| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| AFAM 10 | GOSPEL CHOIR | MCCOOL, M. | Gospel Choir is a performance group that works with the music and culture of the gospel tradition. This is a two-unit class that requires attendance and participation as well as one short music review. |
| AFAM 40C | AFRICAN AMERICAN III | FOOTE, T.W. | This lower-division undergraduate lecture course interrogates theories of blackness, ranging from Frantz Fanon’s influential writings to Paul Gilroy’s recent appeal for the abolition of race. Students will be required to complete the assigned readings, discuss these texts, and write two double-spaced typed papers of six to eight pages each. |
| AFAM 110 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ECONOMICS | BARKLEY, D. | This course is designed to enable students to apply general economic principles to explain the economic contemporary conditions of African-Americans. In doing so we will explore various elements of African-American society including: residential settlement patterns, employment patterns, affirmative action, and reparations. The course content will draw upon a wide variety of perspectives and academic disciplines. |
| AFAM 111B | AFRICAN AMERICAN ART: 1900-PRESENT | ROGERS, D. | African American Art 1900-present will be an interdisciplinary analysis of various artistic forms created by artists of African descent. The purpose of the course will be to orient the student as to the types of works produced by African American artists and to discuss issues pertaining to biographical, political, social, and gender issues confronting these artists that in some cases manifest in their works. Primarily, but not limited to the painting media, two-dimensional constructions of race and gender will also be discussed in the course to delve into various definitions of, and artists’ renditions of ideological constructs. Lectures will entail slide presentations, videos, and discussions relating to the theme of that particular week. |
| AFAM 130 | AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY | BARRETT, L.W. | Same as English 105, see description in that section. |
| AFAM 130 | SAMUEL R DELANY | MOTEN, F. | Where does writing come from (both historically, as a particular linguistic and semiotic phenomenon, and individually, as the result of impulse and desire? How might we begin to speak of the sexuality and/or procreativity of writing? What is the relationship between social/economic/political formations and the origins and ends of writing? What happens when we think of money as a kind of writing, writing as a kind of value? How do writing and money produce space and time? These are questions that a sustained engagement with novelist Samuel R. Delany\'s Return to Nevèrÿon tetralogy, will allow us to address. In so doing, we\'ll pay close attention to the bridges Delany builds between the historical universe he imagines and the contemporary one we inhabit. This will requires some investigation of Delany\'s encounter with contemporary critical theory though no prior familiarity with critical theory is expected or required. |
| AFAM 150 | AFRO-AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY | PARHAM, T.A. | The course will begin with an historical overview of the development of Black psychology and the African American frame of reference and continue with a discussion of topic areas including, but not limited to, personality development, psychological assessment, issues in education, Black family, Black mental health and mental health illness, and the role of the Black psychologist in the community. |
| AFAM 150 | RACE & ETHNICITY III | GONZALEZ, A. | Race and Ethnicity in America is part of the Reaffirming Ethnic Awareness and Community Harmony Program. It is a three-quarter course designed to critically examine the role of diversity and multiculturalism in higher education. The course will examine text focusing on discourse on race, power, and privilege. There will also be historical references that focus on the “building” of the United States as a nation as well as higher education literature that deal with class, ethnicity, and culture.
The Class is divided into 4 parts: (1) Theories on Race and Ethnicity; (2) Power, Privilege, and Culture (3) Presentation, Facilitation, and Public Speaking Skills (4) Multiculturalism and Higher Education.
In this course, students will engage in intellectual and practical learning of leadership skills and concepts through class discussion, readings, community speakers, lectures, films, exercises, group projects, and community field studies. Through these activities, students will improve upon leadership skills and develop a critical analysis of privilege as it relates to the dimensions of culture and diversity. |
| AFAM 151 | COMPARATIVE MINORITY POLITICS | GRADILLA, A. | This course will examine the effects of the California Proposition process on the various minority communities since the 1990\'s. The propositions we will closely examine include Propositions 187 and 209. Another goal of the class will be to determine how inter- and intra-group differences of racialized minority groups impacted the outcomes of the various initiatives. Student will be required to write reaction papers to the readings (1-2 pages) and to make a formal group presentation based on an aspect of the electoral process. |
| AFAM 160 | ISSUES IN AFROFUTURISM II | JENKINS, U. | This course will explore various African-American artistic engagement with cultural and philosophical traditions that have evolved into the development of an Afrofuturist aesthetic. An examination of how linkage to ancient African belief systems and science and technology have emerged into an artistic expression of freedom. The course will examine a variety of disciplines in the arts: literature, music and the visual arts; with an emphasis based upon the social implications African-American Woman. |
| AFAM 160 | ISSUES IN BLACK ART | O\'GRADY, L. | Will study the critical and formal engagement of contemporary African diaspora visual artists with political and cultural history and will examine the implications of their practice for mainstream studio art and cultural studies. |