Course Description
Afro American Studies
Course Description - Spring 2005

LOWER DIVISION:

AFRO-AM 6 Trends in Black Intellectual Thought (4)
Lecture, three hours; Seminar. Overview of major intellectual trends that have shaped ways in which Afro-American thinkers have interpreted experiences of blacks in the U.S., drawing from such fields as history, philosophy, and literature. Letter grading.
Instructor: Radcliffe
Dodd 167
MW 3-4:50 pm
ID# 104-018-200

UPPER DIVISION:

AFRO-AM M104B. Afro-American Literature from Harlem Renaissance to the 1960s. (5)
(Same as English M104B.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introductory survey of 20th-century black American literature from New Negro Movement of post-World War I period to the 1960s, including oral materials (ballads, blues, speeches) and fiction, poetry, and essays by authors such as Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Yarborough, R.A.
118 Haines Hall
MW 10-11:50 am
Register under discussion section.
    Dis 1A
    5138 MS
    W 12:00-12:50P
    ID # 104-316-201
    Dis 1B
    3178 Bunche
    W 12:00-12:50P
    ID # 104-316-202
    Dis 1C
    1749 PAB
    W 1:00-1:50P
    ID # 104-316-203
    Dis 1D
    1256 Public Policy
    W 1:00-1:50P
    ID # 104-316-204

AFRO-AM CM110A. African American Musical Heritage. (4)
(Formerly numbered M110A.) (Same as Ethnomusicology CM110A.) (Concurrently scheduled with course CM210A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Study of African music and its impact on Americas; survey of development of various African American musical genres from slave era to the present, including traditions in West Indies and Central and South America. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Djedje, J.C.
1420 SMB
(Lec) TR 11-12:50 pm
    Dis 1A
    1344 SMB
    F 1-1:50 pm
    ID # 104-340-201

AFRO-AM CM112D. African American Art. (4)
(Same as Art History CM112D.) (Concurrently scheduled with course CM212D.) Lecture, three hours. Detailed inquiry into work of 20th-century African American artists whose works provide insightful and critical commentary about major features of American life and society, including visits to various key African American art institutions in Los Angeles. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Von Blum, P.
161 Dodd
MW 12-1:50 pm
ID # 104-355-200

AFRO-AM M158C. Introduction to Afro-American History. (4)
(Same as History M150C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of Afro-American experience, with emphasis on three great transitions of Afro-American life: transition from Africa to New World slavery, transition from slavery to freedom, and transition from rural to urban milieus. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Brown, S.D.
1209B Bunche
MW 3:30-4:45 pm
Register under discussion section.
    Dis 1A
    1256 Public Policy
    M 5:00-5:50pm
    ID # 104-597-201
    Dis 1B
    2288 Franz
    T 10:00-10:50am
   
ID # 104-597-202
    Dis 1C
    1256 Public Policy
    T 1:00-1:50pm
   
ID # 104-597-203
    Dis 1D
    3115 Rolfe
    R 3:00-3:50pm
    ID # 104-597-204
    Dis 1E
    3115 Rolfe
    R 4:00-4:50pm
   
ID # 104-597-205
    Dis 1F
    2288 Franz
    W 5:00-5:50pm
   
ID # 104-597-206

AFRO-AM M159P. Constructing Race. (4)
(Same as Anthropology M159P and Asian American Studies M169.) (May be substituted for Anthro M164 from Winter 05.) Lecture, three hours. Examination of race, a socially constructed category, from anthropological perspective. Consideration of development of racial categories over time and in different regions, racial passing, multiracial identity in the U.S., whiteness, race in popular culture, and race and identity. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Park
Pub Pol 1222
W 11 am–1:50 pm
ID # 104-640-200

AFRO-AM M173. Nonviolence and Social Movements. (4)
(Same as Chicana and Chicano Studies M173 and Labor and Workplace Studies M173.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Overview of nonviolence and its impact on social movements both historically and in its present context in contemporary society, featuring lectures, conversations, films, readings, and guest speakers. Exploration of some historic contributions of civil rights struggles and role of nonviolent action throughout recent U.S. history. Examination of particular lessons of nonviolent movements as they impact social change organizing in Los Angeles. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Lawson, J.M.
1234 Public Policy
M 2-4:50 pm
Register under discussion section number.
    Dis 1A
    2238 Public Policy
    T 10:00-10:50am
    ID # 104-738-201
    Dis 1B
    2242 Public Policy
    M 9:00-9:50am
    ID # 104-738-202
    Dis 1C
    3134 Rolfe
    W 10:00-10:50pm
    ID # 104-738-203
    Dis 1D
    2242 Public Policy
    R 1:00-1:50pm
   
ID # 104-738-204

AFRO-AM M178. Sociology of Caribbean. (4)
(Same as Sociology M178.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Limited to juniors/seniors. Historical sociology of Caribbean, with emphasis on colonialism and decolonization, development and underdevelopment, race-making institutions and evolution of race relations, nationalism and migration. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Ayala, C.J.
2214 Public Policy
MW 10-11:50 am
ID# 104-768-200

AFRO-AM C191. Variable Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 1: Afrocentricity (4)
(Formerly numbered C101.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C291.) Seminar, four hours. Research seminar on Afrocentricity. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. This course is designed to introduce Afrocentric School of Thought or Discipline of Africalogy to Upper division and Graduate students in the IDP Program of the UCLA bunche Center for African American Studies. Letter grading.
Instructor: Ayele, N.
A 139 Fowler
TR 9-10:45 am
ID# 104-846-201

AFRO-AM C191. Variable Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 2: African Ritual Arts of the North American Diaspora (4)
(Formerly numbered C101.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C291.) Seminar, four hours. Examination of the changes and transformations African religious sensitivities underwent, as it became an African-American religious expression and experience. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. Letter grading.
Instructor: Flores-Pena, Y.M.
1234 Pub Pol
MW 12-1:50 pm
ID# 104-846-202

AFRO-AM C191. Variable Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 3: Race & Representation (4)
(Formerly numbered C101.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C291.) Seminar, four hours. This seminar examines televisual discourses of race, both historical and contemporary. It analyzes links between the representation of race relations on television and the social practices beyond it. (Restricted to Seniors only.) Letter grading.
Instructor: Kim, L.S.
2134 Rolfe
W 2-4:50 pm
ID# 104-846-203

AFRO-AM C191. Variable Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 5: Introduction to Afro-American Studies (4)
(Formerly numbered C101.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C291)
Seminar, four hours. This course is an overview of African American culture. It examines the rich heritage that began long before slavery and has continued long after it. The course also trends in African American Studies as a discipline. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. Letter grading.
Instructor: Gant-Britton, L
3126 Rolfe
F 10:00-12:50pm
ID # 104-846-205

AFRO-AM C191. Variable Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 6: Creative Non-Fiction (4)
(Formerly numbered C101.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C291)Seminar, four hours. Introduction to the methods of writing the personal essay in many of its various forms: documentary, biographical and journalistic. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. Letter grading.
Instructor: Tervalon, J.
A 74 Haines
T 6:00-8:50pm
ID # 104-846-206

GRADUATE:

AFRO-AM M200E. Studies in Afro-American Literature. (4)
(Same as English M262.) Lecture, four hours. Intensive research and study of major themes, issues, and writers in Afro-American literature. Discussions and research on aesthetic, cultural, and social backgrounds of Afro-American writing. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
Instructor: Yarborough, R.A.
3112 Rolfe
T 9-11:50 am
ID# 504-014-200

AFRO-AM CM210A. African American Musical Heritage (4)
(Same as Ethnomusicology CM210A.) (Concurrently scheduled with course CM110A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Study of African music and its impact on Americas; survey of development of various African American musical genres from slave era to the present, including traditions in West Indies and Central and South America. S/U or letter grading.
Instructor: Djedje, J.C.
1420 SMB
(Lec) TR 11-12:50 pm
    Dis 1A
    1344 SMB
    F 1-1:50 pm
    ID # 504-060-201

AFRO-AM M211. Seminar: African American Music (4)
(Same as Ethnomusicology M211.) Seminar, three hours. Requisites: Ethnomusicology CM110A, CM110B. Designed for graduate students. Intensive investigation of problems, theories, and methods of research related to study of African American music. Emphasis on relationship of problems to representative styles of African American music. Letter grading.
Instructor: Keyes, C.L.
1846 SMB
M 3-5:50 pm
ID# 504-066-200

AFRO-AM CM212D. African American Art (4)
(Same as Art History CM212D.) (Concurrently scheduled with course CM112D.) Lecture, three hours. Detailed inquiry into work of 20th-century African American artists whose works provide insightful and critical commentary about major features of American life and society, including visits to various key African American art institutions in Los Angeles. S/U or letter grading.
Instructor: Von Blum, P.
161 Dodd
MW 12-1:50 pm
ID# 504-075-200

AFRO-AM M252S. Constructing Race (4)
(Same as Anthropology M252S.) Seminar, three hours. Examination of social construction of race from anthropological perspective in order to refine understanding of ways this category has had and continues to have concrete impact in the U.S. Exploration of range of topics, including role discipline of anthropology has played in construction of race, representations of race in popular culture, instability of race revealed in passing and debates about multiracial identity, construction of whiteness, and emergence of identity politics. S/U or letter grading.
Instructor: Mahon, M.E.
3165 Bunche
W 11:00-1:50 pm
ID# 504-312-200

AFRO-AM 270A Research Methods in African American Studies. (4)
Seminar, three hours. Overview of research methodologies in humanities and social sciences, with firsthand reports from faculty in various fields. Introduction to research in and related to Afro-American studies and application of such research. Letter grading.
Instructor: Brown, S.
1222 Public Policy
M 11-1:50 pm
ID# 504-411-200

AFRO-AM C291. Special Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 1: Afrocentricity (4)
(Formerly numbered C201.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C191.) Seminar, four hours. Research seminar on Afrocentricity. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. This course is designed to introduce Afrocentric School of Thought or Discipline of Africalogy to Upper division and Graduate students in the IDP Program of the UCLA bunche Center for African American Studies. Letter grading.
Instructor: Ayele, N.
A 139 Fowler
TR 9:30-10:45 am
ID# 504-546-201

AFRO-AM C291. Special Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 2: African Ritual Arts of the North American Diaspora (4)
(Formerly numbered C201.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C191.) Seminar, four hours. Examination of the changes and transformations African religious sensitivities underwent, as it became an African-American religious expression and experience. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. Letter grading.
Instructor: Flores-Pena, Y.M.
1234 Public Policy
MW 12-1:50 pm
ID# 504-546-202


AFRO-AM C291. Special Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 3: Race & Representation (4)

(Formerly numbered C201.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C191.) Seminar, four hours. This seminar examines televisual discourses of race, both historical and contemporary. It analyzes links between the representation of race relations on television and the social practices beyond it. Letter grading.
Instructor: Kim, L.S.
2134 Rolfe
W 2-4:50 pm
ID# 504-546-203


AFRO-AM C291. Special Topics in Afro-American Studies. Sem 6: Creative Non-Fiction (4)

(Formerly numbered C201.) (Concurrently scheduled with course C191)Seminar, four hours. Introduction to the methods of writing the personal essay in many of its various forms: documentary, biographical and journalistic. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. Letter grading.
Instructor: Tervalon, J.
A 74 Haines
T 6:00-8:50pm
ID # 504-546-206

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