Winter 07/Spring 08 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Winter 2007 and Spring 2008; however, some (or all) may not be offered in either term.  The courses that are offered in Spring link to the Schedule of Classes.  Classes with alternative delivery modes (Web based, cable TV, correspondence, etc) are noted in the Schedule at the section level.  The complete list below is a good indicator of what may be offered over the next few years (contact department about offerings).  For explanations of course elements see the Key to Course Descriptions.

Africana Studies (AFAS)  Department Info

AFAS 195A -- African Aesthetics  (1 unit)
Description:  This colloquium is offered as an introduction to the kinetic and cultural unity of peoples on the African continent and in the African Diaspora, demonstrating how Pan African dance has been physically and psychologically imperative to the spiritual and social survival of Black people in the world.  This is a First-Year Colloquium Course.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 200 -- Africana Studies  (3 units)
Description:  Course provides a comprehensive understanding of the African American experience as grounded in the humanities and social sciences. A broad investigation of Africana history and culture and its subsequent evolution in the United States.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Traditions and Cultures (TRAD 101,102,103,104).
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 204 -- African Diaspora Religion and Culture  (3 units)
Description:  Global, comparative analysis of religion and culture in Africa, the Caribbean, U.S., and South America. Impact of African religions in the contemporary world.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  RELI 204.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 207 -- African American History (1440-1877)  (3 units)
Description:  This course evaluates the early experiences of peoples of African descent in North America. The culture of African captives, their daily lives under different slave regimes, slave resistance, free blacks, and emancipation are the main subjects addressed in this class.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 208 -- African American History (1865-Present)  (3 units)
Description:  This course evaluates the experience of peoples of African descent in the United States after the Civil War. Reconstruction, "Jim Crow" segregation, "New Negro" Movement, Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, and the "Great Society" are the main subjects addressed in this class.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 220 -- Introduction to African American Studies  (3 units)
Description:  Introductory survey of the literature, history, culture and social issues affecting Black Americans.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  SOC 220.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 222 -- African American Studies: A History of Ideas  (3 units)
Description:  The theoretical and philosophical ideas expressed by thinkers of the African world. Issues in the areas of epistemological relativism, ethics, political philosophy and the history of ideas will be examined.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Traditions and Cultures (TRAD 101,102,103,104).
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  PHIL 222, ANTH 222.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 223 -- African Philosophical Worlds  (3 units)
Description:  Course acquaints students with the theoretical and philosophical ideas expressed by thinkers of the African world. Issues in epistemological relativism, ethics, political philosophy and the history of ideas is examined.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 224 -- Models of Resistance, Post 16th Cent. African Liberation Movements in Southeast  (3 units)
Description:  There were actually several "Souths" during the Holocaust of Enslavement. However, courses taught in the era of African enslavement have tended to focus on the northern most regions, such as Virginia, which are often taken to represent-if not constitute-the South. This course looks at the other "South" and the French and Spanish colonizers of South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. It offers a different perspective of the beginnings of the Great Enslavement and compares and contrasts the lives and struggles of enslaved, freed, and self-emancipated Africans in the Southwest during the tenure of Spain.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Traditions and Cultures (TRAD 101,102,103,104).
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Identical to:  HIST 224.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 230 -- Introduction to African Literature  (3 units)
Description:  Anglophone and Francophone literature. Focuses on major authors; Achebe, Soyinka, Head, Wa Thiong'O, Brutus, Emecheta. Employs bio-literary analysis.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  ENGL 230.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 245 -- African Literature in Translation  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to Francophone African literature coming from the Western part of the African continent, which forms a geographical and cultural entity. Taught in English. Does not court toward fulfillment of language requirement, or the major or minor in French.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  FREN 245; FREN is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 249 -- Images of Africa  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to African life and culture through explorations in the following areas: history, geography, institutions, the arts, and language and literature. Taught in English. Does not count toward fulfillment of language requirement, or the major or minor in French.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  FREN 249; FREN is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 255 -- African American Politics  (3 units)
Description:  This course is designed to illumine the political economy of the African American community in the United States, with special attention to issues of race, politics, class and gender. Major themes in the course will focus on the struggles of African American people for justice from the period of reconstruction through the civil rights and post-civil rights eras. The question of Black political organizing and institution building both within and outside the dominant structures of the U.S. political economy will be discussed throughout the course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 260 -- Ethnic Relations in the United States  (3 units)
Description:  Analysis of minority relations and mass movements in urban society; trends in the modern world, with special reference to present-day race problems and social conflict.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  two courses from Tier One, Individuals and Societies (INDV 101, 102, 103, 104).
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Individuals and Societies.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  SOC 260; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 299 -- Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 299H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.

AFAS 300 -- Historical Overview of African Cinema and Filmmaking  (3 units)
Description:  Stresses techniques, styles, aesthetics, and comparative content analysis. Explores "socialist realist" narrative and other themes.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 302 -- Africana Studies Research Approaches  (3 units)
Description:  This course is designed to provide students with skills in conducting social science research in the field of Africana Studies. The course will consist of discussions of the role of knowledge, the various methods by which knowledge is acquired, and the manner that interpretations of knowledge occur.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 303 -- Black Womanist Writers  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines the lives and writings of Black women from selected ethnicities such as Caribbean, Canadian, Latin American and African American who, despite geography, form bridges to meet and develop a dialogue which enlightens us.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 304A -- The Social Construction of Race: Whiteness  (3 units)
Description:  In constructing this course, the recognition of Whiteness/Blackness is not solely a reactionary response to challenges from persons of color; it is also a reflection of the need to provide a narrative of Whiteness/Blackness that intends an understanding of the notion of Whiteness/Blackness as a racial category and the implications of this categorization and association. For example, naming Whiteness displaced it from the unmarked, and unnamed status that is itself an effect of dominance. Within the particular disciplines of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, Whiteness, Blackness and Race have come to be earnest subjects of study. Being White or Black in the 1990's, however, is far from straightforward. It is riddled with ambiguity and marked by a general sense of racial angst as to what it means to be White or Black. This course will attempt to respond to the question: What does it mean to be Black/White in our global climate?
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 304B -- The Social Construction of Race: Blackness  (3 units)
Description:  In constructing this course, the recognition of Whiteness/Blackness is not solely a reactionary response to challenges from persons of color: it is also a reflection of the need to provide a narrative of Whiteness/Blackness that intends an understanding of the notion of Whiteness/Blackness as a racial category and the implications of this categorization and association. For example, naming Whiteness displaces it from the unmarked status that is itself an effect of dominance. Within the particular disciplines of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, Whiteness, Blackness and Race have come to be earnest subjects of Study. Being White or Black in the 1990's, however, is far from straightforward. It is riddled with ambiguity and marked by a general sense of racial angst as to what it means to be White or Black. This course will attempt to respond to the question: what does it mean to be Black/White in our global climate?
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 305 -- Motherhood in the African Diaspora  (3 units)
Description:  This course will focus on literature which addresses the lives of Black women who bear the responsibility of mothering someone, something or others. "Other mothering" will be crucial to some readings and discussions. Materials and texts will be by and about African, African American and Caribbean women that demonstrate social, ideological and gender role perspectives.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 306 -- African-American Autobiographies: Women and Their Histories  (3 units)
Description:  Students will gain insight into the historical and cultural factors that have created, and continue to perpetuate gender and ethnic inequity. Students will come to understand African American writers, particularly women, as historical agents and self-defined individuals. While the course will emphasize the multiple roles of African American women, as portrayed autobiographically it also incorporates the historical struggles of those around them. It is my goal that through the course material students will see how African Americans are constantly recreating themselves in the face of adversity.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  W S 306.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 315 -- African/African American Psychology  (3 units)
Description:  This course introduces students to theoretical explanations for the behavior and thought of African/African American people based on their personal and social experiences and explores the development of independent Black theories of psycho-social behavior that challenge Eurocentric Psycho-analysis.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 318 -- Pan African Dance Aesthetics: Theory and Practice  (3 units)
Description:  This course fosters an appreciation of aesthetic principles that define Pan African dance through a combination of theory and practice. Students will explore how aesthetic judgments are sensory, emotional, intellectual, political, and religious at the same time.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Typical structure:  1 hour lecture, 2 hours workshop.
Identical to:  ANTH 318.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 320 -- The African American Slave Narrative: History and Literature  (3 units)
Description:  This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the history of narratives by African slaves before and after the American Civil War. This course will benefit majors/minors in American/African Literature or other interdisciplinary majors who wish to study the historical experiences of minority ethnic cultures in America.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 329 -- Cultures and Societies of Africa  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to African prehistory, social anthropology, ecology, religions, ancient and modern state formation, slavery, urbanization, and contemporary issues.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) or the former upper-division writing proficiency requirement (UDWPE).
Identical to:  ANTH 329; ANTH is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 330 -- Minority Groups and American Politics  (3 units)
Description:  Political problems of the poor; analysis of systematic poverty in the U.S. and theories of causation; selected policy problems: education, housing, job training, enforcement of anti-discrimination statutes; future of "power" movements.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) or the former upper-division writing proficiency requirement (UDWPE).
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  POL 330; POL is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 335 -- Rap, Culture and God  (3 units)
Description:  Study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latino/a communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Identical to:  RELI 335; RELI is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 339 -- Introduction to African and African-American Art  (3 units)
Description:  Chronological, meta-ethno-aesthetic overview of continental African culture groups and individual African diaspora artists/styles/movements; covers slavery, reconstruction, Harlem renaissance, civil rights and contemporary developments.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  ARH 339; ARH is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 340 -- The Politics of Race and the African Experience  (3 units)
Description:  By examining both primary and secondary sources this course explores the historical development of African-American civil rights from 1619 with the arrival of the first Africans to Jamestown colony, to the momentous decision by the Supreme court to desegregate schools in 1954.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Individuals and Societies.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 342 -- Writers, Women and the Gods  (3 units)
Description:  In order to conceptualize the way gender and ethnicity has shaped women's lives in the public and private domain students will "hear" the voices of African American women in ethnography, history and literature as we discuss the Africana concepts of life, health, beauty and family. The experiences of these women, as expressed in literature have become "formidable" presences in African American culture and history. The self-expression and self-definition, expressed by African American women's voices have generated social and political changes in American history that have also impacted the dominant Euro-American culture of American society.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
May be repeated:  for credit 2 times (maximum 3 enrollments).
Identical to:  ENGL 342, W S 342.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 344 -- African American Religion  (3 units)
Description:  Critical, thematic exegesis of indigenous African and Christian contributions to African American religions. Analyzes role of religion in resisting oppression and racial injustice.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Special exam:  course may be taken by special exam for credit and grade.
Identical to:  ANTH 344, RELI 344.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 345 -- Caribbean Politics  (3 units)
Description:  This course provides an introduction to the politics of Caribbean states, from 1960 to the present. It will discuss major issues that effect the Caribbean region, namely, migration, poverty, regional economic cooperation and political integration, democratic institutions, and U. S. foreign policy towards the region.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  LA S 345, POL 345.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 347 -- The Old South  (3 units)
Description:  Social, economic, cultural and political history from Jamestown to Secession.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  HIST 347; HIST is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 348 -- The South Since the Civil War  (3 units)
Description:  From the Civil War to the present.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  HIST 348; HIST is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 351 -- Race and Class in Latin America  (3 units)
Description:  The impact of commercial expansion, urbanization, industrialization, and ideological change on race and class relations in Latin America from the 16th to early 20th century.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  HIST 351; HIST is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 360 -- Writing the Africana Experience: Approaches and Strategies  (3 units)
Description:  The aim of this course is to encourage literacy in writing on Africana subjects. the key focus will be on mastery of essential writing conventions in the interdisciplinary curriculum and africana Studies.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) or the former upper-division writing proficiency requirement (UDWPE); ENGL 101, ENGL 102.
Typical structure:  2 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 365 -- Ancient African Civilizations  (3 units)
Description:  This course illuminates the vastness and far-reaching complexity of ancient African civilizations. It demonstrates the historical role that African cultures and civilizations played in the shaping of the ancient classical world.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 381 -- African/Indigenous Religions  (3 units)
Description:  This course examines religious beliefs in Africa in order to illuminate connections between religion and culture on that continent, and to examine the relationship between religio-culture and the socio-economic and political forces that shape contemporary African societies.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Humanities.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  RELI 381.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 385 -- Race and Ethnic Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era  (3 units)
Description:  This course surveys issues surrounding race and ethnic politics in the post-Civil Rights era. The course is designed to reflect both the complexity of the relationships between and within racial and ethnic groups and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of ethnic and racial relations.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 396H -- Honors Proseminar  (4 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 399 -- Independent Study  (3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 399H -- Honors Independent Study  (1-3 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 400 -- African Aesthetics: Pan-African Dance Language of Liberation  (3 units)
Description:  This course is geared toward illuminating the relationship of dance and music through a theoretical and technical examination of historical Pan African dance forms from the African continent, through the Diaspora and the Americas. A range of Black and other thinkers and artists from Indigenous cultures in Africa and the Diaspora will be discussed in this course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 411 -- Africana Theatre Aesthetics  (3 units)
Description:  This course aims at analyzing and appreciating the foundations of Black theatre aesthetics while examining the socio-political context in which the performances are produced. It will illuminate the manner that the aesthetics of theatre is foundational within the trophe of arts and Africana Studies.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  T AR 411.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 420 -- Nineteenth Century African American Writing  (3 units)
Description:  This course on nineteenth century African American writing is designated to encourage critical reading and analysis of the use of literacy/writing by slaves and ex-slaves to engage tensions and aspirations arising out of their condition of servitude and freedom in the antebellum and post bellum periods of American history. Specifically, the course will emphasize critical examination of various writing styles and genres and their implication for understanding the historical/cultural functions of literacy and writing. These styles and genres will include poetry, sermons, pamphets, slave narratives, autobiographies, orations, essays, and novels.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 423 -- Topics in Caribbean Culture, Literature and Identity  (3 units)
Description:  The aim of the course is to investigate African Caribbean writings in English on issues from slavery through the 20th century. the key focus will be on issues from what is now considered the post colonial islands and countries. It will also take into account, the growing body of literature by Caribbean women writers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 425 -- Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism  (3 units)
Description:  This course will explore how racial, economic and cultural background affect peoples access to a clean and safe environment. Through lectures, field trips, literature review, guest lecturers, and videos we will examine how people's environmental rights are being threatened locally, nationally and globally and the mechanisms being used to secure these rights.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 433 -- Managing Diversity  (3 units)
Description:  This course is an active experientail and intensive class that discusses diversity in the work place so that students are equipped with knowledge from diverse cultural workplace environments to facilitate optimal individual and organizational growth in national and international settings.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 435 -- The Coming of the Civil War, U.S. 1845-1861  (3 units)
Description:  Political, constitutional, social and economic developments in the U.S. from the Mexican War through the Civil War.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  HIST 435; HIST is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 436 -- Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. 1861-1878  (3 units)
Description:  Political, constitutional, economic, and military developments in the U.S. and the Confederacy during and after the Civil War.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Equivalent to:  HSTV436
Mutually Exclusive: Credit allowed for only one of these courses: AFAS 436 or HSTV 436
Identical to:  HIST 436; HIST is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 439 -- Sex, Race, Cinema and African Americans  (3 units)
Description:  This introductory course focuses on the impact the subjective concept of race has had in African American cinematic representations, and how images work in controlling and policing thought and constructing sexuality. This course serves as an introduction to basic race theory.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 440 -- The History of African American Women from Slavery to Freedom  (3 units)
Description:  The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the history of Black people in American with a particular eye towards the experiences of Black women. The course will review some of the major historiographical issues presented by scholars of African American Women's History.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be convened with:  AFAS 540.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 443 -- Francophone Literature and Culture  (3 units)
Description:  Designed to develop understanding and appreciation of postcolonial literature of French expression and to expand knowledge of Francophone World. Taught in French
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  FREN 410, FREN 420 or equivalent.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  FREN 443; FREN is home department.
May be convened with:  AFAS 543.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 444 -- Rethinking Race and Health in the United States  (3 units)
Description:  This course is designed to expose undergraduates to the complexity of cultural and ethnic considerations as they pertain to the health and well being of underrepresented groups in the U. S., such as, African Americans. Drawing on perspectives from public health, the social/behavioral sciences, and perspectives from Africana Studies, we will engage in the comparative study of health cultures. We will explore the historical and contemporary multilayered social, cultural, political, and economic systems that engender the social and cultural determinants that shape health status, health behavior and health inequalities of Africana peoples in the United States.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Approved as:  General Education Tier Two - Individuals and Societies.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  CPH 444.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 467 -- Race and Ethnic Relations  (3 units)
Description:  Social processes involved in minority groups in terms of race, caste, class, ethnicity, politics, and religion.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  SOC 467; SOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 468 -- Government and Politics of Africa  (3 units)
Description:  Government and politics of African nations south of the Sahara; emphasis on processes of political and economic development.  This is a Writing Emphasis Course.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  satisfaction of the Mid-Career Writing Assessment (MCWA) or the former upper-division writing proficiency requirement (UDWPE); POL 204.
Approved as:  General Education Diversity Emphasis.
Identical to:  POL 468; POL is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 475 -- USA & South Africa: Comparative Historical & Political Perspectives  (3 units)
Description:  This course will focus on the historical and political developments of colonialism, racism, and racial segregation in the United States and in South Africa *(Azania) since the beginning of the colonialism-slavery epochs to the present. It will illumine the striking similarities and differences particularly between the slave and Jim Crow South and apartheid South Africa and between dispossession of Indigenous peoples in North America and those of Azania, paying special attention to issues of ideology, color, class, and gender. This class does satisfy requirements for the Africana Studies minor, Study Area I, Africana History, Politics and Economics.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 478 -- African American Literature  (3 units)
Description:  The study of novels, drama and poetry by leading Black writers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  upper division status.
Identical to:  ENGL 478; ENGL is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

AFAS 482 -- African Americans & U.S. Foreign Policy  (3 units)
Description:  Introduction to African American involvement in shaping U.S. foreign policy from 1850 to the present. The objective is to show how African Americans organized to change both U.S. foreign policy toward Africa and the Caribbean as well as domestic racial policies by appealing to the international community. The course will highlight how U. S. foreign policy was reformulated by ruling elites to stave off international criticism of unjust domestic racial policies.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  POL 482.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 493 -- Internship  (3-6 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 494 -- Practicum  (3-6 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 495B -- Studies in Black America  (3 units)
Description:  The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Identical to:  HIST 495B; HIST is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 498 -- Senior Capstone  (1-3 units)
Description:  A culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies. Senior standing required.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 498H -- Honors Thesis  (3 units)
Description:  An honors thesis is required of all the students graduating with honors. Students ordinarily sign up for this course as a two-semester sequence. The first semester the student performs research under the supervision of a faculty member; the second semester the student writes an honors thesis.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be repeated:  for a total of 9 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 499 -- Independent Study  (1-6 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 540 -- The History of African American Women from Slavery to Freedom  (3 units)
Description:  The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of the history of Black people in American with a particular eye towards the experiences of Black women. The course will review some of the major historiographical issues presented by scholars of African American Women's History. Graduate-level requirements include additional research papers.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Typical structure:  3 hours discussion, 3 hours lecture.
May be convened with:  AFAS 440.
Usually offered:  Spring.

AFAS 543 -- Francophone Literature and Culture  (3 units)
Description:  Designed to develop understanding and appreciation of postcolonial literature of French expression and to expand knowledge of Francophone World. Taught in French Graduate-level requirements include more emphasis on individual research (reading of/reports on secondary sources mandatory). More substantial assignments (in terms of lenth and quality).
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  FREN 543; FREN is home department.
May be convened with:  AFAS 443.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

AFAS 596J -- Issues in African Art History  (3 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for credit 3 times (maximum 4 enrollments).
Identical to:  ARH 596J; ARH is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.