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  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 139 001 – LEC 001 Selected Topics of African American Social Organization and Institutions Black Cultural Politics

    Topics will vary each semester.

    • TU 3:30 pm - 6:29 pm
    • Ula Yvette Taylor
    • Barrows 56
    • 4
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 137 001 – SEM 001 Multicultural Communities

    Examination of theoretical issues in urban anthropology and sociology pertaining to the United States as a multicultural society. Comparative analysis of the ecology and social structure of African American, Native American, Asian American, Mexican American and Afro-Caribbean urban communities with special emphasis on social class, ethnicity, and culture.

    • W 2:00 pm - 4:59 pm
    • Michel S Laguerre
    • Barrows 151
    • 3
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 136 001 – LEC 001 Criminal Justice and the Community

    None

    • T/Th 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
    • Nikki Jones, Michael J Myers Ii
    • Tan 180
    • 3
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 134 001 – LEC 001 Information Technology and Society

    This course assesses the role of information technology in the digitalization of society by focusing on the deployment of e-government, e-commerce, e-learning, the digital city, telecommuting, virtual communities, Internet time, the virtual office, and the geography of cyberspace. Course will also discuss the role of information technology in the governance and economic development of society.

    • M 3:00 pm - 5:59 pm
    • Michel S Laguerre
    • Wheeler 200
    • 4
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM C133A 001 – SEM 001 Race, Identity, and Culture in Urban Schools

    This course will focus on understanding urban schools as a part of a broader system of social stratification and the process by which students in urban schools come to a sense of themselves as students, as members of cultural and racial groups, and as young people in America. Topics include racial identity; race/ethnicity in schools; urban neighborhood contexts; and schooling in the juvenile justice system. Students will also integrate course readings with their own first-hand experience working in one of several off-campus sites. This course has a mandatory community engagement component for which students will earn 1 unit of field study (197) credit.

    • M 2:00 pm - 4:59 pm
    • Travis Bristol
    • Wheeler 102
    • 3
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 116 001 – LEC 001 Slavery and African American Life Before 1865

    This course will examine the origins of the African slave trade, and explore political, economic, demographic and cultural factors shaping African American life and culture prior to 1865.

    • M/W 9:00 am - 10:59 am
    • Ula Yvette Taylor, Kevin L Rigby Jr.
    • Barrows 170
    • 4
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 114 001 – LEC 001 Introduction to African Linguistics

    The course will provide an overview of the linguistic structure of African languages. Because the Bantu languages constitute the largest sub-group in sub-Saharan Africa, there will be much focus on the description of the major grammatical features of Bantu languages. The descriptions of African linguistic structure will be accompanied by insights into the contributions made by African languages to general linguistics. Data from various African languages will be brought in to illustrate relevant aspects of African linguistic structure.

    • T/Th 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
    • Sam A Mchombo
    • Hearst Field Annex B5
    • 3
  • 2018 Fall AFRICAM 111 001 – LEC 001 Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

    Emphasis on social history and comparative analysis of race, class, and gender relations in American society. Examines both similarities and differences, and highlights gender politics.

    • T/Th 12:30 pm - 1:59 pm
    • Mariko M Pegs, Ula Yvette Taylor
    • Donner Lab 155
    • 3
  • 2018 Fall: AFRICAM 98BC 002 – SEM 002 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 6:00 pm - 6:59 pm
    • John Dougherty
    • Barrows 650
    • 1
  • 2018 Fall: AFRICAM 98BC 001 SEM 001 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 5:00 pm - 5:59 pm
    • John Dougherty
    • Barrows 554
    • 1