AFRC480 - LIBERATION & OWNERSHIP

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
LIBERATION & OWNERSHIP
Term session
0
Term
2015C
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

AFRC460 - COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL REFORM AS APPLIED PUBLIC POLICY

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL REFORM AS APPLIED PUBLIC POLICY
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC460401
Meeting times
T 0130PM-0430PM
Instructors
HERSHBERG, THEODORE
Description
The course examines the reforms catalyzed by the federal "Race to the Top" competitive grant program and by waivers from No Child Left Behind issued by the federal Department of Education; and explores how these reforms resemble and differ from those mandated by NCLB. Charters, vouchers and competition are discussed along with school governance and funding. Micro as well as macro policy perspectives are provided through the instructor's ongoing work helping Houston's Aldine Independent School District (the 2009 Broad Prize winner with 64,000 low-income and minority students) design and pilot a new teacher evaluation system, a new compensation system, a "peer assistance and and review" process for professional development, remediation and dismissal along with related reforms.


Course number only
460
Cross listings
URBS460401
Use local description
No

AFRC433 - SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC433401
Meeting times
R 0130PM-0430PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 582
Instructors
GILLION, DANIEL
Description
Social movements and political protest have become some of the most effective tools for citizens and non-citizens to influence the political system. This course is designed to introduce students to the theoretical and methodological approaches taken in understanding these behaviors. Analyzing social movements that range from civil discontent to contentious political protest, the course will address a variety of questions: What is the origin of movement behavior and why do individuals turn to these actions in lieu of simply engaging in institutional modes of political action such as voting? What were the strategies of these movements? What are the political conditions that allow social movements to resonate with the American public? In addition to addressing these topics, this course surveys the policy successes of major social and political movements. From the Civil Rights and Women's Right Movement to the recent 2010 Tea Party movement, this course explores the various public policies that have resulted from citizens' protest actions. While state-level and local-level government responsiveness will be addressed, special attention will be given to how political protest influences public policy in all three branches of the federal government.


Course number only
433
Cross listings
PSCI433401
Use local description
No

AFRC420 - The US and Human Rights: Policies and Practices

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
The US and Human Rights: Policies and Practices
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
601
Section ID
AFRC420601
Meeting times
M 0630PM-0930PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 110
Instructors
FETNI, HOCINE
Description
This course will deal with Law and Society in Africa. After surveying the various legal systems in Africa, the focus will be on how and to what extent the countries of Africa re-Africanized their legal systems by reconciling their legal systems that are used as instruments of social change and development. Toward this end, the experiences of various African countries covering the various legal traditions will be included. Specific focus will be on laws covering both economic and social relations. This emphasis includes laws of marriage, divorce and inheritance, laws of contracts and civil wrongs and African's law of investments and International Relations, among other laws. Throughout this course a comparative analysis with non-African countries will be stressed. Readings include research papers, reports, statutes, treaties, and cases.


Course number only
420
Cross listings
SOCI460601
Use local description
No

AFRC400 - BLACKS IN AMER FILM/TV

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
BLACKS IN AMER FILM/TV
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC400401
Meeting times
M 0500PM-0800PM
Meeting location
DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3N6
Instructors
BOGLE, DONALD
Description
This course is an examination and analysis of the changing images and achievements of African Americans in motion pictures and television. The first half of the course focuses on African-American film images from the early years of D.W. Griffith's "renegade bucks" in The Birth of a Nation (1915); to the comic servants played by Steppin Fetchit, Hattie McDaniel, and others during the Depression era; to the post-World War II New Negro heroes and heroines of Pinky (1949) and The Defiant Ones (1958); to the rise of the new movement of African American directors such as Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), Charles Burnett, (To Sleep With Anger) and John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood). The second half explores television images from the early sitcoms "Amos 'n Andy" and "Beulah" to the "Cosby Show," "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," and "Martin." Foremost this course will examine Black stereotypes in American films and television--and the manner in which those stereotypes have reflected national attitudes and outlooks during various historical periods. The in-class screenings and discussions will include such films as Show Boat (1936), the independently produced "race movies" of the 1930s and 1940s, Cabin in the Sky (1943), The Defiant Ones (1958), Imitation of Life (the 1959 remake) & Super Fly (1972).


Course number only
400
Cross listings
CINE370401
Use local description
No

AFRC362 - ADVANCED TWI I

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ADVANCED TWI I
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC362680
Meeting times
CANCELED
Instructors
OFOSU-DONKOH, KOBINA
Course number only
362
Cross listings
AFST362680 AFST568680
Use local description
No

AFRC352 - TPCS: 19TH-C AMER AUTHOR: LAW, PROPERTY, BODIES: RACE IN THE 1850s

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
TPCS: 19TH-C AMER AUTHOR: LAW, PROPERTY, BODIES: RACE IN THE 1850s
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC352401
Meeting times
TR 1030AM-1200PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 140
Instructors
DAVIS, THADIOUS
Description
This course explores an aspect of 19th-Century American literature intensively; specific course topics will vary from year to year.


Course number only
352
Cross listings
ENGL353401
Use local description
No

AFRC350 - ADVANCED ZULU I

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ADVANCED ZULU I
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC350680
Meeting times
MW 0100PM-0300PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 217
Instructors
MBEJE, AUDREY
Course number only
350
Cross listings
AFST350680 AFST554680
Use local description
No

AFRC334 - FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
FEMINIST ETHNOGRAPHY
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC334401
Meeting times
W 0200PM-0500PM
Meeting location
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 345
Instructors
THOMAS, DEBORAH
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
334
Cross listings
AFRC634401 ANTH334401 ANTH634401 GSWS334401 GSWS634401
Use local description
No

AFRC326 - QUEER VALUES

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
QUEER VALUES
Term session
0
Term
2015C
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC326401
Meeting times
TR 0300PM-0430PM
Meeting location
GODDARD LAB 100
Instructors
FIERECK, KIRK
Description
FALL 2015: QUEER VALUES - What are queer cultural experiences and values? Many academics and social movements have noted that the radical aspirations of queer theory and activism not only disrupt but also shore up neoliberal ideologies. In this course students will explore the historical co-emergence of queer cultures and neoliberalism by examining the promises and pitfalls of queer politics over the past quarter century. The coining of queer theory by Theresa de Lauretis in 1990 was intended as a disruptive joke. Its provocation resided in joining queer, an appropriation of street slang bandied about among New York City activists and artists in the 1980s, to theory, the passport of privilege in academic life. The irreverence of her joke exemplifies a central ethic of queer experience that renders palpable the tensions between margins and centers. The course will traverse scholarship from economic and queer anthropology, history, sociology & science studies, philosophy, political theory and literary studies.


This wide survey of literature will allow students to develop an understanding of the political and economic processes that have conditioned the emergence of queerness as a diverse range of ethical commitments in particular sociocultural contexts globally. Students will investigate the affective dimensions of the emergence of queer theory, studies and activism within the United States and elsewhere in the context of global neoliberal social reforms. The course is split into four units: 1) In the Place of Queer Origins; 2) Queer Values; 3) Queer Circulations and Subjectivities; and 4) Queer Temporalities.


Course number only
326
Cross listings
GSWS326401
Use local description
No