First-Year Courses in CAAS This page was created at 12:04 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21) Open courses in CAAS (*Not real-time Information. Review the "Data current as of: " statement at the bottom of hyperlinked page) Wolverine Access Subject listing for CAAS Fall Term '01Time Schedule for CAAS. CAAS 103. First Year Social Science Seminar. Cross-Area Courses Section 001 – Community Economic Development. Instructor(s): Warren C Whatley (wwhatley@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). (Cross-Area Courses). May not be included in a concentration plan. First-Year Seminar, Credits: (3). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/caas/103/001.nsf The course will be experience-based research, meaning that students will read about issues that fall under the topic "community economic development" as they participate in actual community development initiatives. A goal is to gain an appreciation of the impact of direct experience on critical thinking about any subject matter. Learning tools include readings, discussions, outreach, biographies, diaries, and essays. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. CAAS 103. First Year Social Science Seminar. Cross-Area Courses Section 002 – The Local and the Global in the African American Search for Community. Instructor(s): Penny M Von Eschen (pmve@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (SS). (Cross-Area Courses). May not be included in a concentration plan. First-Year Seminar, Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The course will explore the local and global in African American ideas of community through focusing on music: from blues, gospel, and jazz, to Rhythm and Blues and pop. The course will be based on close readings of texts that analyze the social and political contexts in which music is created, performed, and listened to. We will also listen to and analyze music in class. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. CAAS 104. First Year Humanities Seminar. Cross-Area Courses Section 001 – Black Multiculturalism. Meets with English 140.001. Instructor(s): Ifeoma C Nwankwo (icn@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). (Cross-Area Courses). May not be included in a concentration plan. First-Year Seminar, Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See English 140.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 1 CAAS 108 / HISTART 108. Introduction to African Art. African Studies Section 001. Instructor(s): Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (African Studies). May not be included in a concentration plan. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See History of Art 108.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. CAAS 111. Introduction to Africa and Its Diaspora. Section 001. Instructor(s): Kevin K Gaines (gaineskk@umich.edu) , Elisha P Renne (erenne@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E). May not be included in a concentration plan. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/caas/111/001.nsf This team-taught course introduces basic questions, concepts, and methods involved in the study of Africa in relation to its Diaspora in the Americas and the West Indies, as well as Europe. The course takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach to a range of historical, literary, artistic, economic, and political questions crucial to the understanding of the experiences of people of African descent. Using maps, cultural artifacts, films, art, music, archival documents, literary texts, and key scholarly readings from various fields, the course treats topics such as: early African civilizations; the slave trade and the middle passage; American Jim Crow and South African apartheid; movements in Black Feminism; and environmental racism and Black health. Requirements: Take-home essay: 5 pages 20% of grade In class midterm exam: short answer/essay 30% Take-home essay, end of term: 6-8 pages 40% Class attendance and participation 10% Prerequisite to the CAAS concentration and minor and suitable for interested non-concentrators. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. CAAS 214 / HISTART 214. Introduction to African-American Art. African-American Studies Section 001. Instructor(s): Jacqueline R Francis (jrfranci@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 111. (3). (Excl). (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See History of Art 214.001. Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: No Data Given. This page was created at 12:04 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. 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