AFRC640 - PROSEMINAR AFRICANA STDS

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
PROSEMINAR AFRICANA STDS
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
301
Section ID
AFRC640301
Meeting times
T 0130PM-0430PM
Meeting location
3401 WALNUT STREET 330A
Instructors
HANCHARD, MICHAEL
Description
This course focuses on the historical and cultural relationship between Africans and their descendants abroad.


Course number only
640
Use local description
No

AFRC634 - FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC634401
Meeting times
CANCELED
Description
This course will investigate the relationships among women, gender, sexuality, and anthropological research. We will begin by exploring the trajectory of research interest in women and gender, drawing first from the early work on gender and sex by anthropologists like Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict; moving through the 1970s and 1980s arguments about gender, culture, and political economy; arriving at more current concerns with gender, race, sexuality, and empire. For the rest of the semester, we will critically read contemporary ethnographies addressing pressing issues such as nationalism, militarism, neoliberalism and fundamentalism. Throughout, we will investigate what it means not only to "write women's worlds", but also to analyze broader socio-cultural, political, and economic processes through a gendered lens. We will, finally, address the various ways feminist anthropology fundamentally challenged the discipline's epistemological certainties, as well as how it continues to transform our understanding of the foundations of the modern world.


Course number only
634
Cross listings
AFRC334401 ANTH334401 ANTH634401 GSWS334401 GSWS634401
Use local description
No

AFRC575 - PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL INTERACTIONS WITH BLACK MALES

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL INTERACTIONS WITH BLACK MALES
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC575401
Meeting times
R 0430PM-0630PM
Meeting location
EDUCATION BUILDING 007
Instructors
CARTER, ROBERTSTEVENSON, HOWARD
Description
This course is designed to present quantitative and qualitative approaches to studying and evaluating developmental interventions for children and youth. Basic assumptions underlying the two overarching methodological orientations will be presented throughout the course as a means of determining which sets of methods to use for different types of research and evaluation questions. In addition to presenting quantitative and qualitative methods separately, the course also will present integrative or mixed-methods approaches.


Course number only
575
Cross listings
EDUC575401
Use local description
No

AFRC572 - SOUTH AFRICAN LIT & FILM

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
SOUTH AFRICAN LIT & FILM
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC572401
Meeting times
M 0300PM-0600PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 139
Instructors
BARNARD, RITA
Description
This course is concerned with the context, and an aspect of the content and form of African Literature. It is based on a selection of representative texts written in English, as well as a few texts in English translation. BLACK ATLANTIC/BLACK DIASPORA: Drawing upon three centuries of writings, this discussion-based graduate seminar tracts the development and circulation of black cultural expression and thought in a range of slave narriatives, spiritual autobiographies, novels, captivity narratives,speeches, poetry, plays and polemics from the late eighteenth to to the early twentieth centuries. We will critically investigate the analytic shift from "roots" to "routes" as we read widely in the literatures, histories and theories of what Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hal variously describe as the productive inter-culture of the black Atlantic world.


Course number only
572
Cross listings
CINE572401 COML575401 ENGL572401
Use local description
No

AFRC548 - ADVANCED AMHARIC

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ADVANCED AMHARIC
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC548680
Meeting times
CANCELED
Instructors
ZEMICHAEL, ERMIAS
Description
An advanced Amharic course that will further sharpen the students' knowledge of the Amharic language and the culture of the Amharas. The learners communicative skills will be further developed through listening, speaking, reading and wwriting. There will also be discussions on cultural and political issues.


Course number only
548
Cross listings
AFRC247680 AFST247680 AFST547680
Use local description
No

AFRC543 - INTERMEDIATE AMHARIC I

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTERMEDIATE AMHARIC I
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC543680
Meeting times
MW 0730PM-0900PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 6
Instructors
NEGUSSE, PAULOS
Description
Offered through the Penn Language Center


Course number only
543
Cross listings
AFRC242680 AFST242680 AFST543680 NELC483680
Use local description
No

AFRC540 - ELEMENTARY AMHARIC I

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY AMHARIC I
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC540680
Meeting times
MW 0530PM-0730PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 6
Instructors
NEGUSSE, PAULOS
Description
An introductory course for students with no previous knowledge of Amharic. Amharic belongs to the southern branch of Hemeto-Semitic languages which is also referred to as "Afrasian." Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and is spoken by 14 million native Amharas and by approximately 19 million of the other ethnic groups in Ethiopia. The goals of this course are to introduce students to the culture, customs, and traditions of the Amharas. Students will develop communicative skills through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.


Course number only
540
Cross listings
AFRC240680 AFST240680 AFST540680 NELC481680
Use local description
No

AFRC518 - TOPICS IN AMERICAN RELIG: RELIGION & POP CULTURE

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
TOPICS IN AMERICAN RELIG: RELIGION & POP CULTURE
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC518401
Meeting times
W 0200PM-0500PM
Instructors
BUTLER, ANTHEA
Description
From Marvin Gaye, to Tammy Faye Baker, to Sarah Palin and James Baldwin, Pentecostalism has influenced many, including politicians, preachers, writers, and the media. One of the fastest growing religious movements in the world, Pentecostalism continues to have a profound effect on the religious landscape. Pentecostalism's unique blend of charismatic worship, religious practices, and flamboyant, media-savvy leadership, has drawn millions into this understudies and often controversial religious movement. This course will chronicle the inception and growth of Pentecostalism in the United States, giving particular attention to beliefs, practices, gender, ethnicity, and Global Pentecostalism.


Course number only
518
Cross listings
FOLK517401 RELS517401
Use local description
No

AFRC480 - LIBERATION & OWNERSHIP

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
LIBERATION & OWNERSHIP
Term session
0
Term
2016C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
601
Section ID
AFRC480601
Meeting times
M 0500PM-0800PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 167-8
Instructors
LAMAS, ANDREW
Description
Who is going to own what we all have a part of creating? The history of the Americas, and of all peoples everywhere, is an evolving answer to the question of ownership. Ownership is about: the ties that bind and those that separate; the creation of community and the imposition of hierarchies; the dream of home ownership and ecological despoliation; dependency and the slave yearning to breathe free. Of all the issues relevant to democracy, oppression, and economic injustice, ownership is arguably the most important and least understood. Utilizing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and by focusing on particular global sites, students will assess and refine their views regarding ownership in light of their own social, political, religious, and/or ethical commitments.


Course number only
480
Cross listings
URBS480601
Use local description
No