Courses Archive

Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. This course is intended to provide students with an initial background for the composition of the position paper discussing the concept and study of African Diaspora necessary for passing department qualifying exams. It will introduce some of the theoretical frameworks for, and approaches to, scholarship concerning the African Diaspora.

Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. A study of the genesis, development, and scope of African American culture, approached through an examination of selected art forms, historical themes, and intellectual currents.

Four hours of recitation and one hour of laboratory per week. This course reviews and expands students' knowledge from Intermediate Swahili. 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 instructor's materials.

Three hours of lecture per week. This course examines the formation and implementation of public policies directly relevant to the black community. While the policies analyzed differ from year to year, basic public policy methodology will be introduced each year.

Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Africam 5B or 101A, or upper division course in psychology. Examines psychological research and theory pertaining to African American people. Emphasis on understanding the concerns, methods and conclusions regarding African Americans offered by American psychology from its origins to the present. Also listed as Psychology C105.

Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Reading and Composition requirement. We will closely read seven of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, as well as a short story and some of her essays, considering the works in relation to: her interest in creating what she calls "village literature" and in writing literature that does "trope work" that intervenes in American representations of blackness and racial identity; her contributions to the renaissance of black women's writing (and African American literature in general) in the 1980s and 1990s.

Course may be repeated for credit. One to four hours of lecture per week. One hour of lecture per week per unit. Topics will vary from term to term depending on student demand and faculty availability.