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AFST 150 - Freshman Seminar
Fall or Spring (3-4) Staff
A course designed to introduce freshmen to selected topics in Africana Studies. 150W satisfies the lower-level writing requirements.
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AFST 150W - Freshman Seminar
Fall or Spring (3-4) Staff
A course designed to introduce freshmen to selected topics in Africana Studies. 150W satisfies the lower-level writing requirements.
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AFST 205 - Introduction to Africana Studies
Fall or Spring (3) Pinson, Vinson, Norman, Weiss, Sanford, Staff (GER 4C, 5)
This core course employs interdisciplinary approaches to critically examine selected intellectual and cultural themes in African, African-American and Black-Diaspora studies. May have a lecture and discussion format, and may be team taught. Themes may vary from year to year.
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AFST 300 - Pan-Africanism: History of a Revolutionary Idea
Fall or Spring (3) Vinson (GER 4C)
This course surveys the history of Pan-Africanism, a global political movement that considers Africans and diasporic blacks to have a common history, present and future, often proclaiming an objective of African political, socio-economic and cultural self-determination and asserting a fierce pride in African history and culture.
(Cross-listed with HIST 316 )
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AFST 301 - Critical Debates in Africana Studies
Spring (3-4) Staff Prerequisite(s): AFST 205 .
Course provides an in-depth study and discussion of a specific issue of significant debate in Africana Studies. Topics may vary by semester. This writing-intensive seminar satisfies the major writing requirement.
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AFST 302 - The Idea of Race
Fall or Spring (3) Blakey
This course tracks the history of the concept of race in Western science and society. Students are helped to appreciate the subjective influences of science as well as the variety of societal expressions of racial and racist ideas. (Cross listed with ANTH 371 )
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AFST 303 - African American History since Emancipation
Fall (3) Ely, Allegro, Staff (GER 4A)
A survey of African American history from the colonial period to emancipation. (Cross listed with HIST 236 )
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AFST 304 - Introduction to the African Diaspora
Fall or Spring (3) Vinson
Reviews the dispersions of peoples from the African continent since ancient times. Major themes include the Atlantic Slave Trade, the post-emancipation fight for full citizenship in the Americas, and interactions between diasporic blacks and Africans. (Cross listed with HIST 183 )
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AFST 305 - African Diaspora II
Fall or Spring (3) Vinson
This course examines the African Diaspora since 1800. Major themes: the end of slavery, the fight for full citizenship and the close interactions between diasporic blacks and Africans. A follow-up course to AFST 304 . (Cross listed with HIST 324 )
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AFST 306 - Topics in Africana Studies
Fall or Spring (1-4) Staff Prerequisite(s): AFST 205 .
Approved courses focusing on relevant topics in Africana Studies, including those offered by allied Departments and Programs. The list of eligible, mostly cross-listed, courses is available at the University Registrar’s website each semester prior to preregistration. This course may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.
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AFST 307 - Workshop on Black Expressive Culture
Spring (3-4) Staff Prerequisite(s): AFST 205 or consent of instructor.
An arts-oriented workshop that will vary depending on the specialization of the professor(s) currently teaching the course. With faculty supervision, students will create and present individual Africana- related projects. This course may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.
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AFST 308 - West Africa Since 1800
Fall or Spring (3) La Fleur (GER 4B)
Explores the survival of West Africans in ancient environments, subsequent challenges in trans-Saharan and Atlantic slave trade, colonial overrule, political independence, and ever-increasing globalization as well as relocation to rural America in the early Atlantic era and eventually to contemporary American cities. (Cross listed with HIST 280 )
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AFST 309 - African Economic Development
Fall (3) Shiferaw Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 /ECON 151 and ECON 102 /ECON 152 .
Africa was richer than Asia until the 1970s, but faltered subsequently. We seek credible explanations using economic theory and the available evidence. We will address a number of issues comparatively including the role of geography, demography, historical legacies, the global environment, and domestic economic governance to understand the diversity of economic performance within Africa itself.
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AFST 310 - Comparative Economic Inequality in Multiracial Societies
Spring (3) Abegaz Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 -ECON 102 .
A comparative study of the historical patterns of income and wealth inequality in multiracial economies. Theory and empirical evidence on racial and class inequality will be examined with a focus on three canonical case studies (Brazil, South Africa, and U.S.). (Cross listed with ECON 346 )
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AFST 311 - African American History to Emancipation
Fall (3) Ely, Allegro, Staff (GER 4A)
A survey of African American history from the colonial period to emancipation. (Cross listed with HIST 235 )
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AFST 312 - The Global Color Line: U.S. Civil Rights and South African Anti-Apartheid Politics
Fall or Spring (3) Vinson (GER 4C)
This course examines the Civil Rights movement as part of a centuries-long tradition of black freedom struggles. The course also compares the Civil Rights movement with the South African anti-apartheid struggle and shows the close transnational relationship between African Americans and black South Africans. (Cross listed with HIST 231 )
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AFST 314 - Labor Markets and Entrepreneurship in a Comparative Prospective
Spring (3) Shiferaw Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 /ECON 151 and ECON 102 /ECON 152 .
Significant racial inequality in labor market outcomes and entrepreneurial success persist in open societies. This course examines the nature and extent of the disparities with a focus on three multiracial societies (Brazil, South Africa, and the U.S.). We will address issues of labor market segmentation and discrimination as well as inter-group variations in entrepreneurship with a focus on capital formation, growth, and income inequality.
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AFST 316 - African History to 1800
Fall (3) LaFleur, Pope, Staff (GER 4B)
A thematic approach to socio-economic and political change In Africa from early times to 1800. Emphasis Is on African cultural heritage, state building, internal and external trade, and Interaction with outside forces: Islam, Christianity and colonialism, as well as on Africa’s most pressing problems of the time. (Cross listed with HIST 181 )
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AFST 317 - African History since 1800
Spring (3) LaFleur, Pope, Staff (GER 4B)
A thematic approach to socio-economic and political change In Africa since 1800. Emphasis Is on African cultural heritage, state building, internal and external trade, and Interaction with outside forces: Islam, Christianity and colonialism, as well as on Africa’s most pressing current problems. (Cross listed with HIST 182 )
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AFST 320 - African Religions, African Lives: Religious Power, Complexity and Change in Africa and the Diaspora
Fall or Spring (3) Staff
A multidisciplinary study of religious complexity, change and interaction in selected African and African Diaspora societies. Religions studied will include indigenous African traditions, African Islams, and African Christianities.
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AFST 321 - Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Fall (3) Sanford (GER 4B, 5)
This course is a multidisciplinary study of women’s organizations and collective agency in a range of African, African-American and African Diasporic settings. It seeks to understand women’s collective actions, often described as “wars,” “riots,” and “strikes,” in the context of their own histories and societies. (Cross listed with GSWS 321 )
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AFST 330 - Arts in Africa
Fall or Spring (3) Staff (GER 4B)
A study the multiple arts of Africa: two and three dimensional visual art, music, verbal arts, performance, and multiple media. Issues explored include the artist and community, creativity and tradition, art and religion, art and politics, and museums and display.
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AFST 331 - History of Jazz
Fall (4) Katz, Murchison, Staff (GER 4A, 5)
A survey of jazz from its origins to the present, focusing on influential improvisers and composers, development of listening skills, and issues or race, gender, commerce, and criticism. (Cross listed with AMST 273 , MUSC 273 )
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AFST 332 - Sex & Race in Plays & Films: Dramatizing Diversity
Spring (3) Tanglao-Aguas (GER 4C, 6)
Study of socio-cultural history and aesthetics of plays and films dramatizing sexuality/gender, race, culture, ethnicity and pluralism in order to teach, perform, or produce dramatic art that critically engages the position and value of diversity in constructing national identity and society. Through this study, students should be able to discern the relationship between (a) media portrayal and (b) societal consideration of the co-
constructions of race and sexuality/gender in order (c) to empower them to express their self-discerned position artistically. (Cross listed with GSWS 332 and THEA 332 )
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AFST 334 - History of American Vernacular Dance
Fall (3) Glenn (GER 5)
An introduction, through films and lectures, to dance in U.S. popular culture with an emphasis on its development from roots in African dance to the vernacular forms of tap, ballroom, and jazz by examining the movement styles found in concert jazz, musical theatre, and popular social dances. (Cross listed with AMST 241 , DANC 230 )
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AFST 336 - African American Theatre History I
Fall or Spring (3) Green (GER 4A)
This course will examine African-American dramatic literature and performance from its origins in indigenous African theatre through significant periods that conclude with the Civil Rights Movement. (Cross listed with THEA 336 )
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AFST 337 - African American Theatre History II
Fall or Spring (3) Green (GER 4A)
This course will examine African-American dramatic literature and performance beginning with the Black Arts Movement through significant periods that conclude with contemporary manifestations (Cross listed with THEA 337 )
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AFST 340 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Spring (3) Weiss (GER3, 4B)
An introduction to the diversity of African cultures and societies. This course will focus especially on experiences of colonialism in various African contexts and the many forms of transformation and resistance that characterize that encounter. (Cross listed with ANTH 335 )
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AFST 341 - African Ritual and Religious Practice
Spring (3) Weiss (GER 4B)
This course focuses on the diverse forms of religious practice and experience in various social and cultural contexts in Africa. The symbolic, aesthetic, and political implications of ritual, as well as the transforming significance of religious practice, will be explored. (Cross listed with ANTH 337 , RELG 337 )
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AFST 344 - Politics in Africa
Fall or Spring (3) Roessler (GER 4B)
This course highlights changes in the state structures from pre-colonial indigenous state systems, colonial administration and economy and the rise of the modern African state. (Cross listed with GOVT 337 )
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AFST 348 - African American Religions
Spring (3) Fitzgerald (GER 4C)
An historical, thematic, and theoretical overview of African American religions from enslavement through contemporary Carribean and African migrations. (Cross listed with RELG 348 )
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AFST 365 - Early Black American Literature
Fall (3) McLendon, Braxton, Pinson, Weiss
Survey of Black American literature and thought from the colonial period through the era of Booker T. Washington, focusing on the ways in which developing African American literature met the challenges posed successively by slavery, abolition, and emancipation. (Cross listed with ENGL 365 )
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AFST 366 - Modern Black American Literature
Spring (3) McLendon, Braxton, Pinson
Survey of African American literature from the 1920s through the contemporary period. Issues addressed include the problem of patronage, the “black aesthetic”, and the rise of black literary theory and “womanist” criticism. (Cross listed with ENGL 366 )
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AFST 386 - Francophone African Literature II (in English)
Fall or Spring (3) Compan-Barnard
This course explores the sub-Saharan African and Caribbean literature written in French that emerged in the French colonial period and continues in the post-colonial period. Major topics to be examined include Negritude and the rise of political consciousness, cultural conflict with the West, women’s voices, Creolite, and post-independence literature. (Cross listed with FREN 386 )
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AFST 406 - Advanced Topics in Africana Studies
Fall or Spring (3-4) Staff Prerequisite(s): AFST 205 and one AFST course at the 300 or 400 level.
Topics will be announced each semester during preregistration.
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AFST 414 - Major African American Women Writers
Spring (3) McLendon, Braxton, Pinson
This course studies the fiction and non-fiction of major African American women writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Gloria Naylor. Some attention to black feminist/ womanist and vernacular theoretical issues and through selected critical readings. (Cross listed with ENGL 414A or GSWS 414 )
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AFST 417 - Harlem in Vogue
Fall (3) McLendon, Braxton, Pinson, Weiss
Exploration of the 1920s movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the ways race, gender/sexuality, and class informed the artists’ construction of identity. Writings by Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Tooner, among others; some attention to visual art and music. (Cross listed with ENGL 417B )
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AFST 425 - Blacks in American Society
Fall or Spring (3) Gossin
This seminar examines changing economic, political, educational and residential conditions of Blacks in the United States in terms of their historic and contemporary consequences. Explores the diverse experiences of Americans of African descent and intra-group tensions (class and gender related). (Cross listed with SOCL 425 )
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AFST 480 - Independent Study
Fall or Spring (3-4) Staff Prerequisite(s): AFST 205 , and consent of instructor.
A directed readings/research course conducted on an individual or small group basis on various topics in Africana studies that are not normally or adequately covered in established courses. Open only to majors who have completed at least half of the major requirements. No more than 6 independent study credits may be counted toward the major.
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AFST 495 - Senior Honors
Fall, Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): Approval by Program Director.
Students admitted to Senior Honors in Africana Studies will be responsible for (a) formulating a program of study in consultation with an AFST advisor, (b) satisfactory completion by April 15th of an original scholarly essay on a topic approved by the Advisory Committee, and (c) a comprehensive oral examination. Application for Honors, which includes a faculty signature and a prospectus, should be made to the Charles Center in early September of the senior year. An acceptable research proposal includes: (1) a clear statement of the research problem; (2) a brief, critical review of the scholarly literature on the topic; and (3) a description and defense of the methodology to be employed. For College provisions governing Honors, see the section of the Catalog titled Honors and Special Programs.
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AFST 496 - Senior Honors
Fall, Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): Approval by Program Director.
Students admitted to Senior Honors in Africana Studies will be responsible for (a) formulating a program of study in consultation with an AFST advisor, (b) satisfactory completion by April 15th of an original scholarly essay on a topic approved by the Advisory Committee, and (c) a comprehensive oral examination. Application for Honors, which includes a faculty signature and a prospectus, should be made to the Charles Center in early September of the senior year. An acceptable research proposal includes: (1) a clear statement of the research problem; (2) a brief, critical review of the scholarly literature on the topic; and (3) a description and defense of the methodology to be employed. For College provisions governing Honors, see the section of the Catalog titled Honors and Special Programs.
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AFST 498 - Internship
Fall, Spring, or Summer (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): Approval by Program Director.
Qualified AFST majors may receive credit for a pre-approved program that provides an opportunity to apply and expand knowledge under expert supervision in an off-campus position. Internships require a significant written report, and must be overseen by a faculty member, or an external supervisor approved by the Program Director.
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AMST 150W - Freshman Seminar
Fall and Spring (4) Weiss, Scholnick
A course designed to introduce freshmen to specific topics in the study of American Studies.
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AMST 201 - American Popular Culture and Modern America
Fall Staff (GER 4A)
This course introduces and examines forms of popular culture that emerged after 1865. It considers popular culture within the context of social, political, and economic changes In the U.S., such as migration, Industrialization, technology, and globalization of capitalism.
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AMST 202 - Introduction to American Studies: Cinema and the Modernization of U.S. Culture, 1914-1945
(4) Knight (GER 5)
This course introduces students to the forms and techniques of cinema. At the same time, it will examine how cinema, Americas most popular and powerful entertainment, both reflected and participated in the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century.
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AMST 203 - Introduction to American Studies: American Medicine: A Social and Cultural History
Fall (4) Scholnick (GER 4A)
An overview of American medicine from the 18th century to the present. Subjects include the changing understanding of disease; the social role of the physician; and society’s response to such public health crises as cholera and AIDS.
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AMST 204 - The American Way of War
Spring (4) Brown
This course examines the social and cultural history of Americans at war from the latter part of the 17th century to the present. Course readings will concentrate on primary sources: fiction, memoirs, and historical accounts drawn from three centuries of American experiences in combat.
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AMST 205 - Sexuality In America
Spring (4) Meyer
The course introduces students to the study of American culture through history, popular culture, multiple media, and scientific literature concerned with sexualities in America. The course will also show how normative sexualities are articulated distinctly depending on race, class, ethnicity, immigrant status, and other factors related to specific American communities.
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AMST 206 - Black Popular Culture in the Americas: From the Folk to the New Hip Hop
(4) Staff (GER 4C, 5)
Course compares black culture from the early 20th c. folk practices to 21st c. Hip Hop in the US and the Caribbean. It considers these expressions in political, social, and economic contexts. Course materials include literature, film, music, and art.
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AMST 207 - Black Movement and Migrations
(3) Staff (GER 5)
This course will explain the chronology of African American experience by exploring the landscapes across which it has traveled the fields, rivers, trains, steamboats, diners, both the rural and urban spaces of America and beyond. The course will examine some of the major themes, problems, events, structures, and personalities, paying particular attention to how African Americans themselves shaped their experiences and how movement informs those experiences. Each class will engage in a close examination of a variety of primary sources, including: autobiographies, fiction, film, speeches, music, and visual art.
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AMST 208 - Dis/Ability Studies
(4) Thompson
Introduction to Dis/ability Studies with an American Studies approach to study how the social constructions, symbols, and stigmas associated with dis/ability identity are related to larger systems of power that oppress and exclude.
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AMST 209 - Interracialism: Race, Literature and the Law
(4) Weiss
Using 19th and 20th century American fiction, laws, decisions and social, historical and legal scholarship, this course will explore the legal and cultural history of “miscegenation” in the United States.”
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AMST 225 - Archaeological Field Methods.
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An introduction to archaeological field and laboratory methods through participation in a field archaeological project. Archaeological survey and mapping, excavation techniques, data collection and recording, artifact processing and analysis and related topics.
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AMST 240 - The History of Modern Dance
Spring (3) Glenn (GER 5)
An introduction through films and lectures to the field of modern dance, which is rooted in American culture, with emphasis on the stylistic approach and aesthetic of the artists who have contributed to its development in the twentieth century. (Cross listed with DANC 220 )
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AMST 241 - History of American Vernacular Dance
Fall (3) Glenn (GER 5)
An introduction through films and lectures to dance in U.S. popular culture with an emphasis on its development from roots in African dance to the vernacular forms of tap, ballroom, and jazz by examining the movement styles found in concert jazz, musical theatre, and popular social dances. (Cross listed with AFST 334 , DANC 230 )
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AMST 271 - Popular Music in the United States
Spring (4) Staff (GER 4A, 5)
This course addresses popular musical expression in the continental United States from a historical and cultural perspective. In addition to exploring representative types of music such as traditional, folk, sacred and dance music, ragtime, blues, jazz, rock and country as well as musical traditions associated with immigrant groups and global music networks, students will have the opportunity to examine these musical traditions critically by focusing on particular eras, regions, themes or groups of artists.This course treats the traditions of vernacular musics in the United States, specifically those commonly known as religious, popular, folk, jazz, rock, and country. It will survey the literature of these musics expression and consider questions of cultural meaning. (Cross listed with MUSC 271 )
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AMST 273 - History of Jazz
Fall (4) Staff (GER 4A, 5)
A survey of jazz from its origins to the present, focusing on the most influential improvisers and composers. Issues of race, class, and gender will arise as we examine the attitudes of listeners, jazz musicians and promoters. (Cross listed with AFST 331 , MUSC 273 )
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AMST 341 - Artists and Cultures
Staff (GER 4C)
This course will explore the artistic ideas and activities of people in a variety of cultural settings. Rather than focusing primarily on formal qualities (what art looks like in this or that society), it will examine the diverse ways that people think about art and artists, and the equally diverse roles that art can play in the economic, political, religious, and social aspects of a cultural system. Materials will range from Australian barkcloth paintings to Greek sculptures, from African masks to European films. (Cross listed with ANTH 364 )
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AMST 343 - American Ethnic Literature and Culture
Spring (3) Weiss (GER 5)
The course aims to increase students understanding of the rich complexity of American life by studying multi-ethnic American literature and culture. We will explore some of the theoretical problems associated with race and ethnicity. For the most part, however, we will work outward from certain key texts, pursuing the questions that emerge in and from them. We will consider such matters as the evolution of immigration law, the problems of identity and dual identity, and the question of assimilation versus cultural separatism. We will also emphasize the achievement of these texts as literary documents that need to be understood as responding to local cultural practices even as they speak more broadly to Americans as a whole.
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AMST 350 - Topics in American Culture
Fall and Spring (1-4) Staff.
Selected topics in the study of American culture. The topics to be considered will be announced prior to the beginning of the semester. May be repeated for credit.
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AMST 370 - Major Seminar: America and the Americas
Fall, Spring (4) Knight Prerequisite(s): AMST 201 , AMST 202 , AMST 203 , AMST 204 , AMST 205 , AMST 206 , AMST 207 , AMST 208 , AMST 209 or consent of instructor.
By exploring theoretical, methodological and historical approaches to a range of cultural materials, students will critically engage with how American Studies and its related disciplinary fields have addressed the politics and culture of national identity in the U.S. (Non-majors may enroll only by permission of the instructor.)
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AMST 410 - Williamsburg Documentary Project
Spring (3) Lelievre
In this course students will learn a variety of interdisciplinary methods–e.g., oral history collection, archival research, material cultural analysis–for doing American Studies research. They will then apply these methods practically to the study of Williamsburg in the 20th century. (Non majors may enroll with consent of instructor.)
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AMST 425 - Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
(6) Prerequisite(s): ANTH 225 or equivalent and field experience, or by consent of the instructor.
The application of archaeological methods to an individual field project. The course will allow advanced students to work on an individual project within the framework of a supervised archaeological field program.
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AMST 445 - The Making of a Region: Southern Literature and Culture
Fall (3) Donaldson
An interdisciplinary examination of 19th- and 20th-century southern texts within the cultural context of self-conscious regionalism. Emphasis is on the interaction between literature and the social configurations of slavery, abolitionism, southern nationalism, racism, traditionalism, and the civil rights movement.
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AMST 470 - Topics in American Studies
Fall and Spring (1-4, 1-4) Staff.
Selected topics in the study of American studies. The topics to be considered will be announced prior to the beginning of the semester. May be repeated for credit.
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AMST 480 - Independent Study
Fall and Spring (2-3) Staff
A program of extensive reading, writing, and discussion in a special area of American Studies for the advanced student. Students accepted for this course will arrange their program of study with an appropriate faculty advisor. This course may be repeated for credit.
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† AMST 495 - Honors
Fall, Spring (3) Braddock
Students admitted to Honors study in American Studies will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year. Each candidate will be responsible for (a) formulating a program of study in consultation with a faculty advisor; (b) preparation and presentation of an Honors essay two weeks before the last day of classes, spring semester; (c) satisfactory performance in a comprehensive oral examination which focuses on the subject matter of the Honors essay. Students who wish to write an honors essay in the senior year must write a brief proposal outlining the project. This proposal must be approved by the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the semester before work on the project begins. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
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† AMST 496 - Honors
Fall, Spring (3) Braddock
Students admitted to Honors study in American Studies will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year. Each candidate will be responsible for (a) formulating a program of study in consultation with a faculty advisor; (b) preparation and presentation of an Honors essay two weeks before the last day of classes, spring semester; (c) satisfactory performance in a comprehensive oral examination which focuses on the subject matter of the Honors essay. Students who wish to write an honors essay in the senior year must write a brief proposal outlining the project. This proposal must be approved by the faculty advisor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the semester before work on the project begins. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
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† AMST 498 - Internship
Fall and Spring (3) Braddock
This course is designed to allow students to gain knowledge through experience in a setting relevant to the study of America. Students will be supervised by a faculty advisor. The internship includes readings in related areas of theory and research as assigned by the supervising faculty. Permission from the Director of Undergraduate Studies is required as is the completion of the Internship form from the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. This course may be repeated for credit.
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ANTH 150 - Freshman Seminar
Fall and Spring (4) Staff
An introduction to the concepts and methods of anthropology through exploration of a specific topic. 150W is a writing intensive course; a grade of C- or better satisfies the freshman writing requirement.
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ANTH 150W - Freshman Seminar
Fall and Spring (4) Staff
An introduction to the concepts and methods of anthropology through exploration of a specific topic. 150W is a writing intensive course; a grade of C- or better satisfies the freshman writing requirement.
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ANTH 201 - Introduction to Archaeology
Fall and Spring (3) Gallivan, Smith (GER 4B)
An introduction to the concepts and methods used to reconstruct past societies from their material remains and a survey of world prehistory from the earliest hunting-gathering societies to the origins of civilization.
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ANTH 202 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fall and Spring (3) Bragdon, Fisher, Staff (GER 4C)
An introduction to the study of contemporary human societies and cultures, using anthropological concepts and principles, and focusing on ecology, economic relations, marriage, kinship, politics, law, and religion.
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ANTH 203 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Fall (3) King (GER 2B)
How do biological anthropologists study our own species? This course looks at data and theory on evolution of monkeys, apes, human ancestors, and humans. Origins of bipedalism, technology, language, and religion, and anthropological views on race and human variation, are discussed.
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ANTH 204 - The Study of Language
Fall and Spring (4) Staff (GER 3)
An introduction to linguistics, the scientific study of human language. Considers languages as structured systems of form and meaning, with attention also to the biological, psychological, cultural, and social aspects of language and language use. (Cross listed with LING 220 )
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ANTH 225 - Archaeological Field Methods
Summer (6) Staff
An introduction to archaeological field and laboratory methods through participation in a field archaeological project. Archaeological survey and mapping, excavation techniques, data collection and recording, artifact processing and analysis and related topics.
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ANTH 241 - Worlds of Music
Spring (4) Rasmussen (GER 4B)
This course will introduce students to musical cultures of the non-Western world. Topics will include: native concepts about music, instruments, aesthetics, genres, relationship to community life, religion, music institutions, and patronage. Course goals will be to develop skills useful for a cross-cultural appreciation and analysis of music, and to bring questions about music into the domain of the humanities and social sciences. (Cross-listed with MUSC 241 )
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ANTH 300 - History of Anthropological Theories
Fall and Spring (3) Bragdon, Fisher Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 .
This seminar addresses the historical development of anthropology and explores major theories, including structural-functionalism, structuralism, cultural ecology, and symbolic anthropology. The position of anthropology and its distinctive contributions within the social sciences will be emphasized.
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ANTH 301 - Methods in Archaeology
Fall and Spring (3) Gallivan Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201
A general introduction to field and laboratory techniques of prehistoric and historic archaeological research.
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ANTH 302 - Ethnographic Research
Fall and Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 .
An introduction to ethnographic fieldwork, including research design, proposal writing, methods used in ethnographic research, and approaches to writing ethnography.
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ANTH 303 - Museums in the History of Anthropology
Summer (3) Bragdon (GER 4C)
This course looks at Anthropology Museums and the History of Ethnographic Collecting as a “way into” an understanding of the history of the field of Anthropology itself. 19th century Museum ethnology gave way in Europe and in North America to the new interest cultural and social anthropology, but these latter disciplines retained many ties to older museums and their collecting philosophies. This course combines “fieldwork” studying existing ethnological museum display and collections, with broader discussions of the rise of British social anthropological theory and American cultural anthropology as academic disciplines. Issues such as the relationship of museum collecting to colonialism, material cultural theory and Its implications for ethnographic analysis, and the current role ethnographic museums play in the teaching of anthropology will also be addressed.
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ANTH 305 - Comparative Colonial Studies
Fall (3) Staff (GER 4C)
The course will examine colonialism from a comparative perspective in both the ancient and the modern world. Emphasis given to early civilizations and their expansion, to European colonialism and the creation of the Third World, and to contemporary forces of colonialism.
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ANTH 306 - Women, Gender and Culture
Fall (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 .
An examination of ethnographic research on women and the cultural construction of gender. Emphasis is given to non-Western cultures, with some attention to the contemporary United States. (Cross listed with GSWS 306 )
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ANTH 307 - Social Anthropology
Spring (3) Fisher Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 . (GER 3)
An introduction to the problem of social order and meaning through a consideration of kinship, social organization, ritual and symbolism. The course focuses on anthropological theories useful for describing the way kinship, gender, and age may be used to organize economic, political, and social institutions.
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ANTH 308 - Language and Culture
Fall (3) Bragdon, Taylor Prerequisite(s): LING 220 / ANTH 204 or ANTH 202
This course addresses the interrelations between language and culture, surveying the research topics and methods which constitute linguistic anthropology today. (Cross-listed with LING 308 )
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ANTH 309 - Medicine and Culture
Fall (3) Weiss (GER 3,4C)
The course explores various theories of health, illness and therapy in sociocultural terms. We consider such issues as possession and therapy, medicine and the development of colonialism, and the role of biomedicine in shaping cultural discourse.
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ANTH 310 - Primate Behavior
Spring (3) King Prerequisite(s): Recommended ANTH 203 .
Emphasizing Old World monkeys and apes, this course explores data and theory on non-human primate behavior. Topics include social structure, male-female relating, learning, communication, conservation, zoo ethics. Slides and videos used; optional zoo research encouraged.
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ANTH 312 - Comparative Colonial Archaeology
Fall (3) Staff (GER 4C)
The archaeology of the era since the beginning of exploration by Europeans of the non-European world with major emphasis upon North America. The domestic, industrial and military past of the 17th- 19th centuries will be examined from an anthropological viewpoint through archaeological and documentary evidence.
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ANTH 313 - Gender and Postcoloniality
Fall (3) Staff (GER 7)
This course focuses on gender and power relationships in discussing: the imposition of European normative values and ideologies within colonial contexts; European identities and normativity as a dynamic and ever emerging process between the metropole and colony; indigenous resistance to European enculturation; indigenous norms, values and ideologies; and the postcolonial legacies of these processes. The course provides critical analysis of European employment of enlightenment thought and emerging ideas on race to justify colonial expansion and oppression. Students will critically examine the historical and ideological claims to legitimacy and power within contemporary nations. Have colonial tools of oppression been employed by nations to maintain gender hierarchies and privilege? This course is discussion intensive. (Cross-listed with GSWS 313 )
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ANTH 314 - Archaeology of Mesoamerica
Fall (3) Staff
An introduction to the prehistory of Mesoamerica with special attention to the development of Aztec and Maya civilizations.
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ANTH 315 - Environmental Archaeology
Fall (3) Staff (GER 3)
This course explores our understanding of the place of people in the environment and the role environmental variables play in archaeological models of cultural change. The course consists of three sections: history of environmental studies and social theory, methodologies used to study the environment, and specific case studies of the dynamics of human-environmental relationships from an archaeological perspective.
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ANTH 319 - Archaeology of the Near East
Spring (3) Staff (GER 4B)
The development of agriculture, urbanism, the state and empires in the Middle East with a concentration on ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt from the prehistoric to the early historic periods.
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ANTH 320 - Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Spring (3) Staff (GER 4B)
A survey of prehistoric civilizations from the first settled villages to urban states in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and South America.
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ANTH 322 - Archaeology of North America
Fall (3) Gallivan
This course traces Native American history from the initial arrival of humans over 14,000 years ago to the colonial era. It compares social changes in different culture areas and highlights interpretive frameworks applied to these histories.
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ANTH 323 - Indians of North America
Spring (3) Moretti-Langholtz (GER 4B)
A survey of the major culture areas of aboriginal North America north of Mexico at the time of European contact. The post-contact relations between the Native Americans and the dominant White culture and the present-day situation and problems of Native Americans will be examined.
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ANTH 324 - Indians of the Southwest
Spring (3) Moretti-Langholtz (GER 4B)
This course surveys the history and culture of native peoples of the American Southwest from prehistoric settlement to present-day. These include the Hopi, Zuni, Rio Grande Pueblos, Navajos, Apaches, Akimel O’odham, and Tohono O’odham.
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ANTH 325 - Sun Dance People
Spring (3) Moretti-Langholtz (GER 4C)
This course introduces students to the culture and social history of selected tribes of the Great Plains. Special emphasis will be placed upon the historical forces and conflicts that developed on the Plains from the 1700’s to the present.
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ANTH 329 - Native History and the Colonial Encounter
Fall (3) Gallivan and Fisher
This class examines Native histories in colonial encounters across the Americas. By focusing on the ways social organization shapes history and history frames cultural practices we examine how Native societies have come to understand the relationship between past and present.
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ANTH 330 - Caribbean Cultures
Spring (3) Staff Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 . (GER 4B)
An introduction to the diverse cultures of the Caribbean, primarily in the colonial and postcolonial periods, focusing on issues of ethnicity/race, class, and religion. Ethnographic coverage includes the British, French, and Spanish Caribbean, both island and mainland territories.
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ANTH 331 - Culture and Society in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
Fall (3) Glasser
This course examines key debates in anthropology emerging from the study of Middle Eastern and North African societies in the modern
period.
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