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AFRS 1100-001: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES
M/W 12:30 – 1:45 MCENIRY 117 DEBRA SMITH
Interdisciplinary survey of key issues in the life and history of the people of African descent and their interaction with other peoples and world cultures; introduction to theoretical foundations in the field of Africana Studies.
AFRS 2050-001: YORUBA LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I
M/W 3:30 – 4:45 FRIDAY 001 OLA ABORISADE
First semester introduction to the basic elements of Yoruba language and the use of the language in cultural contexts. The course offers interactive exercises on spoken Yoruba language for beginners. It also offers introduction to Yoruba cultural practices. Students will study pronunciation, listening comprehension, reading, and writing using textbooks, computer-based materials, and conversation practice with a native speaker. The course is structured in a way that allows students to work at their own pace.
AFRS 2050-002: YORUBA LANGUAGE AND CULTURE II
T/R 3:30 – 4:45 FRIDAY 001 OLA ABORISADE
Second semester introduction to the basic elements of Yoruba language and the use of the language in cultural contexts. The course offers interactive exercises on spoken Yoruba language for beginners. It also offers introduction to Yoruba cultural practices. Students will study pronunciation, listening comprehension, reading, and writing using textbooks, computer-based materials, and conversation practice with a native speaker. The course is structured in a way that allows students to work at their own pace.
AFRS 2050-003: SWAHILI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE I
T/R 2:00 – 3:15 FRETWELL 407 TBA
First semester introduction to the basic elements of Swahili language and the use of the language in cultural contexts. The course offers interactive exercises on spoken Swahili language for beginners. It also offers introduction to Swahili cultural practices. Students will study pronunciation, listening comprehension, reading, and writing using textbooks, computer-based materials, and conversation practice with a native speaker. The course is structured in a way that allows students to work at their own pace.
AFRS 2050-004: TOPICS IN AFRICANA STUDIES: HARLEM RENNAISSANCE
M/W 3:30 – 4:45 FRIDAY 014 ANNETTE TEASDELL
This course will examine the dynamism of the literary explosion of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement by studying the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps and others. Additionally, this course will examine the arts of this era in the context of the social organizations that serve as a backdrop for the period and the Great Migration that gave birth to the events of the Harlem Renaissance.
AFRS 2105-001: BLACK IMAGES IN THE MEDIA IN THE US
M/W 2:00 – 3:15 (HYBRID) DENNY 120 DEBRA SMITH
Examination of African American images projected through electronic and print media, historically and currently.
AFRS 2107-001: GLOBAL HIP HOP
M 5:00 – 7:45 FRETWELL 128 CHARLES PINCKNEY
Cross-listed as SOCY 2107. The development and growth of Hip Hop from a US inner city Black expressive culture to a global subaltern social movement. Examines cultural production in Hip Hop in relation to the contemporary global issues that focus on the youth, subalterns, and postcolonial experiences.
AFRS 2161-002: AFRICAN AMERICAN EXP CIVIL WAR-CIVIL RIGHTS
M/W 12:30 – 1:45 DENNY 111 GREGORY MIXON
Cross-listed as HIST 2160. Exploration of circumstances that brought Africans to the Americas and their experience during the era of slavery. Emphasis on the political, economic, and socio- cultural systems that maintained slavery in the South and constrained freedom in the North and the responses and struggles of African Americans. Topics include: slavery/slave trading to the Americas; the system of slavery in British North America; free blacks; political compromises sustaining the peculiar institution; and the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the freedom, citizenship, and suffrage of African- Americans.
AFRS 2215-001: BLACK FAMILIES IN THE US
M/W 9:30 – 10:45 FRIDAY 013 OLA ABORISADE
Critical and comprehensive examination of the life of African American families in the United States including the historical evolution of black families and their relationship with the political economic structures of American society.
AFRS 2221-001: COMTEMPORARY AFRICA
M/W 2:00 – 3:15 DENNY 109 OLA ABORISADE
The study of Africa from the 1880’s to the present. Focus on political and socio-economic changes and Africa's integration into the community of nations.
AFRS 3050-001: TOPICS IN AFRICANA STUDIES
EARLY BLACK ATLANTIC LITERATURE
T/R 5:00 – 6:15 FRETWELL 120 HONORE MISSIHOUN
The course will examine the problem of identity in the selected works of the writers of the African Diaspora during the 18th- and 19th-centuries. We will explore the concept of Black Atlantic to understand how the experiences of these writers, as enslaved and freed Africans in the Western world defy fixed notions of ethnicity, nationality, and race, as well as the normative narratives of the Enlightenment and Modernity. Focusing on autobiographical writings, the course will examine the Black Atlantic aesthetics and artistic expression as a means of individual self-fashioning/discovery and communal liberation.
AFRS 3050-002: TOPICS IN AFRICANA STUDIES
PSYCHOLOGY OF BLACK EXPERIENCE
T/R/ 6:30 – 7:45 FRETWELL 405 CHARLES PINCKNEY
This class will focus on psychological issues dealing with the experience and behavior of the peoples of African descent with emphasis on the African American communities. Topics to be covered include: African-centered psychology; psychology of black children; racism and racial thoughts and how these affect personality and social behavior; family; and diversity and organizational psychology, among others.
AFRS 3050-002: TOPICS IN AFRICANA STUDIES
RACE, RELIGION, AND MURDER
T/R 12:30-1:45 DENNY 102 Robinson-Harmon
Race, Religion and Murder. Race, Religion and Murder is designed to introduce students to the intersection of race, religion, and violence in American culture. Specifically, this course addresses how Judeo-Christian, Islamic, and even Asian traditions have been used to justify and even condone acts of violence against women, children and peoples of color. Key components of this course require students to critically analyze racial identity formations, sacred texts, and historical occurrences of rape, murder, lynching, and genocide through the lens of such theorist as Frantz Fanon, Rene Girard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Michel Foucault.
AFRS 3190-001: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CARRIBBEAN
T/R 11:00 – 12:15 COLVARD 2010 VERONICA WALKER
An examination of the manifestations of Caribbean economic problems and policies and Caribbean political development from the post war period to the present.
AFRS 3270-001: AFRO-LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
M 6:30 – 9:15 STORR 155 HONORE MISSIHOUN
Cross-listed as LTAM 3270. This course explores the African Diaspora in Latin America ranging from the Caribbean Sea to the Rio de la Plata. From slavery, to fighting for freedom in the Spanish-American Wars of Independence, to forging new notions of citizenship in twentieth century Brazil, African-descended peoples have an important place in Latin America’s historical past. According special attention to regions with concentrated populations of African-descended peoples, this course reveals the vibrant history of Afro-Latin America.
AFRS 3692-001: COLLOQUIUM: THE PRESIDENCY OF BARACK OBAMA
W 5:00 – 7:45 FRETWELL 128 ISIBOR/OGUNDIRAN
Presentations, readings, and research on Barack Obama the man, his ideas, and the first year of his presidency. The colloquium will examine the political thoughts and political practices of the US 44th president, as well as the policy implications of and the public reactions to the Obama phenomenon. Readings will include some of Obama’s major speeches. More than fourteen UNC Charlotte’s faculty from diverse scholarly backgrounds will serve as presenters. They will enrich the colloquium with perspectives from across the disciplines. Permission of the instructor. A weekly colloquium; research and writing; opportunity for intellectual stimulation, critique and problem solving. Open to majors and non majors.
AFRS 4000-001: SENIOR SEMINAR IN AFRICANA STUDIES
M/W 11:00 – 12:15 FRETWELL 405 TANURE OJAIDE
Completion of junior-year courses. This advanced seminar explores a wide-body of literature selected as the eminent scholarship in the field of Africana Studies. Students will read, analyze, and critique the scholarly literature of the field and prepare written assignments conceptualizing the course readings and discussions.
AFRS 4010-001: AFRICAN DIASPORA THEORY
T 5:00 – 7:45 FRETWELL 207 AKIN OGUNDIRAN
Explores the diverse conceptual and theoretical perspectives in the African Diaspora Studies, with emphasis on the dialectical relationships between social theories and the African Diaspora, especially as these relate to the issues of race, identity, gender, migrations, cultural production, and transnationalism.
AFRS 4050-001: TOPICS IN AFRICANA STUDIES
ISLAM IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
T/R 3:30 – 4:45 DENNY 102 JULIA ROBINSON-HARMON
This course addresses the practice of Islam and variations of Islam among African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, and African Canadians in the twentieth century. Critical analysis will be done around the writings of Wraith Dean Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Nobel Drew Ali. The course also has a gendered component looking at the leadership and activity of women in Islam, the Nation of Islam, and Moorish Science.
AFRS 4105-001: AFRICAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
M 9:30 – 10:45 FRIDAY 008 BETH WHITAKER
Cross-listed as POLS 3169. This course examines Africa’s relations with external powers (including Europe, the United States, and China), cooperation among African countries, the role of non-state actors in African conflicts, and U.S. policy toward the continent.
AFRS 4401-001: PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP IN AFRICANA STUDIES
Instructor: AKIN OGUNDIRAN
Permission of the chair of the department, restricted to juniors and seniors majoring or minoring in Africana Studies who have at least a 2.5 GPA and have completed the following courses: AFRS 1100, and up to twelve credits of other AFRS courses. Internship in wide-ranging working environments, including government establishments, private businesses, as well as not-for-profit organizations, especially those focusing on issues affecting African and African Diaspora populations. The internship provides students with experiential learning in an environment that is consistent with the student’s professional goals and growth.
LBST 2102-001: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS-AFRS
F 11:00 – 1:45 DENNY 122 OLA ABORISADE
The primary goal of this course is to introduce several of the most pressing global issues and demonstrate how strongly they are interconnected. The topics to be covered include conflict and security, global warming, global economy, and environment.
LBST 2102-002: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS-AFRS
T/R 9:30 – 10:45 DENNY 122 VERONICA NMOMA-WALKER
The course on Global and Intercultural Connections will examine and analyze the concept and effect of globalization in diverse issue areas in an effort to derive the potential positive or negative impacts globalization has on various parts of the world. Using appropriate theoretical tools, the issue areas will encompass trade, outsourcing of American jobs overseas, Islam and other religions, terrorism (including the 9/11 incidence), nationalism, conflict and security, poverty, women and development, weapons proliferation and the environment. The course will also examine various cultures and how they function and interact with others in a diverse world.
LBST 2102-003: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS-AFRS
T/R 12:30 – 1:45 COLVD 3066 VERONICA NMOMA-WALKER
The course on Global and Intercultural Connections will examine and analyze the concept and effect of globalization in diverse issue areas in an effort to derive the potential positive or negative impacts globalization has on various parts of the world. Using appropriate theoretical tools, the issue areas will encompass trade, outsourcing of American jobs overseas, Islam and other religions, terrorism (including the 9/11 incidence), nationalism, conflict and security, poverty, women and development, weapons proliferation and the environment. The course will also examine various cultures and how they function and interact with others in a diverse world.
LBST 2102-004: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS-AFRS
T/R 3:30 – 4:45 BURSN 115 THERESA ISIBOR
This section of LBST 2102 will examine the complex nature of globalization and to a consideration of both its positive and negative impacts on local societies. Particular attention will be given to the peoples and cultures of the continent of Africa with an emphasis on the relationship of religion and politics to global conflict and security as well as global economy, development and the environment. ”This course will be offered via Moodle. All reading material, lectures, discussions, and exams will be available electronically"
LBST 2212-001: LITERATURE AND CULTURE-AFRS
T/R 3:30 – 4:45 CHHS 161 ANNETTE TEASDELL
This course examines the connections between literature and culture. Students are offered the opportunity to examine the role literature plays in reflecting, shaping, and challenging cultures. Specifically, in this course, students will receive training in the criticism, understanding, and appreciation of African American literature within the context of the African American cultural experience through extensive readings and critical analyses. While examining multiple genres, LBST 2212 will investigate the evolving social, spiritual, philosophical and political challenges faced by African Americans in United States history and within the context of the African Diaspora. Students will learn to evaluate how literature, via its distinctive formal features, both enacts and reflects the efforts of individuals and groups to negotiate the political, social, and cultural context in which they live.
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