AAAD Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
13904	AAAD 51 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Masquerades of Blackness	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Charlene Regester	Genome Sciences Bui-Rm 1373	8/24	Seats filled	8/24
Description: This course is designed to investigate how race has been represented in cinema historically with a emphasis on representations of race when blackness is masqueraded. 3 units.
13905	AAAD 53 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Experimentalism in Global Black Music and Performance Arts	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	DAVID PIER	Global Education, F-Rm 3024	Seats filled	Seats filled	24/24
Description: This seminar focuses on artists from around the world who have taken an experimental approach to music-making and performance, inspired by black politics, culture, and history. Considers the special challenges blacks have faced in the field of "modernism." Students may opt to do creative artistic projects in lieu of a final research paper. 3 units.
12072	AAAD 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Petal Samuel	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0009	22/24	Seats filled	22/24
Description: Special Topics Course: content will vary each semester. 3 units.
3413	AAAD 101 - 001 Introduction to Africa	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Raphael Birya	Dey Hall-Rm 0206	42/45	Seats filled	42/45	0/999
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
3415	AAAD 101 - 002 Introduction to Africa	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	samba camara	Davie Hall-Rm 0301	Seats filled	Seats filled	45/45	0/999
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
3551	AAAD 101 - 003 Introduction to Africa	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:35PM	DAVID PIER	Davie Hall-Rm 0301	43/45	Seats filled	43/45	0/999
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
15128	AAAD 101 - 004 Introduction to Africa	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja	Kenan Labs-Rm B125	28/30	Seats filled	28/30
Description: Introduction to the study of the African continent, its peoples, history, and contemporary problems of development in a globalized world, including a survey of the African past, society and culture, and contemporary political, economic, and social issues. 3 units.
3414	AAAD 130 - 001 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Dey Hall-Rm 0206	8/45	Seats filled	8/45	0/999
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
3439	AAAD 130 - 002 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Ronald Williams	Gardner Hall-Rm 0308	Seats filled	Seats filled	45/45	0/999
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
3440	AAAD 130 - 003 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Maya Berry	Phillips Hall-Rm 0208	Seats filled	Seats filled	45/45	0/999
Description: The course tracks the contours of history, life, societies, and cultures of the Atlantic African diaspora from their origins through Emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. 3 units.
3416	AAAD 201 - 001 Introduction to African Literature	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Mohamed Mwamzandi	Venable Hall-Rm G311	37/40	Seats filled	37/40	0/999
Description: An introduction to African literature, with an emphasis on works by writers from the late colonial period to the present, and including a survey of different genres. 3 units.
9442	AAAD 202 - 001 African Film and Performance	MoWe 3:30PM - 4:45PM	samba camara	New West-Rm 0219	12/40	Seats filled	12/40	0/999
Description: This course studies African film and performance as two distinct, but interconnected genres of artistic expression used for negotiating a postcolonial African agency. 3 units.
15127	AAAD 212 - 001 Africa in the Global System	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja	Stone Center-Rm 0210	6/40	Seats filled	6/40
Description: This course provides a critical examination of the historical and theoretical bases for understanding the challenges and opportunities facing African states and societies in the current global system, which is dominated by neoliberal globalization. 3 units.
3972	AAAD 237 - 001 African American Art Survey	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:20AM	John Bowles, Rachel Ciampoli	Phillips Hall-Rm 0265	14/18	Seats filled	14/18	0/999
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 3 units.
16437	AAAD 237 - 601 African American Art Survey	Mo 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Rachel Ciampoli	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0116	5/6	Seats filled	5/6
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 0 units.
16438	AAAD 237 - 602 African American Art Survey	Mo 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Rachel Ciampoli	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0116	3/6	Seats filled	3/6
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 0 units.
16439	AAAD 237 - 603 African American Art Survey	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Rachel Ciampoli	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0117	Seats filled	Seats filled	6/6
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 0 units.
13908	AAAD 250 - 001 The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present	Tu 2:00PM - 4:50PM	Charlene Regester	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	7/40	Seats filled	7/40	0/999
Description: This course will analyze the role of the African American in motion pictures, explore the development of stereotypical portrayals, and investigate the efforts of African American actors and actresses to overcome these portrayals. 3 units.
12077	AAAD 254 - 001 African Americans in North Carolina	MoWe 5:45PM - 7:00PM	Robert Porter	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	25/40	Seats filled	25/40	0/999
Description: This course is an overview of the black experience in North Carolina with special emphasis on Chapel Hill and Wilmington. 3 units.
12576	AAAD 259 - 001 Black Influences on Popular Culture	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Christopher Massenburg	Murray Hall-Rm G201	Seats filled	Seats filled	40/40	0/999
Description: This course examines the influence of African American expressive culture, particularly popular music, on American mainstream culture. 3 units.
16023	AAAD 260 - 001 Blacks in Latin America	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Nadia Mosquera Muriel	Peabody Hall-Rm 2024	23/40	Seats filled	23/40
Description: The majority of people of African descent in this hemisphere live in Latin America. This course will explore various aspects of the black experience in Latin America. 3 units.
12082	AAAD 284 - 001 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Joseph Jordan	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	6/40	Seats filled	6/40	0/999
Description: An interdisciplinary survey of African-descendant communities and the development and expression of African/black identities in the context of competing definitions of diaspora. 3 units.
13911	AAAD 286 - 001 The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Alicia Monroe	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	11/40	Seats filled	11/40	0/999
Description: Explores the experiences of Africans in European colonies in locations such as colonial Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, and mainland North America. Lecture and discussion format. The major themes of inquiry include labor, law, gender, culture, and resistance, exploring differing experiences based on gender, location, and religion. 3 units.
13912	AAAD 298 - 001 Blacks in British North America to 1833	Tu 7:30PM - 10:00PM	Robert Porter	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	26/40	Seats filled	26/40	0/999
Description: This course looks at blacks in the British world to 1833, with particular attention on the 13 colonies and the lands that would eventually form the Dominion of Canada. 3 units.
10470	AAAD 329 - 001 Islamic Cultures and Literatures in Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Mohamed Mwamzandi	Murray Hall-Rm G201	13/40	Seats filled	13/40	0/999
Description: This course examines Islamic influences on the cultures and societies of East Africa. Topics include introduction of Islam in the region, Swahili city states, hybrid Islamic cultures, Islam in the constitution, Wahhabi and Salafist puritanical Islam, Islam and politics, and secessionist movements and terrorism in East Africa Muslim societies. 3 units.
13915	AAAD 332 - 001 Remembering Race and Slavery	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Robert Porter	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	25/40	Seats filled	25/40	0/999
Description: The course provides an examination of the ways that the past plays out in the present. Specifically this course examines memorials, monuments, and museums that remember and reinvent slavery and race in the United States and throughout the rest of the Diaspora. 3 units.
3760	AAAD 340 - 001 Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	5/40	Seats filled	5/40	0/999
Description: Examines the socio-political dimensions of African diaspora art and culture with a focus on African Americans in the 20th century. 3 units.
10471	AAAD 388 - 001 Black Feminist Thought & the Speculative Imagination	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Petal Samuel	Gardner Hall-Rm 0106	39/40	Seats filled	39/40	0/999
Description: This class places transnational Black feminist thought in conversation with Black speculative fiction from across the diaspora, particularly emphasizing sci-fi and fantasy narratives set in dystopic or post-apocalyptic worlds. By reading these two traditions of writing together, we study how both genres theorize the potential sources of, responses to, and preventative measures against forms of political, social, and environmental catastrophe. 3 units.
13916	AAAD 391 - 001 Human Development and Sustainability in Africa and the African Diaspora	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Shakirah Hudani	Stone Center-Rm 0209	38/40	Seats filled	38/40	0/999
Description: A critical introduction to the study of development and sustainability as interlinked approaches to understanding contemporary challenges in Africa and the African diaspora. Development is a concept with multiple meanings and contextual incarnations. The course emphasizes thinking of development as a field of expertise and intervention and as a modality of change, that goes beyond economistic understandings of development as simply economic growth. 3 units.
13919	AAAD 461 - 001 Race, Gender, and Activism in Cuba	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Maya Berry	Global Education, F-Rm 3024	18/20	Seats filled	18/20	0/999
Description: The course is designed to give students a simulated experience of ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative research. Students are led through a learning experience where they will examine black activism in Cuba from historical and contemporary perspectives. 3 units.
12116	AAAD 466 - 001 Race and Gender in the Atlantic World	Tu 3:30PM - 6:30PM	Alicia Monroe	Dey Hall-Rm 0303	11/20	Seats filled	11/20	0/999
Description: This course examines constructions of race and gender in a comparative framework from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Students will explore how people across the Atlantic understood visual differences and human diversity in emerging concepts of race. Students will also focus on how inhabitants of Africa, Europe, North America, and South America constructed the category of "woman" and "man" and the constraints and liberties these constructions imposed. 3 units.
13837	AAAD 486 - 001 Africa in the American Imagination	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Taylor Hunkins	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0117	Seats filled	Seats filled	8/8	0/999
Description: Examines the ways African art appears in United States popular culture (advertisements, magazines, toys, films, art) to generate meanings about Africa. Addresses intersecting issues of nationalism, multiculturalism, imperialism, nostalgia, and race. Restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. 3 units.
3441	AAAD 487 - 001 Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Claude Clegg	Dey Hall-Rm 0403	18/20	Seats filled	18/20	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, AAAD 101 and 130; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. In this seminar students will examine primary documents of engaged scholarship written by Africans and people of African descent in the Americas, Europe, and elsewhere in the African Diaspora. 3 units.
12122	AAAD 491 - 001 Class, Race, and Inequality in America	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	KENNETH JANKEN	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	9/20	Seats filled	9/20	0/999
Description: Examines the origins of race in America, the relationship of racial oppression to class struggle at key points in American history, the proliferation of versions of the concept of privilege, and approaches to eliminating class and racial privilege. 3 units.
14661	AAAD 492 - 001 Urbanism in the Global South	MoWe 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Shakirah Hudani	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0305	Seats filled	Seats filled	10/10	0/999
Description: This course introduces concepts and themes on the development of urbanism in the "Global South". Students engage with current debates over urbanism in the Global South, including looking at urban inequalities in contemporary cities. Through the course, students will be able to compare and critically analyze formations of contemporary urbanism in selected cities in the Global South from a comparative perspective. 3 units.