Afro American Studies
Course Description - Spring 2006

LOWER DIVISION COURSES.

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, K.L.
Bunche 2160
MW 2:00 - 3:50PM
ID# 104-018-200

UPPER DIVISION COURSES.

AFRO-AM M103B. African American Theater History: Minstrel Stage to Rise of the American Musical. (4)
(Same as Theater M103B.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Exploration of extant materials on history and literature of theater as developed and performed by African American artists in America from the minstrel stage to the rise of the American musical. Letter grading.
Instructor: Freeman, B.M.
Public Policy 2333
MW 4:00 - 5:20PM
ID#: 104-311-200

AFRO-AM M104C. Afro-American Literature from since the 1960s. (5)
(Same as English M104C.) Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introductory survey of diverse forms of Afro-American literary expression produced from rise of Black Arts Movement of the 1960s to the present by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Etheridge Knight, Toni Morrison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paule Marshall, Ernest Gaines, Ishmael Reed, and Audre Lorde. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: James, W.L.
Pub Pol 1222
MW 12:00 - 1:50PM
ID#:104-317-200

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.
Haines A18
MW 12:00 - 1:50PM
ID # 104-355-200

AFR0-AM M114C. African American Political Thought. (4)
(Same as Political Science M114C.) Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Intensive introduction to African American political thought, with focus on major ideological trends and political philosophies as they have been applied and interpreted by African Americans. Debates and conflicts in black political thought, historical contest of African American social movements, and relationship between black political thought and major trends in Western thought. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Sawyer, M.Q.
Pub Pol 1234
W 3:00 - 5:50PM
ID# 104-364-200

AFRO-AM M154C. Black Experience in Latin America and Caribbean. (4)
(Same as Political Science M154C.) Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Culture, history, politics, and identity of African Americans in Spanish and Lusophone Caribbean, South America, and Central America. Exploration of issues of identity in context of Afro/Latino migration to the U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Sawyer, M.Q.
Pub Pol 2232
TR 12:00 - 1:50PM
ID# 104-626-200

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: Cole, G.R.
Royce 190
MWF 1:00 - 1:50PM
ID#: 104-597-200

AFRO-AM M159P. Constructing Race. (4)
(Same as Anthropology M159P and Asian American Studies M169). 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, K.
Bunche 2160
TR 11:00AM - 12:15PM
ID # 104-640-200

AFRO-AM M164. Afro-American Experience in the U.S. (4)
(Same as Anthropology M164.) Lecture, three hours. Promotes understanding of contemporary sociocultural forms among Afro-Americans in the U.S. by presenting a comparative and diachronic perspective on the Afro-American experience in the New World. Emphasis on utilization of anthropological concepts and methods in understanding the origins and maintenance of particular patterns of adaptation among black Americans. P/NP or letter grading.
Instructor: Mahon, M.E.
Bunche 2178
TR 12:30 - 1:45PM
ID#: 104-675-200

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.
Pub Pol 1222
M 2:00 - 4:50PM
ID#: 104-738-200

AFRO-AM C191. Sem 1: Africans and African Americans in Perspective. (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.
Rolfe 3156
TR 9:30 - 10:45AM
ID# 104-846-201

**AFRO-AM C191. Sem 2 - CANCELLED**

**NO AFRO-AM C291. SEM 3**

**AFRO-AM C191. Sem 4 - CANCELLED**

**AFRO-AM C191. Sem 5 - CANCELLED**

AFRO-AM C191. 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.
Bunche 3117
T 6:00 - 8:50PM
ID # 104-846-206

**AFRO-AM C191. Sem 7 - CANCELLED**

GRADUATE DIVISION

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: Goyal, Y.
Rolfe 3112
T 12:00 - 2:50PM
ID# 504-014-200

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.
Haines A18
MW 12:00 - 1:50PM
ID# 504-075-200

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: Lemelle, S.
Pub Pol 1278
M 11:00AM - 1:50PM
ID# 504-411-200

AFRO-AM C291. Sem 1: Africans and African Americans in Perspective. (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. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
Instructor: Ayele, N.
Rolfe 3156
TR 9:30 - 10:45AM
ID# 504-546-201

**AFRO-AM C291. Sem 2 - CANCELLED**

AFRO-AM C291. Sem 3: Media and Race in America. (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. Research seminar on selected topics in Afro-American studies. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
Instructor: Hunt, D.
Bunche 2174
T 12:00 - 2:50PM
ID# 504-546-203

**AFRO-AM C291. Sem 4 - CANCELLED**

**NO AFRO-AM C291. SEM 5**

AFRO-AM C291. 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. May be repeated for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C191. Letter grading.
Instructor: Tervalon, J.
Bunche 3117
T 6:00 - 8:50PM
ID # 504-546-206

**AFRO-AM C291. Sem 7 - CANCELLED**