ANTH 483 Africa Living with HIV/AIDS
Instructor: James Pfeiffer
TTh | 3:30 – 5:20
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 10335
Course Description
Examines the epidemiological, historical, political-economic, and social-cultural dimensions of Africa living with HIV/AIDS and the current challenges and debates in international HIV/AIDS policy and programming. Various approaches and analytical models help students grasp the complicated and multiple effects, responses, conditions, and debates surrounding the African HIV/AIDS pandemic.
DANCE 280 African Dance Techniques
Instructor: TBD
MWF | 4:30 – 6:20
2-3 credits (A&H) | SLN: 13606
Course Description
Studio instruction in traditional and contemporary dance techniques of Africa and the African diaspora.
HSTAFM 552 Field Course in African History
Instructor: Christopher Tounsel
W | 8:30 – 10:20
5 credits (W) | SLN: SMI 306
Course Description:
Methodological and conceptual issues in African historiography, focusing on 1500 to the present. Examines topics including pre-colonial politics and economics, slavery and the slave trades, European conquest and colonization, resistance movements and nationalist politics, and post-colonial debates and dilemmas. Special attention to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class.
MELC 101 Gateway to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa
Instructor: Canan Bolel
M | 1:30 – 3:20
W | 1:30 – 3:20
F | 1:30 – 2:20
F | 2:30 – 3:20
F | 3:30 – 4:20
F | 12:30 – 1:20
5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN: 18150, 18151, 18152, 18153, 18154
Course Description
Introduces the development of Middle East and Horn of Africa cultures from ancient origins in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and Central Asia through the present day. Invites students into the world’s earliest cultures, the diversity of its peoples, and their contributions to contemporary society.
MELC 366/566 Religion in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopic Judaism and Christianity
Instructor: Mehari Zemelak Worku
TTh | 3:30 – 5:20
5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN: 18164, 18175
Course Description
Introduces the historical, cultural, and theological foundations of Ethiopic Judaism and Christianity. Explores the development, interactions, and mutual influences of the religions from antiquity to modern times. Examines the unique characteristics of Judaism and Christianity within the Ethiopian context, exploring their sacred texts, liturgical practices, theological perspectives, and cultural expressions.
African Diaspora Courses
AFRAM 101 Introduction to African American Studies
Instructor: Matthew Alexander Randolph
TTh | 3:30 – 4:50
F | 3:00 – 3:50
F | 4:00 – 4:50
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10156, 10157, 10158, 10159, 10160
Course Description
History, culture, religion, institutions, politics, economics, arts, and psychology of peoples of African descent as developed from experience in both the old and new worlds. Multidisciplinary analysis of social life from a black perspective as illustrated in selected historical and contemporary writings.
AFRAM 220 African American Film Studies
Instructor: Sonnet H. Retman
TTh | 1:30 – 3:20
5 credits (A&H, DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10161
Course Description
Examines the history and theory of African American filmmaking, introducing central political and aesthetic debates by way of different cinematic eras, genres, and filmmakers. Focuses primarily on black directors and producers independent and commercial contexts as they confront popular representations of U.S. blackness in their own cinematic practice.
AFRAM 360 Black Digital Studies
Instructor: LaShawnDa L. Pittman
TTh | 10:30 – 12:20
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10169
Course Description
Bridges and intersects two interdisciplinary fields – black studies and digital humanities. Attention to knowledge production. Role of archives, collections, research centers, the black press, and digital technology. Ideas related to power, memory, resistance, perspective and respectability politics in storytelling and control of the vehicles used to do so.
AFRAM 404 Advanced African American Studies in Humanities
Instructor: M Aziz
M | 8:30 – 9:50
M | 10:00 – 11:20
5 credits (A&H, DIV) | SLN: 10166
Course Description
Advanced and interdisciplinary engagement with racial formation, Black cultural production, and resistance among people of African descent throughout the Diaspora. Draws upon cultural studies perspectives with an emphasis on literature, film, music, performance, visual and material culture. Topics include art, labor, migration, politics; racial capitalism and political economy; social movements and cultural history; black intellectual traditions.
MUSIC 131 History of Jazz
Instructor: Cuong Vu, Coen Matthew Rios, Rory Glenn Somers
Asynchronous Online
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 18520
Course Description
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 twentieth century through post-modern bebop era of the 1990s.
Language Courses
ARAB 101/511 Elementary Arabic
Instructor: Khalid A Ahmed
MW | 9:30 – 11:20
F | 9:30 – 11:20
TTh | 9:30 – 12:20
F | 9:30 – 11:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 10348, 10349, 10355, 10356
Course Description
Develops the four communicative language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Stresses communication skills and emphasizes the links between language and culture, using mainly Modern Standard Arabic, with exposure to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. First in a sequence of three.
ARAB 201 / ARAB 521: Intermediate Arabic
Instructor: Amina Moujtahid
MWF | 9:30-10:50 a.m.
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 10357, 10350
Course Description
Explores aspects of Arab culture and emphasizes all skills of language acquisition: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students also learn more about Arab society in general and about features of Arab culture that influence the use of the language in daily life. Focuses on developing communication skills. First in a sequence of three.
ARAB 301 / ARAB 531: Third Year Arabic
Instructor: Amina Moujtahid
MWF | 11:00-12:20 p.m.
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 10351, 10358
Course Description
Helps students acquire an advanced proficiency in Arabic by focusing on developing all four skills of language acquisition: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Explores topics related to Arabic culture, Arabic society, Arabic music and arts, and Arabic literature.
FRENCH 101: Elementary French
Instructor: Helene Collins
MTWThF | 8:30 – 9:20
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15374, 15375, 15376, 15377
Course Description
Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in French and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.
FRENCH 102: Elementary French
Instructor: Irina Markina
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15378
Course Description
Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in French and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required. Second in a sequence of three.
FRENCH 103: Elementary French
Instructor: TBD
MTWThF | 1:30 – 2:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15379
Course Description
Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in French and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required. Third in a sequence of three.
FRENCH 201: Intermediate French
Instructor: Hedwige Meyer
MTWThF | 9:30- 10:20
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15397, 15398
Course Description
Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach. First in a sequence of three.
FRENCH 203: Intermediate French
Instructor: Hedwige Meyer
MTWThF | 11:30-12:20 p.m.
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15403
Course Description
Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach. Third in a sequence of three.
FRENCH 202: Intermediate French
Instructor: Matthew Skrzypczyk
MTWThF | 10:30 – 11:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15612
Course Description
Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach. Second in a sequence of three.
FRENCH 301: Language In The Francophone World
Instructor: TBD
MW | 10:30-12:20 p.m.
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15408
Course Description
Introduces students to varieties of the French language across time and space. Considers language diversity in France and the uses and varieties of the French language in world regions where it plays an important role, with particular attention to the history of its establishment and the implications of its current status. Develops advanced language skills and cultural competency through oral and written production in the target language.
GEEZ 101: Classical Ethiopic
Instructor: Mehari Zemelak Worku
TTh | 10:30 – 12:20
5 credits | SLN: 15491
Course Description
One of the most important Semitic languages of the Near East and East Africa, and the classical language of modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea, a region known as the “Horn of Africa”. Introduces the basic alphabet and fundamental grammar of classical Ethiopic, or Ge’ez.
PORT 110: Accelerated Elementary Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 11:30-12:20 p.m.
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 20193
Course Description
Covers the equivalent of PORT 101 and PORT 102 to prepare for . May not be taken in addition to PORT 101 or PORT 102.
PORT 202: Intermediate Portuguese
Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva
MTWThF | 12:30 -1:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 20194
Course Description
Modern texts, compositions, conversation, and a systematic review of grammar. Second in a sequence of three.
SWA 101 Basic Swahili
Instructor: Jacqueline Waita
MTWThF | 11:30 – 12:20
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21420, 21421
Course Description
Introduces the Swahili language and the diverse cultures and customs of the people of East Africa. Provides a basic foundation in speaking, reading, and writing. First in a sequence of three.
Intermediate Swahili
Instructor: Jacqueline Waita
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21422
Course Description
Builds proficiency in the language by speaking, reading, and writing. Includes children’s stories, newspaper articles, poetry, and folklore. First in a sequence of three.