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3.00 Credits
A study of the jazz performers and practices of today and of the preceding decade - the roots, stylistic developments and directions of individual artists, small combos and big bands.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the seminar method of instruction accenting the organization and expression of arguments suggested by readings in sociology. Each of the seminars treats a particular sociological topic, such as family life, social problems, the urban crisis, poverty, etc. Africana Studies is a broad, interdisciplinary field of study looking at Africa, the African Diaspora, and the African American experience. As a result of this breadth there are endless avenues for study and exploration within the discipline. This seminar will focus on the education of children worldwide, with special attention to the contintent of Africa and the African Diaspora. Students will be expected to examine sociological, political, and historical contexts of educational endeavors worldwide. The course will begin unpacking issues and core themes surrounding education in various parts of the world through close reading of selected novels focused on global education. From there we will work together to digest, synthesize, and assess qualitative and quantitative research associated with foreign education departments, NGOs, and educational research projects/case studies around the globe. Students will have the opportunity to explore different research methodologies, genres of writing, and presentation formats within the course.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the seminar method of instruction that explores the major methodologies of the historical discipline and which accents the organization and expression of arguments suggested by readings in historical topics.
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3.00 Credits
This class will examine three historical matrices that have had a decided impact on the development of Africana identity and culture in the North American Diaspora. The first centers on the reception, interpretation, and appropriation of the Christian Bible by peoples of African descent. The second focuses on the evolution of the Black Church, the collective body of adherents in traditionally African American and other Christian faith communities. The third consists of the emergence of Blues music, artists, and performance spaces as non-ecclesial loci of protest and crucibles in which Africana spiritualities of resistance were forged. Thus, the course will, in effect, introduce students to the essential sources - both primary and secondary - methodologies, animating questions, and debates crucial to three historically based subfields within Africana Studies: 1) the history of Africana biblical interpretation in North America; 2) Black Church Studies; and 3) Blues Studies. By the end of the class, students will be able to identify the core texts essential in each of these subfields; discuss the major periodization schemes proposed by scholars for African American biblical hermeneutics, the development of the Black Church in the Americas, and the growth of Blues; discuss the methodological paradigms employed in each of the aforementioned research domains; explain cogently some of the major issues and debates that drive each of these subfields; and offer a reasoned explanation as to why the Bible, the Black Church, and the Blues can be construed as symbiotic matrices in which historical memories are preserved, individual and corporate identities are formed, institutional life is preserved, and social traumas are ameliorated.
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3.00 Credits
This course delves into African American Politics after the Civil Rights Revolution. The long centuries of slavery and de jure segregation in which African Americans existed outside of American political institutions, created distinct divisions between dominant views in the nation and Black perspectives on politics. The United States is now in transition from earlier periods when the boundaries of Black politics were very clear, into more recent decades when those boundaries became considerably more permeable. The course considers how racial and ethnic political officials and organizations tried to solve certain types of problems as they first began to participate in national politics. The political subject matter explored in the course ranges widely. Electoral and partisan politics, civil society and interest groups, national public policy, foreign policy and international affairs are important sectors in which African American political interests were represented and controversies developed. Presidential politics including the Obama administration will also be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Through this ethnomusicology course students will learn the roles music occupies in world religions. More than a world music course, we will examine the creative expression of the divine through the universal language of organized sound as music, as music plays a major role in the in the practice of most religions worldwide. This study involves all the major continents, highlighting new perspectives as to the confluence between religious culture and musical expression. Knowledge of music beneficial but not required, just open ears and minds to the diverse ontological understandings comprising various worldviews.
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3.00 Credits
Students explore music from West Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, and the Caribbean, South America, and the United States, paying close attention to how their reception and performance inform and influence each other historically and contextually. The seminar emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing from ethnomusicology, African and African American studies anthropology, colonial and post-colonial studies.
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3.00 Credits
Through a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural exploration, this course will 1) introduce students to key concepts, themes, and theories in the field of Africana Studies; and 2) introduce students to the identities and experiences of black populations throughout the global African Diaspora. Over the course of the semester, we will tackle the following questions: What is Africana Studies? What are the historical, intellectual, and political origins of Africana Studies? What are race and ethnicity? What is blackness? What roles do class, culture, gender, nationality, and religion, play in blackness? What is the African Diaspora? What role does Africa play in blackness? How do the arts, humanities, and social sciences help us investigate, analyze, conceptualize, represent, and understand this thing we refer to as "blackness?" What are some of the historical, geographical, socio-political, and cultural points of divergence observable between populations of African descent throughout the Diaspora and what, if any, are the points of commonality that unite these dispersed populations?
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3.00 Credits
A survey of 300 years of African American literature.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the historical, cultural, and political circumstances that led to the flowering of African-American literature in the '20s and early '30s and the writers whom it fostered: Hughes, Hurston, Toomer, Redmon Fauset, Larson, Thurman.
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