AFRC050 - WORLD MUSICS & CULTURES

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
WORLD MUSICS & CULTURES
Term session
0
Term
2017C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
402
Section ID
AFRC050402
Meeting times
MWF 1000AM-1100AM
Meeting location
LERNER CENTER (MUSIC BUILDING 101
Instructors
ZHANG, SHELLEY
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process.


Course number only
050
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AFRC050 - WORLD MUSICS & CULTURES

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
WORLD MUSICS & CULTURES
Term session
0
Term
2017C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC050401
Meeting times
TR 1030AM-1200PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 419
Instructors
ROMMEN, TIMOTHY
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process.


Course number only
050
Use local description
No

AFRC041 - HOMELESSNESS & URBAN INEQUALITY

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
HOMELESSNESS & URBAN INEQUALITY
Term session
0
Term
2017C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC041401
Meeting times
F 0200PM-0500PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 167-8
Instructors
CULHANE, DENNIS
Description
This freshman seminar examines the homelessness problem from a variety of scientific and policy perspectives. Contemporary homelessness differs significantly from related conditions of destitute poverty during other eras of our nation's history. Advocates, researchers and policymakers have all played key roles in defining the current problem, measuring its prevalence, and designing interventions to reduce it. The first section of this course examines the definitional and measurement issues, and how they affect our understanding of the scale and composition of the problem. Explanations for homelessness have also been varied, and the second part of the course focuses on examining the merits of some of those explanations, and in particular, the role of the affordable housing crisis. The third section of the course focuses on the dynamics of homelessness, combining evidence from ethnographic studies of how people become homeless and experience homelessness, with quantitative research on the patterns of entry and exit from the condition. The final section of the course turns to the approaches taken by policymakers and advocates to address the problem, and considers the efficacy and quandaries associated with various policy strategies. The course concludes by contemplating the future of homelessness research and public policy.


Course number only
041
Use local description
No

AFRC010 - RACE CRIME & PUNISHMENT

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
RACE CRIME & PUNISHMENT
Term session
0
Term
2017C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC010401
Meeting times
T 0130PM-0430PM
Meeting location
VAN PELT LIBRARY 402
Instructors
GOTTSCHALK, MARIE
Description
This course is cross-listed with PSCI 010 (Freshmen Seminar) when the subject matter is related to African American or other African Diaspora issues. Topics vary. A recent topic is "Race, Crime, and Punishment." See the Africana Studies Department's website at https://africana.sas.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.


Course number only
010
Use local description
No

AFRC006 - RACE & ETHNIC RELATIONS

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
RACE & ETHNIC RELATIONS
Term session
0
Term
2017C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC006401
Meeting times
TR 1200PM-0130PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 103
Instructors
ZUBERI, TUKUFU
Description
The course will focus on race and ethnicity in the United States. We begin with a brief history of racial categorization and immigration to the U.S. The course continues by examining a number of topics including racial and ethnic identity, interracial and interethnic friendships and marriage, racial attitudes, mass media images, residential segregation, educational stratification, and labor market outcomes. The course will include discussions of African Americans, Whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans and Multiracials.


Course number only
006
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No

AFRC001 - INTRO AFRICANA STUDIES

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTRO AFRICANA STUDIES
Term session
0
Term
2017C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
001
Section ID
AFRC001001
Meeting times
TR 0130PM-0230PM
Meeting location
CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 402
Instructors
JOHNSON, GRACEROLLINS, OLIVER
Description
The aim of this course is to provide an interdisciplinary examination of the complex array of African American and other African Diaspora social practices and experiences. This class will focus on both classic texts and modern works that provide an introduction to the dynamics of African American and African Diaspora thought and practice. Topics include: What is Africana Studies?; The History Before 1492; Creating the African Diaspora After 1500; The Challenge of Freedom; Race, Gender and Class in the 20th Century; From Black Studies to Africana Studies: The Future of Africana Studies.


Course number only
001
Use local description
No

AFRC420 - Human Rights and the US: Policies and Practices

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
Human Rights and the US: Policies and Practices
Term session
1
Term
2017B
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
941
Section ID
AFRC420941
Meeting times
CANCELED
Instructors
FETNI, HOCINE
Description
Topics vary. See the Africana Studies Department's course list at https://africana.sas.upenn.edu for a description of the current offering.


Fall 2017:After an examination of the philosophical, legal, and political perspectives on Human Rights, this course will focus on US policies and practices relevant to Human Rights. Toward that end, emphasis will be placed on both the domestic and the international aspects of Human Rights as reflected in US policies and practices. Domestically, the course will discuss (1) the process of incorporating the International Bill of Human Rights into the American legal system and (2) the US position on and practices regarding the political, civil, economic, social, and cultural rights of minorities and various other groups within the US. Internationally, the course will examine US Human Rights policies toward Africa. Specific cases of Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt, as well as other cases from the continent, will be presented in the assessment of US successes and failures in the pursuit of its Human Rights strategy in Africa. Readings will include research papers, reports, statutes, treaties, and cases.


Course number only
420
Use local description
No

AFRC110 - Black Sexual Politics from Mandingo to Video Vixens

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
Black Sexual Politics from Mandingo to Video Vixens
Term session
1
Term
2017B
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
910
Section ID
AFRC110910
Meeting times
CANCELED
Instructors
STRONGMAN, SARAELLEN
Description
This course will explore how vectors of race and class influence and shape expressions of gender and sexual identity. Students will analyze how Black people both critics and artists have represented and theorized black sexuality in the United States. Course topics include: slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Hip Hop


Course number only
110
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No

AFRC081 - Womanifesto: Black Women Writers in Literature and Music

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
Womanifesto: Black Women Writers in Literature and Music
Term session
0
Term
2017B
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
900
Section ID
AFRC081900
Meeting times
T 0500PM-0850PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 139
Instructors
HILL, MELANIE
Description
This introduction to African American literature will begin with contemporary, groundbreaking texts such as Claudia Rankines Citizen: An American Lyric and Toni Morrisons A Mercy. These twenty-first century texts will lead us to the questions about freedom, beauty, struggle, pleasure, and resistance that shape the origins of African American literature. The course will be shaped around circles of influence (not a linear mapping of a literary tradition). These circles of the changing same become the art of flow, layering, and rupture. We will dive into the multidirectional flow of slave narratives/neo-slave narratives,black modernism/black postmodernism,black respectability politics/ black radicalism, and mastery of form/deformation of mastery.


See the Africana Studies Department's website at https://africana.sas.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.


Course number only
081
Use local description
No