Course Descriptions
Locating Africas: (Nation, Culture and Diaspora)
Fall Quarter (F18)
Dept/Description | Course No., Title | Instructor |
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HISTORY (F18) | 21A WORLD:INNOVATIONS | DARYAEE, T. |
Emphasis/Category: Hispanic, US Latino/a and Luso-Brazilian Cultures, Locating Europes and European Colonies, Pacific Rim, Inter-Area Studies, Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Atlantic Rim, Locating Africas, Global Middle East How does the legacy of human evolution affect our world today? How have technological innovations shaped human societies? How have human societies explained the natural world and their place in it? Given the abundance of religious beliefs in the world, how have three evangelical faiths spread far beyond their original homelands? | ||
ENGLISH (F18) | 105 CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE | THIONG'O, N |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Africas The course examines themes in African Writing in English and translations into English: drama, poetry and fiction. It is both an introduction to the field and an in-depth look at the issues animating the African imagination. The relationship between language, literature, aesthetics, ethics, and power in society is the connecting thread. The course introduces some key literary movements, such as negritude, as well as writers of the new generation and looks at new trends such as crime fiction. | ||
COM LIT (F18) | 105 CONTEMP AFRICAN LIT | THIONG'O, N. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Africas The course examines themes in African Writing in English and translations into English: drama, poetry and fiction. It is both an introduction to the field and an in-depth look at the issues animating the African imagination. The relationship between language, literature, aesthetics, ethics, and power in society is the connecting thread. The course introduces some key literary movements, such as negritude, as well as writers of the new generation and looks at new trends such as crime fiction. | ||
AFAM (F18) | 113 BLACK CINEMA | DAULATZAI, S. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Africas Using history and theory, cinema and documentary, commercial and independent film, this course seeks to explore the brilliant complexity that constitutes the contours of Blackness as a site for collective identity, political empowerment, and radical consciousness. With Black visual representation and Black creative impulses from throughout the diaspora as our guide, this course will explore how cinema became a vehicle for situating a multiplicity of Black identities within a broad social, political and cultural field. This course is cross listed with Film and Media 130. | ||
HISTORY (F18) | 134A AFRICA SOC&CULTURES | MITCHELL, L. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Africas Overview | ||
ART HIS (F18) | 164D AFAM WOMEN IN ART | COOKS CUMBO, B. |
Emphasis/Category: Locating Africas Examines depictions of and by African American women in art and popular culture through in a variety of media including textiles, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Focuses on African American women’s experiences, perspectives, and strategies for contemporary representation. |
Courses Offered by Global Cultures or other Schools at UCI
Locating Africas: (Nation, Culture and Diaspora)
Fall Quarter (F18)
Dept | Course No., Title | Instructor |
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GLBLCLT (F18) | 103A CULTR,MONY&GLOBLZTN | LE VINE, M. |
Emphasis/Category: Hispanic, US Latino/a and Luso-Brazilian Cultures, Locating Europes and European Colonies, Pacific Rim, Inter-Area Studies, Locating Asias (Nation, Culture, and Diaspora), Atlantic Rim, Locating Africas, Global Middle East |