African Studies
Professor: Richard Wamai
CRN: 14151
Days, Time: TF, 1:35 PM – 3:15 PM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Introduces global health in the context of an interdependent and globalized world focusing on four main areas of analysis: infrastructure of global health; diseases; populations; and terms, concepts, and theories. While the focus is on lower-income countries, the course examines issues in a broader global context, underscoring the interconnections between global health disparities and global health policy response. Applies case studies describing interventions to improve healthcare in resource-poor settings in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere to help illuminate the actors, diseases, populations, and principles and frameworks for the design of effective global health interventions. Cross-listed with PHTH 1270.
Professor: Kwamina Panford
CRN: 17788
Days, Time: MWR, 10:30 AM – 11:35 AM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Examines the social dimensions of resource extraction. Focusing mainly on developing nations, studies global issues, including developments in industrial nations, to assess their impact on resource extraction and living and working conditions in resource-rich regions. Uses case studies of key countries producing oil/gas, minerals, and forest/agricultural commodities to illustrate the past/current causes of resource mismanagement; their social consequences; and how public policies, legislation, and financial and human resource management with industrialization can be used to avert or reduce the adverse effects of resource extraction, especially in poor countries. Major theories examined include the resource curse and alternative approaches to problems faced by resource-bearing developing nations. AFRS 2464 and INTL 2464 are cross-listed.
Professor: Richard Wamai
CRN: 14623
Days, Time: MR, 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Examines the epidemiology and determinants of diseases and the public health practice among continental African peoples and African-derived populations in the Americas and elsewhere in the African Diaspora. Emphasizes such epidemic diseases as malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, smallpox, the current AIDS pandemic, obesity, and cancer. The course also aims to critically address the breadth of factors behind these pandemics, such as socioeconomic, political, health system, behavioral, and genetic. A cross-cutting theme throughout the course is the entrenched health disparities in society.
Professor: Kwamina Panford
CRN: 15620
Days, Time: MW, 2:50 PM – 4:30 PM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Explores contemporary politics in African nations south of the Sahara. Studies South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia, among others. Examines apartheid, colonialism, Afro-Marxism, chieftaincy, development, and Pan-Africanism.
African-American Studies
Professor: Nicole Castor
CRN: 11906
Days, Time: TF, 1:35 PM – 3:15 PM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Explores several of the possible historical, sociological, cultural, and political avenues of study in the broad interdisciplinary spectrum of African-American studies. Provides an introductory overview of the field and offers an opportunity to identify areas for more specific focus.
Professor: Eric Jackson
CRN: 11165
Days, Time: MR, 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM
Pre-requisites: Not open to students who have taken MUSC 1104
Description: Explores the various musical traditions of African Americans, with a specific focus on the United States. Examines the impact of African, European, and Native American traditions on African-American music as well as the role of music as an expression of African-American aesthetics, traditions, and life. Considers historical and contemporary forms of African-American music, with selected video presentations.
Professor: Alanna Prince
CRN: 17832
Days, Time: MWR, 1:30 PM – 2:40 PM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Surveys Black popular culture from the mid-1950s to the present through music, movies, music videos, and other forms of multimedia, paying close attention to social commentary, political critique, economic inference, cultural formation, explications of religious and spiritual beliefs, and the like. Issues of representation, identity, values, and aesthetics are pondered and discussed. Seeks to cause students to rethink and reexamine the intent and impact of Black popular culture as a method and means of expression and communication.
Professor: Nicole Aljoe
CRN: 18099
Days, Time: WF, 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Surveys the development and range of black American writers, emphasizing poetry and prose from early colonial times to the Civil War. ENGL 2296 and AFM 2296 are cross-listed.
Professor: Margaret A. Burnham
CRN: 19278
Days, Time: TF, 9:50 AM – 11:30 AM
Pre-requisites: N/A
Description: Explores the various questions, relationships, and connections between the law and racial issues and concepts. Each offering focuses on a special topic such as reparations, civil rights, gender, or the environment and energy policies. May be repeated up to three times for a maximum of 16 credits.