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AAS 111 - Introduction to Africa and Its Diaspora
Section: 001
Term: FA 2017
Subject: Afroamerican & African Studies (AAS)
Department: LSA Afroamerican and African Studies
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Details

Credits:
4
Requirements & Distribution:
HU, RE
Other Course Info:
May not be included in a DAAS major. F.
Repeatability:
May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:
Askew,Kelly M

Description

AAS 111 is a team-taught course that introduces students to the study of Africa and its Diaspora in the Americas and West Indies, as well as Europe. The course takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach to a range of historical, literary, artistic, religious, economic, and political questions crucial to the understanding of the experiences of people of African descent.

Using maps, films, the visual arts, music, important historical texts, and contemporary writings, the course will focus on four major themes:

  1. migration and the middle passage
  2. slavery and resistance
  3. segregation, colonialism, and freedom movements
  4. comparative dimensions of race.

A course website with the syllabus, schedule, announcements, and additional information is accessible at: https://ctools.umich.edu.

Course Requirements:

  1. Regular class and section attendance is crucial to success in this course. Students are held responsible for the assigned readings, any assigned section writing assignments, and for taking part in section discussions (20%)
  2. A midterm exam
  3. One five-page essay
  4. A final exam

The essay and exams will be based on lectures, discussion sections, films, and readings.

Intended Audience:

This course is appropriate for both majors and non-majors. Majors should complete this course by the sophomore year.

Class Format:

The course will meet in a lecture and audio/film format twice a week, with one discussion section per week.

Schedule

AAS 111 - Introduction to Africa and Its Diaspora
Schedule Listing
001 (LEC)
 
10664
Open
8
 
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TuTh 1:00PM - 2:30PM1640 CHEM
002 (DIS)
P
10665
Open
4
 
-
Th 9:00AM - 10:00AM5521 HH
003 (DIS)
P
10666
Open
2
 
-
Th 10:00AM - 11:00AM5521 HH
004 (DIS)
P
10667
Open
2
 
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F 10:00AM - 11:00AM5521 HH
006 (DIS)
P
22025
Closed
0
 
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F 11:00AM - 12:00PM5521 HH

Textbooks/Other Materials

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ISBN: 9781405849425
Sundiata : an epic of old Mali, Author: D.T. Niane ; translated by G.D. Pickett ; with extra material by David Chappell, James A. Jones., Publisher: Pearson Longman Rev. ed. 2009
Required

Syllabi

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