AAAD Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
11811	AAAD 51 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Masquerades of Blackness	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Charlene Regester	Davie Hall-Rm 0301	7/24	Seats filled	7/24
Description: This course is designed to investigate how race has been represented in cinema historically with an emphasis on representations of race when blackness is masqueraded. 3 units.
11812	AAAD 53 - 001 First-Year Seminar: Experimentalism in Global Black Music and Performance Arts	MoWe 12:20PM - 1:35PM	DAVID PIER	Venable Hall-Rm G311	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.
3181	AAAD 101 - 001 Introduction to Africa	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Raphael Birya	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0106	26/45	Seats filled	26/45	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.
3183	AAAD 101 - 002 Introduction to Africa	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	samba camara	Phillips Hall-Rm 0265	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.
3318	AAAD 101 - 003 Introduction to Africa	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	DAVID PIER	Phillips Hall-Rm 0247	24/45	Seats filled	24/45	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.
3182	AAAD 130 - 001 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Claude Clegg	Global Education, F-Rm 1005	42/45	Seats filled	42/45	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.
3207	AAAD 130 - 002 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Alicia Monroe	Murphey Hall-Rm 0104	10/45	Seats filled	10/45	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.
3208	AAAD 130 - 003 Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Maya Berry	Phillips Hall-Rm 0247	39/45	Seats filled	39/45	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.
3184	AAAD 201 - 001 Introduction to African Literature	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Mohamed Mwamzandi	New West-Rm 0219	10/40	Seats filled	10/40	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.
8738	AAAD 202 - 001 African Film and Performance	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	samba camara	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0302	11/40	Seats filled	11/40	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.
15065	AAAD 202 - 002 African Film and Performance	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	To be Announced	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	15/40	Seats filled	15/40	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.
3718	AAAD 237 - 001 African American Art Survey	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:20AM	John Bowles, Noah Williams	Global Education, F-Rm 1005	12/18	Seats filled	12/18	0/999
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 3 units.
13010	AAAD 237 - 601 African American Art Survey	Fr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Noah Williams	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	3/6	Seats filled	3/6	0/999
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 0 units.
13011	AAAD 237 - 602 African American Art Survey	Th 3:30PM - 4:20PM	Noah Williams	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0118	5/6	Seats filled	5/6	0/999
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 0 units.
13012	AAAD 237 - 603 African American Art Survey	Fr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Noah Williams	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0117	4/6	Seats filled	4/6	0/999
Description: An introduction to African American art and artists and their social contexts from early slavery. 0 units.
11815	AAAD 250 - 001 The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present	Tu 2:00PM - 4:50PM	Charlene Regester	Phillips Hall-Rm 0328	9/40	Seats filled	9/40	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.
10592	AAAD 254 - 001 African Americans in North Carolina	MoWe 5:45PM - 7:00PM	Robert Porter	Peabody Hall-Rm 3050	17/40	Seats filled	17/40	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.
10597	AAAD 284 - 001 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Murphey Hall-Rm 0118	2/40	Seats filled	2/40	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.
11818	AAAD 286 - 001 The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Alicia Monroe	Peabody Hall-Rm 2024	15/40	Seats filled	15/40	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.
11819	AAAD 298 - 001 Blacks in British North America to 1833	Tu 7:30PM - 10:00PM	Robert Porter	Peabody Hall-Rm 2060	14/40	Seats filled	14/40	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.
14100	AAAD 300 - 001 Cultures of Health and Healing in Africa	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	LYDIA BOYD	Dey Hall-Rm 0305	27/40	Seats filled	27/40	0/999
Description: This course explores contemporary economic, political, and social factors influencing the health and welfare of African peoples. Emphasis is placed on understanding the cultural perspectives that shape non-Western experiences of health, disease, and notions of spiritual and physical well-being. Readings draw from the fields of anthropology, history, and public health. 3 units.
14101	AAAD 315 - 001 Political Protest and Conflict in Africa	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	MICHAEL LAMBERT	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	24/40	Seats filled	24/40	0/999
Description: This course surveys contemporary forms of political conflict and protest in Africa. The nature, causes, and consequences of these conflicts will be examined. 3 units.
11820	AAAD 332 - 001 Remembering Race and Slavery	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Robert Porter	Dey Hall-Rm 0206	26/40	Seats filled	26/40	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.
3520	AAAD 340 - 001 Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Joseph Jordan	Wilson Hall-Rm 0139	4/40	Seats filled	4/40	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.
14102	AAAD 385 - 001 Emancipation in the New World	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Brandi Brimmer	Peabody Hall-Rm 2024	4/40	Seats filled	4/40	0/999
Description: Students will examine the way that the process of emancipation unfolded in Haiti, Antiqua, and Cuba, with major emphasis on emancipation in the United States. 3 units.
11821	AAAD 391 - 001 Human Development and Sustainability in Africa and the African Diaspora	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Shakirah Hudani	Venable Hall-Rm G311	39/40	Seats filled	39/40	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.
14103	AAAD 403 - 001 Human Rights: Theories and Practices in Africa	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	EUNICE SAHLE	Alumni Bldg-Rm 0203	10/20	Seats filled	10/20	0/999
Description: This course explores major conceptual debates in the field of human rights. Further, it examines human rights practices and struggles in selected countries in Africa. 3 units.
10605	AAAD 466 - 001 Race and Gender in the Atlantic World	Th 3:30PM - 6:00PM	Alicia Monroe	Global Education, F-Rm 3024	4/20	Seats filled	4/20	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.
11786	AAAD 486 - 001 Africa in the American Imagination	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	CAROL MAGEE	Hanes Art Center-Rm 0218	Seats filled	Seats filled	12/12	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.
3209	AAAD 487 - 001 Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	MICHAEL LAMBERT	Phillips Hall-Rm 0222	6/20	Seats filled	6/20	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.
12308	AAAD 492 - 001 Urbanism in the Global South	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Shakirah Hudani	Carolina Hall-Rm 0104	9/10	Seats filled	9/10	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.