Courses Archive

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 198BC Berkeley Connect

    Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.

    • Tu 5-6PM
    • Cohen
    • 78 Barrows
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies H195B Senior Honors Thesis

    The student will complete a primary research and writing project based on study of an advanced topic with faculty sponsor. Fulfills department thesis requirement. Application and details at departmental adviser's office. Students must enroll for both semesters of the sequence.

     
    • Raiford
    • TBA
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 296 Directed Dissertation Research

    Open to qualified students who have been advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree and are directly engaged in doctoral dissertation research.
    • Th 11-2PM
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies C265 Research Advances in Race Diversity and Education Policy

    This introductory graduate seminar will engage the research literature on race, diversity, and educational policy to provide a foundation for examining contemporary issues in American public schooling. We will examine research on race, culture, and learning alongside more policy driven research on school structures, governance, finance, politics, and policy. In doing so, we will blend micro level examinations of teaching and learning with macro level considerations of politics and policy.
    • Th 11-2PM
    • Scott. D
    • 3507 A Tolman
    • 3
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 241 Special Topics in Development Studies of the Diaspora

    One hour of lecture per week per unit. Topics will vary from term to term depending on student demand and faculty availability.
    • Th 2-5PM
    • Lewis
    • 509 Mccon
    • 4
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies H195B Senior Honors Thesis

    The student will complete a primary research and writing project based on study of an advanced topic with faculty sponsor. Fulfills department thesis requirement. Application and details at departmental adviser's office. Students must enroll for both semesters of the sequence.

     
    • Raiford
    • TBA
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 156AC Poetry for the People

    A large lecture/discussion class which introduces students to poetry as culture, history, criticism, politics, and practice. Focusing comparatively on poetry from three American racial/ethnic groups, this course requires students to learn both the technical structure of various forms of poetry as well as the world views which inform specific poetic traditions. The groups and traditions vary from semester to semester. This course satisfies the Arts and Literature breadth requirement.
    • W 10-12PM
    • De Leon
    • 166 Barrows
    • 4
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 152F Neo-Slave Narratives

    This course explores African American fiction written during the 1970s and 1980s that attempt to re-present the ur-text of African American literature--and/or to represent for contemporary readers the lives of African slaves in the United States. In what ways do these authors imagine the experience and effects of slavery from their vantage point a century after emancipation, and with the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements shaping the context of their writing?

     
    • TuTh 1230-2Pm
    • Scott. D
    • 174 Barrows
    • 3
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 117 African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1865-1970

    With emphasis given to the organization of labor after slavery, this course will explore the history of African American cultural, institutions and protest traditions from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
    • M 10-12pM
    • Taylor. U
    • 140 Barrows
    • 4
  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies P24 Freshman Seminars

    The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.

     
    • W 2-3PM
    • Mchombo
    • 186 Wheeler
    • 1