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  • AFRC 284: Advanced Swahili I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Mshomba. Prerequisite(s): AFRC 282 or permission of the instructor. Offered through the Penn Language Center. This is an advanced Kiswahili course which will engage learners in extended spoken and written discourse. Advanced learners of Kiswahili will listen to, read about, write, and speak on authentic video materials, contemporary novels, and newspapers. They will also participate in various discussions on cultural and political issues. (AFST285, AFST586) Advanced Swahili II. (B) Mshomba. Prerequisite(s): AFRC 284 or permission of the instructor. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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  • AFRC 294: African American Art

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Shaw. This course examines over two hundred years of artistic production by and about people of African descent living in the United States from the colonial period through WWII. While focusing primarily on the fine arts, a variety of media and artistic movements will be examined from eighteenth-century colonial portraits and the material culture of slavery to the transatlantic modernism of the early Harlem Renaissance.
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  • AFRC 301: Africa and the African Diaspora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will take the form of an introductory seminar designed to provide undergraduate students an overview of significant themes and issues focusing on the historical, political, and cultural relationships between Africans and their descendants abroad. It will encompass: a review of different historical periods and geographical locations, from Ancient Egypt to modern American, Caribbean and African states; a critical evaluation of social movements and theories that have developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries among scholars of different origins in their attempt to reconstruct Africa as a center and the Diaspora as a specific cultural space; and, an exploration of representation of Africa and the Diaspora in canonical literary works and other forms of fiction like the visual arts.
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  • AFRC 303: Undergraduate Seminar

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Massiah, Shaw. Undergraduate Major Preference. Topic varies. This course is cross-listed with ARTH 301 (Undergraduate Seminar) when the subject matter is related to African, African American, or other African diaspora issues. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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  • AFRC 308: Religious Diversity in America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is cross-listed with RELS 310 (Religious Diversity in America) when the title is "Religious and Social Change in West Philadelphia.". In the 1950's America seemed to be a land of Protestant, Catholic, and Jew. Now it is clearly also a land of Muslims and Hindus, Buddhists and Taoists, Rastafarians and Neo-pagans and many m ore religious groups. This course will focus upon a variety of topics: religious diversity in West Philadelphia, Philadelphia and beyond; the politics of religious diveristy; religion in American schools and cities; and conflicts and cooperation among diverse religious groups.
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  • AFRC 324: Seminar on Strategies to Reduce Intergroup Tension in Multi-Cultural Settings:West Philadelphia and Penn as a Test Case

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Romer, Pouncy. This action-research seminar explores several social science approaches to reducing intergroup tension, especially in multi-ethnic urban settings. Tools for analyzing tension are reviewed so that students can conduct their own studies of the ethinic and cultural tensions that exist in various local sites (e.g., public schools, nearby neighborhoods, and Penn itself). Students are encouraged not only to increase their understanding of the tensions in their chosen sites but also to suggest policies and interventions that can increase intergroup cooperation.
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  • AFRC 355: Women and Ritual in Africa

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Blakely. This course will focus on ritual events of Bahemba of eastern Zaire using written, audio, and film texts from the instructor's archive (developed over several years of field research in the region) and ritual events documented by other researchers in west, central, southern, and east Africa. Topics to be considered include how gender roles are constituted and experienced through African ritual, the significance of spirit possession and spirit mediumship to folk practitioners, the aesthetics of African ritual, dimensions of women's ritual power in Africa, and women's ritual leadership through different life cycle stages.
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  • AFRC 363: The Civil War and Reconstruction

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Also offered through the College of General Studies - See CGS Course Guide. This course investigates the major ingredients - political, social, and economic - leading to the sectional crisis and war, analyzes war and leadership on both sides, and explores the major issues of Reconstruction.
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  • AFRC 371: Topics in the Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. This course explores an aspect of the literature of Africa and the African Diaspora intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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  • AFRC 381: Topics in African American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Benjamin Franklin Seminar. In this advanced seminar, students will be introduced to a variety of approaches to African American literatures, and to a wide spectrum of methodologies and ideological postures (for example, The Black Arts Movement). The course will present an assortment of emphases, some of them focused on geography (for example, The Harlem Renaissance), others focused on genre (autobiography, poetry or drama), the politics of gender and class, or a particualr grouping of authors. Previous versions of this course have included "African American Autobiography," "Backgrounds of African American Literatures," "The Black Narrative" (beginning with eighteenth century slave narratives and working toward contemporary literature), as well as seminars on urban spaces, jazz, migration, oral narratives, black Christianity, and African-American music. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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