgia Douglas Johnson. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L15 3011  U21 3011  U84 3011 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:30P Mallinckrodt / 303 Himes Dec 19 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM 14 12 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 3013 Historical Methods-African History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This is a small-group reading course in which students are introduced to the skills essential to the historian's craft. Emphasis will be on acquiring research skills, learning to read historical works critically, and learning to use primary and secondary sources to make a persuasive and original argument. Required for history majors. Preference given to History majors; other interested students welcome. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 301F Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 5:00P-6:30P Seigle / L002 Parsons Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 9 0 Desc: A VIEW FROM THE BARRACKS: Armies tend to mirror the societies that produce them. Privileged groups and classes generally serve as officers and escape dangerous service on the frontlines. This seminar explores the social implications of military service and the use of armed force by both private groups and states in African history. The course covers African military institutions in the pre-colonial, colonial, and modern eras, and focuses on the creation, employment and influence of African soldiers. PREREQUISITE: NONE. Modern, Africa. This section is crosslisted with L90 3013. Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3031 Music of the African Diaspora 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores musical cross-fertilization between the African continent and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Beginning with traditional musics from selected regions of the African continent, the course examines the cultural and musical implications of transnational musical flows on peoples of the African diaspora and their multicultural audiences. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L27 3021  L97 305 Frequency: Every 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:30A Music Cls Bldg / 102 Burke Dec 18 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM 25 14 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 304C Topics on Africa: African Urban Futures 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Nearly fifty percent of Africa's population now lives in urban areas. By 2050 this number is expected to triple to 1.23 billion or what will then be sixty percent of the continent's total population. This urban growth is happening alongside rapid economic expansion, technological innovations, and-in some cities-political insurrection. Many of these developments are taking place in peripheral urban areas that lack formal planning, basic infrastructure, and security. Yet, as many theorists point out, the very lack of cohesive planning and stable infrastructure in urban Africa has produced flexible spaces where novel forms of dwelling, work, and leisure are possible. Many residents, often by necessity, rearrange their built environments to make the city function beyond the limits of its original design. In the process, urban dwellers produce new built spaces, aesthetics, and economic practices, calling into question assumptions about what a city is and how it works. What are the implications of Africa's urban revolution for both the people who inhabit these cities and the world at large? How will Africa's urban future shape what some theorists are calling "the African century?" What can contemporary cities across the continent tell us about the future of urban life everywhere? In this seminar, we will explore these questions by surveying a variety of case studies and topics from across the African continent. The purpose in focusing on Africa in general is not to homogenize an incredibly diverse continent, but to make connections across a variety of different contexts in order to explore conceptual debates and assemble a theoretical tool-kit that is useful for grappling with themes that are simultaneously abstract and concrete. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: ISEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L18 304C  L48 304C Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 4:00P-5:30P Seigle / 303 Shearer See instructor 25 17 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3062 Islam, Culture and Society in West Africa 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will explore the introduction of Islam into West Africa beginning in the 10th Century and explore its expansion and development in the region, placing emphasis on the 19th century to present day. It will focus on the development of West African Muslim cultural, social, religious, and political life, to understand not only how the religion affected societies, but also how West African local societies shaped Islam. The course also aims to introduce students to a critical understanding of Islamic writing in West Africa. It will also examine the organization of Muslim Sufi orders in West Africa through time and space. The course is organized around a series of lectures, readings, as well as print and visual media. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: ISEN: SUColl: CD Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L23 3062  L49 3062  L75 3062  L75 506A  L97 3063  U84 3062 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 4:00P-5:30P Seigle / 303 DIALLO Dec 19 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM 20 11 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 3071 Caribbean Literature in English 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Rum! Fun! Beaches! Sun! This is the image of the Caribbean in America today. This course will survey literature and culture from these islands, looking both at and beyond this tourists' paradise. It will aim to introduce students to the region's unmistakably vibrant tradition of multicultural mixture, while keeping an eye on the long history of slavery and rebellion out of which the islands' contemporary situation formed. Along the way we will encounter a wide variety of texts, from the earliest writing focused on life in urban slums, to the first novel ever to have a Rastafarian as its hero, to more contemporary considerations of the region's uncertain place in a U.S.-dominated world. Toward the end of the course, we will also look at important films like The Harder They Come as well as discussing the most globally famous cultural product of the contemporary Caribbean: reggae music. The course will involve readings from multiple genres, and will cover authors such as C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Jamaica Kincaid, and Caryl Phillips. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUME Lit: TCEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L14 3071  L16 3071 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Seigle / 111 Brown No final 25 19 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 311 Modern Dance and the African-American Legacy 2.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course will examine the works of several African American choreographers and their contributions to the field of modern dance in America. These works, considered modern day classics, depict important historical events and reveal cultural influences that people of African descent have impressed upon our society. Through the medium of dance aided by discussions, video and class reading assignments, the choreographers' works will be analyzed for form, content and social relevance. Studio work will include technique to support learning the repertory. Prerequisite: 1-2 years training in modern, jazz or ballet. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: CPSC, HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L29 311 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-3:00P Mallinckrodt / 207 Cecil Slaughter Paper/Project/TakeHome 15 8 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 321C African Civilization to 1800 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Beginning with an introduction to the methodological and theoretical approaches to African history, this course surveys African civilization and culture from the Neolithic age until 1800 A.D. Topics include African geography and environmental history, migration and cross-cultural exchange, the development of Swahili culture, the Western Sudanese states, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the historical roots of Apartheid. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 394C  L97 325C Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / 306 Parsons No final 15 22 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 3231 Black Power Across Africa & the Diaspora: International Dimensions of the Black Power Movement 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This seminar explores the Black Power Movement as an international phenomenon. By situating Black Power within an African World context, this course will examine the advent and intersections of Black Power politics in the United States, parts of Africa (including Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria and Tanzania), the Caribbean (Jamaica, Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba), South America (Brazil) and Canada. Particular emphasis will be placed upon unique and contested definitions of "Black Power" as it was articulated, constructed and enacted in each region. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L22 3230  L97 3231 Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / 206 Fenderson See instructor 23 18 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3254 African Americans and Children's Literature 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course explores two distinct themes: how African descended people have been depicted in American and British children's literature and how African Americans have established a tradition in writing for children and young adults. It will also examine two related questions: How has African American childhood been constructed in children's literature and how have African American writers constructed childhood in children's literature? We will look at such classic white writers for children like Helen Bannerman, Annie Fellows Johnston, and Mark Twain as well as efforts by blacks like the Brownies Book, published by the NAACP, and children's works by black writers including Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Arna Bontemps, Virginia Hamilton, Walter Dean Myers, Mildred Taylor, Floyd and Patrick McKissack, Julius Lester, Rosa Guy, Sharon Bell Mathis, bell hooks, and others. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L66 3254 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 8:30A-10:00A Seigle / 205 Early See instructor 16 7 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3255 Black Masculinities: From Slavery to Hip-Hop Dreams 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course introduces students to black masculinities within America; gender constructed within the constant struggle for freedom in scenes of social constraint and black excellence. Through an exploration of critical writings, literature, films, and performances from slavery to the present, we will gain a broad, but valuable insight into the complicated relationship between black male identity and American manhood. Our course focuses on understanding black masculinity as lived and represented. As we encounter various voices and versions of the black masculine, we will be using both our critical writing and reading skills to further our understanding of black masculinity, its impact on men and women, as well as its meanings throughout the world. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L77 3255  L98 325A Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 1:00P-2:30P Seigle / 204 McCune Dec 18 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM 26 26 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3542 The Quest for Racial Reconciliation 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course is based within African and African American studies, and it explores the quest for racial reconciliation, with emphasis equally divided between the United States and racial strife in other parts of the world. Although racial considerations are inherent to central themes within this course, we explore various sources of linguistic, cultural, social, political, racial, and ethnic foundations of strife at different points in history, and in different regions of the world. Particular attention will be devoted to nonpartisan strategies to advance racial harmony within the United States, and other regions of the world that are of personal interest to students. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: U84 3542 Frequency: Every 2-3 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 5:30P-8:30P Seigle / 205 Baugh See instructor 15 9 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3600 Beyond Sea, Sunshine and Soca: A History of the Caribbean 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course examines major themes in the history of the Caribbean from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. The first half of the course will focus on the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, exploring issues such as indigenous societies, European encounter and conquest, plantation slavery, the resistance of enslaved Africans and emancipation. The remainder of the course focuses on aspects of the cultural, economic, political and social experiences of Caribbean peoples during the twentieth century. Major areas of inquiry include the labor rebellions of the 1930s, decolonization, diasporic alliances, Black Power, identity construction and the politics of tourism. While the English-speaking Caribbean constitutes the main focus, references will be made to other areas such as Cuba and Haiti. Additionally, the Caribbean will be considered in a multilayered way with a view to investigating the local (actors within national boundaries), the regional (historical events that have rendered the region a unit of analysis) and the global (larger globalizing forces such as capitalism, colonialism, migration and slavery that have made the Caribbean central to world history). PREREQUISITE: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Modern, Caribbean. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCDArt: HUMBU: HUM, ISEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 3600 Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T----- 3:00P-6:00P Seigle / 104 Bedasse No final 20 18 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3651 Black Women Writers 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: When someone says, black woman writer, you may well think of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. But not long ago, to be a black woman writer meant to be considered an aberration. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that Phillis Wheatley's poems were "beneath the dignity of criticism," he could hardly have imagined entire Modern Language Association sessions built around her verse, but such is now the case. In this class we will survey the range of Anglophone African American women authors. Writers likely to be covered include Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Wilson, Nella Larsen, Lorraine Hansberry, Octavia Butler, and Rita Dove, among others. Be prepared to read, explore, discuss, and debate the specific impact of race and gender on American literature. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L14 3881  L77 3560  L98 3651 Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 10:00A-11:30A Seigle / 305 Zafar Dec 18 2018 6:00PM - 8:00PM 20 19 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3672 Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Conversations regarding the history of medicine continue to undergo considerable transformation within academia and the general public. The infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment serves as a marker in the historical consciousness regarding African Americans and the medical profession. This course taps into this particular evolution, prompting students to broaden their gaze to explore the often delicate relationship of people of African descent within the realm of medicine and healing. Tracing the social nature of these medical interactions from the period of enslavement through the 20th century, this course examines the changing patterns of disease and illness, social responses to physical and psychological ailments, and the experimental and exploitative use of black bodies in the field of medicine. As a history course, the focus will be extended towards the underpinnings of race and gender in the medical treatment allocated across time and space--the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America--to give further insight into the roots of contemporary practice of medicine. PREREQUISITE: Sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Modern, Transregional. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUMCFH: MHEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L22 3672  L85 3672  L97 3672  L98 367H Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 11:30A-1:00P Lopata Hall / 302 Mustakeem No final 15 17 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 3877 In Living Color: Performing the Black 90s 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: From Cross Colours overalls, to oversized sweatshirts, to boom boxes, the 1990s was loud, colorful, and in your face. But along with the fun of house parties and the growing prominence of hip-hop, black people in the U.S. also contended with heightened criminalization and poverty codified through the War on Drugs, welfare reform, police brutality, and divestment from public education. In the midst of insurgency, creativity, and the quiet that undergirded both, we will study the various cultural productions of black performers and consumers as they navigated the social and political landscapes of the 1990s. Focusing primarily on urban centers, we will study major works growing out of hip-hop, R&B, comedy, television shows, films, and popular literature that attends to the regional differences throughout the nation. In this course, we will use theories from performance and cultural studies to understand the specificities of blackness, gender, sexuality, religion, and geography in the 1990s. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, SC, SDArch: HUMArt: CPSC, HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L15 387  L98 387A  U84 3877 Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 2:30P-4:00P Umrath / 140 Rhaisa Williams Dec 17 2018 3:30PM - 5:30PM 35 31 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 400 Independent Work Var. Units (max = 6.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and the Director of the program. Forms available in program office. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Early No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 03 TBA TBA Mutonya No final 3 0 0 Actions: Books 04 TBA TBA Parsons No final 0 1 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Zafar No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Duncan No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA DIALLO No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 08 TBA TBA Fenderson No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA TBA Parikh No final 1 1 0 Actions: Books 11 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 12 TBA TBA Baugh No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 13 TBA TBA Himes No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L90 AFAS 403 Readings in Swahili Literature 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This advanced Swahili language course is designed for learners who have attained the equivalent of Intermediate level Swahili and wish to perfect their knowledge of the language while developing skills in independent reading. Learners will be introduced to a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts in Swahili such as children's stories, songs, short stories, speeches, newspaper articles, poetry, plays, and novellas. Learners will gain experience by practicing own productions of the various genres plus presenting reviews and translations of assigned texts. Learners will continue to interact meaningfully with Swahili speakers in St. Louis during community-based learning at the refugee school and elsewhere. Prereqs: Permission of instructor and successful completion of AFAS 103D, 104D, 203D, 204D or equivalent experience. Attributes: A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, LSArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Annually / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 ---R--- 2:30P-5:00P McMillan / 219 Mutonya No final 8 2 0 Actions: Books Syllabus Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. L90 AFAS 4134 The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: In the year 2000, HIV became the world's leading infectious cause of adult death, and in the next ten years, AIDS will kill more people than all wars of the twentieth century combined. As the global epidemic rages on, our greatest enemy in combating HIV/AIDS is not knowledge or resources, but global inequalities and the conceptual frameworks with which we understand health, human interaction, and sexuality. This course emphasizes the ethnographic approach for cultural analysis of responses to HIV/AIDS. Students will explore the relationship between local communities and wider historical and economic processes, and theoretical approaches to disease, the body, ethnicity/race, gender, sexuality, risk, addiction, power, and culture. Other topics covered include the cultural construction of AIDS and risk, government responses to HIV/AIDS, origin and transmission debates, ethics and responsibilities, drug testing and marketing, the making of the AIDS industry and "risk" categories, prevention and education strategies, interaction between bio-medicine and alternative healing systems, and medical advances and hopes. Attributes: A&S IQ: LCD, SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: ISEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L48 4134  L18 4134  L77 4134  L97 4134  L98 4134 Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 11:30A-1:00P Simon / 1 Parikh Dec 18 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM 250 239 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 434B Seminar in Black Social Sciences 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This seminar applies a deep reading to social science texts that examine the construction and experiences of black people in the United States from the point of view of black scholars. Readings include theoretical and empirical work. The seminar focuses on the influence of the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and anthropology on the policy and social practices that characterize dominant North American institutions. Advanced class level strongly advised. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCBU: BAEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: L12 434B  L98 436B Frequency: Every 1 or 2 Years / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 --W---- 4:00P-7:00P Seigle / 109 Duncan See instructor 20 10 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 4489 Topics in African-American Studies: Black Political Thought 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Newscasters, pundits, pollsters, analysts and even politicians often think of African Americans as a monolithic population, held together by a uniform set of beliefs that run steady across the entire community. However, this simply is not the case. When it comes to politics and political thought, African Americans, and those who make up the Black population in the United States, exhibit a broad range of intra-racial diversity. Manifested along the fault lines of class, gender, age, ideology, and a number of other factors, the complexity of Black political thought is built upon the structure of both African American communities and the larger American political landscape. This course will explore the contours of Black political thought in the United States, while paying close attention to various ideologies, pivotal historical moments and major debates shaping the course of African-American political life. Attributes: A&S IQ: SC, SD, SSCArch: SSCArt: SSCEN: S Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CP Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Unpredictable / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 M-W---- 10:00A-11:30A Seigle / 305 Fenderson See instructor 19 19 0 Actions: Books L90 AFAS 450 Interdisciplinary Topics in the Humanities: Intellectual History of Mass Incarceration 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of the modern-day prison. What historical shifts, political logics, and ideological developments led to the phenomenon we have come to know as "mass incarceration"? How did the carceral logic that informs the seemingly inevitable contemporary connection between crime and punishment evolve in the West? Our topics will include influential theories that defined the physical space of the prison, the criminalization of marginalized populations, the emergence of theories and categories of deviance, and the development of criminology as an academic discipline. Attributes: Arch: HUMArt: HUM Instruction Type: Classroom instruction Grade Options: CPA Fees: Course Type: Ident Same As: L93 450A  L16 450C  L84 450A Frequency: None / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 -T-R--- 2:30P-4:00P Seigle / 210 Ake, Ward Paper/Project/TakeHome 0 19 0 Actions: Books Waits Not Allowed L90 AFAS 498 Fieldwork in African-American Studies Var. Units (max = 6.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: A fieldwork project carried out under the direction of an instructor in the African and Afro-American Studies program. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and the Director of African and Afro-American Studies prior to enrollment. See Program office for forms. Attributes: EN: S Instruction Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Early No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Phillips No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Mutonya No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Parsons No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Zafar No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Duncan No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Bernstein No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 08 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA TBA Parikh No final 1 0 0 Actions: Books 11 TBA TBA Maxwell No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 12 TBA TBA Baugh No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 13 TBA TBA Himes No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L90 AFAS 499 Independent Work for Senior Honors: Research. 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Prerequisite: Permission of Chair and appropriate grade point average. Application forms available in department office. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 02 TBA TBA Phillips See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Mutonya See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Parsons See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Zafar See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Duncan See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Bernstein See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA Fenderson See department 1 1 0 Actions: Books 09 TBA TBA [TBA] See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA TBA Parikh See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 11 TBA TBA Maxwell See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 12 TBA TBA Baugh See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 13 TBA TBA Himes See department 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L90 AFAS 4991 Independent Work for Senior Honors: Thesis 3.0 Units Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Prerequisite: Permission of Director and appropriate grade point average. Application forms are available in Program office. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Early No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Phillips No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Mutonya No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Parsons No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Zafar No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Duncan No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 07 TBA TBA Bernstein No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 08 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 09 TBA TBA [TBA] No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA TBA Parikh No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 11 TBA TBA Maxwell No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 12 TBA TBA Baugh No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 13 TBA TBA Himes No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. L90 AFAS 500 Independent Study: Graduate Level Var. Units (max = 6.0) Details Save  Cancel   My Note:   Description: Prerequisites: Graduate standing, permission of the Director of the program and the faculty member supervising the work. Application forms are available in the office. Attributes: Instruction Type: Independent study, tutorial, or other Grade Options: C Fees: Course Type: Home Same As: N/A Frequency: Every Semester / History Sec Days       Time Building / Room Instructor Final Exam Seats Enroll Waits 01 TBA TBA Early No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 02 TBA TBA Phillips No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 03 TBA TBA Mutonya No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 04 TBA TBA Parsons No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 05 TBA TBA Zafar No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 06 TBA TBA Duncan No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 10 TBA TBA Parikh No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 12 TBA TBA Baugh No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 13 TBA TBA Mustakeem No final 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept. 14 TBA TBA DIALLO See instructor 0 0 0 Actions: Books Waits managed by dept.