AFRC187 - TPCS IN AFRICANA STUDIES: The History of Women and Men of African Descent at the University of Penn

Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
TPCS IN AFRICANA STUDIES: The History of Women and Men of African Descent at the University of Penn
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
301
Section ID
AFRC187301
Meeting times
M 1100AM-0200PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 244
Instructors
PETERSON, BRIANHOWARD, CHARLES
Description
Topics Vary. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.


SPRING 2017: The history of the women and men of African Descent who have studied, taught, researched, and worked at the University of Pennsylvania provides a powerful window into the complex history of Blacks not only in America but throughout the Diaspora. This class will unpack, uncover, and present this history through close studies of texts and archived records on and at the university, as well as through first hand accounts by alumni and past and present faculty and staff members. These stories of the trials and triumphs of individuals on and around this campus demonstrate the amazing and absurd experience that Blacks have endured both at Penn and globally. Emphasis will be placed on the research process with the intent of creating a democratic classroom where all are students and all are instructors. Students will become familiar with archival historical research (and historical criticism) as well as with ethnographic research. Far more than just a survey of historical moments on campus and in the community, students will meet face to face with those who have lived and are presently living history and they will be faced with the challenge of discerning the most effective ways of documenting, protecting, and representing that history for future generations of Penn students.


Course number only
187
Use local description
No

AFRC181 - ELEMENTARY SWAHILI II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY SWAHILI II
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC181680
Meeting times
TR 1200PM-0200PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 19
Instructors
MSHOMBA, ELAINE
Description
This course continues to introduce basic grammar, vocabulary, and the reading and writing of Swahili to new speakers. During this term, folktales, other texts, and film selections are used to help introduce important aspects of Swahili culture and the use of the language in wide areas of Africa.


Course number only
181
Cross listings
AFST181680 AFST581680
Use local description
No

AFRC171 - ELEMENTARY YORUBA II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY YORUBA II
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC171680
Meeting times
MW 0500PM-0700PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 28
Instructors
AWOYALE, YIWOLA
Description
The main objective of this course is to further sharpen the Yoruba linguistic knowledge that the student acquired in level I. By the end of the course, the student should be able to (1) read, write, and understand simple to moderately complex sentences in Yoruba; and, (2) advance in the knowledge of the Yoruba culure.


Course number only
171
Cross listings
AFRC517680 AFST171680 AFST518680
Use local description
No

AFRC169 - HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC169401
Meeting times
TR 1030AM-1200PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 419
Instructors
NATALINI, ROBERT
Description
This course covers the development of legal rules and principles concerning individual and group conduct in the United States since 1877. Such subjects as regulation and deregulation, legal education and the legal profession, and the legal status of women and minorities will be discussed.


Course number only
169
Cross listings
HIST169401
Use local description
No

AFRC163 - ELEMENTARY TWI II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY TWI II
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC163680
Meeting times
TR 0430PM-0630PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 2
Instructors
OFOSU-DONKOH, KOBINA
Course number only
163
Cross listings
AFST161680 AFST565680
Use local description
No

AFRC155 - African Diaspora in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
African Diaspora in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
601
Section ID
AFRC155601
Meeting times
MW 0500PM-0630PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 315
Instructors
ANDINO, SANDRA
Description
This course will explore the arrival, establishment and contributions of free and enslaved Africans in Ibero-America, the region presently known as Latin America, and the Spanish Speaking Caribbean. It will look at how these actors and their descendants known today as Afro-Latinos, shaped and built the foundations of Latin American society and culture throughout the centuries from colonial period to present. The course will seek to understand Afro- Latinos' agency and negotiations as intellectual contributors to the ideologies that led to independence and the creation of Latin American nations.Likewise, the course will also explore the accomplishments, controversies and tensions in race dynamics and politics, gender relations, socio-economic issues, among others factors that took and continue to take place as people of African descent negotiate their identity and struggle to uphold their space in Latin America and the U. S.A. today.


Course number only
155
Cross listings
LALS155601 SOCI154601
Use local description
No

AFRC152 - ELEMENTARY ZULU II

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY ZULU II
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC152680
Meeting times
MW 0300PM-0500PM
Meeting location
FISHER-BENNETT HALL 17
Instructors
MBEJE, AUDREY
Description
The Elementary Zulu II course can be taken to fulfull a language requirement, or for linguistic preparatin to do research on South Africa, Southern Africa/Africa-related topics. The course emphasizes communicative competence to enable the students to acquire linguistic and extra-linguistic skills in Zulu. The content of the course is selected from various everyday life situations to enable the students to communicate in predictable common daily settings. Culture, as it relates to language use, is also part of the course content.


Course number only
152
Cross listings
AFST151680 AFST551680
Use local description
No

AFRC149 - ELEMENTARY ZULU: ACCL

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
ELEMENTARY ZULU: ACCL
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
680
Section ID
AFRC149680
Meeting times
TR 0600PM-0900PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 25
Instructors
MBEJE, AUDREY
Description
The Accelerated Elementary Zulu course is intensive, and can be taken to fulfill a language requirement, or for linguistic preparation to do research on South Africa, Southern Africa/Africa-related topics. The course emphasizes communicaive competence to enable the students to acquire linguistic and extra-linguistic skills in Zulu. The content of the course is selected from various everydaylife situations to enable he students to communicae in predictable commom daily settings. Culture, as it relates to language use, is also part of the course content.


Students will acquire the speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills at the ceiling of low intermediate level and floor of high novice level, based on the ACTFL scale. The low intermediate level proficiency skills that the students will acquire constitute threshold capabilities of the third semester range of proficiency to prepare students for Intermediate Zulu I course materials.


Course number only
149
Cross listings
AFRC549680 AFST149680 AFST549680
Use local description
No

AFRC136 - URBAN POLITICS IN THE US

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
URBAN POLITICS IN THE US
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC136401
Meeting times
TR 0300PM-0430PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 286-7
Instructors
REED, ADOLPH
Description
This course focuses on political responses to urbanization in the United States. Topics include local government, national urban politics, and the changing nature of cities.


Course number only
136
Cross listings
PSCI136401 URBS136401
Use local description
No

AFRC135 - LAW & SOCIETY

Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
LAW & SOCIETY
Term session
0
Term
2016A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
601
Section ID
AFRC135601
Meeting times
T 0630PM-0930PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 309
Instructors
FETNI, HOCINE
Description
After introducing students to the major theoretical concepts concerning law and society, significant controversial societal issues that deal with law and the legal systems both domestically and internationally will be examined. Class discussions will focus on issues involving civil liberties, the organization of courts, legislatures, the legal profession and administrative agencies. Although the focus will be on law in the United States, law and society in other countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America will be covered in a comparative context. Readings include research, reports, statutes and cases.


Course number only
135
Cross listings
SOCI135601
Use local description
No