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Transfer Student Courses in CAASThis page was created at 12:31 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in CAAS Wolverine Access Subject listing for CAAS Fall Term '01Time Schedule for CAAS. CAAS 108 / HISTART 108. Introduction to African Art.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). (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): 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:
Requirements:
Prerequisite to the CAAS concentration and minor and suitable for interested non-concentrators.
CAAS 230 / HISTORY 274. Survey of Afro-American History I.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Julius S Scott III (jsscott@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 111. (3). (SS). (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This lecture/discussion course surveys major themes, events, and personages in the history of Africans and people of African descent in the Americas, and in particular North America, through the end of the American Civil War. The survey begins on the African continent, follows captive Africans across the Atlantic, and then traces the contours of the struggle against slavery. Themes to be covered include: slavery and slave resistance; African-American culture; free Blacks, North and South; Black participation in the abolitionist movement; and the role of African Americans in the Civil War. Students will read a variety of texts, including examples of Black testimony as well as the work of contemporary cultural and social historians. Assignments include in-class examinations and a comprehensive final, short essays, and class presentations.
CAAS 246(446) / HISTORY 246. Africa to 1850.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Mamadou Diouf (mdiouf@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS). (African Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 303 / SOC 303. Race and Ethnic Relations.
African-American StudiesSection 005.Instructor(s):Prerequisites & Distribution: An introductory course in sociology or AAS; AAS 201 recommended. (4). (SS). (R&E). (African-American Studies).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 327 / PSYCH 315. Psychological Aspects of the Black Experience.
African-American StudiesSection 001 – Social Psychology of the African Family.Instructor(s): Denis Ugwuegbu (dcugwueg@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in psychology or Afroamerican and African Studies. AAS 201 recommended. (3). (SS). (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Social Psychology of the African Family is designed to be a highly interactive course. It is aimed at the 200 and 300 level students in Psychology, the Center for Afro-American and African Studies, and other related social science and liberal arts disciplines. The principal objective of the course is to guide the students through lectures, group discussions, and individual or group presentations to explore the traditional and contemporary psychodynamics of the African family. The family is a flexible unit that adapts deliberately to internal and external influences that act on it. In its interaction with these forces, it must adapt to prevalent customs and mores. Internally, the family also must come to terms with the basic biological bonds between man and woman, and of mother and child, and of children and parents. The second objective of the course is to assess how the African family met these needs and expectations in the past and how it is meeting them at the present.
CAAS 331 / PSYCH 316. The World of the Black Child.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Vonnie C McLoyd (vcmcloyd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: One course in psychology or Afroamerican and African Studies. (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course has two objectives. They are, first, to introduce key areas of research and theory related to the socialization and development of African-American children and second, to facilitate critical thinking regarding this body of research and theory. The course will focus on cultural and situational forces that affect the lives of African-American lower-and middle-class children. In order to highlight the factors that contribute to the social conditions of the African-American child, a section of the course will look at the lives of specific individuals through their personal accounts and will compare the converging and diverging features of the socialization of African-American children and South African children. Topics to be discussed will include:
CAAS 358. Topics in Black World Studies.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001 – Prehistory of Africa. Meets with Cultural Anthropology 383.001.Instructor(s): Augustin HollPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 383.001.
CAAS 360. Afro-American Art.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Jon Onye LockardPrerequisites & Distribution: AAS 201 recommended. (3). (HU). (African-American Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course:
CAAS 380 / HISTART 360. Special Topics in African Art.
African StudiesSection 001 – Introduction to African Diaspora Arts in the Americas.Instructor(s): Jacqueline R Francis (jrfranci@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 108 or 214 and upperclass standing; AAS 200 recommended. (3). (Excl). (African Studies). Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
CAAS 403. Education and Development in Africa.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Teshome G Wagaw (twagaw@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 200 recommended. (3). (Excl). (African Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is designed for:
CAAS 408. African Economies: Social and Political Settings.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Yaw Twumasi (yawt@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 200 recommended. (4). (Excl). (African Studies). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The purpose of this course in comparative politics is to understand the problems and the potential for economic growth in Africa. It is necessary, therefore, to acquire some knowledge of how African economies developed and the kind of social factors which contributed and still shape the processes of economic growth. Accordingly, this course will trace the evolution of African economies in the context of wealth accumulation and the conflicts and struggles it generates. Throughout the academic term considerable emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of well-known scholarly studies of African political economies with a view to drawing out their methodological assumptions and ideological biases. We will, first, provide an overview of pre-capitalist social organizations and modes of production. We will, secondly, focus on various dimensions of the problems and possibilities for economic growth. In the final part of the course, we will examine contemporary African economies, exploring in particular the social, political, and global forces that influence the adoption of economic policies in selected African states. This is a seminar, and students will, therefore, be expected to prepare materials and lead discussions on topics chosen after consultation with the instructor. The instructor will first give lectures on the major themes of the course in the first half of the academic term. Final grades will be based on a critical book report, two short papers, and a midterm and a final examination.
CAAS 413. Theories of Black Nationalism.
Section 001 – 20th Century African Cultural MovementsInstructor(s): Mbala Nkanga (mbalank@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 111, and one 200-level course, AAS 200, 201 or 202. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course aims at studying the major cultural currents and movements of thought that have characterized Africa during the 20th Century, and have shaped the identities of individual and communities in the continent. From the pre-Negritude Movement of the early African migrants in Europe to the Negritude Movement and its immediate effect: the cultural anti-colonial movement and the Independence era of the 1960s, the students will be exposed to various materials revealing the status and the situation of Blacks under colonialism and the ways in which they reacted to the policies of oppression, exploitation, and acculturation (assimilation). We will also consider the post-independence era and the fights for cultural identity as they evolved in major cultural events such as the Black World Festivals of Dakar and Lagos, and the role of the FESPACO along with the RFI Theatre and Music Competitions. We will consider, at last, how these thoughts have been incorporated in major artistic creations (film, literature, theatre, paintings...). Major thinkers in consideration will be: Senghor, Nkrumah, Lumumba, Cheik Anta Diop, Amilcar Cabral, Amadou Hampate Ba, Alexis Kagame, V.Y. Mudimbe, and Wole Soyinka, to name but some. Students will be required to attend all class lecture and discussion sessions. They will, at the start of the course, select one specific topic or thinker for a personal research project leading to a presentation in class and a final paper.
CAAS 444 / ANTHRCUL 414. Introduction to Caribbean Societies and Cultures, I.
Afro-Caribbean StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Maxwell K Owusu (omk@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). (Afro-Caribbean Studies). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 414.001.
CAAS 449 / POLSCI 459. African Politics.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Jennifer A Widner (jwidner@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 200 recommended. (4). (Excl). (African Studies). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jwidner/ps459.html See Political Science 459.001.
CAAS 450. Law, Race, and the Historical Process, I.
African-American StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Ronald C Woods (rcwoods@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 201 recommended. (3). (Excl). (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.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 002 – Contemporary State Relations In Africa.Instructor(s): Yaw Twumasi (yawt@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Over the last decade and a half, the ways in which scholars think about Africa’s political problems have changed and have come to be profoundly influenced by the theoretical debates concerning weak and strong states in the international community. This is a course in comparative politics designed to explore two closely related dimensions of contemporary state relations in Africa. First, we will explore the strengths and weaknesses of the diverse interpretations of “stateness” in the context of how African states establish effective governments and manage to exercise control over the permanent populations under their jurisdictions. We will note any tensions between the theoretical concerns of the analysts and the political realities of Africa. Second, we will examine relations among African states, paying particular attention to Africa’s catalog of contemporary conflicts: boundary disputes; conflict resolution successes and failures; refugees; wars and the prospects for peace on the continent. The course is recommended for juniors and seniors. A previous background in African studies is not a prerequisite. It will be taught as a seminar, but the instructor will give a few lectures, interspersed with a lot of class discussions and student presentations. Students will be required to give class presentations on topics to be defined in close cooperation with the instructor. Students will also be expected to build on their presentations and develop them into substantial research papers.
CAAS 458. Issues in Black World Studies.Cross-Area CoursesSection 003 – HISTORY, MEMORY, AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE.Instructor(s): Arlene Keizer (arkeizer@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. No Description Provided Check Times, Location, and Availability CAAS 466. The Music of Africa.
African StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kelly M Askew (kaskew@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course will introduce students to African musical traditions through an investigation of the aural styles, creative processes, and social contexts of music-making. We will explore the fascinating ways music is used to communicate, record history, shape social behavior, practice religion, treat and heal illness, form and maintain communities (local and national), and advance political agendas. Students will develop skills for cross-cultural listening and learn to recognize some of the more popular African musical forms. No previous background in music theory or African Studies is required.
CAAS 470 / FILMVID 470. Cultural Issues in Cinema.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001 – WOMEN DIRECTORS OF THE BLACK DIASPORA.Instructor(s): Frances Gateward (gateward@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). Laboratory fee ($35) required. Credits: (3). Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($35) required. Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course provides the opportunity for a comparative study of the themes and styles of films by Black women directors from around the world. We will look closely at a variety of works – shorts, documentaries, experimental films, and features – to examine the treatment of identity, coming of age, racism, and sexism. The films will be studied within the contexts of their respective national cinemas using film theories concerned with aesthetics and cultural production. Directors include Julie Dash, Cheryl Dunye, Safi Faye, Sara Gomez, Alile Sharon Larkin, Sarah Maldoror, Ngozi Onwurah, Euzhan Palcy, Gloria Rolando, Yvonne Welbon.
CAAS 478 / LACS 400 / HISTORY 578. Ethnicity and Culture in Latin America.
Afro-Caribbean StudiesSection 001 – Ethnicity and Culture in Latin America: mestizaje and Nation. Meets with Cultural Anthropology 458.003 & History 478.001.Instructor(s): Julie A Skurski (skurski@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: AAS 202 recommended. (3). (Excl). (Afro-Caribbean Studies). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. See Cultural Anthropology 458.003.
CAAS 482 / NRE 482. Environmental Justice: Theoretical Approaches.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Dorceta Taylor (dorceta@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course examines theoretical approaches that are either currently being used or could be applicable to environmental justice research. Students will study several theories including: race relations theories, power elite theory, social movement theories – relative deprivation, rational choice, political opportunity, resource mobilization, microstructural recruitment, identity theories – and organizational theory. The course provides students interested in environmental justice research, advocacy, policymaking, or community organizing an opportunity to see how the aforementioned theorectical frameworks can help them understand environmental justice cases that arise. The course will help students organize information they glean from observations of community groups contending with environmental justice issues, from reading case studies, or from working in the environmental field. A sound understanding of these theoretical approaches will enhance the student's understanding of how and why communities organize around environmental justice issues, why some people participate and not others, why some communities succeed and not others, why the environmental justice discourse differs from the mainstream environmental discourse, and how movements are maintained. Undergraduate/graduate students interested in environmental justice. Students will write essay questions in their two class exams and a term paper.
CAAS 558. Seminar in Black World Studies.
Cross-Area CoursesSection 001 – The Pedagogy Of Empowerment: Activism In Race, Gender, and Health. Meets With Women’s Studies 440.001Instructor(s): Nesha Z Haniff (nzh@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). (Cross-Area Courses). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
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