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3.00 Credits
(Also ENTH BC 3144) Exploration of Black theater, specifically African-American performance traditions, as an intervening agent in racial, cultural, and national identity. African-American theater artists to be examined include Amiri Baraka, Kia Corthron, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angelina Grimke, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Adrian Piper, and August Wilson.
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3.00 Credits
(Also ENGL BC 3148) Examination of fiction, poetry, essays and films about the Great Migration (1910-1950) of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North, focusing on literary production in New York and Chicago. (This course satisfies the Harlem Requirement for the Africana Studies major). - Q. Prettyman General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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4.00 Credits
Examines the evolution of the ideas, institutions and practices associated with social justice in Africa and their relationship to contemporary international human rights movement and focuses on the role of human rights in social change. A number of themes will re-occur throughout the course, notably tensions between norms and reality, cultural diversity, economic and political asymmetries, the role of external actors, and women as rights providers. Countries of special interest include Liberia, Senegal, South African and Tanzania. - J. Martin Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
In addition to learning about the history of the Middle Passage, students will examine literary and political responses to this forced immigration out of Africa. Identifying responses to slave holding pasts, the seminar culminates in a visit to an historic site of importance in the Middle Passage. - K. Hall Prerequisites: Admission to this seminar is by application only. Applications will be made available on the Africana Studies website: www.barnard.edu/africana Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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8.00 Credits
A two-semester program of interdisciplinary research leading to the writing of the senior essay. Senior Seminar is not an independent study, but a structured seminar on methodology and criticism, which in the first semester results in an approved and substantial thesis proposal and annotated bibliography, and in the second semester produces the final thesis. In some cases, a senior seminar in one of the departments contributing to the program may be substituted for the first semester of the Senior Thesis. - K. Hall 8 points
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of the shifting place and perception of Afro-Caribbean performance in Caribbean societies. Taking a cross-cultural approach examines performance through the lens of ethnography, anthropology, music and literary criticism. - M. Horn Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Sophomore Standing. Enrollment limited to 18 students. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Japanese art from the Neolithic through the Edo period, with emphasis on Buddhist art, scroll painting, decorative screens, and wood-block prints. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Rome from the second century B.C. to the end of the Roman Empire in the West. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Studies European visual arts of the 19th century. Covers a century of rapid stylistic, political and technological changes beginning with the radical changes of the Enlightenment and ending with the glamorous portraits of the Belle Epoque. Considers careers and works of individual artists, formal innovation, the invention of new media, materials, institutional structures, and ideological functions. Discussion Section Required. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Explores the ways in which the culture and social functions of artistic production in Germany and the Netherlands were transformed as a consequence of the dissemination of the ideologies of humanism and the Reformation. - K. Moxey General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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