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0.00 Credits
During the lab times, certain films will be viewed for further discussion in class.
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1.00 Credits
This seminar exposes students to issues fundamental to the Civil Rights Movement. Through contact (in Birmingham and Atlanta) with communities, leaders, and religious institutions that shaped the ideology and development of the movement, students explore historical and current challenges in race relations and collaboration.
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3.00 Credits
This course will trace a long historical arc in considering depictions of the United States South and of the peoples who have lived there. Though we'll dip into the eighteenth century, the course will be roughly divided between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. And while we'll spend most of our time analyzing the relations of blacks and whites, during slavery and after, we'll also consider the experiences of Native Americans, Asians, and Latinos. What role has "the South," as a place both real and imagined, played in the cultural history of the United States? And--as a region almost entirely set apart--how has "the South" figured in the creation of national identity? To what extent has it been used to contain, and even quarantine, the nation's racial problems? We'll dwell on these questions, and others, as we engage with novels, slave narratives, paintings, and films.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to contemporary literature of the black Diaspora through the genre of the historical novel. We will evaluate strategies of narration, the significance of differing representations of single events, and the relationship between literature and history. Literary analysis will be supplemented by an examination of the historical and political issues central to the novels. Authors may include, but are not limited to Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Johnson and Andrea Levy. In addition, we will draw on selected critical essays, films, and documentaries. Requirements include reading quizzes, short response papers, small group presentations, a short research paper (6-8 pages), and a final exam.
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3.00 Credits
How might thinking of the African American increase our understanding of U.S. society's diversity and its relation to the modern world? If such a task could be addressed by looking at the work of one thinker, who would it be? This course offers writer and philosopher W.E.B DuBois as one avenue to answering these questions. Not only did DuBois predict that the problem of the twentieth century would be the "problem of the color line," and study for his PhD at the University of Berlin and Harvard University in the 1890s. Not only did he found the NAACP and gained the respect of thinkers and activists like Martin Luther King and Albert Einstein. W.E.B. DuBois was also a prolific writer of philosophy, fiction, correspondence, editorials, novels, and lectures, resulting in a 70-year career and over 175,000 pages of published and unpublished writings. This course will only read (and, in some cases, view or listen to) some of the key moments in DuBois's intellectual career, primarily Souls of Black Folk, John Brown, Dark Princess, selections from Black Reconstruction and Darkwater. We will examine how he reconfigured philosophical concepts, literary genres and tropes in specific contexts to think in innovative ways about African Americans and our modern world in general. We will also contextualize DuBois in relation to national and international figures in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Ultimately, we will consider how his ideas can inform critical thinking about the present. Grades will consist of class participation and writing assignments based on particular themes that encountered in DuBois's thought.
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3.00 Credits
The Iranian cultural world, from late antiquity until the 13th century, stretched from what is today Iraq all the way to India, and from the Persian Gulf deep into Central Asia. Although in the seventh century the early Islamic conquests put an end to the Persian Empire and occupied the Iranian world, a new era of Iranian hegemony began in Islamic history with the 'Abbasid Revolution in 750 and the establishment of the new Islamic capital, Baghdad, in the old Persian heartland. This event inaugurated a growing dominance by Iranians, and Persian traditions, in all areas of Islamic civilization- cultural, religious, military, and political- culminating in the establishment of the autonomous Persianate dynasties which ruled the Islamic heartland from the ninth century until invading Turco-Mongol tribes seized political control of the Islamic world in the twelfth century. This course will explore the many ways in which the Persianate world- today's Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia- helped form the Islamic world, focusing on its contributions to political order and ideology; its leading role in the formation and elaboration of Sunnism; its rich cultural productions; and its expansion of the borders of Islam.
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3.00 Credits
Brazil has more people of African descent than any other country in the world, other than Nigeria. This fact makes it impossible to understand the history of this South American nation, the fifth largest in the world, or the history of race broadly, without centralizing the experience of black Brazilians. This course will begin with the Transatlantic Slave Trade (during which more slaves landed in Brazil than any other nation) and will end with the modern day Afro-Brazilian movement for equality and the difficulties they face. Along the way, we will cover powerful runaway slave societies, the role of Afro-Brazilians in abolition, the challenges confronted in freedom, black political organization in the 20th century, Afro-Brazilian music traditions, Afro-Brazilian religious practices, and the relationship between such manifestations of black culture and the Brazilian state. We will attempt to understand what has been unique about black history in Brazil, and what has been reflected in the broader experience of blacks in the New World.
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1.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the African American faith experience, with particular attention being given to the historical development of spiritualities of liberation in the American diaspora. Guest lecturers and seminar leaders will offer perspective on this rich and heterogeneous tradition from several vantage points within the humanities, social sciences, and theological disciplines. In addition to a course pack of selected readings, the PBS series, This Far by Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys, and its companion volume will constitute the required texts for the course. There will be seven class meetings of two hours each. The course will meet on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Attendance at all class sessions, active participation in seminar discussions, completion of six short (i.e., 2 - 3 pages in length) weekly reflection papers, and a final examination are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the literary and artistic presentation of the themes of love, death, and exile in medieval and modern Arabic literature and popular culture. Through close readings of Arabic poetry, essays, short stories, and novels (with English subtitles), we discuss the following issues: topics and genres of love and poetry, gender, eroticism, and sexuality in literary discourse, the traditional motif of al-hanin Ilal al-watan ("yearning for the homeland") in modern poetry and fiction.
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1.00 Credits
Set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and centered on a journey to Louisiana during spring break, this Seminar explores domestic environmental issues from the perspective of minority communities that suffered due to Hurricane Katrina. Examines historical, political, and economic issues that created a culture of poverty in such areas. After defining key concepts such as environmental racism, culture of poverty, justice, and equality, students will consider specific issues of waste pollution and exposure to toxic substances emitted from chemical plants built in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Apply through the Center for Social Concerns.
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