Insurgency: The Black Matter(s) Issue
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AAS 12 will be an intensive program equivalent to two semesters of studying elementary Swahili, with full academic year credit. Instruction will take 4 contact hours Mondays through Fridays, plus extra hours for homework. In order to attain the necessary proficiency (1 – 1+, using Inter-agency Roundtable (ILR) scale) by the end of the 8 weeks, students will need to commit themselves to use Swahili language at all times outside class. Teaching of this course will employ a communicative approach that entails student-centered, performance-based, and context-oriented Swahili language teaching that will be in line with the standards for teaching foreign languages in the United States. To meet the objectives of the course of integrating reading, writing, listening, and speaking with communication strategies and cultural skills, the instructor and students will agree to use Swahili language exclusively within and outside the classroom. At the end of each level of instruction, it is hoped that students will be able demonstrate a) greater facility of communication, b) broader understanding of how to engage in the historical and socio-cultural contexts in which Swahili language is used, and c) expanded individual capabilities in learning how to adapt Swahili language skills for life-long learning.
Tuition information for this course is available in the following link http://summer.berkeley.edu/registration/fees
125. History of the Civil Rights Movement. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. The objective of this course is to examine the modern civil rights movement. As understood traditionally, this period began with the United States Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954, Brown vs. Board of Education, until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This course will seek to place this movement in the context of global developments and in the context of the broad sweep of United States history. Assigned readings consist of historical texts and autobiographies. Lectures will place the readings in context, discussing the material and its significance in the overall history and culture of African Americans. Visual and musical media will augment the class lectures.
This new course examines the worldwide movement to bring down South African Apartheid. It will focus on the contributions of African Americans to influence U.S. policy toward South Africa, and to bring about restrictive “Sanctions,” which eventually led to the release of Nelson Mandela and to democratic elections in 1994.
The course will examine the role of South African Anti-Apartheid leaders such as Winnie and Nelson Mandela, Stephen Biko, and Bishop Desmond Tutu, as well as the work of African Americans such as Randall Robinson, Mary Frances Berry, Charles Diggs and Jesse Jackson.
A second phase of the course will focus on the Bay Area contribution to the Anti- Apartheid Movement. From the work of Bay Area Congressman Ronald V. Dellums in the 1970s to the UC Berkeley Students who fought successfully for “Divestment” of the University of California’s holdings in companies doing business with the regime in the 1980s.
Course Description: How do intersections of race, gender, class, age or sexuality shape experiences with policing and punishment? This course is designed to encourage the development of an intersectional analysis of the expansion and entrenchment of the criminal justice system over the last forty years and its related consequences. We will examine historical and contemporary trends in policing and punishment, but our main focus will be on the expansion of the criminal justice system since the mid-20th century and the entrenchment of the system in distressed urban neighborhoods in the post-Civil Rights era, with a focus on the experience of African Americans living in urban settings and research and data from San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood.
