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Academic Year 2021 - 2024 Courses

* Indicates course may be petitioned for credit toward the major and the minor. Please visit the Schedule of Classes for specific dates, times, and locations of the courses listed below.

Spring 2024

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10. African American Studies 
  • AAS 170. Legacies of Research

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • *ANTH 21. Race and Racism
  • *ANTH 23. Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity and Class in American Societies
  • **ANAR 104. Geographic Information Systems
  • **ANSC 138. The Cultural Design Practicum

BIOLOGY

  • *BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • **EDS 102. Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Education Research
  • EDS 117. Language, Culture, and Education
  • EDS 126. Social Organization of Education

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • *ETHN 3. Introduction to Ethnic Studies: Making Culture
  • ETHN 142. Medicine, Race, and Global Politics of Inequality

HISTORY

  • HIAF 114. Black Internationalism
  • HILA 121. History of Brazil
  • HIUS 144. Topics in US History

LITERATURE

  • *LTEN 27. Introduction to African American Literature

MUSIC

  • MUS 127. Discover Jazz
  • MUS 150. Jazz and the Music of the African Diaspora
  • MUS 151. Race, Culture, and Social Change

PHILOSOPHY

  • PHIL 170. Philosophy and Race 

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • *POLI 13D. Power and Justice
  • POLI 108. Politics of Multiculturalism

RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • *MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • **SOCI 104Q. Qualitative Interviewing
  • SOCI 139. Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
  • SOCI 151. Social Movement from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
  • SOCI 157. Religion in Contemporary Society
  • SOCI 187. African Societies through Film

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDHT 109. African American Theatre
  • TDMV 138. Beginning Hip-Hop
  • TDMV 143. West African Dance

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • *USP 3. The City and Social Theory
  • **USP 147. Case Studies in Health-Care Programs/Poor and Underserved Population

* = AASM Approved LD Course

** = BDAAS Major Human Research Methods Course

Winter 2024

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10. African American Studies
  • AAS 11. Black Diasporic Studies

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • *ANTH 21. Race and Racism
  • *ANTH 23. Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity and Class in American Societies

BIOLOGY

  • *BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 110M. LLC: Communication and Community 
  • COMM 138. Black Women, Feminism, and Media 

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • **EDS 103. Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Education Research
  • EDS 117. Language, Culture, and Education
  • EDS 126. Social Organization of Education

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 101. Ethnic Images in Film
  • ETHN 102. Science and Technology: Race, Gender, and Class
  • ETHN 103. Environmental Racism
  • ETHN 107. Fieldwork in Racial and Ethnic Communities
  • ETHN 164. African Americans and the Mass Media

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138. Economics of Discrimination

HISTORY

  • HILD 60. Global Black History through Biography
  • HIAF 111. Modern African Since 1880
  • HIAF 112. West Africa Since 1880
  • HILA 121. History of Brazil

LITERATURE

  • LTAF 110. African Oral Literature

MUSIC

  • *MUS 19. Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music
  • MUS 127. Discover Jazz

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 100I. Participation and Inequality

RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • *MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • **SOCI 104. Field Research: Methods of Participant Observation
  • **SOCI 104Q. Qualitative Interviewing
  • SOCI 113. Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic
  • SOCI 158. Islam in the Modern World
  • SOCI 188E. Community and Social Change in Africa
  • SOCI 139. Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDMV 138. Beginning Hip-Hop
  • TDMV 143. West African Dance

* = AASM Approved LD Course

** = BDAAS Major Human Research Methods Course

Fall 2023

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10. African American Studies This course will cover the experiences of peoples of African descent in the U.S. and broader African Diaspora from the vantage points of cultural production, political practice, socioeconomic conditions, and the overall struggle for social justice along intersecting lines of race, gender, and class. Topics reviewed include slavery (and slave rebellion), Reconstruction, Jim Crow apartheid, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
  • AAS 170. Legacies of Research Students will learn about the historic and current legacies of scientific research and the convergence(s) between science and society as a mechanism for colonization and imperialism.

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21. Race and Racisms Why does racism still matter? How is racism experienced in the United States and across the globe? With insights from the biology of human variation, archaeology, colonial history, and sociocultural anthropology, we examine how notions of race and ethnicity structure contemporary societies.
  • ANTH 23. Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies This course focuses on the debate about multiculturalism in American society. It examines the interaction of race, ethnicity, and class, historically and comparatively, and considers the problem of citizenship in relation to the growing polarization of multiple social identities.
  • ANBI 131. Biology and Culture of Race This course examines conceptions of race from both evolutionary and sociocultural perspectives. We will examine current patterns of human genetic variation and critically determine how these patterns map onto current and historic conceptions of race in the United States, and abroad. We will also explore the social construction of race throughout US history, the use of racial categories in biomedicine today, and consequences of racism and discrimination on health. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio This course will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion beginning with a biological framework. Focus will be on how underlying biological differences have been used to support bias and prejudice against particular groups such as women, African Americans, and Latinos. This course is approved to meet the campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement. Prerequisites: BILD 1 and BILD 2 or 3.

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 110M. LLC: Communication and Community This course examines forms of communication that affect people’s everyday lives. Focusing on ways that ethnic communities transmit and acquire information and interact with mainstream institutions, we examine a variety of alternative local media, including murals, graffiti, newsletters, and community radio. Prerequisites: COMM 10.

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • EDS 112. Urban Education in the United States Students will read, discuss, and analyze past and present urban education demographics, resources, policies, practices, and outcomes to deepen their knowledge and critique of issues in urban education. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
  • EDS 117. Language, Culture, and Education (Same as SOCI 117) The mutual influence of language, culture, and education will be explored; explanations of students’ school successes and failures that employ linguistic and cultural variables will be considered; bilingualism and cultural transmission through education. Students may not receive credit for EDS 117 and SOCI 117 and EDS 117GS. 

  • EDS 126. Social Organization of Education (Same as SOCI 126) The social organization of education in the United States and other societies; the functions of education for individuals and society; the structure of schools; educational decision making; educational testing; socialization and education; formal and informal education; cultural transmission. Prerequisites: upper-division standing

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 103. Environmental Racism This course will examine the concept of environmental racism, the empirical evidence of its widespread existence, and the efforts by government, residents, workers, and activists to combat it. We will examine those forces that create environmental injustices in order to understand its causes as well as its consequences. Students are expected to learn and apply several concepts and social scientific theories to the course material.

  • ETHN 149. African American History in the Twentieth Century (Cross-listed with HIUS 139.) This course examines the transformation of African America across the expanse of the long twentieth century: imperialism, migration, urbanization, desegregation, and deindustrialization. Special emphasis will be placed on issues of culture, international relations, and urban politics.

  • ETHN 174. Themes in Afro-American Literature (Cross-listed with LTEN 185.) This course focuses on the influence of slavery upon African American writers. Our concern is not upon what slavery was but upon what it is within the works and what these texts reveal about themselves, their authors, and their audiences.

  • ETHN 179. Discover Jazz Offers an introduction to jazz, including important performers and their associated styles and techniques. Explores the often-provocative role jazz has played in American and global society, the diverse perceptions and arguments that have surrounded its production and reception, and how these have been inflected by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

HISTORY

  • HILD 7A: Race and Ethnicity in the United States A lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the United States. Of central concern will be the African American, slavery, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern America.
  • HILA 121B. History of Brazil, 1889 to Present This course examines factors that shed light on Brazil’s label as a rising nation. In part, we will cover Brazil’s two dictatorships, labor struggles, racial issues, immigration from Asia and Europe, environmental concerns, and emergence as economic and political powerhouse.

    HILA 122. Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic A lecture-discussion course on the historical roots of revolutionary Cuba, with special emphasis on the impact of the United States on the island’s development and society.

LITERATURE

  • LTEN 27. Introduction to African American Literature A lecture discussion course that examines a major topic or theme in African American literature as it is developed over time and across the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres. A particular emphasis of the course is how African American writers have adhered to or departed from conventional definitions of genre.
  • LTAF 120. Literature and Film of Modern Africa This course traces the rise of modern literature in traditional African societies disrupted by the colonial and neocolonial experience. Contemporary films by African and Western artists will provide an additional insight into the complex social self-images of the continent. Students may not receive credit for both LTAF 120 and LTAF 120GS.
  • LTAM 111. Comparative Caribbean Discourse (Comparative survey of Caribbean literatures from the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch Caribbean. Literary texts trace historical paradigms including the development of plantation slavery, emancipation, the quest for nationhood, migration, and transnational identities. Films and music may complement discussion.

  • LTEN 185. Themes in African American Literature An intensive examination of a characteristic theme, special issue, or period in African American literature. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

MUSIC

  • MUS 19 Course description unavailable
  • MUS 126: Blues: An Oral Tradition (4 units)
    This course will examine the development of the Blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of Urban Blues and the close relationship of the Blues with Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. (Cross-listed with ETHN 178.)
  • MUS 127. Discover Jazz Offers an introduction to jazz, including important performers and their associated styles and techniques. Explores the often-provocative role jazz has played in American and global society, the diverse perceptions and arguments that have surrounded its production and reception, and how these have been inflected by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Specific topics vary from year to year. (Cross-listed with ETHN 179.)

  • MUS 150. Jazz and the Music of the African Diaspora: Special Topics Seminar An in-depth writing and listening intensive investigation into a jazz or diaspora-related music history topic. Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: MUS 126/ETHN 178, or MUS 127/ETHN 179, or consent of instructor.

  • MUS 152: Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with ETHN 128). Examination of hip-hop’s technology, lyrics, and dance and its influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender, corporate investment, government, and censorship with a critical focus on race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 104N. Race and Law Has the law helped end or contributed to racism in the United States? This course will explore the law of Slavery, Segregation, and Immigration, and study Equal Protection, Affirmative Action, and Criminal Justice (including hate crimes and First Amendment implications).


RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams The modern workplace includes people different in culture, gender, age, language, religion, education, and more. Students will learn why diverse teams make better decisions and are often integral to the success of organizations. Topics include challenges of diversity, and the impact of emotional, social, and cultural intelligence on team success. Content will include significant attention to the experiences of Asian Americans and African Americans as members and leaders of such diverse teams. Students will not receive credit for both MGT 18 and MGT 18GS.

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 105. Ethnographic Film: Media Methods (Conjoined with SOCG 227.) Ethnographic recording of field data in written and audiovisual formats including film, video, and CD-ROM applications. Critical assessment of ethnographies and audiovisual ethnographic videotape. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor for SOCG 227 and SOCI for SOCI 105. Will not receive credit for SOCI 105 and SOCA 105.

  • SOCI 126. Social Organization of Education (Same as EDS 126.) The social organization of education in the U.S. and other societies; the functions of education for individuals and society; the structure of schools; educational decision making; educational testing; socialization and education; formal and informal education; cultural transmission. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 126 and SOCC 126.

  • SOCI 127. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity Examination of the role that race and ethnicity play in immigrant group integration. Topics include theories of integration, racial and ethnic identity formation, racial and ethnic change, immigration policy, public opinion, comparisons between contemporary and historical waves of immigration. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 127 and SOCB 127.

  • SOCI 148E. Inequality and Jobs Some people do much better than others in the world of work. Causes and consequences of this inequality will be examined: How do characteristics of individuals (e.g., class, gender, race, education, talent) and characteristics of jobs affect market outcomes? Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 148E and SOCC 148L.

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDGE 127 The Films of Spike Lee (no desctription provided)

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities (4 units)
    This course charts the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they have played in shaping the diverse communities of America’s cities.

* = AASM Core Course 
** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this toward the program

Spring 2023

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10. African American Studies This course will cover the experiences of peoples of African descent in the U.S. and broader African Diaspora from the vantage points of cultural production, political practice, socioeconomic conditions, and the overall struggle for social justice along intersecting lines of race, gender, and class. Topics reviewed include slavery (and slave rebellion), Reconstruction, Jim Crow apartheid, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
  • AAS 170. Legacies of Research Students will learn about the historic and current legacies of scientific research and the convergence(s) between science and society as a mechanism for colonization and imperialism.

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21. Race and Racisms Why does racism still matter? How is racism experienced in the United States and across the globe? With insights from the biology of human variation, archaeology, colonial history, and sociocultural anthropology, we examine how notions of race and ethnicity structure contemporary societies.
  • ANTH 23. Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies This course focuses on the debate about multiculturalism in American society. It examines the interaction of race, ethnicity, and class, historically and comparatively, and considers the problem of citizenship in relation to the growing polarization of multiple social identities.

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio This course will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion beginning with a biological framework. Focus will be on how underlying biological differences have been used to support bias and prejudice against particular groups such as women, African Americans, and Latinos. This course is approved to meet the campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement. Prerequisites: BILD 1 and BILD 2 or 3.

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 110M. LLC: Communication and Community This course examines forms of communication that affect people’s everyday lives. Focusing on ways that ethnic communities transmit and acquire information and interact with mainstream institutions, we examine a variety of alternative local media, including murals, graffiti, newsletters, and community radio. Prerequisites: COMM 10.

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • EDS 112. Urban Education in the United States Students will read, discuss, and analyze past and present urban education demographics, resources, policies, practices, and outcomes to deepen their knowledge and critique of issues in urban education. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
  • EDS 117. Language, Culture, and Education (Same as SOCI 117) The mutual influence of language, culture, and education will be explored; explanations of students’ school successes and failures that employ linguistic and cultural variables will be considered; bilingualism and cultural transmission through education. Students may not receive credit for EDS 117 and SOCI 117 and EDS 117GS. 

  • EDS 126. Social Organization of Education (Same as SOCI 126) The social organization of education in the United States and other societies; the functions of education for individuals and society; the structure of schools; educational decision making; educational testing; socialization and education; formal and informal education; cultural transmission. Prerequisites: upper-division standing

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 103. Environmental Racism This course will examine the concept of environmental racism, the empirical evidence of its widespread existence, and the efforts by government, residents, workers, and activists to combat it. We will examine those forces that create environmental injustices in order to understand its causes as well as its consequences. Students are expected to learn and apply several concepts and social scientific theories to the course material.

  • ETHN 149. African American History in the Twentieth Century (Cross-listed with HIUS 139.) This course examines the transformation of African America across the expanse of the long twentieth century: imperialism, migration, urbanization, desegregation, and deindustrialization. Special emphasis will be placed on issues of culture, international relations, and urban politics.

  • ETHN 174. Themes in Afro-American Literature (Cross-listed with LTEN 185.) This course focuses on the influence of slavery upon African American writers. Our concern is not upon what slavery was but upon what it is within the works and what these texts reveal about themselves, their authors, and their audiences.

  • ETHN 179. Discover Jazz Offers an introduction to jazz, including important performers and their associated styles and techniques. Explores the often-provocative role jazz has played in American and global society, the diverse perceptions and arguments that have surrounded its production and reception, and how these have been inflected by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

HISTORY

  • HILD 7A: Race and Ethnicity in the United States A lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the United States. Of central concern will be the African American, slavery, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern America.
  • HILA 121B. History of Brazil, 1889 to Present This course examines factors that shed light on Brazil’s label as a rising nation. In part, we will cover Brazil’s two dictatorships, labor struggles, racial issues, immigration from Asia and Europe, environmental concerns, and emergence as economic and political powerhouse.

    HILA 122. Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic A lecture-discussion course on the historical roots of revolutionary Cuba, with special emphasis on the impact of the United States on the island’s development and society.

LITERATURE

  • LTAF 120. Literature and Film of Modern Africa This course traces the rise of modern literature in traditional African societies disrupted by the colonial and neocolonial experience. Contemporary films by African and Western artists will provide an additional insight into the complex social self-images of the continent. Students may not receive credit for both LTAF 120 and LTAF 120GS.
  • LTAM 111. Comparative Caribbean Discourse (Comparative survey of Caribbean literatures from the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch Caribbean. Literary texts trace historical paradigms including the development of plantation slavery, emancipation, the quest for nationhood, migration, and transnational identities. Films and music may complement discussion.

  • LTEN 185. Themes in African American Literature An intensive examination of a characteristic theme, special issue, or period in African American literature. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.

MUSIC

  • MUS 19 Course description unavailable
  • MUS 126: Blues: An Oral Tradition (4 units)
    This course will examine the development of the Blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of Urban Blues and the close relationship of the Blues with Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. (Cross-listed with ETHN 178.)
  • MUS 127. Discover Jazz Offers an introduction to jazz, including important performers and their associated styles and techniques. Explores the often-provocative role jazz has played in American and global society, the diverse perceptions and arguments that have surrounded its production and reception, and how these have been inflected by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Specific topics vary from year to year. (Cross-listed with ETHN 179.)

  • MUS 150. Jazz and the Music of the African Diaspora: Special Topics Seminar An in-depth writing and listening intensive investigation into a jazz or diaspora-related music history topic. Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: MUS 126/ETHN 178, or MUS 127/ETHN 179, or consent of instructor.

  • MUS 152: Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with ETHN 128). Examination of hip-hop’s technology, lyrics, and dance and its influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender, corporate investment, government, and censorship with a critical focus on race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 104N. Race and Law Has the law helped end or contributed to racism in the United States? This course will explore the law of Slavery, Segregation, and Immigration, and study Equal Protection, Affirmative Action, and Criminal Justice (including hate crimes and First Amendment implications).


RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams The modern workplace includes people different in culture, gender, age, language, religion, education, and more. Students will learn why diverse teams make better decisions and are often integral to the success of organizations. Topics include challenges of diversity, and the impact of emotional, social, and cultural intelligence on team success. Content will include significant attention to the experiences of Asian Americans and African Americans as members and leaders of such diverse teams. Students will not receive credit for both MGT 18 and MGT 18GS.

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 105. Ethnographic Film: Media Methods (Conjoined with SOCG 227.) Ethnographic recording of field data in written and audiovisual formats including film, video, and CD-ROM applications. Critical assessment of ethnographies and audiovisual ethnographic videotape. Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor for SOCG 227 and SOCI for SOCI 105. Will not receive credit for SOCI 105 and SOCA 105.

  • SOCI 126. Social Organization of Education (Same as EDS 126.) The social organization of education in the U.S. and other societies; the functions of education for individuals and society; the structure of schools; educational decision making; educational testing; socialization and education; formal and informal education; cultural transmission. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 126 and SOCC 126.

  • SOCI 127. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity Examination of the role that race and ethnicity play in immigrant group integration. Topics include theories of integration, racial and ethnic identity formation, racial and ethnic change, immigration policy, public opinion, comparisons between contemporary and historical waves of immigration. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 127 and SOCB 127.

  • SOCI 148E. Inequality and Jobs Some people do much better than others in the world of work. Causes and consequences of this inequality will be examined: How do characteristics of individuals (e.g., class, gender, race, education, talent) and characteristics of jobs affect market outcomes? Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 148E and SOCC 148L.

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDGE 127 The Films of Spike Lee (no desctription provided)

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities (4 units)
    This course charts the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they have played in shaping the diverse communities of America’s cities.

* = AASM Core Course 
** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this toward their minor

Winter 2023

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 11. Introduction to Diasporic Studies This course is focused on foundational readings, theories, research, and scholarship regarding the Black Diaspora. This course will provide students with foundational knowledge of the field, seminal works, and theoretical and conceptual frameworks that influence research and scholarship in these areas of study.

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANAR 121. Cyber-Archaeology and World Digital Cultural Heritage Concerns the latest developments in digital data capture, analyses, curation, and dissemination for cultural heritage. Introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and digital technologies applied to documentation and promotion of cultural heritage and tourism. Lectures and lab exercises.
  • ANTH 138. Mesopotamia: The Emergence of Civilization
    This course explores in detail the rise of the world’s earliest cities and states in Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East during the fourth millennium B.C.

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio This course will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion beginning with a biological framework. Focus will be on how underlying biological differences have been used to support bias and prejudice against particular groups such as women, African Americans, and Latinos. This course is approved to meet the campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement. Prerequisites: BILD 1 and BILD 2 or 3.

  • BISP 193 Biology Education Research Individual research on a problem in biology education by special arrangement with and under the direction of a faculty member. Projects are expected to involve novel research that examines issues in biology education such as the science of learning, evidence of effective teaching, and equity and inclusion in the classroom. P/PN grades only. May be taken for credit five times. 

CRITICAL GENDER STUDIES

  • CGS 125. Women of Color Writers For women of color, writing has been more than just artistic expression. Women of color have also used the written word to challenge dominant ideas of race, gender, desire, power, violence, and intimacy, and to construct new ways of knowing, writing, and being. This course examines writing by women of color to understand how literary texts can shape and reflect social and political contexts
  • CGS 165. Gender and Sexuality in African American CommunitiesThis course will investigate the changing constructions of sexuality, gender, and sexuality in African American communities defined by historical period, region, and class. Topics will include the sexual division of labor, myths of black sexuality, the rise of black feminism, black masculinity, and queer politics.

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 138. Black Women, Feminism, and Media This course examines the challenges that arise in using feminist theory to understand black women’s experience in Africa and the United States. It also looks at the mass media and popular culture as arenas of black feminist struggle.

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination
    This course will investigate differences in economic outcomes on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. We will study economic theories of discrimination, empirical work testing those theories, and policies aimed at alleviating group-level differences in economic outcomes. Prerequisites: ECON 1.

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 101Ethnic Images in Film An upper-division lecture course studying representations of ethnicity in the American cinema. Topics include ethnic images as narrative devices, the social implications of ethnic images, and the role of film in shaping and reflecting societal power relations.
  • ETHN 104: Race, Space & Segregation (4 units)
    Through in-depth studies of housing segregation, urban renewal and displacement, neighborhood race effects, and the location of hazards and amenities, this course examines how space becomes racialized and how race becomes spatialized in the contemporary United States.
  • ETHN 165 Gender and Sexuality in African American CommunitiesThis course will investigate the changing constructions of sex, gender, and sexuality in African American communities defined by historical period, region, and class. Topics will include the sexual division of labor, myths of black sexuality, the rise of black feminism, black masculinity, and queer politics.
  • ETHN 172: Afro-American Prose Students will analyze and discuss the novel, the personal narrative, and other prose genres, with particular emphasis on the developing characters of Afro-American narrative and the cultural and social circumstances that influence their development
  • ETHN 174 Themes in Afro-American Literature
    This course focuses on the influence of slavery upon African American writers. Our concern is not upon what slavery was but upon what it is within the works and what these texts reveal about themselves, their authors, and their audiences.
  • ETHN 179. Discover Jazz Offers an introduction to jazz, including important performers and their associated styles and techniques. Explores the often-provocative role jazz has played in American and global society, the diverse perceptions and arguments that have surrounded its production and reception, and how these have been inflected by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
  • ETHN 185. Discourse, Power, and Inequality While discourse analysis has transformed numerous disciplines, a gap separates perspectives that envision discourse as practices that construct inequality from approaches that treat discourse as everyday language. This course engages both perspectives critically in analyzing law, medicine, and popular culture.

HISTORY

  • HILD 7A: Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4 units)*
    A lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the United States. Of central concern will be the African American, slavery, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern America.
  • HILA 121A: History of Brazil through 1889 (4 units) 
    This course covers many of the most transformative and fascinating social, political, and racial phenomena in Brazilian society through 1889, including indigenous life, Portuguese colonization, slavery and abolition, royal exile, independence and Empire, the birth of the Republic, war, social unrest, and ideals of modernization.
  • HIUS 144: Topics in US History Course may be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. 

LITERATURE

  • LIGN 175. Sociolinguistics: The study of language in its social context, with emphasis on the different types of linguistic variation and the principles underlying them. Dialects, registers, gender-based linguistic differences, multilingualism, pidginization and creolization, factors influencing linguistic choice, formal models of variation; emphasis is given both to socially determined differences within the United States and US ethnic groups and to cross-cultural differences in language use and variation.
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MUSIC

  • MUS 95G: Gospel Choir (2-3 units): Course description unavailable.
  • MUS 126: Blues: An Oral Tradition (4 units)
    This course will examine the development of the Blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of Urban Blues and the close relationship of the Blues with Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. (Cross-listed with ETHN 178.)
  • MUS 152: Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with ETHN 128). Examination of hip-hop’s technology, lyrics, and dance and its influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender, corporate investment, government, and censorship with a critical focus on race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 108: Politics of Multiculturalism (4 units)
    This course will examine central issues in debates about race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in the United States. It will look at relations not only between whites and minorities, but also at those among racial and ethnic communities. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams (4 units)
    The modern workplace includes people different in culture, gender, age, language, religion, education, and more. Students will learn why diverse teams make better decisions and are often integral to the success of organizations. Topics include challenges of diversity, and the impact of emotional, social, and cultural intelligence on team success. Content will include significant attention to the experiences of Asian Americans and African Americans as members and leaders of such diverse teams. Students will not receive credit for both MGT 18 and MGT 18GS.

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 113: Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic (4 units)
    This course considers the social, cultural, political, and economic aspects of HIV/AIDS. Topics include the social context of transmission; the experiences of women living with HIV; AIDS activism; representations of AIDS; and the impact of race and class differences. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 113 and SOCB 113.
  • SOCI 151: Social Movement from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter (4 units)
    A treatment of selected social movements dealing primarily with the struggles of African-Americans, Hispanics, and women to change their situation in American society. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDMV 138: Beginning Hip-Hop (2 units)
    An introduction to the basic technique of hip-hop, studied to enhance an understanding of the historical cultural content of the American form hip-hop and street dances in current choreography. May be taken for credit four times. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities (4 units)
    This course charts the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they have played in shaping the diverse communities of America’s cities.

* = AASM Core Course 
** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this toward their minor

Fall 2022

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 11. Introduction to Diasporic Studies This course is focused on foundational readings, theories, research, and scholarship regarding the Black Diaspora. This course will provide students with foundational knowledge of the field, seminal works, and theoretical and conceptual frameworks that influence research and scholarship in these areas of study.

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANAR 121. Cyber-Archaeology and World Digital Cultural Heritage Concerns the latest developments in digital data capture, analyses, curation, and dissemination for cultural heritage. Introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and digital technologies applied to documentation and promotion of cultural heritage and tourism. Lectures and lab exercises.
  • ANTH 138. Mesopotamia: The Emergence of Civilization
    This course explores in detail the rise of the world’s earliest cities and states in Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East during the fourth millennium B.C.

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio This course will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion beginning with a biological framework. Focus will be on how underlying biological differences have been used to support bias and prejudice against particular groups such as women, African Americans, and Latinos. This course is approved to meet the campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement. Prerequisites: BILD 1 and BILD 2 or 3.

  • BISP 193 Biology Education Research Individual research on a problem in biology education by special arrangement with and under the direction of a faculty member. Projects are expected to involve novel research that examines issues in biology education such as the science of learning, evidence of effective teaching, and equity and inclusion in the classroom. P/PN grades only. May be taken for credit five times. 

CRITICAL GENDER STUDIES

  • CGS 125. Women of Color Writers For women of color, writing has been more than just artistic expression. Women of color have also used the written word to challenge dominant ideas of race, gender, desire, power, violence, and intimacy, and to construct new ways of knowing, writing, and being. This course examines writing by women of color to understand how literary texts can shape and reflect social and political contexts
  • CGS 165. Gender and Sexuality in African American CommunitiesThis course will investigate the changing constructions of sexuality, gender, and sexuality in African American communities defined by historical period, region, and class. Topics will include the sexual division of labor, myths of black sexuality, the rise of black feminism, black masculinity, and queer politics.

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 138. Black Women, Feminism, and Media This course examines the challenges that arise in using feminist theory to understand black women’s experience in Africa and the United States. It also looks at the mass media and popular culture as arenas of black feminist struggle.

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination
    This course will investigate differences in economic outcomes on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. We will study economic theories of discrimination, empirical work testing those theories, and policies aimed at alleviating group-level differences in economic outcomes. Prerequisites: ECON 1.

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 101Ethnic Images in Film An upper-division lecture course studying representations of ethnicity in the American cinema. Topics include ethnic images as narrative devices, the social implications of ethnic images, and the role of film in shaping and reflecting societal power relations.
  • ETHN 104: Race, Space & Segregation (4 units)
    Through in-depth studies of housing segregation, urban renewal and displacement, neighborhood race effects, and the location of hazards and amenities, this course examines how space becomes racialized and how race becomes spatialized in the contemporary United States.
  • ETHN 165 Gender and Sexuality in African American CommunitiesThis course will investigate the changing constructions of sex, gender, and sexuality in African American communities defined by historical period, region, and class. Topics will include the sexual division of labor, myths of black sexuality, the rise of black feminism, black masculinity, and queer politics.
  • ETHN 172: Afro-American Prose Students will analyze and discuss the novel, the personal narrative, and other prose genres, with particular emphasis on the developing characters of Afro-American narrative and the cultural and social circumstances that influence their development
  • ETHN 174 Themes in Afro-American Literature
    This course focuses on the influence of slavery upon African American writers. Our concern is not upon what slavery was but upon what it is within the works and what these texts reveal about themselves, their authors, and their audiences.
  • ETHN 179. Discover Jazz Offers an introduction to jazz, including important performers and their associated styles and techniques. Explores the often-provocative role jazz has played in American and global society, the diverse perceptions and arguments that have surrounded its production and reception, and how these have been inflected by issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
  • ETHN 185. Discourse, Power, and Inequality While discourse analysis has transformed numerous disciplines, a gap separates perspectives that envision discourse as practices that construct inequality from approaches that treat discourse as everyday language. This course engages both perspectives critically in analyzing law, medicine, and popular culture.

HISTORY

  • HILD 7A: Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4 units)*
    A lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the United States. Of central concern will be the African American, slavery, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern America.
  • HILA 121A: History of Brazil through 1889 (4 units) 
    This course covers many of the most transformative and fascinating social, political, and racial phenomena in Brazilian society through 1889, including indigenous life, Portuguese colonization, slavery and abolition, royal exile, independence and Empire, the birth of the Republic, war, social unrest, and ideals of modernization.
  • HIUS 144: Topics in US History Course may be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary. 

LITERATURE

  • LIGN 175. Sociolinguistics: The study of language in its social context, with emphasis on the different types of linguistic variation and the principles underlying them. Dialects, registers, gender-based linguistic differences, multilingualism, pidginization and creolization, factors influencing linguistic choice, formal models of variation; emphasis is given both to socially determined differences within the United States and US ethnic groups and to cross-cultural differences in language use and variation.
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MUSIC

  • MUS 95G: Gospel Choir (2-3 units): Course description unavailable.
  • MUS 126: Blues: An Oral Tradition (4 units)
    This course will examine the development of the Blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of Urban Blues and the close relationship of the Blues with Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. (Cross-listed with ETHN 178.)
  • MUS 152: Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with ETHN 128). Examination of hip-hop’s technology, lyrics, and dance and its influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender, corporate investment, government, and censorship with a critical focus on race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 108: Politics of Multiculturalism (4 units)
    This course will examine central issues in debates about race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in the United States. It will look at relations not only between whites and minorities, but also at those among racial and ethnic communities. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams (4 units)
    The modern workplace includes people different in culture, gender, age, language, religion, education, and more. Students will learn why diverse teams make better decisions and are often integral to the success of organizations. Topics include challenges of diversity, and the impact of emotional, social, and cultural intelligence on team success. Content will include significant attention to the experiences of Asian Americans and African Americans as members and leaders of such diverse teams. Students will not receive credit for both MGT 18 and MGT 18GS.

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 113: Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic (4 units)
    This course considers the social, cultural, political, and economic aspects of HIV/AIDS. Topics include the social context of transmission; the experiences of women living with HIV; AIDS activism; representations of AIDS; and the impact of race and class differences. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 113 and SOCB 113.
  • SOCI 151: Social Movement from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter (4 units)
    A treatment of selected social movements dealing primarily with the struggles of African-Americans, Hispanics, and women to change their situation in American society. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDMV 138: Beginning Hip-Hop (2 units)
    An introduction to the basic technique of hip-hop, studied to enhance an understanding of the historical cultural content of the American form hip-hop and street dances in current choreography. May be taken for credit four times. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities (4 units)
    This course charts the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they have played in shaping the diverse communities of America’s cities.

* = AASM Core Course 
** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this toward their minor

Spring 2022

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21: Race and Racisms (4 units)
    Why does racism still matter? How is racism experienced in the United States and across the globe? With insights from the biology of human variation, archaeology, colonial history, and sociocultural anthropology, we examine how notions of race and ethnicity structure contemporary societies.
  • ANTH 23: Debating Multiculturalism (4 units)
    This course focuses on the debate about multiculturalism in American society. It examines the interaction of race, ethnicity, and class, historically and comparatively, and considers the problem of citizenship in relation to the growing polarization of multiple social identities.
  • ANBI 131: Biology and Culture of Race (4 units)
    This course examines conceptions of race from both evolutionary and sociocultural perspectives. We will examine current patterns of human genetic variation and critically determine how these patterns map onto current and historic conceptions of race in the United States, and abroad. We will also explore the social construction of race throughout US history, the use of racial categories in biomedicine today, and consequences of racism and discrimination on health. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Bio (4 units)
    This course will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion beginning with a biological framework. Focus will be on how underlying biological differences have been used to support bias and prejudice against particular groups such as women, African Americans, and Latinos. This course is approved to meet the campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirement. Prerequisites: BILD 1 and BILD 2 or 3.

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination (4 units)
    This course will investigate differences in economic outcomes on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. We will study economic theories of discrimination, empirical work testing those theories, and policies aimed at alleviating group-level differences in economic outcomes. Prerequisites: ECON 1.

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 102: Science and Technology in Society: Race/Gender/Class (4 units)
    This course examines the role of science and technology in forming popular conceptions of race, gender and class, and vice versa. We also consider how some populations benefit from the results of experimentation while others come to be its subjects.
  • ETHN 103: Environmental Racism (4 units)
    This course will examine the concept of environmental racism, the empirical evidence of its widespread existence, and the efforts by government, residents, workers, and activists to combat it. We will examine those forces that create environmental injustices in order to understand its causes as well as its consequences. Students are expected to learn and apply several concepts and social scientific theories to the course material.
  • ETHN 104: Race, Space & Segregation (4 units)
    Through in-depth studies of housing segregation, urban renewal and displacement, neighborhood race effects, and the location of hazards and amenities, this course examines how space becomes racialized and how race becomes spatialized in the contemporary United States.
  • ETHN 109: Race and Social Movements (4 units)
    This course explores collective mobilizations for resources, recognition, and power by members of aggrieved racialized groups, past and present. Emphasis will be placed on the conditions that generate collective movements, the strategies and ideologies that these movements have developed, and on the prospect for collective mobilization for change within aggrieved communities in the present and future.
  • ETHN 120: Race and Performance: The Politics of Popular Culture (4 units)
    This course explores how racial categories and ideologies have been constructed through performance and displays of the body in the United States and other sites. Racialized performances, whether self-displays or coerced displays, such as world’s fairs, museums, minstrelsy, film, ethnography, and tourist performances are considered.
  • ETHN 128: Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with MUS 152.) Examination of hip-hop’s technology, lyrics, and dance and its influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender, corporate investment, government, and censorship with a critical focus on race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression.
  • ETHN 178: Blues: An Oral Tradition (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with MUS 126.) This course will examine the development of the blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of urban blues and the close relationship of the blues with jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll.

HISTORY

  • HILD 7A: Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4 units)*
    A lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the United States. Of central concern will be the African American, slavery, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern America.
  • HILA 121A: History of Brazil through 1889 (4 units) 
    This course covers many of the most transformative and fascinating social, political, and racial phenomena in Brazilian society through 1889, including indigenous life, Portuguese colonization, slavery and abolition, royal exile, independence and Empire, the birth of the Republic, war, social unrest, and ideals of modernization.

MUSIC

  • MUS 95G: Gospel Choir (2-3 units): Course description unavailable.
  • MUS 126: Blues: An Oral Tradition (4 units)
    This course will examine the development of the Blues from its roots in work-songs and the minstrel show to its flowering in the Mississippi Delta to the development of Urban Blues and the close relationship of the Blues with Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. (Cross-listed with ETHN 178.)
  • MUS 152: Hip-Hop: The Politics of Culture (4 units)
    (Cross-listed with ETHN 128). Examination of hip-hop’s technology, lyrics, and dance and its influences in graffiti, film, music video, fiction, advertising, gender, corporate investment, government, and censorship with a critical focus on race, gender, and popular culture and the politics of creative expression.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 108: Politics of Multiculturalism (4 units)
    This course will examine central issues in debates about race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism in the United States. It will look at relations not only between whites and minorities, but also at those among racial and ethnic communities. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams (4 units)
    The modern workplace includes people different in culture, gender, age, language, religion, education, and more. Students will learn why diverse teams make better decisions and are often integral to the success of organizations. Topics include challenges of diversity, and the impact of emotional, social, and cultural intelligence on team success. Content will include significant attention to the experiences of Asian Americans and African Americans as members and leaders of such diverse teams. Students will not receive credit for both MGT 18 and MGT 18GS.

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 113: Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic (4 units)
    This course considers the social, cultural, political, and economic aspects of HIV/AIDS. Topics include the social context of transmission; the experiences of women living with HIV; AIDS activism; representations of AIDS; and the impact of race and class differences. Prerequisites: upper-division standing. Will not receive credit for SOCI 113 and SOCB 113.
  • SOCI 151: Social Movement from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter (4 units)
    A treatment of selected social movements dealing primarily with the struggles of African-Americans, Hispanics, and women to change their situation in American society. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDMV 138: Beginning Hip-Hop (2 units)
    An introduction to the basic technique of hip-hop, studied to enhance an understanding of the historical cultural content of the American form hip-hop and street dances in current choreography. May be taken for credit four times. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities (4 units)
    This course charts the development of urban communities across the United States both temporally and geographically. It examines the patterns of cleavage, conflict, convergence of interest, and consensus that have structured urban life. Social, cultural, and economic forces will be analyzed for the roles they have played in shaping the diverse communities of America’s cities.

* = AASM Core Course 
** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this toward their minor

Winter 2022

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10: Introduction to African American Studies

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANBI 131: Biology and Culture of Race

CRITICAL GENDER STUDIES

  • CGS 118: Gender and Incarceration
  • CGS 147: Black Feminisms, Past and Present

COMMUNICATIONS

  • COMM 110M: LLC: Communication and the Community

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • EDS 112. Urban Education in the United States
  • EDS 117. Language, Culture, and Education
  • EDS 126. Social Organization of Education

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 101: Ethnic Images in Film
  • ETHN 109: Race and Social Movements
  • ETHN 142: Medicine, Race, and Global Politics of Inequality
  • ETHN 161: Black Politics and Protest Since 1941
  • ETHN 172/LTEN 183: Afro-American Prose
  • ETHN 174/LTEN 185: Themes in Afro-American Literature
  • ETHN 179/MUS 126: Discover Jazz
  • ETHN 184. Black Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century

HISTORY

  • HIUS 144: Topics in US History

MUSIC

  • MUS 19: Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music
  • MUS 127/ETHN 179: Discover Jazz
  • MUS 150: Jazz and the Music of the African Diaspora: Special Topics Seminar

PHILOSOPHY

  • PHIL 170: Philosophy and Race

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 100H: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
  • POLI 100I. Participation and Inequality
  • POLI 108: Politics of Multiculturalism 

RANDY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 113: Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic
  • SOCI 126: Social Organization of Education 
  • SOCI 158: Islam in the Modern World 

* = AASM Core Course

**** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this course toward the minor; please visit the FAQ tab on our website for more information.

Fall 2021

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10: Introduction to African American Studies*
  • AAS 190: Blackness in STEM

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21: Race and Racisms
  • ANTH 23: Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Biology

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 137: Black Women Filmmakers

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 104: Race, Space, Segregation
  • ETHN 113: Decolonizing Education
  • ETHN 120: Race and Performance: The Politics of Popular Culture
  • ETHN 142: Medicine, Race, and Global Politics of Inequality
  • ETHN 179: Discover Jazz     

HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA

  • HILA 121B: History of Brazil, 1889 to Present

MUSIC

  • MUS 95G: Gospel Choir

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 13: Power and Justice
  • POLI 104N: Race and Law 
  • POLI 108: Politics of Multiculturalism 

RANDY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18. Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 113: Sociology of the AIDS Epidemic
  • SOCI 127: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity 
  • SOCI 139: Social Inequality. Class, Race, and Gender
  • SOCI 151: Social Movement from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter 

THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDMV 138: Beginning Hip-Hop
  • TDMV 143: West African Dance

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities 

 

* = AASM Core Course

**** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this course toward the minor; please visit the FAQ tab on our website for more information.

Summer Session II (August 2, 2021 - September 4, 2021)

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21: Race and Racisms
  • ANTH 23: Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies

CRITICAL GENDER STUDIES

  • CGS 114: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
  • CGS 147: Black Feminisms, Past and Present 

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 147: Black Feminisms, Past and Present
  • ETHN 183: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class 

MUSIC

  • MUS 150: Jazz and the Music of the African Diaspora

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 13: Power and Justice
  • POLI 108: Politics of Multiculturalism 

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 1: History of US Urban Communities 

 

* = AASM Core Course

**** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this course toward the minor; please visit the FAQ tab on our website for more information.

Summer Session I (June 28, 2021 - July 31, 2021)

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21: Race and Racisms
  • ANTH 23: Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • EDS 112: Urban Education in the United States

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 103: Environmental Racism 
  • ETHN 113: Decolonizing Education
  • ETHN 174: Themes in Afro-American Literature
  • ETHN 185: Discourse, Power & Inequality

HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA

  • HILA 121A: History of Brazil through 1889

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 100H: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics

RANDY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18. Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 127. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity 

 

* = AASM Core Course

**** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this course toward the minor; please visit the FAQ tab on our website for more information.

Spring 2021

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10: Introduction to African American Studies*
  • AAS 185: #BlackLivesMatter
  • AAS 190: Blackness in STEM

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANSC 185: #BlackLivesMatter
  • ANTH 21: Race and Racisms
  • ANTH 23: Debating Multiculturalism: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in American Societies

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: Exploring Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Relation to Human Biology

CRITICAL GENDER STUDIES

  • CGS 114: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class
  • CGS 147: Black Feminisms, Past and Present 

COMMUNICATION

  • COMM 110M: LLC: Communication and the Community

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • EDS 112: Urban Education in the United States
  • EDS 117: Language, Culture, and Education **

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 3. Introduction to Ethnic Studies: Making Culture*
  • ETHN 109: Race and Social Movements
  • ETHN 142: Medicine, Race, and Global Politics of Inequality
  • ETHN 147: Black Feminisms, Past and Present
  • ETHN 149: African American History in the Twentieth Century
  • ETHN 172: Afro-American Prose
  • ETHN 174: Themes in Afro-American Literature
  • ETHN 183: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class 

HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA

  • HILA 122. Cuba: From Colony to Socialist Republic

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

  • HIUS 139: African American History in the Twentieth Century

LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

  • LTEN 183: African American Prose
  • LTEN 185: Themes in African American Literature

RANDY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18. Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 10: American Society. Social Structure and Culture/U.S.
  • SOCI 117: Language, Culture, and Education **
  • SOCI 127. Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity 
  • SOCI 187. African Societies through Film

URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING

  • USP 3: City and Social Theory
  • USP 147: Case Studies in Health-Care Programs: Poor and Underserved Communities 

 

* = AASM Core Course 

** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this course toward the minor; please visit the FAQ tab on our website for more information.

Winter 2021

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

  • AAS 10: Introduction to African American Studies*

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • ANTH 21: Race and Racisms
  • ANTH 23: Debating Multiculturalism

BIOLOGY

  • BILD 60: DEI in Relation to Human Biology

ECONOMICS

  • ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination

EDUCATION STUDIES

  • EDS 112: U.S. Urban Education

ETHNIC STUDIES

  • ETHN 101: Ethnic Images in Film
  • ETHN 174: Themes in Afro-American Literature
  • ETHN 179: Discover Jazz

HISTORY 

  • HILA 121B: History of Brazil, 1889 to Present

LITERATURE

  • LTEN 27: Introduction to African American Literature*
  • LTEN 185: Themes in African American Literature

MUSIC

  • MUS 19: Blacktronika - Afrofuturism in Electronic Music**
  • MUS 95G: Gospel Choir
  • MUS 127: Discover Jazz
  • MUS 153: African Americans and the Mass Media

PHILOSOPHY

  • PHIL: 170 Philosophy and Race

POLITICAL SCIENCE

  • POLI 13D: Power and Justice
  • POLI 100H: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
  • POLI 100I: Participation and Inequality

RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

  • MGT 18: Managing Diverse Teams

SOCIOLOGY

  • SOCI 139: Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender
  • SOCI 148E: Inequality and Jobs

 THEATRE AND DANCE

  • TDGE 127: The Films of Spike Lee
  • TDMV 138: Beginning Hip-Hop
  • TDMV 143: West African Dance

* = AASM Core Course 
** = Students can submit an Undergraduate Petition to count this toward their minor

Projected Course Offerings

Academic Year 2022 - 2024 Courses

Please note the courses listed are subject to change. 

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

AAS 172 - Scholarly Work Practicum: Students will work with a chosen UC San Diego or UC faculty member on the faculty member’s scholarship
  •   In lieu students can take AAS 199 and be partnered with an affiliated faculty member. Please contact the program coordinator regarding the process.
 
AAS 171. Service Learning in Nonprofits: is a community engagement course focused on the Black community.
 
In lieu of AAS 171 students can enroll in the below course to satisfy the core requirement:
  • ETHN 109 Race & Social Movements, 
  • SOCI 151 Social Movement from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter
  • ETHN 104 Race, Space, Segregation
  • SOCI 126 Social Org. of Education
  • SOCI 139 Social Inequality: Class, Race and Gender
  • USP 133/SOCI 152. Social Inequality and Public Policy
  • POLI 100W  Politics, Policy, and Educational Inequality
  • ETHN 172 / LTEN 183 Topics in African American Prose: American Racial Gothic Narratives
  • ETHN 174 / LTEN 185 Themes in Afro-American Literature: Prison, Slavery Abolition
    • Some of the courses will be offered this year and others you may have enrolled in previously.
  •  Or students can enroll in AAS 199 and produce a paper or project addressing an issue pertaining to the Black community, for example. Research on community activist's engagements, education systems, or nonprofits.
     
AAS 179 Capstone - is meant to be an opportunity for you to showcase the knowledge and critical skills you've gained throughout the program. 
 
In lieu of taking AAS 179 students can enroll in the below courses to satisfy the core requirement:
  • ETHN 172 / LTEN 183 Topics in African American Prose: American Racial Gothic Narratives
  • ETHN 174 / LTEN 185 Themes in Afro-American Literature: Prison, Slavery Abolition
  • Or students can enroll in AAS 199 and produce a research paper or project with a Black Diaspora and African American focus. You can select any subject, area of study or discipline you would like to approach the paper from. 
If there is another course that you believe fulfills the spirt of AAS 172, 171 and AAS 179, feel free to petition the course to count towards the requirement. Please notify the Program Coordinator on what option you choose to take for each of the required classes listed above. The coordinator will need to adjust your degree audit to reflect the option you choose to pursue. 

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

 

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*AAS 171 and the Capstone course may be offered as AAS 199

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