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3.00 Credits
An examination of the structure, history and use of African-American English. Topics will include the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary of African-American English, theories of origin, linguistic repertoire and code-switching in African-American communities, the Ebonics controversy, and the role of this variety in education and identity formation. Additional reading assignments or projects will distinguish this course from its undergraduate version. Students cannot receive credit for both AAAS 477 and AAAS 577.
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This course deals with African Diasporan history from the 19th century to the present. The method is by definition cross-cultural and comparative, requiring that the works or figures under study represent a diversity of Diasporan nationalities and/or cultures. The course may focus on a wide range of topics. Students cannot receive credit for AAAS 491 and 591 when the topic title is the same.
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3.00 Credits
This course in an introduction to Arab American literature, its historical and cultural contexts and contemporary relevance. Topics will include the literary and cultural productions of Arab immigrants, their transnational vision, and explorations of such concepts as home, memory and identity; the literary, dramatic and poetic responses of Arab American writers to 9/11 and the ongoing the war on terror; the role Arab American literature in offering different versions of Arab and Arab American lives and experiences from the one circulated in mainstream media, Hollywood cinema and culture.
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3.00 Credits
The Arab and Arab American Writers Workshop is a creative writing workshop focusing on poetry and fiction. Students will explore Arab American literature, writers, and themes. Students are expected to work on their own manuscripts as well as critique outside readings. The workshop will be conducted under the guidance of Arab and Arab American faculty and is open to all students.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a general introduction to Postcolonial Studies - a field of cultural inquiry that questions how personal identity (specifically race, language, and ethnicity) shapes, and is shaped by, the politics of colonization and nationalism. Students will clarify the subject of Postcolonial Studies by examining a variety of cultural and linguistic objects (literature, film, TV-journalism, slave- and middle-passage-narrative, and political manifesto) from a variety of cultural perspectives (Arab American, Anglo-Indian, West African, and Caribbean).
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3.00 Credits
Examination of various topics dealing with Arab American Studies. Titles will change according to content and schedule of classes. Course may be repeated for credit when specific topic differs. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
This course traces immigration from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine (Bilad al Sham) to the U.S. from the 1890?s to the present. We begin by utilizing theories on immigration and ethnicity in order to understand patterns of settlement, work, and leisure, and examine the Arab Americans? religious life, press, and evaluate their membership in unions and political parties. Participants will gain knowledge of the immigrants? past achievements and more recent scholarship on their development in public and private spheres. The course includes activities in local institutions, researching archival material, and contact with community leaders. This course will provide knowledge of the historical roots of the Arab Americans? adjustment to life as U.S. citizens and will prepare the students for further inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the formation of Arab American identity by exploring its origins and several markers of its development. Beginning with the political changes in the Arab Americans' ancestral homelands leading up to WWI, we reconcile the immigrants' feelings of peoplehood with recent studies on aspects of their ethnic, racialized, nationalist, gendered, and assimilative lives. The course addresses responses to the Arab Americans' official status as "white," sample of Arab American feminist writings, manifestations of political awareness in the U.S. in response to political changes in the Middle East, and the Arab Americans' place within studies on ethnicity, gender, and race before and after September 11, 2001.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the literary and cultural contributions of Arab and Arab American women novelists, poets, filmmakers and artists to the development and consolidation of cultures of understanding and coexistence; explores the relations between, among others, citizenship and belonging, race and national security, gender and geographical mobility, and ethnic minorities and mainstream consciousness; stresses how literary and artistic productions of Arab and Arab American women writers and artists fosters alternative visions of socio-cultural coexistence, dialogue, and hospitality by means of technical and stylistic experimental and renovation. For graduate credit take AAST 573. Students cannot receive credit for both AAST 473 and AAST 573.
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3.00 Credits
The content of this course will vary. All courses which will run under this number will cover Arab American issues.
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