Winter 2006 Course List

African Studies Minor

(Draft: November 16, 2005)

 

The below list contains courses offered at the University of Washington that can count towards the African Studies minor.  This minor is offered through the African Studies Program that is housed in the Jackson School of International Studies.  The African Studies Program coordinates and disseminates information about Africa-related events on campus; facilitates research, internships, and study abroad opportunities in Africa; and administers the undergraduate minor (see program website at http://depts.washington.edu/africa1/).  The African Studies minor encourages students to undertake an inter-disciplinary study of Africa and the African Diaspora through coursework in a variety of scholarly disciplines and programs, including American Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Ethnomusicology, Forestry, Fisheries, Geography, History, International Health, and International Studies. Courses for UW-Bothell and UW-Tacoma are listed following the UW-Seattle language courses.

 

To complete an African Studies minor, a student must take at least 30 credits of Africas Studies  courses.  Those courses must be spread across three or more disciplines/programs and 20 of the 30 credits must be at the 400-level or above.  For questions on courses,, please contact the African Studies advisor. If you would like to become an African Studies minor or have any questions about the minor, please contact the African Studies Program Assistant Teresa Mares at 616-0998 or africa1@u.washington.edu . 

 

SEATTLE COURSES

 

AFRAM   498  SPEC TOP AFRAM STDY

1181 A  5       MW                   130-320          ARC  019                    Retman, Sonnet

Topics in which students and faculty have developed an interest as a result of work done in other classes or as a result of the need to investigate in greater depth Afro-American Studies issues. Topics vary.

 

ANTH   209  Anthropology of Visual Media                                             

1258 A  5       TTh                    330-520            SAV  249                    Hoffman, Danny  

OPTIONAL WRITING LINK; SEE ENGL 198                                                                                                           

Theories of culture and cultural variation, as seen and understood through visual media such as films, video, and photography.

 

BIO A   388  Human Fossils and Evolution                                               

1831 A  5       MTWThF         130-220           DEN  211                     Eck, Gerald    

First of a two-part series. Evolution of human anatomy and behavior as adaptations to changing environments. Human fossils: their geological context, age, ecological setting used to reconstruct the evolution of our species during the last six million years of earth history. Prerequisite: either BIO A 201, or BIOL 201 and BIOL 202 and BIOL 203, or BIOL 102, or BIOL 180 and BIOL 200.

 

ARCH   442  Africa and Middle East Seminar

1322 A  3       TTh                   1030-1150       GOULD  100                           McLaren, Brian

Advanced introduction to colonial and postcolonial architecture in Africa and the Middle East, beginning with the initial European colonization in the mid-19th century. Provides a historical understanding of the formation of distinctive regional and/or national identities in the architecture of these regions.

 

 

ART H   437  Arts of Sub-Saharan Africa II                                            

1496 A  3       MW                  930-1050          ART  317                     Bravmann, Rene

SOME BACKGROUND IN AFRICAN ART OR HISTORY IS RECOMMENDED.

Traditional arts of the Central Guinea coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon, from precontact times to the present. Recommended: some background in African art, history, languages, or literature.

 

ENGL   497  Honors Senior Seminar: Modern Writing of the Black Diaspora

3969 F  5       TTh                 1130-120               SIG  229                  Chrisman, Laura

Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to honors students majoring in English.

    

ENGL   498  Senior Seminar: Modern Writing of the Black Diaspora

3977 F  5       TTh                  1130-120              SIG  229                  Chrisman, Laura

Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.

 

GEOG   230  Urbanization and Development: Geographies of Global Inequality                                                 (I&S)     

4553 A  5       MTWTh           1030-1120        HUB  112                   Lawson, Victoria

Examines global to local interactions of economic, political, and social forces shaping urbanization and development processes across the globe. Provides an introduction to critical development studies, focusing on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Also examines debates over the causes and geographic patterns of social inequality worldwide.

 

EPI   539  Research Methods in Developing Countries  

4152 A  3-4     TTh                    130-250         HSI  I132                    Gloyd, Stephen

Simple, practical methodologies to obtain and validate information regarding health status and health services in developing countries. Usefulness, validity, limitation of vital records, health reports, household (and cluster) surveys, nutritional anthropometry, and qualitative methods discussed. Lectures, computer lab, and student participation in community-based survey. Offered: jointly with HSERV 539

 

HAS 262c  African Christianity: Tales of Faith, Power and Consequence

4682 C  5       MW                    1230-220         MGH  228                 Speed, Clarke

Introduction to ideas and society of civilization other than the Western. Specific civilization (Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, South Asian) differs from year to year and section to section. For university honors students only. Offered: W.

 

HSTAA   313  African Americans in the American West                                    

4864 A  5       MWF                  830-950         CMU  B006                Taylor, Quintard

Explores pre-1848 Spanish-speaking black settlers, slavery, post-civil war migration, buffalo soldiers. 19th and 20th century black urban settlers, World War II migration, the civil rights movement in the West, the interaction of African Americans with other people of color. Particular focus on Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

 

HSTEU   484  Colonial Encounters                        

4906 A  5         TTh                 930-1120         SAV  249                    Bailkin, Jordanna

History of European colonialism, focusing on British, French, and Dutch colonial encounters from 1750s to 1950s. Units on colonial law, medicine, religion, sexuality, and commodity culture. Offered: jointly with CHID 484.

 

MUSIC   331  History of Jazz                                                         

6618 A  5       MTWThF         1030-1120        MUS  126                  Collier, Thomas

Extensive overview of important musicians, composers, arrangers, and stylistic periods of jazz history from emergence of the first jazz bands at the turn of the 20th century through post-modern bebop era of the 1990s.

 

POL S   331  Government and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

9792 A  5       MW                   1200-120         MGH  389                  Goldberg, Ellis

Breakdown of traditional society and the problems of building modern political systems.

 

SIS   330   Political Economy of Development                                           

8339 A  5         TTh                 330-520            SAV  313                   Khagram, Sanjeev

Growth, income distribution, and economic development in less-developed countries today. Policies concerning trade, industrialization, the agricultural sector, human resources, and financing of development. Prerequisite: ECON 201 which may be taken concurrently.

 

SISAF   490  Current African Challenges 

8387 A  5       Th                      130-420          RAI  121                      Latsch, Wolf and Gugerty,

 Mary Kay

This class provides an introduction to current economic and political challenges facing Africans and African countries. We expect most students to know very little about African history or about modern-day sub-Saharan Africa. We assume that most studentsí exposure to news about Africa is very limited since coverage of African affairs in the media is very sparse. The course will provide an opportunity for students to learn more about Africa- and the learn how to learn more about Africa.

 

SISAF   499  Undergraduate Research

8388 A  1-5     to be arranged 

8389 B  1-5     to be arranged 

 

SOC   401  Special Topics: Population of Africa: Contemporary Issues                                   

9904 E  5       TTh                  130-320                RAI  116               Speed, Clarke    

Selected topics of contemporary interest taught by a sociologist active in the field. Topics vary and may be substantive, theoretical, or methodological.                    

 

SOC WF   495  Special Topics: Empowerment Practice with Refugees: Transnational identities in Communities in Transition

8681 A  5       F                       130-420            SWS  B014                  Farwell, Nancy

Course participants will learn applications of empowerment practice with displaced populations across a transnational continuum of forced migration, including flight, internal displacement, asylum-seeking, repatriation, and resettlement.  Instruction will take place through classroom activities, workshops with local service providers, and agency-based projects.  The complexities of transnational identities and implications for strengths-based social services will be addressed, with examples drawn from populations from the Horn of Africa and elsewhere.

 

SPAN485/CHID498/SISLA 485/SISAF490B  Brazilian Visual Culture

TBD     5         T,Th                 1130-120         TBD                            de Mambro Santos, Ricardo

The course will investigate the deeply-rooted connections beween art and society in the history of Brazil from the colonial period to the present.  The goal of the course is not to illustrate in a chronological way the general development of the arts in Brazil, but rather to highlight the multifaceted, heterogeneous, hybrid components of Brazilian national culture through the revealing lens of its visual formulations in both ěhighî and ěpopularî art, including cinema, painting, publicity and related forms of visual communication.

 

 

 

Language Courses

 

AFRAM   307  Basic Swahili

1176 A  5       MTWThF         1030-1120        SMI  115                    Maulana, Seyed

1177 B  5       MTWThF         1130-1220       THO  211                    Maulana,Seyed  

 

AFRAM   402  Intermediate Swahili                                                          

1180 A  5       MTWThF         1230-120          MGH  254                  Maulana, Seyed

 

AFRAM   498  Third Year Swahili

1182 B  3-5     TTh                  700-920P          DEN  316                  Mdahoma,Sauda

 

 

ARAB   412  Elementary Arabic

1289 A  5       MTWThF         1130-1220       DEN  302                    Brame, Roxanne

1290 B  5       MTWThF         1230-120         DEN  302                    Ishtaiwa, Fawzi

1291 C  5       MTWThF         130-220           DEN  302                    Loomis, Summer   

 

ARAB   422  Intermediate Arabic                                                  

1292 A  5       MTWThF         1130-1220        ARC  025                  Aburezeq, Ibtehal

 

ARAB   432  Advanced Arabic                                                      

1293 A  5       MW                   130-320           DEN  304                   Elkhafaifi, Hussein 

 

 

FRENCH   101  Elementary French

4431 A  5       MTWThF         930-1020         THO  231

4432 B  5       MTWThF         1230-120          THO  331

 

FRENCH   102  Elementary French

4433 A  5       MTWThF         830-920           THO  234

4434 B  5       MTWThF         930-1020         THO  234

4435 C  5        MTWThF        1030-1120       THO  334

4436 D  5       MTWThF         1130-1220       THO  234

4437 E  5        MTWThF         1230-120         THO  234 

4438 F  5        MTWThF         130-220           THO  334

4439 G  5       MTWThF         230-320           THO  231

 

FRENCH   103  Elementary French

4440 A  5       MTWThF         830-920           THO  334

4441 B  5       MTWThF         1030-1120       THO  234

4442 C  5       MTWThF         930-1020         SAV  146

4443 D  5       MTWThF         130-220           THO  234

 

 

 

FRENCH   110  Basic French Review

4444 A  5       MTWThF         1230-120         THO  235  

 

FRENCH   201  Intermediate French

4446 A  5       MTWThF         1030-1120       SAV  151  

4447 B  5       MTWThF         1130-1220       THO  334

4448 C  5       MTWThF         230-320           THO  334

 

 

FRENCH   202  Intermediate French

4449 A  5       MTWThF         830-920           THO  331

4450 B  5       MTWThF         1030-1120       SAV  146

4451 C  5       MTWThF         1130-1220       SAV  146  

4452 D  5       MTWThF         230-320          THO  234

 

 

FRENCH   203  Intermediate French

4453 A  5       MTWThF         1030-1120       THO  231

 

FRENCH   301  Advanced French

4454 A  5       TThF                1030-1220       THO  202

4455 B  5       TThF                 1230-220         SAV  146

 

FRENCH   302 Advanced French

4456 A  5       TThF                1030-1220        MGH  288                  Collins, Helene

4457 B  5       TThF                 1230-220          MGH  234                  Collins, Helene

           

 

PORT   102  Elementary Portuguese

7900 A  5       MTWThF         930-1020         LOW  205                  Da Conceica, Manuel

 

 

PORT   201  Intermediate Portuguese                                                       

7901 A  5       MTWThF         930-1020         SAV  142                    Wirkala,Elwin

 

PORT   202  Intermediate Portuguese                                                       

7902 A  5       MTWThF         1030-1120       SAV  142                    Wirkala,Elwin

 

 

 

BOTHELL COURSES

 

BIS   322         Topics in Performance Studies: African and Asian Theatre

2189 A  5       TTh                   545-750P         UW1  020                   Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta

 

BIS   436         Comparative Family Systems

2211 A  5        MW                 115-320           UW1  010                   Ashbaugh, Leslie

 

 

TACOMA COURSES

 

TCXUS   385  AFRO AM LIT

9208 A  5         TTh                 1030-1245       CP   108                      Raynor, Deirdre

 

 

 

Last Updated: November 16, 2005