Transfer Student Courses in CAASConsult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:38 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23)CAAS 108 / HISTART 108. Introduction to African Art.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): David T DorisPrerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. (African Studies). May not be included in a concentration plan. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 111. Introduction to Africa and Its Diaspora.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Kelly M Askew (kaskew@umich.edu) , Julius S Scott III (jsscott@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. May not be included in a concentration plan.
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. CAAS 111 is a team-taught course that introduces students to the study of Africa and its Diaspora in the Americas, the West Indies, South America, and Europe. This 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 short stories, the course will focus on four major themes:
This course is appropriate for both concentrators and non-concentrators. Concentrators should complete this course by the sophomore year. Requirements The course will meet in a lecture and audio/film format twice a week, with one discussion section per week.
The essay and exams will be based on lectures, discussion sections, films, and readings. Required texts:
Books are available for purchase at Shaman Drum Bookstore (313 South State St., 662-7407). The books are also on reserve, along with journal articles, at Course Reserves (Shapiro Library) and the CAAS Library (5511 Haven Hall). A course pack of additional required readings will be available for purchase at Kolossus (310 East Washington, 994-5400).
CAAS 200. Introduction to African Studies.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Yaw Twumasi (yawt@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 111. (3). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. (African Studies).
Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is designed to give students an overview of the historical, political, and economic developments in sub-Saharan Africa. This course does not seek to be comprehensive, for the focus of the overview will be on significant themes and on the myriad forces that will help us understand how Africa came to acquire its present characteristics. The course will begin with an examination of internal and external developments that culminated in the rise of centralized states. The complex interplay between these two sets of forces and its implications for the rise and evolution of contemporary Africa will be addressed. That will be followed by an exploration of vital issues, concerns, and problems facing Africa now and in the foreseeable future. Central among these are: the rise of new social classes and the struggle for power in the colonial and post-colonial periods; centralization of power and the struggle for more democratic systems of rule; shifts in strategies of development, population growth, and the roles of women and development. The aim in sketching a historical background at the outset is to provide a context for exploring the nature of these problems and issues. The format will be lectures with frequent discussions of the main themes of the lectures and readings.
CAAS 201. Introduction to Afro-American Studies.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kevin GainesPrerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 111. (3). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course offers a selected introduction to the history, literature, and cultural production of African Americans from slavery to the present. Our approach will be interdisciplinary in that we will read several kinds of sources and texts, including history, fiction, poetry, drama, music and music criticism, and documentary film. In addition to providing students with a basic familiarity with important events and issues in American history, and with prominent writers, intellectuals, artists and musicians of African descent, a major goal of the course is to prepare students to become critical and knowledgeable participants in current public discussions involving African Americans. Toward that end, a major objective is to improve the critical reading and writing skills of students.
CAAS 211. Dynamics of the Black Diaspora.
Section 001 — Economic Origins of the African Diaspora.Instructor(s): Warren C Whatley (wwhatley@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 111. (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course investigates the economic origins of the African Diaspora. Diaspora is problematized as the geographic dispersion of a people and more-broadly as trans-national connections in culture, language, politics, economy, genetics, and worldview. Students are introduced to the following topics: the economics of the first African Diaspora some 150,000 years ago; the continent of Africa in world economic history up to 1500 A.D.; the economics of migration and colonization on the continent of Africa before 1500 A.D.; the economics of the trans-Sahara and trans-Atlantic slave trades; Africans and the rise of the Atlantic economy; the diaspora's contribution to the modern history of freedom, revolution, and democracy; the economic history of Africans in America. This is not a typical lecture course. There are no examinations. Student performance is evaluated on the basis of weekly reading reports, class discussions, performances in debates, and the quality of a research paper. Class resources include readings, films, the Internet, guest lecturers, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.
CAAS 231 / HISTORY 275. Survey of Afro-American History, II.
African-American StudiesSection 001 — African-American History II (1865 to the Present).Instructor(s): Michele Mitchell (mmitch@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 111. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is designed as a survey of African-American people, politics, and culture since emancipation. From Reconstruction to migration, from world wars to mass social protest, we will assess how large-scale demographic and political phenomena shaped the daily lives of Black women, men, and children. As much as we shall focus upon the ways in which a unified Afro-American experience has been forged since the Civil War, we will also consider how various factors — including class, region, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ideology — contributed to substantial diversity within Black communities by the mid-twentieth century. Moreover, a major goal of the course is to complicate "race": at the same time we explore the rigid yet arbitrary practices of racial segregation ("Jim Crow"), we shall also endeavor to discuss racial dynamics in the United States beyond binary notions of Black and white. Throughout the term we shall work with the artifacts and crafting of history as well. Not only will we read primary documents and analyze cultural expressions, then, we are also going to spend time thinking about how scholars have written African-American history. Students who take this course should be somewhat familiar with the contours of African-American and/or U.S. history but prior work in either field is not a prerequisite. Furthermore, it is not necessary to have taken African-American History I in order to enroll in African-American History II. For students who want access to a solid, general overview of U.S. history, the American Social History Project's Who Built America? will be available at the Reserve Reading desk in Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Similarly, an overview of African-American history, To Make Our World Anew (edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Earl Lewis) will also be placed on Reserve.
CAAS 246 / HISTORY 246. Africa to 1850.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Jean-Herve Jezequel (jezequel@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. (African Studies). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 303 / SOC 303. Race and Ethnic Relations.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Sheila Bluhm (sbluhm@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: An introductory course in sociology or CAAS; CAAS 201 recommended. (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 332 / ENVIRON 336 / NRE 336. Environment and Inequality.
Cross-Area CoursesInstructor(s): Dorceta Taylor (dorceta@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (SS). (R&E). May not be repeated for credit. (Cross-Area Courses).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 358. Topics in Black World Studies.Section 002 — Critiques of Western Feminism. Meets with WOMENSTD 345.002.Instructor(s): Nesha HaniffPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
CAAS 360. Afro-American Art.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): John M Lockard (jmlockaz@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (HU). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course:
CAAS 365 / WOMENSTD 365. Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Reproduction.
Section 001 — Meets with CAAS 358.001.Instructor(s): Amal Hassan Fadlalla (afadlall@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in either women's studies or CAAS. (3). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 394. Junior Seminar.Cross-Area CoursesSection 001 — Black Arts Movement.Instructor(s): Derrick I M Gilbert (derrickg@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing. (4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 credits. (Cross-Area Courses). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided. Contact the Department.
CAAS 394. Junior Seminar.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 002 — Social and Political Changes in African Literature.Instructor(s): TwumasiPrerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing. (4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 credits. (Cross-Area Courses). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course offers a general introduction to the social and political transformation that occurred in Africa since the early years of the twentieth century. The transformation has been profound, and African writers have not escaped its impulse, and have sought to give expression to it in their writings. We will seek to understand aspects of the social changes through the eyes and words of African novelists who live and write in Africa. We will focus on: significant cultural changes resulting from the contact between African peoples and Europeans; the popular struggle to make sense of the European presence, the social inequalities and the conflicts they generate in the post-colonial period. African writers have shed a great deal of light on these issues, and their writings thus provide us with a rare opportunity to think critically about the constantly changing historical circumstances of African politics and social structure. We will discuss one novel a week, and every student will be responsible for leading the discussion for one class period. Active class participation will be encouraged. There are no prerequisites for this course.
CAAS 418 / POLSCI 324. Black Americans and the Political System.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Vincent L Hutchings (vincenth@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in political science. CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 443 / WOMENSTD 443. Pedagogy of Empowerment: Activism in Race, Gender, and Health.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Nesha Haniff (nzh@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 201 or WOMENSTD 240. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 450. Law, Race, and the Historical Process, I.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Ronald C Woods (rcwoods@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Law defines the status and prospects of Blacks, occupies a key role in Black ideological debates and organizational activity, and reflects the dominant crises in United States and world history. This course covers the period from the initial interaction between Blacks and the processes of law in colonial North America to the beginnings of the modern Civil Rights era. It reviews the law of slavery and the slave trade, the Constitution and the status of Blacks in the ante-bellum period, Constitutional and legislative developments during Reconstruction, and the legal circumstance of Blacks in the era of Jim Crow segregation.
CAAS 458. Issues in Black World Studies.
Section 002 — Maternal Child Health & Environmental Pollution in Africa. Meets with ANTHRCUL 458.001.Instructor(s): Elisha P Renne (erenne@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 459 / ANTHRCUL 451. African-American Religion.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Melvin D Williams (mddoublu@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One introductory course in the social sciences. CAAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 482 / ENVIRON 482 / NRE 482. Environmental Justice: Theoretical Approaches.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Dorceta E TaylorPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. (Cross-Area Courses). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 484 / ANTHRARC 484. Archaeology of Mind.
Section 001.Instructor(s): HollPrerequisites & Distribution: ANTHRARC 282 recommended. (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 495. Senior Seminar.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001 — From 'Nadir' to 'New Negro. Meets with ENGLISH 407.005.Instructor(s): Xiomara A Santamarina (xas@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Upperclass standing. (4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 8 credits. (Cross-Area Courses). (Capstone Course).
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In this course, we will study the emergence of African American literature at the beginning of the 20th century; a time in which both pessimism about racial violence in the U.S. and optimism over new opportunities for Black artists reflect African American's growing participation in the arts while they suffered from virulent forms of discrimination. Through close readings of novels, poetry, and prose by authors ranging from Charles Chesnutt, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois, we will explore the texts and contexts of a time called the "nadir" (or low point) of African American history and its relation to the era of the "new negro" and the Harlem Renaissance that emerged in the 1920s. Course requirements: consistent participation in class discussion, short response papers, and one research paper.
CAAS 558. Seminar in Black World Studies.
Section 003 — Gender and the African Diaspora: Conceptual Challenges and Possibilities. Meets with ENGLISH 851.001.Instructor(s): Sandra Gunning (sgunning@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of the African diaspora; however, gender as a category of analysis continues to be an afterthought. Indeed, while the newest generation of historians and literary critics see the study of the African diaspora as fostering a (liberating) transnational vision of racial identity formation, their lack of attention to gender threatens to perpetuate the blind spots of the earlier scholars they seek to challenge. This course will offer students an in-depth study of writing produced by a range of Black diasporic subjects, but with the specific focus on how we might interpret the construction of male and female identities at the intersection of local and global contexts. We will also be looking closely at larger theoretical debates about diaspora emerging across several (inter)disciplinary fields, including African American and American Studies, History, and Literature. Primary texts will be drawn from the pre-twentieth century, but will be supplemented by some contemporary material. Students will be expected to complete a major seminar paper, and also give an end-of-term project presentation to the class.
CAAS 558. Seminar in Black World Studies.
Section 004 — Citizenship and Non-Citizens. Meets with ANTHRCUL 558.003.Instructor(s): Damani James PartridgePrerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 558. Seminar in Black World Studies.
Section 005 — Caribbean Common-places: Theories of Identity and Caribbean Poetry.Instructor(s): Seanna OakleyPrerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Do the commonplaces — tropes, figures, issues, and themes — that populate Afro-Caribbean creative and critical literature reflect an African diasporic epistemic foundation or the "market of symbolic goods," as Pierre Bourdieu would have it? The most prominent commonplaces of creolization, creole language, music and rhythm, the landscape, and folk authenticity are found everywhere in Caribbean fiction, poetry, criticism, and theory. Belinda Edmondson calls these Caribbean commonplaces a "romance" of the "politics of regional representation." We will examine the commonplaces found in major and minor works of Afro-Caribbean poetry, literary criticism, and theory and compare their functions. Given that literary critics, writers and artists, and academics comprise the major share of the Caribbean literary market, we will explore the question of where to draw the line between market demand and creativity, identity, and cultural epistemes. What are the literary stakes of these commonplaces? What are the cultural and political stakes? Our readings include Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone Caribbean works of theory, literary criticism, and poetry.
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