AFRC9017 - Considering Race, Class and Punishment in the American Prison System

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
640
Title (text only)
Considering Race, Class and Punishment in the American Prison System
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
640
Section ID
AFRC9017640
Course number integer
9017
Meeting times
W 5:15 PM-8:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Kathryn Watterson
Description
This graduate writing seminar will examine the origins, myths, and realities of the complex industry that currently imprisons more than 2,300,000 men, women and teens in America’s city, county, state and federal prisons - the largest prison population and highest per-capita rate of imprisonment in the world.
Course number only
9017
Cross listings
ENGL9017640, GSWS9017640, MLA5017640, URBS9017640
Use local description
No

AFRC7400 - Seminar in African-American Music

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Seminar in African-American Music
Term
2024C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC7400401
Course number integer
7400
Meeting times
F 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Jasmine A Henry
Description
Seminar on selected topics in African American Music. See department website (under course tab) for current term course description: https://music.sas.upenn.edu
Course number only
7400
Cross listings
MUSC7400401
Use local description
No

AFRC7230 - Multicultural Issues in Education

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Multicultural Issues in Education
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC7230401
Course number integer
7230
Meeting times
T 5:15 PM-7:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Vivian Lynette Gadsden
Description
This course examines critical issues, problems, and perspectives in multicultural education. Intended to focus on access to literacy and educational opportunity, the course will engage class members in discussions around a variety of topics in educational practice, research, and policy. Specifically, the course will (1) review theoretical frameworks in multicultural education, (2) analyze the issues of race, racism, and culture in historical and contemporary perspective, and (3) identify obstacles to participation in the educational process by diverse cultural and ethnic groups. Students will be required to complete field experiences and classroom activities that enable them to reflect on their own belief systems, practices, and educational experiences.
Course number only
7230
Cross listings
EDUC7323401
Use local description
No

AFRC7060 - Introduction to Africa and African Diaspora Thought

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Introduction to Africa and African Diaspora Thought
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
301
Section ID
AFRC7060301
Course number integer
7060
Meeting times
R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
David K. Amponsah
Description
This course examines the processes by which African peoples have established epistemological, cosmological, and religious systems both prior to and after the institution of Western slavery.
Course number only
7060
Use local description
No

AFRC6971 - Afro-Latin America

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Afro-Latin America
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
001
Section ID
AFRC6971001
Course number integer
6971
Meeting times
T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Odette Casamayor
Description
In-depth analysis of the black experience in Latin America and the Spanish, French and English-speaking Caribbean, since slavery to the present. The course opens with a general examination of the existence of Afro-descendants in the Americas, through the study of fundamental historical, political and sociocultural processes. This panoramic view provides the basic tools for the scrutiny of a broad selection of literary, musical, visual, performance, and cinematic works, which leads to the comprehension of the different ethical-aesthetic strategies used to express the Afro-diasporic experience. Essential concepts such as negritude, creolite, and mestizaje, as well as the most relevant theories on identity and identification in Latin America and the Caribbean, will be thoroughly examined, in articulation with the interpretation of artistic works. Power, nationalism, citizenship, violence, religious beliefs, family and community structures, migration, motherhood and fatherhood, national and gender identities, eroticism, and sexuality are some of the main issues discussed un this seminar.
Course number only
6971
Cross listings
ENGL7971001, LALS6971001, SPAN6971401
Use local description
No

AFRC6550 - Black Political Thought: Difference And Community

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Black Political Thought: Difference And Community
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC6550401
Course number integer
6550
Meeting times
R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Michael G. Hanchard
Description
This course is designed to familiarize graduate students with some of the key texts and debates in Africana Studies concerning the relationship between racial slavery, modernity and politics. Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, much of black political thought (thinking and doing politics) has advocated group solidarity and cohesion in the face of often overwhelming conditions of servitude, enslavement and coercion within the political economy of slavery and the moral economy of white supremacy. Ideas and practices of freedom however, articulated by political actors and intellectuals alike, have been as varied as the routes to freedom itself. Thus, ideas and practices of liberty, citizenship and political community within many African and Afro-descendant communities have revealed multiple, often competing forms of political imagination. The multiple and varied forms of political imagination, represented in the writings of thinkers like Eric Williams, Richard Wright, Carole Boyce Davies and others, complicates any understanding of black political thought as having a single origin, genealogy or objective. Students will engage these and other authors in an effort to track black political thought's consonance and dissonance with Western feminisms, Marxism, nationalism and related phenomena and ideologies of the 20th and now 21st century.
Course number only
6550
Cross listings
GSWS6550401, LALS6550401
Use local description
No

AFRC6450 - Historical Research and Writing

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Historical Research and Writing
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
301
Section ID
AFRC6450301
Course number integer
6450
Meeting times
T 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Heather A Williams
Description
This seminar is suitable for graduate students in any discipline in which historical research may be relevant. We will work with both secondary and primary sources, and students will have the opportunity to visit and undertake research in an archive.
Course number only
6450
Use local description
No

AFRC6400 - Proseminar in Africana Studies

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Proseminar in Africana Studies
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
301
Section ID
AFRC6400301
Course number integer
6400
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Keisha-Khan Perry
Description
This course focuses on the historical and cultural relationship between Africans and their descendants abroad.
Course number only
6400
Use local description
No

AFRC6323 - Multicultural Issues in Education

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Multicultural Issues in Education
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
001
Section ID
AFRC6323001
Course number integer
6323
Meeting times
T 5:15 PM-7:14 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Giuliana De Grazia
Tamika D. Easley
Vivian Lynette Gadsden
Maritza Moulite
Description
This course examines critical issues, problems, and perspectives in multicultural education. Intended to focus on access to literacy and educational opportunity, the course will engage class members in discussions around a variety of topics in educational practice, research, and policy. Specifically, the course will (1) review theoretical frameworks in multicultural education, (2) analyze the issues of race, racism, and culture in historical and contemporary perspective, and (3) identify obstacles to participation in the educational process by diverse cultural and ethnic groups. Students will be required to complete field experiences and classroom activities that enable them to reflect on their own belief systems, practices, and educational experiences. This is a Masters level course.
Course number only
6323
Cross listings
EDUC6323401
Use local description
No

AFRC6320 - Demography of Race

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Demography of Race
Term
2024C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC6320401
Course number integer
6320
Meeting times
W 3:30 PM-6:29 PM
Level
graduate
Instructors
Tukufu Zuberi
Description
This course will examine demographic and statistical methods used to capture the impact of racial stratification in society. This course covers the skills and insights used by demographers and social statisticians in the study of racial data. A key challenge facing researchers is the interpretation of the vast amount of racial data generated by society. As these data do not directly answer important social questions, data analysis and statistics must be used to interpret them. The course will examine the logic used to communicate statistical results from racial data in various societies. We will question the scientific claims of social science methodology by extending the critical perspective to biases that may underlie research methods. We will discuss good and bad practices within the context of the historical developments of the methods.
Course number only
6320
Cross listings
AFRC3230401, DEMG6320401, SOCI3230401, SOCI6320401
Use local description
No