African and African American Studies 11. Introduction to African Studies - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 9428
Francis Abiola Irele and J. Lorand Matory
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course introduces students to the general outlines of African geography and history, as well as key controversies in the study of African health, social life, arts, and politics. Our aim is to give students a fundamental vocabulary and interdisciplinary methodology for the study of Africa. Throughout, we assume that Africa is not a unique isolate but a continent bubbling with internal diversity, historical change, and cultural connections beyond its shores.
Note: Required of concentrators in African Studies track.
African and African American Studies 12. What is Black Religion?: An Introduction - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7352
Marla F. Frederick
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course offers an introduction to broad themes in the study of African American religion in the US. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we explore the cultural expressions, social/political workings and historic development of what is commonly referred to as "black religion". Given the pre-existing and growing diversity of religious expression in the US, we ultimately ask what (if anything) allows us to hold "black religion" as a distinct category of social meaning?
African and African American Studies 20. Introduction to African Languages and Cultures
Catalog Number: 2048
John M. Mugane
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
An introduction to African languages and cultures. Explores language use by sub-Saharan Africans to understand, organize, and transmit indigenous knowledge to successive generations. Language serves as a road map to understanding how social, political, and economic institutions and processes develop: from kinship structures, the evolution of political offices, trade relations, to the transfer of environmental knowledge.
Note: This course, when taken for a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures.
Gikuyu B. Intermediate Gikuyu
Catalog Number: 0010
John M. Mugane and assistant
Full course (indivisible). Hours to be arranged.
Continuation of Gikuyu A. Gikuyu is a Bantu language spoken by Kenya’s most populous ethnic group. The Gikuyu are among Africa’s most recognized peoples because of the Mau Mau freedom fighters who were mainly Gikuyu.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Gikuyu A or the equivalent of one year’s study in Gikuyu.
Gikuyu 101ar. Reading in Gikuyu
Catalog Number: 0017
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Gikuyu B or equivalent.
Gikuyu 101br. Reading in Gikuyu II
Catalog Number: 0018
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Gikuyu 101ar or equivalent.
Swahili B. Intermediate Swahili
Catalog Number: 3442
John M. Mugane and assistant
Full course (indivisible). Spring: M., W., at 6. EXAM GROUP: Spring: 9
Continuation of Swahili A. A study of the lingua franca of East Africa at the elementary level. Contact hours supplemented by language lab sessions. Emphasis on written expression, reading comprehension, and oral fluency.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Swahili A or the equivalent of one year’s study of Swahili.
Swahili 101ar. Reading in Swahili
Catalog Number: 8503
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisite: Swahili B or equivalent.
Swahili 101br (formerly African and African American Studies 121b). Reading in Swahili II
Catalog Number: 7746
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Prerequisite: Swahili 101ar or equivalent.
Twi B. Intermediate Twi
Catalog Number: 0025
John M. Mugane and assistant
Full course (indivisible). Hours to be arranged.
Continuation of Twi A. Twi is one of the regional languages of the Akan speaking peoples of Ghana constituting the largest ethnic group in Ghana. Twi, is fast becoming the lingua franca of the country. The Akan people are well known for their art and culture, especially the traditional colorful Kente cloth.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Twi A or the equivalent of one year’s study of Twi.
Twi 101ar. Reading in Twi
Catalog Number: 0026
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Twi B or equivalent.
Twi 101br. Reading in Twi II
Catalog Number: 0028
John M. Mugane
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Twi 101ar or equivalent.
Yoruba B. Intermediate Yoruba
Catalog Number: 0031
John M. Mugane
Full course (indivisible). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: Fall: 18; Spring: 9
Continuation of Yoruba A. Yoruba is spoken in the West African countries of Nigeria, Benin Republic, and parts of Togo and Sierra Leone, therefore constituting one of the largest single languages in sub-Saharan Africa. Yoruba is also spoken in Cuba and Brazil. Students will acquire the Yoruba language at the basic or elementary level.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Yoruba A or the equivalent of one year’s study of Yoruba.
Yoruba 101ar. Reading in Yoruba
Catalog Number: 0033
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Yoruba B or equivalent.
Yoruba 101br. Reading in Yoruba II
Catalog Number: 0035
John M. Mugane and assistant
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Not open to auditors.
Prerequisite: Yoruba 101a or equivalent.
African and African American Studies 97. Sophomore Tutorial: Race and Humanism - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3022
Duana Fullwiley
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 2:30–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course examines the place and social function of racial logics in humanist discourse. Drawing on historical, anthropological, and biological examples, students will explore how human particularism and universals often work together to establish both racial distinction and the notion of "the human" more generally. Interdisciplinary in nature, this course will explore diverse case studies that include early 20th-century colonial rule in French West Africa, the philosophies behind the Parisian Negritude movement, the work of the Boasian school of American anthropology, the creation of UNESCO and its statements on race, and the evolution of the American Anthropological Association’s and the American Sociological Association’s statements on race. We will also review the most recent debates on human biological differences, and similarity, in the life sciences in the late 20th and early 21st century with regard to the Human Genome Project, the HapMap, and other key molecular-based studies on human distinction within the field of genomics.
*African and African American Studies 98. Junior Tutorial - African American Studies
Catalog Number: 6272
Tommie Shelby and members of the tutorial staff
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Students wishing to enroll must petition the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project.
Prerequisite: Completion of African and African American Studies 10, or a substitute course approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
*African and African American Studies 98a. Junior Tutorial - African Studies
Catalog Number: 3070
Tommie Shelby and members of the tutorial staff
Half course (fall term; repeated spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Students wishing to enroll must petition the Director of Undergraduate Studies for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor. Ordinarily, students are required to have taken some coursework as background for their project.
Prerequisite: Completion of African and African American Studies 11 or a substitute course approved by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
*African and African American Studies 99. Senior Thesis Workshop
Catalog Number: 8654
Tommie Shelby and members of the Department
Full course. Hours to be arranged.
Thesis supervision under the direction of a member of the Department.
Note: Enrollment limited to honors candidates.
African and African American Studies 113. Fictions of Race, Facts of Racism: Perspectives from South African and African American Drama and Fiction
Catalog Number: 1503
Biodun Jeyifo
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
The course will explore works of South African and African American drama and fiction while considering the claim that "race" is a socially constructed fiction. The works to be explored in the course juxtapose the fiction of race with the facts of racism to pose the fundamental question: Can we imagine a world where racism, like "race" will also become fiction? Authors include Baraka, Morrison, Naylor, August Wilson, Gordimer, Nkosi, Fugard, and Coetzee.
[African and African American Studies 117. The Harlem Renaissance] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 1442
Glenda R. Carpio
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The class examines the flowering of African American literature and art led primarily by African Americans based in Harlem after World War I. Most of the participants in this African American literary movement were descendants from a generation whose parents or grandparents had witnessed the injustices of slavery and the gains and losses that would come with Recostruction after the Civil War. The class examines how African American authors documented this crucial moment in African American history. Writers include but are not limited to Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer and George Schuyler.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
African and African American Studies 118. African American History from the Slave Trade to 1900
Catalog Number: 7429
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
An introduction to African American history and the role black men and women have played in the cultural, economic, and political life of the US. Topics will include the rise of slavery; the American Revolution and the problem of slavery; African American social, economic, and cultural life in the antebellum North and South; the struggle for freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction; and African Americans in the age of segregation and disenfranchisement.
[African and African American Studies 119. Chinua Achebe and the African World] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0192
Francis Abiola Irele
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This course will be devoted to a comprehensive examination of Achebe’s oeuvre, with a view to his vision of Africa, as this emerges from his novels and essays.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
African and African American Studies 121. Please, Wake Up! - Race, Gender, Class and Ethnicity in the Early Films of Spike Lee - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6238
Biodun Jeyifo
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16, 17
This course will explore how the intersection of race, gender, class and ethnicity in the early cinema of Spike Lee works to give his social vision and artistic temper the qualities now commonly associated with his cinematic style. Race seems to be the central pivot of social identity in Lee’s films, but in this course we will explore his remarkable attentiveness to other indices of identity and subjectivity. We will pay special attention to the tension between Lee’s passionate oppositional politics and his intensely personal, experimental and playful approach to film and its expressive idioms, techniques and styles. Films to be studied include "She’s Gotta Have It," "School Daze," "Do the Right Thing," "Mo Better Blues" and "Jungle Fever".
[African and African American Studies 124. The Poetics of Tradition: African Literature and the Dilemma of Modernity] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 7057
Francis Abiola Irele
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Description forthcoming.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[African and African American Studies 126. Philosophical Perspectives on Race and Racism] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6471
Tommie Shelby
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Critically examines recent philosophical work on the themes of "race" and racism. Topics for discussion include the following: What is a "race" and do any exist? What does it mean to embrace or reject one’s racial identity? What is racism, and what makes it wrong? How should we, from the point of view of justice, respond to racism and the social problems it causes?
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
[African and African American Studies 128. Black Nationalism]
Catalog Number: 3426
Tommie Shelby
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11.
Critically examines the family of African American social philosophies generally classified under the broad rubric “black nationalism.” Topics to be explored include the meaning of black collective self-determination; the relationship between black identity and black solidarity; and the significance of Africa for black nationalist ideals. Authors to be discussed include Martin Delany, Alexander Crummell, Edward Blyden, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton, and some contemporary representatives of the tradition.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
[African and African American Studies 130. W. E. B. Du Bois: Social and Political Writings] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3561
Tommie Shelby
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
An introduction to the writings of Du Bois, with a focus on his social theory and political philosophy. In addition to various journal articles and editorials from The Crisis, texts to be examined include The Philadelphia Negro, The Souls of Black Folk, Darkwater, Black Reconstruction in America, and Dusk of Dawn.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
African and African American Studies 131. African-American Literature to the 1920s
Catalog Number: 2589
Farah J. Griffin
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Close readings of major writers in the context of cultural history. I) Literature and folk culture in the slavery period: Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Omar Ibn Said, Victor Séjour, Lydia Maria Child, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Frank Webb, Martin Robison Delany, and Harriet Jacobs. II) “Post-bellum, pre-Harlem”: Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and James Weldon Johnson. We examine diverse genres—from slave narratives, novels and poems to plays, speeches and song lyrics.
African and African American Studies 137. Literature and Its Cultural ’Others’ - America, Africa and the Caribbean, 1950s-80s - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3258
Biodun Jeyifo
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3:30. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7, 8
In the historic contexts of the civil rights struggles in the United States and the decolonizing liberation struggles in Africa and the Caribbean, this course explores how utopian or emancipatory aspirations in diverse media like literature, popular music, oratory, non-scripted street or community theatre, and popular visual media like poster art, murals and graffiti impact people of different social classes and backgrounds.
[African and African American Studies 140z. The Other African Americans]
Catalog Number: 0300
J. Lorand Matory
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Surveys the history and contemporary experiences of self-identified "mixed-race" groups, as well as voluntary immigrant groups from Africa and the Caribbean, such as Cape Verdeans, Nigerians, Jamaicans, Afro-Puerto Ricans, and Haitians in the US. Students are introduced to arguments central to the social scientific study of modern societies generally, such as the invention of ethnicity, and negotiation of identity, and the social constructedness of race.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10.
[African and African American Studies 142. Afro-Latin Society and Politics] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3844
J. Lorand Matory
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Survey of non-English-speaking populations of African descent in the Americas.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
African and African American Studies 169. Visualizing Africa - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6518
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An examination of the various ways in which Africa historically has been conceptualized and visualized in art and illustrative materials. Emphasis is given to the critical reading of actual works of art and documents. Construction of self and others as seen through images is discussed. The interface between Africa and the Christian and Islamic worlds as well as larger concerns of slavery, colonialism, and contemporary art are examined.
[African and African American Studies 174. The African City] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 6977
Suzanne P. Blier
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
This seminar investigates critical issues in Africa’s rich urban centers. Architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and new art markets will be examined.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
[African and African American Studies 185. Perspectives on the African Novel]
Catalog Number: 6764
Francis Abiola Irele
Half course (spring term). Tu., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
We examine a representative selection of African novels with a view to grasping the development of the genre from the double heritage of the oral tradition and the literate conventions of the West. The African novel will be studied in relation to the dominant themes-colonialism, social and cultural change, the post-colonial dilemma-and the textual strategies adopted by the novelists in their rendering of the African experience in modern times.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
African and African American Studies 187. African Religions - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0094
Jacob Olupona
Half course (fall term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
This course is a basic introduction to the history and phenomenology of traditional religions of the African peoples. Using diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, the course will explore various forms of experiences and practices that provide a deep understanding and appreciation of the sacred meaning of African existence: myth, ritual arts, and symbols selected from West, East, Central, and Southern Africa.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3690.
African and African American Studies 188. Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 3590
Jacob Olupona
Half course (spring term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
This course is a comparative and historical survey of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will explore facets of Islam in African history, culture, and society, paying particular attention to Islamic institutions and organizations and the imprints of Islam on verbal and visual arts, religion and cultural identity. We will also focus on topics such as Islam and politics, Muslim-Christian relations, social change, women and gender, and the process of modernization. It will consider the emergence and growth of Islam in the age of identity politics, global Islamism, and religious revivalism.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3698.
[African and African American Studies 189. African Americans and Consumer Culture] - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 0397
Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
This course looks at African American lives in a culture of consumption.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
[African and African American Studies 190. African-American Families: Politics, Culture, Experience]
Catalog Number: 9440
Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
“The Black Family” has often been at the center of political debates about social policy, including welfare reform and crime. Such debates tend to obscure the particular historical, social, and economic circumstances that shape African American family life and posit a unidimensional black family experience. We explore the diversity of black family life—by class, region, family composition, and gender—and link social structure to how families form, function, and change.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
[African and African American Studies 192x. Religion and Society in Nigeria]
Catalog Number: 8241
Jacob Olupona
Half course (spring term). Th., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 18
The seminar examines the historical development of religion in Nigeria and explores its intersection with ethnic identity, culture, and society in pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary periods. The course provides an understanding of various cultural tradition, historical events and social forces that have shaped Nigeria’s religious express. Many topical issues will be explored such as indigenous religious culture, Christian and Muslim identities, civil religion, and civil society and democratization, as well as religion and politics in present-day Nigeria.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
[African and African American Studies 193. Religion and Social Change in Black America]
Catalog Number: 8058
Marla F. Frederick
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Religion, as experienced in churches and mosques alike, has inspired new meanings of black subjectivity, history, and politics. From protest oriented struggles for civil rights to the personal responsibility calls of the Million Man March, religion has informed how Blacks engage the challenges of everyday life in America. Through ethnography, auto/biography and documentary film, this class examines the influence that the social reality of blackness and the religious expression of faith have had on the day to day existence of people of African descent in the US.
Note: Expected to be given in 2009–10. Offered jointly with the Divinity School.
African and African American Studies 193x. Rags to Riches: Religion and the Quest for the (African) American Dream
Catalog Number: 2040
Marla F. Frederick
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course examines the place of wealth and poverty in the African American religious imagination. From Marx and Weber’s discussions of religion and capitalism, to Benjamin E. Mays and E. Franklin Frazier’s articulations of the otherwordly impulse of Black Protestantism, to contemporary anthropological discussions of prosperity gospels-this course explores the complex relationship between Christianity and American capitalism among African Americans. Topics include individualism, Protestantism, race, neoliberalism, class and citizenship.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3699.
African and African American Studies 197. Poverty, Race, and Health - (New Course)
Catalog Number: 5172
David Williams
Half course (spring term). M., 4–6. EXAM GROUP: 9
This course critically examines the health status of the poor, and of African Americans and other socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups in the US. Attention will be focused on the patterned ways in which the health of these groups is embedded in the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts and arrangements of US society. Topics covered include the meaning and measurement of race, the ways in which racism affects health, the historic uses of minorities in medical research, how acculturation and migration affects health, and an examination of the specific health problems that disproportionately affect nondominant racial groups.
African and African American Studies 218. Topics in African American History
Catalog Number: 9951
Susan E. O’Donovan
Half course (spring term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores Afro-American History from the slave trade to 1900. Central themes include black people’s lives and labor in slavery and freedom, black culture, and African American influences on national political discourse, including the changing dynamics of class, gender, and race.
[African and African American Studies 241. Topics in African American Social Science]
Catalog Number: 3668
James Sidanius
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
This course provides an in-depth and comprehensive exposure to the theoretical and methodological issues within the social psychology of racism and prejudice research. Approaches will include sociology, political science, and anthropology.
Note: Expected to be given in 2008–09.
*African and African American Studies 302. Graduate Seminar
Catalog Number: 7559
Duana Fullwiley and members of the Department
Half course (spring term). Tu., 12–2.
Students are introduced to major themes, debates and texts in the broad interdisciplinary field of African and African American Studies. African and African American Studies 302, in the spring term, focuses on the social sciences.
Note: Required for all graduates in African and African American Studies in their first year. Ordinarily, only graduate students affiliated with the program will be permitted to attend.
*African and African American Studies 310. Individual Reading Tutorial
Catalog Number: 1374
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421, Ali S. Asani 7739, Robert H. Bates 1251, Homi K. Bhabha 4100, Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Vincent Brown 4638, Glenda R. Carpio 4408 (on leave 2007-08), Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta 4182 (on leave 2007-08), Marla F. Frederick 4728, Duana Fullwiley 5767, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), Evelynn M. Hammonds 4545, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, Francis Abiola Irele 4354, Biodun Jeyifo 1001, Walter Johnson 5616 (on leave 2007-08 ), Jamaica Kincaid 3178 (Not in residence 2007-08), Michael R. Kremer 2112, Michèle Lamont 4634, J. Lorand Matory 3098, Ingrid Monson 1591, John M. Mugane 4776, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Jacob Olupona 5608, Orlando Patterson 1091, Tommie Shelby 3863, Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483 (on leave 2007-08 ), James Sidanius 5371 (on leave 2007-08), Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), John Stauffer 1006 (on leave fall term), Mark R. Warren (Education School) 2010, David Williams 5778, and William Julius Wilson 2401
Allows students to work with an individual member of the faculty in a weekly tutorial.
Note: Students may not register for this course until their adviser and the faculty member with whom they plan to work have approved a program of study.
*African and African American Studies 390. Individual Research
Catalog Number: 4046
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421, Ali S. Asani 7739, Robert H. Bates 1251, Homi K. Bhabha 4100, Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Vincent Brown 4638, Glenda R. Carpio 4408 (on leave 2007-08), Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta 4182 (on leave 2007-08), Marla F. Frederick 4728, Duana Fullwiley 5767, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), Evelynn M. Hammonds 4545, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, Francis Abiola Irele 4354, Biodun Jeyifo 1001, Walter Johnson 5616 (on leave 2007-08 ), Jamaica Kincaid 3178 (Not in residence 2007-08), Michael R. Kremer 2112, Michèle Lamont 4634, J. Lorand Matory 3098, Ingrid Monson 1591, John M. Mugane 4776, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Jacob Olupona 5608, Orlando Patterson 1091, Tommie Shelby 3863, Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483 (on leave 2007-08 ), Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), John Stauffer 1006 (on leave fall term), Mark R. Warren (Education School) 2010, David Williams 5778, and William Julius Wilson 2401
Requires students to identify and carry out a research project under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Graduate students may use this course to begin work on the research paper required for admission to candidacy.
*African and African American Studies 391. Directed Writing
Catalog Number: 4587
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421, Ali S. Asani 7739, Robert H. Bates 1251, Homi K. Bhabha 4100, Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Vincent Brown 4638, Glenda R. Carpio 4408 (on leave 2007-08), Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta 4182 (on leave 2007-08), Marla F. Frederick 4728, Duana Fullwiley 5767, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), Evelynn M. Hammonds 4545, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, Francis Abiola Irele 4354, Biodun Jeyifo 1001, Walter Johnson 5616 (on leave 2007-08 ), Jamaica Kincaid 3178 (Not in residence 2007-08), Michael R. Kremer 2112, Michèle Lamont 4634, J. Lorand Matory 3098, Ingrid Monson 1591, John M. Mugane 4776, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Jacob Olupona 5608, Orlando Patterson 1091, Tommie Shelby 3863, Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483 (on leave 2007-08 ), James Sidanius 5371 (on leave 2007-08), Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), John Stauffer 1006 (on leave fall term), Mark R. Warren (Education School) 2010, David Williams 5778, and William Julius Wilson 2401
Requires students to identify a major essay and carry it out under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Graduate students may use this course to begin to work on the research paper that is a requirement of admission to candidacy.
*African and African American Studies 398. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 0427
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421, Ali S. Asani 7739, Robert H. Bates 1251, Homi K. Bhabha 4100, Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Vincent Brown 4638, Glenda R. Carpio 4408 (on leave 2007-08), Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta 4182 (on leave 2007-08), Marla F. Frederick 4728, Duana Fullwiley 5767, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), Evelynn M. Hammonds 4545, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, Francis Abiola Irele 4354, Biodun Jeyifo 1001, Jamaica Kincaid 3178 (Not in residence 2007-08), Michael R. Kremer 2112, Michèle Lamont 4634, J. Lorand Matory 3098, Ingrid Monson 1591, John M. Mugane 4776, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Jacob Olupona 5608, Orlando Patterson 1091, Tommie Shelby 3863, Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483 (on leave 2007-08 ), James Sidanius 5371 (on leave 2007-08), Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), John Stauffer 1006 (on leave fall term), Mark R. Warren (Education School) 2010, David Williams 5778, and William Julius Wilson 2401
Note: Permission of the instructor and the Director of Graduate Studies is required for enrollment.
*African and African American Studies 399. Direction of Doctoral Dissertations
Catalog Number: 8411
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong 3421, Robert H. Bates 1251, Homi K. Bhabha 4100, Suzanne P. Blier 3472, Glenda R. Carpio 4408 (on leave 2007-08), Kimberly Mcclain Dacosta 4182 (on leave 2007-08), Marla F. Frederick 4728, Duana Fullwiley 5767, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2899 (on leave spring term), Evelynn M. Hammonds 4545, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 3517, Jennifer L. Hochschild 3785, Francis Abiola Irele 4354, Biodun Jeyifo 1001, Walter Johnson 5616 (on leave 2007-08 ), Jamaica Kincaid 3178 (Not in residence 2007-08), Michael R. Kremer 2112, Michèle Lamont 4634, J. Lorand Matory 3098, Ingrid Monson 1591, John M. Mugane 4776, Susan E. O’Donovan 3962, Jacob Olupona 5608, Orlando Patterson 1091, Tommie Shelby 3863, Kay Kaufman Shelemay 3483 (on leave 2007-08 ), James Sidanius 5371 (on leave 2007-08), Werner Sollors 7424 (on leave spring term), David Williams 5778, and William Julius Wilson 2401