Courses Archive

  • African American Studies 30A Elementary Chichewa

    Four hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory per week. This course introduces students to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Chichewa. Instruction is mixed English and Chichewa. Emphasis is placed on developing student ability to create and to communicate with basic Chichewa structures and vocabulary in a culturally and socially appropriate context. Speaking and listening abilities are developed through oral exercises, class discussions, and recordings available from Berkeley Language Center. Reading and writing are developed through in-class exercises, independent reading projects, and compositions. This course is not open to native or heritage speakers of Chichewa.
    • 4
  • African American Studies 116 Slavery and African American Life Before 1865

    Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. 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
  • African American Studies 140 Special Topics in Cultural Studies

    Course may be repeated for credit. One to four hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Determined by offering. Topics will vary each semester.
  • African American Studies 178 Cultural Studies

    Three hours of lecture/discussion per week. Although the Caribbean has been recognized in recent years as being one of the most compelling areas in regard to questions of interculturality, hybridity, and miscegenation, the Dutch-speaking part of it has somehow been neglected. This course intends to give an opportunity to those who do not necessarily have a command of Dutch language, but wish to complete their knowledge of Latin-American and Carribean history, culture, and literature. Also listed as Spanish C178 and Dutch C178.
    • 4
  • African American Studies 257A Identity Politics in the Caribbean and Africa

    Three hours of seminar per week. An exhaustive examination of the conditions under which identity constructs (race, ethnicity, nation, religion, language, region, etc.) come to occupy the symbolic center in the organization of mass political movements in non-industrialized Third World societies. The course will be comparative in scope using case histories from Africa and the Caribbean. It will focus on the relationship between the "politics of identity," national economic decision making, and the distribution of economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital.
    • 4
  • African American Studies 9B Advanced Wolof

    Four hours of recitation and one hour of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 9A. This course reviews and expands students' knowledge from Intermediate Wolof. Oral and written communication will be presented in appropriate cultural contexts. Developing oral language skills will be strongly emphasized as part of this course and will be expanded through individual presentations, class discussions, and recordings available at the Berkeley Language Center. Writing, grammar, vocabulary and reading are expanded through compositions, written exercises, and independent reading projects with texts available through Berkeley's African Library Collection and supplemented by the instructor's materials.
    • 4
  • African American Studies 30B Elementary Chichewa

    Four hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 30A. This course introduces students to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Chichewa. Instruction is mixed English and Chichewa. Emphasis is placed on developing student ability to create and to communicate with basic Chichewa structures and vocabulary in a culturally and socially appropriate context. Speaking and listening abilities are developed through oral exercises, class discussions, and recordings available from Berkeley Language Center. Reading and writing are developed through in-class exercises, independent reading projects, and compositions. This course is not open to native or hertiage speakers of Chichewa.
    • 4
  • African American Studies 117 African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1865-1970

    Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. 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.
  • African American Studies 142A Third World Cinema

    Three hours of lecture, plus two hours of viewing/discussion per week. Prerequisites: Reading and composition requirement. Examines through lectures and a selection of films, the development and achievements of Third World motion picture artistry. Social, political, and cultural themes are discussed, with particular emphasis given to major works from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Other newly developed film sources from abroad are presented for critical assessment.
  • African American Studies 190AC Advanced Seminar in African Diaspora Studies

    Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Three hours of lecture per week. For a four-unit course, an extra assignment/research component will be added to the course to increase contact hours with students. Possible components include additional readings, outside of class reserach projects and other projects which the instructor feels will add to the value of course. Topics to be announced at the beginning of each semester. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.