Courses Archive

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 112B Political and Economic Development in the Third World

    A critical appraisal of the theoretically based policies employed by Third World nations in their attempts at transition to modernized developed socio-political and economic systems and an examination of the international and intranational impediments to Third World development. The focus will be on actual examples that represent the diversity of developing countries.
    • Tu/Th 2-330PM
    • Paschel, T
    • 20 Barrows
    • 4

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 101 Research methods for African American Studies

    As an introduction to interdisciplinary research methods as they are applied to the study of African American communities, the course will examine theoretical and conceptual issues; techniques for identifying existing research; and sources and methods of social research and data collection. The main focus will be on qualitative methods.

     
    • MW 4-530PM
    • Elliott
    • 174 BARROWS
    • 4

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 98BC 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 6-7PM
    • Cohen, M
    • 78 BARROWS

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 30B Elementary Chichewa

    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.
    • MTuWTh 3-4PM
    • MCHOMBO
    • 174 BARROWS
    • 4

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 28AC GFlobalizathion and Minority American Communities

    An examination of the movement of individuals, ideas, ideologies, and institutions between minority American communities in the U.S. (African Americans, Asians, Chicanos) and their cultures of origin, in the 19th and 20th centuries. The course will utilize the concepts of "migration," "diaspora," "otherness," "multiculturalism," and "global village" and will draw largely on social science perspectives.

    • TuTh 1230-2PM
    • Small
    • 102 Wurster
    • 3

  • 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.
    • 10-12PM
    • Small
    • 205 Wheeler
    • 1

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 15B Advanced Swahili

    This course reviews and expands students' knowledge from Intermediate Swahili. 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, research projects with texts available through Berkeley's African Library Collection, and supplemented by instructor's materials.

    • MW 10-12PM
    • Kyeu
    • 61 Evans
    • 4

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 11B Elementary Swahili

    This course introduces students to the basics of speaking, listening, reading, and writing in Swahili. Instruction is mixed English and Swahili. Emphasis is placed on developing student ability to create and to communicate with basic 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 not open to native or heritage speakers of Swahili.
    • MTuWTh 9-10AM
    • Kyeu
    • 174 BARROWS
    • 4

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 10B Intermediate Swahili

    This course reviews and expands students' knowledge of fundamental structures from Elementary Swahili and appropriate cultural contexts of these structures in oral and written communication. More grammar and vocabulary in a culturally and socially appropriate context is developed. Speaking ability is expanded through oral exercises, individual reports, class discussions, and recordings available at the Berkeley Language Center. Writing 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.

     
    • MTuWTh 12-1PM
    • Kyeu
    • 65 Evans
    • 4

  • Spring 2016 : African American Studies 5B African American Life and Culture in the United States

    Emphasis on the social experience of African Americans. An interdisciplinary approach designed to help students understand the forces and ideas that are influencing the individual and collective African American experience.
    • TuTh 4-530PM
    • Staff
    • 213 Wheeler
    • 4