Description: This course examines contemporary and historical debates that The college: Arts & sciences have shaped theory and method in cultural anthropology. It aims to show how anthropological thought and practice has responded to urgent social issues such as racism, gender inequality, and African & African-American Studies poverty. The course gives particular attention to the question of what constitutes a public anthropology, that is, how anthropologists engage and address audiences outside of Department: African & African-American Studies academia. Course: AAS 110 Title: Introduction to African and African-American Studies Department: African & African-American Studies Cross-listed: HIS 110 Course: AAS 210 Instructor: Hudson, L. Class Size: 15 Title: American Culture Description: Please see HIS 110 for the Description. Cross-listed: ANT 245 Instructor: Emmett, A. Class Size: 30 Department: African & African-American Studies Description: Please see ANT 245 for the Description. Course: AAS 151 Title: The Blues Department: African & African-American Studies Cross-listed: REL 151, MUR 127 Course: AAS 241 Instructor: Beaumont, D. Title: Studies in a Major Author: Toni Morrison and Critical Theory Description: The course is about the history and influence of the music known Cross-listed: ENG 243 as "the Blues." The course covers development of the blues from Instructor: Li, Stephanie the earliest practitioners to recent developments. Biographies of Description: Please see ENG 243 for the Description. leading musicians and the social conditions in which the music developed are also examined. Finally its enormous impact on Department: African & African-American Studies American culture both directly and through its descendent Course: AAS 243 rock'in'roll is analyzed. Classroom time will be divided between Title: Muhammad and the Qur'an listening and discussion. A large body of music will be Cross-listed: REL 240 "streamed" - available in digitized files for students in this class Instructor: Homerin, Th. E. to access through their own computers. This will eliminate the Description: Please see REL 240W for the Description. problem of one student having checked out the CD etc. Department: African & African-American Studies Department: African & African-American Studies Course: AAS 249 Course: AAS 202 Title: The Civil War Title: The Third World Cross-listed: HIS 249 Cross-listed: HIS 201/201W Instructor: Hudson, L Instructor: Mandala, E. Description: Please see HIS 249 for the Description. Exams: mid-term and final Coursework: One 10-15 page essay Department: African & African-American Studies Description: Please see HIS 201 for the Description. Course: AAS 254 Title: West African Dance Department: African & African-American Studies Cross-listed: DAN 181 Course: AAS 205 Instructor: Martino, K. Title: Debates and Theories in Anthropology Description: Please see DAN 181 for the Description. Cross-listed: ANT 205 Instructor: Carter, A. Class Size: 25 Department: African & African-American Studies Restrictions: Permission of instructor required for freshmen Course: AAS 265 Coursework: Three papers; class presentation Title: The Black Art Movments Instructor: Rabig, J. Department: African & African-American Studies Description: Students in this course will encounter the black freedom struggle Course: AAS 278 through the literature, music, art, and political activism of the Title: Birth and Death II: Making Populations Healthy Black Arts Movement. The artistic corollary to Black Power, the Cross-listed: ANT278 Black Arts Movement flourished in the 1960s and 1970s as Instructor: Homerin, E. artists/activists sought to put a revolutionary cultural politics into Prerequisites: None; ANT 218 is strongly recommended practice around the country. Though short-lived, the Black Arts Restrictions: Permission of instructor required for freshmen Movement had far-reaching consequences for the way artists and Exams: 3 papers writers think about race, history, identity, and the relationship Coursework: Regular take-home exams and a research paper. Where between artistic production and liberation. Well read the work of appropriate, students will be encouraged to seek internships in Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez and other artists who created the NGOs and other agencies providing population-related services. traditionally-defined Black Arts Movement in Harlem and trace Description: Please see ANT 278 for the Description. the movements extension across the country through protest, local political battles, and the emergence of black studies Department: African & African American Studies programs. Well explore the overlap of the Black Arts Movement Course: AAS 286 with other political currents in the late 1960s and early 1970s and Title: Islam and the Third World delve into the long-running debates over class, gender, and Cross-listed: AAS 278/HIS 244W/REL 247W ideology that concerned both Black Arts circles and the larger Instructor: Homerin, Th. E. Class Size: 25 Black Power Movement. Well consider the ways in which the Restrictions: Permission of instructor required Black Arts Movement lived on in hip-hop and film, as well as the Coursework: 3 papers ways in which it was co-opted or distorted. Description: This course will study some of the important and often dramatic changes occurring in modern Islam by examining the effects on it Department: African and African-American Studies of Third World political, social, and economic factors. Case Course: AAS 270 studies will be drawn from twentieth century Islam but placed in Title: African-American Visual Culture context of similar situations involving other religious traditions in Cross-listed: AH 266/466 South America, Africa, and South Asia. Instructor: Saab, Joan Description: Please see AH 266 for the Description. Department: African & African-American Studies Course: AAS 335 Department: African & African-American Studies Title: The Political Economy of Food in Africa Course: AAS 277 Cross-listed: HIS 347W, HIS 457 Title: Energy Resources and Utilization Instructor: Mandala, Elias Class Size: Cross-listed: CHE 277 Description: Please see HIS 347W for the Description. Instructor: Ebenhack,B. Class Size: 25 Restrictions: Permission of instructor required for freshmen Department: African & African-American Studies Coursework: Quizzes, Mid-term and Final Papers Course: AAS 343 Description: Emphasis will be placed on technical and development aspects of Title: Race and the American City energy resource problems. Applications of resource exploration Cross-listed: HIS 343W, HIS 43 and development in energy prospective locales which lack Instructor: Wolcott, V. Class Size: 15 commercial energy development will be discussed. The Restrictions: Permission of instructor required importance of energy to the quality of life in industrial and non- Exams: Midterm and Final Examination industrialized countries will be considered. Problems considered Coursework: Two papers, 5-7 pages include: combustion of fossil fuels on environmental grounds, Description: Race has played a major role in defining the physical, cultural, benefits of energy in social development, technology of energy and political environment of American cities. This course will exploration and development, and economics of energy explore the role of race in urban history in the nineteenth and development and acquisition. twentieth centuries. Cities were utopian destinations for generations of immigrants and native-born African-Americans. Yet, those same cities were marked by racial prejudice, Instructor: Reichman, D. Class Size: 25 concentrations of poverty, and political corruption. We will Restrictions: Permission of instructor required Permission of Department examine these contradictions by analyzing the experiences of required African American, Latino, and Asian residents of urben centers. Description: A survey of major developments in anthropological thought. This class will explore the relationship between sociocultural theory Department: African & African-American Studies and the methodologies used by anthropologists to conduct Course: AAS 352 ethnographic research such as: participant Title: Harlem Renaissance observation(fieldwork), interviewing, and various writing Cross-listed: PSC 267 strategies. (NOTE: This class is required for the anthropology Instructor: Tucker, Jeff concentration. PERMISSION of instructor is required in Spring Description: See ENG 380 2009) Department: African & African-American Studies Department: Anthropology Course: AAS 371 Course: ANT 204 Title: Evolution of the World Economic Order Since the 16th Centruy Title: Ethnographic Themes Cross-listed: HIS 357W/HIS 457/ECO 371 Instructor: Emmett, A. Class Size: 25 Instructor: Inikori, J. Class Size: 15 Prerequisites: Introductory cultural anthropology course helpful Exams: Midterm / Final Restrictions: Permission of instructor required for freshmen Description: Please see HIS 357W for the course description. Description: This course offers an encounter with ethnographies that reveals a fascinating history of engagement with the global and a mesmerizing history of ideas about doing fieldwork and writing Anthropology about it. Using ethnographies and ethnographic films we will explore some twists and turns of the discipline and examine the Department: Anthropology kinds of contemporary social and cultural themes that they raise. Course: ANT 101 We will ask how ethnographies, written and visual, link academic Title: Cultural Anthropology debates in the West to the lived