Race and Ethnicity (ETHN) Courses - Area X
The Race and Ethnicity requirement provides students with opportunities to consider racial, ethnic, and cultural dynamics; political, economic and social exclusions; and social difference, inequality and identity more generally, to gain an awareness of how these affect structural inequality amongst individuals and communities. While courses fulfilling this requirement may originate in any discipline or department, they share a common commitment to exploring the many ways that race and ethnicity shape our world and affect our understanding of it.
1 approved course is required which may be combined with other requirements. Must be taken at Emory College of Arts and Sciences or Oxford College of Emory University.
Please note: This requirement is in effect for students who entered Emory College or Oxford College in the fall 2021 semester or later.
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African American Studies
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This course introduces students to the multiple disciplines that comprise the field of African American Studies and the most salient themes and topics that continue to guide scholars' research interests.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The course examines the experiences of African Americans from the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade to the end of the Civil War. Emphasizes social and cultural history and interpretation of race, class, and gender.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 238
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 239
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 239W
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This course aims to provide students with an empirical portrait of Black America. Together we will explore the economic, political, and social conditions of Black Americans, with attention to the variety of social science methods used to study them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HSCE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 240
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Relations between and within groups, and conflict and cooperation in light of a number of models of social interaction. Application of principles to racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 247
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This course provides an introduction to sociological thinking and concepts using various television shows (and sometimes films) as a springboard. Topics covered include race, class, gender, sexuality, social structure, immigration, intersectionality and political economy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SOC 248
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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 261
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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 261W
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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 262
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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 262W
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An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 267
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An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 267W
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Students in this course will study representations of blacks in major forms of mass media, including newspapers, literature, radio, tv, and film. Students will explore the evolution of those representations and the impact of negative portrayals on the self-images of blacks and society at large.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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The purpose of this course is to examine African American art and some of the historical and cultural considerations that affected the nature of its developments.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ARTHIST 279
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This course considers the idea of Black Music. What is it? What does it sound like? Who created it? These musical questions are set in the context of an equally complicated web of ideas about race and the relationship between racial expectation and black music/cultural production.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MUS 303
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"Explores historical & contemporary notions of love with emphasis on love's powerful & controversial presence/absence in the lives of Black people in the North American context. Readings include religious studies, philosophical, historical, literary, social scientific and neurobiological texts."
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 325
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Spiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 326
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Spiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- REL 326W
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Politics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 334
- AFS 334
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Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, & geography, this course critically explores "Black geographies" to theorize the ways race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Students will analyze intersections of race, space, and place in contemporary Atlanta.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 344
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Comprehensive examination of African American politics and its critical influence upon the American political system. Civil rights and black power movements; the voting rights act and redistricting; African American political participation, attitudes, and governance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 346
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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 359
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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ENG 359W
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This course will examine the relationships of black cultural movements to their historical periods and approach the movements as interdisciplinary phenomena. Movements that have been covered in the past include the Black Arts Movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Black Power movement.
- Credit Hours
- 3 - 4
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An in-depth study of the current historical knowledge of 19th century slavery in the southern United States; and how slavery has been depicted in popular culture, films and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 384
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Course focuses on the works of 19th and 20th century black women writers. Writers vary but may include the works of Harriet Jacobs,Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
African Studies
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This course introduces the history of the peoples of Africa. It begins with African civilizations in ancient times and runs through the 1880s, when the African continent was divided into European colonies. It concentrates on people and civilizations indigenous to Africa.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 220
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This course introduces the history of the peoples of Africa. It begins with African civilizations in ancient times and runs through the 1880s, when the African continent was divided into European colonies. It concentrates on people and civilizations indigenous to Africa.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 220W
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Traces the gradual incorporation of Africa into an expanding world economy and examines the impact of this incorporation on the development of African societies and modern nation states.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 221
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African women??s history is rich and layered. In this course, we examine historical changes women faced from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. We read primary and secondary sources, with the goal of understanding historical changes and problematizing ahistorical gender analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 222
- HIST 222
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African women??s history is rich and layered. In this course, we examine historical changes women faced from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. We read primary and secondary sources, with the goal of understanding historical changes and problematizing ahistorical gender analysis.4
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 222W
- HIST 222W
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Politics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- POLS 334
- AAS 334
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Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 365
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Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 365W
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Evolution of South Africa from a society based on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a multiracial democracy. Origins of racial segregation and apartheid, nationalist struggles, challenges of post-apartheid development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 367
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The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 378
- LACS 378
- HIST 378
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The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ANT 378W
- LACS 378W
- HIST 378W
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Treatment of the major issues raised by the new genres of art that have resulted from the African experience of European colonization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- ARTHIST 365
American Studies
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This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 228
- EAS 228
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Explores the variety of traditional musical cultures in the United States, their historical and geographical influences on each other, and their influences on contemporary popular music.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 359
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African Americans, Indians, Irish, and Jews in recent American history. Explores patterns of immigration and the limits of assimilation. Also treats anti-ethnic reactions such as racism and anti-Semitism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 348
Anthropology
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The course will take a contemporary view on how population genetics has changed our understating of the biological explanation of race.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- Juniors or Seniors only
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, & geography, this course critically explores "Black geographies" to theorize the ways race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Students will analyze intersections of race, space, and place in contemporary Atlanta.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 344
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The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 378
- LACS 378
- HIST 378
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The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 378W
- LACS 378W
- HIST 378W
Art History
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The purpose of this course is to examine African American art and some of the historical and cultural considerations that affected the nature of its developments.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 279
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Treatment of the major issues raised by the new genres of art that have resulted from the African experience of European colonization.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 386
Chinese Language
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"This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects."
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 232
- LING 232
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- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 232W
- LING 232W
Dance
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This course explores hip-hop dance/culture via lectures and movement sessions. It facilitates cultural self-awareness and tools for self-expression by considering race, sexuality, class, authenticity, and gender within hip-hop to delineate how it unifies people across racial and ethnic barriers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
East Asian Studies
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Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 227
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Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- KRN 227W
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This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 228
- AMST 228
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"This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects."
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 232
- CHN 232
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- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LING 232W
- CHN 232W
Economics
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Investigate the limitations behind traditional approaches to racial discrimination in economics; explore the history of anti-Black racism in the US and its economic consequences, and consider how understanding of systemic racism could lead to pragmatic policy solutions to racial inequities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- ECON 101/ECON_OX 101/FIN 201
- Cross-Listed
- None
English
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Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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Readings in American literature, with attention to cultural and historical backgrounds.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 261
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An overview of African-American literature prior to 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 261W
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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 262
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An overview of African-American literature since 1900. Students will read and examine writings by major contributors to each period in the genres of fiction (short story and novel) essay, poetry, and narratives of enslavement. Students will write and revise four five-page critical essays.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 262W
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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 359
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A topics course dealing with major traditions and issues in African American literature from 1900 to the present. Possible topics include passing and miscegenation, black novels since 1950, Afrofuturism, and black theater.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 359W
Film and Media Studies
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Focusing on the history and legacy of National Socialism in Germany and occupied Europe, this course will analyze how fascism and film developed in tandem since the First World War, and how film has subsequently shaped the way that both fascism and anti-fascism are understood and remembered.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- GER 365
French
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Every semester. Various aspects of contemporary French culture and society are studied through newspapers, film, and cultural documents. Discussions will be encouraged, and written skills perfected through short topical papers.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HALE / HAL
- Requisites
- FREN 310 as prerequisite.
- Cross-Listed
- None
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A survey of literary and cultural creations from the Francophone world, with a special emphasis on Africa, the Caribbean, and South East Asia.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HALE / HAL
- Requisites
- FREN 310 and FREN 314 prereq.
- Cross-Listed
- None
German
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Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 218
- JS 218
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Focusing on the history and legacy of National Socialism in Germany and occupied Europe, this course will analyze how fascism and film developed in tandem since the First World War, and how film has subsequently shaped the way that both fascism and anti-fascism are understood and remembered.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- FILM 365
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Explores the concept of Heimat as central to cultural engagements in the German-speaking world since the late eighteenth century, foregrounding voices marginalized because of their race or ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HALE / HAL
- Requisites
- GER 300 level courses-wildcard
- Cross-Listed
- None
History
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Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 218
- GER 218
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This course introduces the history of the peoples of Africa. It begins with African civilizations in ancient times and runs through the 1880s, when the African continent was divided into European colonies. It concentrates on people and civilizations indigenous to Africa.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 220
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This course introduces the history of the peoples of Africa. It begins with African civilizations in ancient times and runs through the 1880s, when the African continent was divided into European colonies. It concentrates on people and civilizations indigenous to Africa.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 220W
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Traces the gradual incorporation of Africa into an expanding world economy and examines the impact of this incorporation on the development of African societies and modern nation states.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 221
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African women??s history is rich and layered. In this course, we examine historical changes women faced from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. We read primary and secondary sources, with the goal of understanding historical changes and problematizing ahistorical gender analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 222
- AFS 222
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African women??s history is rich and layered. In this course, we examine historical changes women faced from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. We read primary and secondary sources, with the goal of understanding historical changes and problematizing ahistorical gender analysis.4
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- WGS 222W
- AFS 222W
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This course introduces students to the history of people of Asian ancestry in the United States, including immigrants, students, professionals, and refugees from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Thematically, it investigates timely issues facing the Asian American community today.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 228
- AMST 228
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The course examines the experiences of African Americans from the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade to the end of the Civil War. Emphasizes social and cultural history and interpretation of race, class, and gender.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 238
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 239
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Examines African American history from 1865 to the present. Emphasizes regional, gender, and class distinction within African American communities, and the ways in which industrial transformations shaped African American life, thought, and resistance.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 239W
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Our course will examine economic transformations and the forces that drove them between roughly 1650 and 1820, exploring how they laid the foundations for the modern world economy. Students will write short research papers on topics of their choosing.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Our course will examine economic transformations and the forces that drove them between roughly 1650 and 1820, exploring how they laid the foundations for the modern world economy. Students will write short research papers on topics of their choosing.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines European encounters with indigenous peoples of the tropical regions, and the uses to which the resultant travel accounts and images were put back in Europe in disputes surrounding notions of race, the nature of humankind, and the practice of politics.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This course examines European encounters with indigenous peoples of the tropical regions, and the uses to which the resultant travel accounts and images were put back in Europe in disputes surrounding notions of race, the nature of humankind, and the practice of politics.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 267
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An exploration and analysis of the struggle for African American equality with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement's development, successes, failures and legacy.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 267W
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This course offers a general overview of the history of Jews and Judaism, beginning with the Biblical period and ending with modern times.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 270
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Survey of American Jewish history from colonial period to present, Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and antisemitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 329
-
This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 332
-
This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 332W
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On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 338
-
On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 338W
-
This course explores the historical context linking Jews to commerce and finance, and how that link became a defining narrative of ??modernity??. We will use economic history to understand modern anti-Semitism, mass migration, Jewish leftist politics, and rise of international Jewish philanthropy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 339
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Examines the South from its colonial origins to the Civil War, with emphasis on the social, political, and economic development of a slave society.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
African Americans, Indians, Irish, and Jews in recent American history. Explores patterns of immigration and the limits of assimilation. Also treats anti-ethnic reactions such as racism and anti-Semitism.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AMST 348
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Explores the variety of traditional musical cultures in the United States, their historical and geographical influences on each other, and their influences on contemporary popular music.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AMST 321
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Covering the history of Brazil since Portuguese colonization, this course addresses conquest, colonial structures and legacies, questions of race and identity, political institutions, and migration. Themes include slavery, cultural diversity, economic development, and Brazil's role in the world.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 365
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Slavery is not an unchanging systems rooted in the past. We will examine the nature and diversity of slavery in Africa, from 1300s to 1900s, and interrogate the significant role slavery, slave trades, racism, colonialism, and forced labor have played in shaping the African past and present.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 365W
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Evolution of South Africa from a society based on the principle of systematic racial segregation to a multiracial democracy. Origins of racial segregation and apartheid, nationalist struggles, challenges of post-apartheid development.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 367
-
The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 378
- LACS 378
- ANT 378
-
The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 378W
- LACS 378W
- ANT 378W
-
An in-depth study of the current historical knowledge of 19th century slavery in the southern United States; and how slavery has been depicted in popular culture, films and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 384
-
Jr/Sr Colloquium. Using in-depth case studies to guide us, we will unravel puzzles about race, ethnicity, and national identity in Latin America. They revolve around the central question: how have particular configurations of racial and ethnic hierarchy emerged in these countries?
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRTE / WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- LACS 460W
-
Jr/Sr Colloquium. We study the history of India from the home, instead of the government or political leadership. What does the history of family and home tell us about changing roles and expectations, race and class hierarchies, social and economic advance, education, democracy and politics?
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRTE / WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- MESAS 466W
Jewish Studies
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Course offers an overview of the origins, development, and outcomes of National Socialism. It covers: the rise of Nazi Party, establishment of dictatorship, emergence of racial state, life of Jews and social outsiders, road to war, WWII, occupation of Europe, resistance, euthanasia, the Holocaust.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 218
- GER 218
-
This course offers a general overview of the history of Jews and Judaism, beginning with the Biblical period and ending with modern times.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 270
-
Survey of American Jewish history from colonial period to present, Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and antisemitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 329
-
On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 338
-
On the eve of the Holocaust, a majority of world Jewry lived in Eastern Europe (esp.Poland, USSR).This course explores the origins, dynamic growth, and near destruction of East European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust and the challenges to Jewish life in this region in the post-WWII era.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 338W
-
This course explores the historical context linking Jews to commerce and finance, and how that link became a defining narrative of ??modernity??. We will use economic history to understand modern anti-Semitism, mass migration, Jewish leftist politics, and rise of international Jewish philanthropy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 339
-
Addresses the historical position and cultural production of Spanish and Latin American Jewry, from medieval Spain to the present. We examine how diasporic Jewish subjects have framed their identity while negotiating the pressures of exile, immigration, antisemitism, and political violence.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- SPAN 422
Korean
-
Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 227
-
Discussion-based course examining contemporary food media from and about Asian culinary traditions. Topics include global Asian culture, Asian America, diaspora, media circulation, race, and ethnicity.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 227W
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 378
- HIST 378
- ANT 378
-
The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 378W
- HIST 378W
- ANT 378W
-
Jr/Sr Colloquium. Using in-depth case studies to guide us, we will unravel puzzles about race, ethnicity, and national identity in Latin America. They revolve around the central question: how have particular configurations of racial and ethnic hierarchy emerged in these countries?
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRTE / WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 460W
Linguistics
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"This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects."
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 232
- CHN 232
-
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- EAS 232W
- CHN 232W
Middle Eastern and South Asian
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This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 332
-
This course introduces you to the complexities of Gandhi's thought and his political action, his spiritual heights and his idiosyncrasies. We will read Gandhi's own writings, which include his autobiography, his Hind Swaraj, and several seminal articles from his journal Harijan.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 332W
-
Jr/Sr Colloquium. We study the history of India from the home, instead of the government or political leadership. What does the history of family and home tell us about changing roles and expectations, race and class hierarchies, social and economic advance, education, democracy and politics?
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- WRTE / WRT
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 466W
Music
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This course considers the idea of Black Music. What is it? What does it sound like? Who created it? These musical questions are set in the context of an equally complicated web of ideas about race and the relationship between racial expectation and black music/cultural production.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 303
Philosophy
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This course explores key topics in Latin American and Latinx thought, including identity, liberation, coloniality and decoloniality, and border feminisms.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Surveys feminisms of color addressing issues of race, racism, class, ethnicity, history, and politics in a U.S. and global context. Topics include Black feminisms, intersectionality, coloniality of gender, "third world" feminisms, racialization of trans identities, and decolonial feminisms.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Examines key texts in Decolonial Thought. Assess the move from the language of colonialism and decolonization to coloniality and decoloniality. To these ends, the course will consider conceptions of the human, history, capital, race, gender, and sexuality.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
Explores what freedom entail in a political context, and what enables and frustrates its emergence. Texts range from 18th century to the present, including those by Kant, Arendt, Dr. King, Mill, Alcoff, Davis, Douglass, Beauvoir, Lorde, Douglass, and Obama.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Political Science
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Politics of sub-Saharan Africa are examined, with emphasis on the major issues of social and political analysis as well as the African economic predicament and its political implications.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AFS 334
- AAS 334
-
Comprehensive examination of African American politics and its critical influence upon the American political system. Civil rights and black power movements; the voting rights act and redistricting; African American political participation, attitudes, and governance.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 346
-
Examination of the past, present, and future of Latino politics in the U.S. Analyzes historical and contemporary political preferences, voting, and representation of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and other Latino populations, and how Latinos shape U.S.politics broadly.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
Religion
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"Explores historical & contemporary notions of love with emphasis on love's powerful & controversial presence/absence in the lives of Black people in the North American context. Readings include religious studies, philosophical, historical, literary, social scientific and neurobiological texts."
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 325
-
Spiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 326
-
Spiritual transformations involving worship, magic and healing, ritual, and aesthetic performance in Black speech and literature, music, and drama; and spiritual uses of Biblical themes to empower social political movements.
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HPWE / HAPW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 326W
Sociology
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This course aims to provide students with an empirical portrait of Black America. Together we will explore the economic, political, and social conditions of Black Americans, with attention to the variety of social science methods used to study them.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSC / HSCE
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 240
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Relations between and within groups, and conflict and cooperation in light of a number of models of social interaction. Application of principles to racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 247
-
This course provides an introduction to sociological thinking and concepts using various television shows (and sometimes films) as a springboard. Topics covered include race, class, gender, sexuality, social structure, immigration, intersectionality and political economy.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- AAS 248
Spanish
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Addresses the historical position and cultural production of Spanish and Latin American Jewry, from medieval Spain to the present. We examine how diasporic Jewish subjects have framed their identity while negotiating the pressures of exile, immigration, antisemitism, and political violence.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- ETHN
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- JS 422
Women's Gender and Sexuality
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African women??s history is rich and layered. In this course, we examine historical changes women faced from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. We read primary and secondary sources, with the goal of understanding historical changes and problematizing ahistorical gender analysis.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 222
- AFS 222
-
African women??s history is rich and layered. In this course, we examine historical changes women faced from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. We read primary and secondary sources, with the goal of understanding historical changes and problematizing ahistorical gender analysis.4
- Credit Hours
- 4
- GERs
- HSWE / HSCW
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- HIST 222W
- AFS 222W
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How does race manifest itself in law? How does whiteness become a form of property? How do race and gender function in relation to each other? we will explore various theoretical and philosophical readings on race, gender, and various institutions that are integral to racial discourses.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HAPE / HAP
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None
-
This interdisciplinary course demonstrates how histories of settler colonialism, imperialism, racial "science," and enslavement generated racial categories that were inherently sexed and gendered. It asks how these histories influence the contemporary experience of racialized sexuality.
- Credit Hours
- 3
- GERs
- HSCE / HSC
- Requisites
- None
- Cross-Listed
- None