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Information as of Aug 7, 2019 - Subject to change Table of Contents Africana Studies Anthropology Arabic Art Asian Studies Biochemistry Biology Chemistry Cinema Studies Classics Computer Science Digital and Computational St Earth and Oceanographic Sci Economics Education English Environmental Studies Gender, Sexuality and Women St German Government and Legal Studies History Latin American Studies Mathematics Music Neuroscience Philosophy Physics and Astronomy Psychology Religion Romance Languages and Lits Russian Sociology Theater and Dance Africana Studies Africana Studies Course Cross- Course Title Course Description Div/ Prerequisites Offering ID listing(s) Dist Frequency AFRS Affirmative Action US Interdisciplinary exploration of the rise c Every Fall 1012 Society and fall (and reappearance) of the affirmative action debate that shaped so much of the American culture wars during the 1970s and 2000s. Students primarily study affirmative action in the United States, but comparative analysis of affirmative action systems in societies outside the United States, such as South Africa and India, is also considered. Examines important Supreme Court cases that have shaped the contours of affirmative action, the rise of diversity discourse, and the different ways political and cultural ideologies -- not to mention historical notions of American identity -- have determined when, where, and how affirmative action has existed and whom it benefits. Study of law, economics, sociology, anthropology, history, and political science introduces students to different methodological approaches that inform Africana studies and the field’s examination of the role people of African descent have played in contemporary and historical American society. Writing intensive. Analytical discussions of assigned texts. AFRS MUS 1011 Holy Songs in a Strange Examines black American sacred music c Discontinued 1019 Land from its earliest forms, fashioned by Course enslaved Africans, through current iterations produced by black global actors of a different sort. What does bondage sound like? What does emancipation sound like? Are there corresponding sounds generated by artists today? In what ways have creators of sacred music embraced, rejected, and re-envisioned the "strange land" over time? Studies musical and lyrical content and the context in which various music genres developed, such as Negro spirituals, gospel, and sacred blues. Contemporary artists including Janelle Monáe, Beyoncé, and Lupe Fiasco are also considered. AFRS Intro to Africana Studies Focuses on major humanities and c- Every Fall 1101 social science disciplinary and ESD interdisciplinary African American and African diaspora themes in the context of the modern world. The African Table of Contents Africana Studies Course Cross- Course Title Course Description Div/ Prerequisites Offering ID listing(s) Dist Frequency American experience is addressed in its appropriate historical context, emphasizing its important place in the history of the United States and connections to African diasporic experiences, especially in the construction of the Atlantic world. Material considered chronologically and thematically builds on historically centered accounts of African American, African diaspora, and African experiences. Introduces prospective Africana studies majors and minors to the field; provides an overview of the predominant theoretical and methodological perspectives in this evolving discipline; and establishes historical context for critical analyses of African American experiences in the United States, and their engagement with the African diaspora. AFRS REL 1104 African Religions and By 2050, more than one-quarter of the b- Every Other 1104 Cultures world’s population will live in Africa, ESD, Fall and yet African people, cultures, and IP religions are more misunderstood than any other. This course provides an introduction to the varied and diverse peoples and cultures of Africa, taking religion as the starting point for their ways of life. Rather than providing a survey of specific regions and populations, we will focus on broader categories, such as cosmology, family and social structure, history, arts, gender and sexuality, and economics. We will examine the ways traditional forms of religion, Christianity, and Islam have played a fundamental role in shaping the realities of African societies as well as African diaspora traditions. This course is open to all students of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge about Africa. AFRS ENGL Black Women's In conjunction with the fiftieth c- Non- 1109 1301 / Lives:18th&19 c. anniversary of Africana studies at ESD Standard GSWS Bowdoin, this yearlong, two-part Rotation 1301 course will address debates and issues of Africana studies through the lives of black women. In Part I, students will focus on early Africana studies texts, reading works by and about Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Frances Harper, Ida B. Wells, and Anna Julia Cooper. We will take up differences and continuities between these Table of Contents Africana Studies Course Cross- Course Title Course Description Div/ Prerequisites Offering ID listing(s) Dist Frequency thinkers to understand the politics of respectability, work, representation, sexuality, and family across multiple historical contexts. AFRS ENGL Black Biography Introduces students to the genre of c Non- 1300 1300 African American biography by Standard examining the form from its first Rotation inception in the eighteenth century with biographical sketches of important black figures -- such as Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, and Benjamin Banneker -- to the contemporary African American biopic feature film of figures including Jackie Robinson, Mohammad Ali, and Nina Simone. AFRS HIST 1320 Racial/Ethnic Conflict American cities have been historic c Every Other 1320 America cauldrons of racial and ethnic conflict. Year Concentrates on urban violence in American cities since 1898. Students study moments of conflict during the early republic and the nineteenth century. Topics examined include the post-Reconstruction pogroms that overturned interracial democracy; the Red Summer and its historical memory; the ways race and ethnicity shaped urban residential space; the effects of immigration on urban political economy and society, and the conflicts over space, labor, and social relations that arose; and the waves of urban violence that spread across the country in the mid-1960s. AFRS ENGL Reconstruction and An interdisciplinary introduction from c Non- 2142 2900 / Reunion the perspectives of art history, literary Standard HIST 2142 history, and history to the political, Rotation economic, and social questions arising from American Reconstruction (1866-1877) and Reunion (1878-1900) following the Civil War between the North and South. Readings delve into a wide array of primary and secondary sources -- including photographs, novels, poetry, and government documents -- in order to understand the fierce political debates rooted in Reconstruction that continue to occupy conceptions of America today. AFRS GSWS Blk Women Politic Music Seminar. Examines the convergence of c- Every Fall 2201 2207 / Divine politics and spirituality in the musical ESD, MUS work of contemporary black women VPA 2291 / REL singer-songwriters in the United States. 2201 Analyzes material that interrogates and articulates the intersections of gender, Table of Contents Africana Studies Course Cross- Course Title Course Description Div/ Prerequisites Offering ID listing(s) Dist Frequency race, class, and sexuality generated across a range of religious and spiritual terrains with African diasporic/black Atlantic spiritual moorings, including Christianity, Islam, and Yoruba. Focuses on material that reveals a womanist (black feminist) perspective by considering the ways resistant identities shape and are shaped by artistic production. Employs an interdisciplinary approach by incorporating ethnomusicology, anthropology, literature, history, and performance and social theory. Explores the work of Shirley Caesar, the Clark Sisters, Meshell Ndegeocello, Abby Lincoln, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Dianne Reeves, among others. AFRS LAS 2302 Deliverance in Atlantic Seminar. Examines beliefs and c-IP Discontinued 2202 World practices having to do with evil spirits, Course demons, and the devil in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Western Europe. The primary focus is exorcism. What is it? How has it been practiced? By whom? Why? The approach to the subject is historical, transnational, and diasporic; examines changes and continuities across the Atlantic over the past five hundred years, beginning with cultural encounters between Africans, native Americans, and Europeans during the colonial period and continuing up through the reverse missionization and the new African diaspora of the present day. Readings include works of ethnography, anthropology, theology, history, personal narrative, and fiction. AFRS HIST Afro-Brazilian Culture Seminar. Brazil has the largest c-IP Discontinued 2210 2871 / population of African descent outside Course LAS 2110 Africa. Today, Brazilians pride themselves on their country’s unique racial and cultural heritage, but it hasn’t always been this way. For centuries, many Afro-Brazilian practices were illegal. Now, however, we are in the midst of what might be called an Afro-Brazilian