AFRC296 - TOPICS CULTURAL STUDIES: BLACKNESS ACROSS MEDIA

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
TOPICS CULTURAL STUDIES: BLACKNESS ACROSS MEDIA
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
403
Section ID
AFRC296403
Meeting times
MW 0330PM-0500PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 407
Instructors
BRAR, DHANVEER
Description
Blackness Across Media - How is blackness produced, disseminated and received across sonic, visual and written media? It is understood as a racial category, a cultural aesthetic, or a politics? Can it ever be considered a color amongst other colors? This course is situated at the conceptually unstable but intellectually productive intersection of sound, optics and text. It seeks to use this intersection to speculate on the question of blackness within media, artistic and political practice. The intention is interrogate how the category of blackness animates and disrupts many of the sensory experiences of the world within global capitalism.


Course number only
296
Cross listings
ARTH293403 CINE295403 COML295403 ENGL295403
Use local description
No

AFRC290 - BLACK WOMEN'S WRITING: FEMINISM AND CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
BLACK WOMEN'S WRITING: FEMINISM AND CONTEMPORARY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC290401
Meeting times
TR 0130PM-0300PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 407
Instructors
TILLET, SALAMISHAH
Description
This is a topics course: Topics in Women and Literature. The course is cross-listed with ENGL 290 (Black Women and Literature) when the title is "Black Women and Literature." See the Department of Africana's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offereings.


Course number only
290
Cross listings
ENGL290401 GSWS290401
Use local description
No

AFRC286 - TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY: 20TH-C SOUTHERN WRITERS

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
TOPICS RACE & ETHNICITY: 20TH-C SOUTHERN WRITERS
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC286401
Meeting times
MW 0200PM-0330PM
Meeting location
DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3N6
Instructors
BEAVERS, HERMAN
Description
This course presents four 20th Century writers whose literary careers were shaped by their unique experiences as Southerners. While each of these writers has gained a considerable reputation as an American writer whose writing transcents regional distinctions, the South resonates in their voices and mediates their vision. What each writer finally confronts is Southern history as burden and souce, convention and curse. This course will begin by exploring the myths and cultural codes shaping life in the South (particularly after the Civil War). We will then proceed towards an examination of how the writers in the course frame Southern experience, given their differences in race, class, and gender, as they portray lives lived within and across a variety of socially recognized boundaries. Works to be read include Absalom, Absalom. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Uncle Tom's Children, Black Boy, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and Losing Battles. There will also be screenings of the films The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind. Coursework will consist of two critical essays and final group project.


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


Course number only
286
Cross listings
ENGL284401
Use local description
No

AFRC285 - ADVANCED SWAHILI II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ADVANCED SWAHILI II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC285680
Meeting times
TR 0900AM-1030AMF 0400PM-0500PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 323FISHER-BENNETT HALL 19
Instructors
MSHOMBA, ELAINE
Course number only
285
Cross listings
AFST285680 AFST586680
Use local description
No

AFRC282 - INTERMEDIATE SWAHILI II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTERMEDIATE SWAHILI II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC282680
Meeting times
TR 1030AM-1200PMF 0300PM-0400PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 19FISHER-BENNETT HALL 19
Instructors
MSHOMBA, ELAINE
Course number only
282
Cross listings
AFST281680 AFST583680
Use local description
No

AFRC271 - INTERMEDIATE YORUBA II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTERMEDIATE YORUBA II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC271680
Meeting times
T 0500PM-0700PMF 0100PM-0300PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 217WILLIAMS HALL 217
Instructors
AWOYALE, YIWOLA
Course number only
271
Cross listings
AFRC534680 AFST271680 AFST532680
Use local description
No

AFRC265 - INTERMEDIATE TWI II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTERMEDIATE TWI II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC265680
Meeting times
TR 0630PM-0830PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 305
Instructors
OFOSU-DONKOH, KOBINA
Course number only
265
Cross listings
AFST263680 AFST567680
Use local description
No

AFRC251 - INTERMEDIATE ZULU II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTERMEDIATE ZULU II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC251680
Meeting times
TR 0300PM-0500PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 17
Instructors
MAGAYA, LINDIWE
Course number only
251
Cross listings
AFST251680 AFST553680
Use local description
No

AFRC243 - INTERMEDIATE AMHARIC II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
INTERMEDIATE AMHARIC II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC243680
Meeting times
MW 0730PM-0930PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 201
Instructors
HAILU, YOHANNES
Course number only
243
Cross listings
AFRC544680 AFST243680 AFST544680 NELC484680
Use local description
No

AFRC241 - ELEMENTARY AMHARIC II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY AMHARIC II
Term session
0
Term
2015A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC241680
Meeting times
MW 0530PM-0730PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 201
Instructors
HAILU, YOHANNES
Description
Continuation of Elementary Amharic I.


Course number only
241
Cross listings
AFRC541680 AFST241680 AFST541680 NELC482680
Use local description
No