The music form of scat deeyoodaaadayodeedaadeedaaa is the answer to the repea question Who are we? Where are we going? What are we here for? in the 1960s Hip Generation. This course will explore the role of music in shaping the most innovative formsAfrican American literature. Forms such as jazz poetry, blues poetry, and the frupture of Hip Hop will be as central to this course as the jam sessions that sliterary movements such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. The interplay between listening and reading will shape each layer of the co Langston Hughes Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961) will be our starting p likely assigned texts include Gayl Jones Corregidora, Kevin Youngs To Repel G Remix, Sherman Alexies Reservation Blues, Paul Millers Sound Unbound, and The Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.

Continuation of AFST 598.

Language specific sections for students interested in doing country-specific research in a target language. Courses cover project-based skills for AFST research.

Intermediate level courses in a variety of African languages: Igbo, Shona, WoloWololof, Malagasy, Chichewa, Setswana, Manding, Afrikaans, Setswana. on oral proficiency and productive language skills. All course are langauge specfic and follow ACTFL proficiency guidelines.

Intermediate level courses in a variety of African languages: Igbo, Shona, WoloWololof, Malagasy, Chichewa, Setswana, Manding, Afrikaans, Setswana. on oral proficiency and productive language skills. All course are langauge specfic and follow ACTFL proficiency guidelines.

This course taught in Swahili will focus on reading/writing skills and speaking/listening skills as well as structural and cultural information. The course will be structured around three thematic units: History, Politics, and Education. The course will provide background on the Swahili-speaking world: Who were the first Swahili speakers and what varieties of the language did they speak? How did Swahili spread from the coast to other Swahili-speaking areas as far inland as Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo? Swahili is a lingua franca and has importance in the spread of religion and trade movements. Influences of other languages on Swahili and influences of Swahili on local languages will be discussed. Political and educational systems will be discussed as well.