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AAS 451: Directed Research/DMP (3)
AAS 452: Thesis/DMP (3)

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 225: Nationalism, Racism, Culture, Multiculturalism (3)

Instructor: Richard Handler

MW 14:00-15:15

MRY 209
Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world.

ANTH 388: Archaeology of Africa (3)

Instructor: Adria LaViolette

TR 9:30-10:45

CAB 316
This course surveys the archaeological knowledge currently available about the African continent. The emphasis will be on the Late Stone Age, when fully modern humans dominate the cultural landscape, and the subsequent Iron Age, but will also briefly cover pre-modern humans and the archaeology of the colonial period. We will discuss the great social, economic, and cultural transformations in African history known primarily through archaeology, and the most important archaeological sites and discoveries on the continent.

ANTH 401C: Contemporary African Societies (3)

Instructor: LaViolette

TR 1230-1345

CAB 331
This course engages the human landscape of modern Africa, through the close reading of a selection of monographs and African feature films from diverse cultural and geographical areas. The main texts are drawn from fiction, ethnography, and social history, and are taught against a backdrop of economic strategies, forms of social organization, and challenges facing modern African women and men. We will discuss urban dwellers and rural farmers, both the elite and poor, and the forces that draw them together; transnational migration; and belief systems. How relationships between men and women are contextualized and negotiated is a theme found throughout the readings and films, as well as the struggle of people in different circumstances to build new relationships with older beliefs and practices, and with new forms of government. Meets second writing requirement.

ANTH 528: Topics in Race Theory: White Supremacy (3)

Instructor: Wende Marshall

R 1900-2130

CAB 426
What is "White Supremacy"? Who is 'white"? How does an emphasis on race (i.e. "racism" and "race relations") obscure the relationship between white power and class oppression? What is to be gained by discourses that pathologize "blacks" and render "white" behavior normative? With attention to both discourse and practice the course will explore the meaning and power of whiteness. Satisfies second writing requirement.

COMMON COURSES

CCFA 202: Arts and Cultures of the Slave South (4)

Instructors: Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson

MW 15:30-16:45

PHS 203
An exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, music, and literature in the formation of Southern identities. The course covers subjects ranging from the archaeology of seventeenth-century Virginia and the formation of African American spirituals, to creolization and ethnicities in Louisiana, to the plantation architectures of the big house and outbuildings and the literary traditions of antebellum women. Students are introduced to the interpretive methods central to a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology and anthropology, to art and architectural history, to material culture, literature, and musicology. (Y)

CCSS 200: Rural Poverty in Our Time (3)

Instructor: Grace Hale

R 15:30-17:20

WIL 402
This course will use an interdisciplinary format to explore the history of non-urban poverty in the American South from the 1930s to the present. Weaving together the social histories of poor people, the political history of poverty policies, and the history of representations of poverty, the course follows historical cycles of attention and neglect: rural poverty during the Great Depression, rural poverty from the war on poverty to the Reagan Revolution, and rural poverty in the present. In each section, we will examine the relationship between representations (imagining poverty), policies (alleviating poverty), and results (the effects of those representations and policies in the economic, political, and psychological status of poor people).

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ENAM 314: African American Survey II (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

TR 11:00-12:15

CAB 323
Continuation of ENAM 313, this course begins with the career of Richard Wright and brings the Afro-American literary and performing tradition up to the present day.

ENAM 482D: African-American Speculative Fiction (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

TR 9:30-10:45

BRN 330
No description available.

ENAM 482E: The Harlem Renaissance (3)

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

TR 11:00-12:15

BRN 328
No description available.

ENCR 482 - Race in American Places (3)

Instructor: Ian Grandison

M 15:30-18:00

BRN 334
Do assumptions about race operate when we consider the idea of an “American Place?” This interdisciplinary seminar interrogates this question by exploring place in America within the context of contemporary culture wars, especially as these are circumscribed by the concept of race. We consider, for instance, how place is embroiled in the ideological work of distinguishing people according to identity and, then, of fixing identity groups within unyielding hierarchies. How, for example, does the seemingly innocuous story of The Three Little Pigs lead us to assume particular racial attributes of each pig based on the materials—straw, say, versus brick—and architectural styles—hut, say, versus cottage— of the house each builds? Do we identify people as “primitive” or “destitute” because they live in, say, wooden shacks. Do we assume that such people cannot govern themselves and, so, are unworthy of autonomy? We consider how such conflation of race and place are reinforced not only by social custom but also by planning and design policy and practice that define and rigorously maintain separate often unequal racial territories. Have you considered the ways in which such places as Charlottesville’s celebrated Downtown Mall, for example, might be configured or programmed to encourage symbolic ownership by one or other racial group? How the advent of Homeowners’ Associations maintains racial territories against the force of legal desegregation? Does the concurrency of homelessness and home-owners-associations in American society suggest anything about prevailing assumptions about a relationship between our right to privacy and our racial and class identity? We explore such issues through targeted discussion of readings; mandatory visits to places around Charlottesville; informal workshops (mainly to develop the ability to interpret maps, plans, and other graphic representations of places); and in-class presentations. Requirements include three informal small group exercises, an individual site-visit comment paper, a mid-term and final exam, and a group research project. The last requirement is presented in an informal symposium that represents the culmination of the semester.

ENCR 482A: Critical Race Theory (3)

Instructor: Marlon Ross

MW 15:30-16:45

MCL 2008
No description available.

ENGN 482/ENMC482A: African American Drama (3)

Instructor: Lotta Lofgren

TR 12:30 – 13:45

WIL 141B
We will survey African-American drama from the 1950's to the present. We will place the drama in relation to established norms, investigating the motives and methods of the playwrights for carving out new ground. We will examine the shared and divergent concerns of male and female playwrights, their sense of audience, the dilemma of writing as an individual and as a member of a group silenced too long, their relationship to the past, the present, and the future. We will also examine the changing definitions of the black aesthetic. Playwrights include, among others, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks.

ENLT 214M: Southern Literature (3)

Instructor: Morgan Myers

TR 9:30-10:45

PHS 205
No description available.

ENLT 255M: Race in American Culture (3)

Instructor: Sylvia Chong

MW 15:30-16:45

CAM 423
No description available.

ENWR 106: Rap as an Art Form (3)

Instructor: Jason Nabi

TR 9:30-10:45

BRN 310
No description available.

ENWR 106: Race in the U.S. (3)

Instructor: Brian Roberts

TR 12:30-13:45

BRN 330

No description available.

ENWR 110: Africa Speaks (3)

Instructor: Z’etoile Imma

MWF 11-11:50

MCL 2007
No description available.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

. HIAF 100: African Encounters with the Others (3)

Instructor: Laura Stokes

T 13:00-15:30

CAB B021
No description available.

HIAF 201: Early African History (4)

TR 9:30-10:45

Instructor: Joseph Miller

RFN G004B

Starting broadly at the dawn of history and continuing in detail from the millennium before the Present Era, HIAF 201 follows the sometimes-surprising ways in which village elders, women, merchants, kings, cattle lords, and ordinary farmers pursued meaningful lives without the technologies that modern Americans take for granted. The last third of the course examines the ironic interplay of tragedy and ambition in a continent increasingly trapped in exiling its own people in slavery to Europeans, until the Atlantic slave trade began to wind down after about 1800. HIAF 201 is a lower-division introductory survey and presumes no prior knowledge of Africa or experience with the study of history. Students in all four years of their undergraduate careers and in all colleges of the University complete HIAF 201 with success. Beyond the Afro-American and African Studies curriculum, the course meets the "non-western/non-modern" requirement for the major in History and qualifies for the College "non-western perspectives" area requirement.

HIAF 404: Independent Study in African History (1-3)
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member, any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings.

HILA 402A: Globalization in Latin American (4)

Instructor: Brian Owensby

R 13:00-15:30

BRN 332

In this advanced undergraduate colloquium we will explore the idea of “globalization” from the perspective of Latin America’s 500-year history of engagement with global phenomena. While globalization has become a buzzword in recent years, it has a long history in Latin America, from Spain’s 16^th-century “conquest” of indigenous America, to the slave trade to places such as Brazil and Cuba, to the trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges of the late 18^th century, to the effects on Indian villages as Latin American countries began to participate in the international economy as providers of raw materials and commodities in the 19^th century, to the rebellion of the Zapatistas in southern Mexico in the 1990s against NAFTA. Through a wide variety of texts and films we will seek a critical perspective on globalization as a broad historical process that must be understood in relation to local histories and happenings. The course will satisfy the second writing requirement. Enrollment will be limited to 12.
HILA 402B: Latin American In Quest of Identity (4)

Instructor: Herbert Braun

T 15:30-18:00

MCL 2007

In Latin America the search for identity has been a plural endeavor. Latin Americans have asked, “Who are we? Rarely have they asked, “Who am I? “Who are we? What kind of a people are we? What kind of a civilization? What is our destiny? What are the causes of our backwardness? What lies in our future? These thoughts run through the writings of almost all of Latin America’s great thinkers.

The course will be divided into two parts: In the first eight weeks we will read together from the writings of some of those great thinkers, including Bolívar, Sarmiento, Andrés Bello, José María Luis Mora, Lucas Alamán, Alcides Arguedas, Francisco Bulnes, José Ingenieros, José Enrique Rodó, José Martí, José Carlos Mariátegui, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Edmundo O’Gorman, Leopoldo Zea, Octavio Paz.

Students in this course will write a final interpretive essay on this quest for identity based on our readings of historical and contemporary writers. This essay will be between twenty and thirty pages in length.
HILA 404: Independent Study in Latin American History (1-3)
In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member, any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings.
HIST 307: Afro-Brazilian History (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

TR 12:30-13:45

GIL 141

This course is cross-listed as AAS 307. See description in the AAS section, above.
HIST 402A: Black Atlantic 1550-1850 (4)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

R 15:30-18:00

CAB 335
This course is cross-listed as AAS 402. See description in the AAS section, above.

HIUS 309 - Civil War and Reconstruction (3)

Prof. Gary Gallagher

TR 8:00 – 9:15

WIL 301
This course explores the era of the American Civil War with emphasis on the period 1861-1865. It combines lectures, readings, films, and class discussion to address such questions as why the war came, why the North won (or the Confederacy lost), how the war affected various elements of society, what was left unresolved at the end of the fighting, and how subsequent generations of Americans understood the conflict's meanings. Although this is not a course on Civil War battles and generals, about 50 per cent of the time in class will be devoted to military affairs, and we will make a special effort to tie events on the battlefield to life behind the lines. The course will be organized in two lecture meetings a week. Grades will be based on two geography quizzes (each 5% of the course grade), two take-home examinations (each 35% of the course grade), and a 7-page paper that integrates material from the lectures, readings, and films (20% of the course grade). Note: This course does not satisfy the second writing requirement. Required Books (some substitutions may be made): Edward Porter Alexander, Fighting for the Confederacy; John Q. Anderson, ed., Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868; Ira Berlin and others, eds., Free at Last; Jean Berlin, ed., Letters of a Civil War Nurse; Andrew Delbanco, ed., The Portable Abraham Lincoln; A. J. L. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 186; Glenn Linden and Thomas Pressly, eds., Voices from the House Divided; Frank Wilkeson, Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier.

HIUS 316: Viewing America 1945 to the Present (3)

Instructor: Brian Balogh

MW 10:00 – 10:50

GIL 150

This course will examine how Americans experienced some of the major events that shaped their lives. We will view what millions of Americans did by watching feature films, news reels, and footage from popular television shows and news broadcasts. We will also read primary and secondary texts that explore among other topics, the domestic impact of World War II, America's reaction to the atomic bomb, the rise of the military-industrial-university complex, the emergence of the Cold War, the culture of anxiety that accompanied it, suburbanization, the "New Class" of experts, the Civil Rights movement, changing gender roles in the work place and at home, the origins and implications of community action and affirmative action, the War in Vietnam, the Great Society, the counterculture, Watergate, the environmental movement, challenges to the authority of expertise, the decline of political parties, structural changes in the economy, the mobilization of interest groups from labor to religious organizations, the emergence of the New Right, the challenge to big government, the end of the Cold war, and the role of the electronic media in politics.
HIUS 324 - 20^th Century South (3)

Instructor: Lori Schuyler

MW 9:00 – 9:50

RFN G004A

This course will explore the social, cultural, political, and economic history of the South in the twentieth century. Major themes of the course will include the rise and fall of legalized segregation, the development of a viable Republican party in the region, the role of southern reformers and activists, and the importance of historical memory. We will examine major events in the region from the perspectives of black southerners and white southerners, men and women, sharecroppers and landowners, Republicans and Democrats, moderates and activists. Readings for the course may include: W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk; Grace Lumpkin, To Make My Bread, Christopher MacGregor Scribner, Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979; Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi.
HIUS 350: Work, Poverty and Welfare: 20^th Century U.S. Social Policy (3)

Instructor: Guian McKee

TR 15:30-16:45

CAB 345

This course will examine the historical relationship between work, poverty, and the development of social policy in the United States during the twentieth century. Particular emphasis will be placed on the changing structure of the American workplace, shifts in societal conceptions about the place of the state in American life, and alterations in both the nature of poverty and perceptions of the poor in the United States. We will focus, however, on the interaction of these issues with social policy, broadly defined, as well as the role of race, gender, and political economy in defining these important dimensions of twentieth century American life. As a result, the course will approach the history of American social policy from the “ground up” and from the “top down”: we will study both the development of broad public policy structures and the experiences of Americans (both elites and non-elites) who determined the course of such policies and lived with their results. Students will engage in detailed historical explorations of maternalist welfare policies, progressivism, labor organizing, workplace reform, Social Security, AFDC (welfare), economic planning, public housing, urban renewal, employment policy, job training, the War on Poverty, Medicare and Medicaid, the welfare rights movement, and the reaction against the welfare state. The course will conclude with an examination of critical social policy developments in the last fifteen years, including the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, the failure of the Clinton health care plan, and recent proposals for social security and Medicare reform.

While primarily a lecture course, this class will provide extensive opportunities for student discussion of assigned readings and other materials. Course requirements will include a research paper of approximately 10 pages, a mid-term and final, regular attendance, and active participation in class discussions. The weekly reading will average 150 pages. Texts may include Michael B. Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America; Theda Skocpol, Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective; Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State; Ira Katznelson, When Affirmative Action Was White; David Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, as well as scholarly articles, primary sources, films, and other historical material.

HIUS 362: Women in America, 1869 to the Present

Instructor: Ann Lane

MW 11:00-11:50

MIN 125

This course will examine women's activities and consciousness from the last half of the nineteenth century to the present. We will pay special attention to how social and economic changes that accompanied industrialization and urbanization influenced women's lives and to the importance of race and class as categories for understanding women's experiences. The topics we will examine will include domestic and family roles, economic contributions, reproductive experience, and public activities. Reading will average about 200 pages per week. Some of the required books for this course will be:

Dorothy Richardson, The Long Day

Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat
Ann Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
Mary Odem, Delinquent Daughters
Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are

There will also be a packet of articles that will be part of the required reading for the course. There will be one midterm, one five to eight page paper, and a final examination. Each week we will have two lectures and one required discussion section.

HIUS 366 – African American History Since 1860 (3)

Instructor: Reginald Butler

MWF 13:00-13:50

CAB 316

This lecture course explores the history and culture of African Americans in the United States. We will examine some of the major themes, problems, events, structures, and personalities, paying particular attention to how African Americans themselves shaped their experiences. We will devote some portion of each class to the close examination of primary sources, with a particular focus on the historical implications for contemporary African American lived experiences.

Course requirements include written weekly reading responses, a short paper, midterm, and final. Texts may include:

Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction; Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind; Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow; Steven Hahn, Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Theodore Rosengarten, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw; Tera Hunter, To 'Joy My Freedom; Richard Wright, Black Boy.

HIUS 367 - History of the Civil Rights Movement (3)

Instructor: Julian Bond

T 15:30-17:30

WIL 402

This lecture course examines the history, philosophies, tactics, events and personalities of the Southern movement for civil rights from 1900 through the late 1960s, with special concentration on the years from the mid-'40s forward. The Southern movement - variously called the black struggle, the freedom fight, or the civil rights movement - was a black-lead, interracial mass movement which effectively ended legal segregation by the mid-60s. Lectures will outline the movement's three over-lapping and occasionally complimentary phases - lobbying, litigation and protest. In the first phase, from 1910 to the middle '30s, it developed a campaign of propaganda, education and lobbying to shape public opinion and create a climate favorable to civil rights. In phase 2, from the '30s to the '50s, it sought and won important test cases in housing segregation and the right to vote, and attacking separate and unequal schools. The last phase, lasting a decade from '54 through '65, was a decade of protests - boycotts, sit-ins, and mass demonstrations - as well as grass-roots organizing campaigns that laid the groundwork for minority electoral victories in the late '60s and '70s. Through the leadership of various national and local organizations, and through anti-segregation campaigns directed by indigenous and extra-communal leadership figures who built on extensive pre-existing networks of church, fraternal, social and labor organizations, drawing strength and followers from a protest community rooted in black America and created in response to white supremacy, the movement succeeded in eliminating legal segregation. The movement's well-known and lesser-known proponents and their strategies will be examined. Grades will be determined from a final examination, student participation in sections, and two five- to seven-page papers. Texts and videos: Roy Wilkins (with Tom Matthews), Standing Fast; James Forman, The Making of Black Revolutionaries; Julian Bond and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, "Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965", # 1 to 6; "America at the Racial Crossroads, 1965 - 1985,” # 1 and 2; "The Road to Brown.”

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