CAS AA 207 Introduction to Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations. Social definition of race and ethnicity. The adjustment of different ethnic groups and their impact upon U.S. social life. How prejudice and discrimination create class identities and how caste relations have affected patterns of integration during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also offered as SO 207. Monti, 4 cr.2nd sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 304 Introduction to African American Women Writers. Surveys the writings of African American women writers from slavery to the present, and explores the African American female literary tradition through a contextual approach based on Black history and culture. Also offered as EN 370. Boelcskevy, 4 cr. 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CAS AA 310 History of the Civil Rights Movement. History of the African American struggle for racial equality and democracy from the turn of the century through the 1960s. Use is made of the most recent scholarship, memoirs, documentary films, and oral history accounts. 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 316/ 716 African Diaspora Arts in the Americas. Study of the transmission of African artistry in the Caribbean, South America, and United States from the period of slavery to the present. Topics include Kongo and Yoruba arts and their influence on the arts of Santeria, Vodun, and carnival. Also offered as AH 316/ 716. Becker, 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA363/ 563 Race and the Development of the American Economy in Global Perspective. Prereq: CAS EC 101 or consent of instructor. Surveys the economic history of African-Americans within the context of the development of the American and global economies. Topics include the economics of slavery; race and industrialization; the Great Migration; anti-discrimination legislation; and the historical origins of contemporary racial inequalities. Also offered as EC 363/563. Margo, 4 c., Not offered in 2008-2009.

CAS AA 371/ 871 African American History. The history of African Americans from African origins to present time; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Also offered as HI 371/ 871. Heywood, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08) Required for minor and M.A.

CAS AA 385/ 885 Atlantic History. Examines the various interactions that shaped the Atlantic World, connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas between 1500 and 1800. Begins by defining the political interaction, then emphasizes on cultural exchange, religious conversion and the revolutionary era. Also offered as HI 385/ 885 Thornton, 4 cr. 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CAS AA395 Power, Leadership, and Governance in Africa and the Caribbean. Haitian Revolution; Bristish Caribbean, leadership, governance, and power in Africa during the period of legitmate trade; visionaryies, dictators, and nationalist politics in the Caribbean; chiefs, western elites, and nationalism in colonial Africa; road to governance in post-colonial Caribbean and Africa. Also offered as CAS HI 396 and IR 396. Heywood. 4 cr, 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CAS AA 396 State and Commerce in Atlantic Africa, 1450-1850. Examines, both by region and across the larger Atlantic area, the ways that overseas commerce, in particular the slave trade, interacted with and was shaped by African politics and economic variables. Also offered as HI 396 Thornton, 4 cr.2nd sem. (Sprg 09).

CAS AA 408 Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations. Prereq:(CAS AA207/ SO207 or consent of instructor.) Formation and position of ethnic minorities in the United States, including cross-group comparisons from England, Africa, and other parts of the world. Readings and field experience. Also offered as SO 408/ 808. Stone, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08).

CAS AA 489 The African Diaspora in the Americas. Uses historical studies, autobiographical and fictional texts, films and music by and about Africans for a thematic and chronological exploration of the origin and transformation of African Diasporic communities in the Americas from the period of the Atlantic slave trade to the present. Also offered as CAS HI 489. Heywood, 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 490 Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space. Explorations of historical encounters between Africans and people of African descent, and Asians and people of Asian descent. How such people imagined themselves, interacted with each other, viewed each other, influenced each other, and borrowed from each other. Also offered as CAS HI 490. Richardson. 4 cr. 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CAS AA 491, 492 Directed Study in African American Studies. Prereq: consent of director. 4 cr 1st and 2nd sem.

CAS AA501 Topics in African American Literature. Topic for Fall 2008: Political Activism and African American Literature. Examines representations of politics in African American literature, along with the historical impact of U.S. political movements on the tradition’s forms and themes. Authors include Wehatley, Equiano, Douglass, Delany, Hopkins, Washington, DuBois, Garvey, Wright, Giovanni, and Lorde. Also offered as CAS EN 588. Jarrett, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 502 Topics in African American Literature. Two topics are offered Spring 2009. Students may take either or both for credit. Section A1: Twentieth-Century African American Novel. Major works from the Harlem Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, the Black Arts Movement, and the contemporary period. Authors include Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, John Wideman, and Toni Morrison. Also offered as CAS EN380. Boelcskevy, 4 cr. Section B1: Racial Uplift. Examines the ideoplogy of racial uplift in nineteenth-century African American literature, focusing on the themes of literacy, civilization, political constituency, class, gender, and the black intelligentsia. Also offered as CAS EN 587. Jarrett 4cr.

CAS AA 504 African American and Asian American Women Writers. Prereq: sophomore standing. Cross-cultural comparison of African American and Asian American women writers. Explores and evaluates the cultural impact of their work, and looks at how these two groups bound together by "otherness" pursue the theme of conflicting cultures. Also offered as EN 371. Boelcskevy, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 505 Black Community and Social Change. Forces within the larger society that enhance and/or inhibit development of the black community. Assesses potential of the black community to initiate and implement changes affecting its own development locally and nationally. 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 507 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Prereq: junior standing and consent of instructor. A study of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores how they proclaimed a renewal of racial consciousness and cultural pride, and how they challenged racial and cultural barriers in American society. Also offered as EN 377. Boelcskevy, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 510 African American Drama. A study of African American and Afro-Caribbean dramatic literature. Focus on the work of August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Aime Cesaire, and Derek Walcott in the context of Western drama. Richardson. 4cr, 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 514 Comparative Slavery. The institution of slavery in history with a special focus on slavery and the slave trade in Africa and the Americas in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Attention to cultural and political issues as well as economic and social aspects of slavery. Also offered as HI 584 Thornton, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 537 Studies in West Indian Literature: Caribbean Fiction. Readings of modern Caribbean fiction written in English, with attention to cultural and political background. Authors such as Sam Selvon, V.S. Naipul, Robert Antoni (Trinidad); Wilson Harris (Guyana); Roger Mais, Olive Senior, Anthony Winkler (Jamaica); Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua). Also offered as EN 587. Breiner, 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 538 Studies in West Indian Literature: Caribbean Poetry. A study of twentieth-century Caribbean poetry written in English(es). Anthologies and major figures (Walcott, Braithwaite, Goodison, Roach). Consideration of the poet in a small society, creole, vs standard language, oral vs literate norms, relations to diverse literary traditions. Also offered as EN 588. Breiner, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 559 Reckoning with the Past: Reparations and Justice in Comparative Perspective. The debate about reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation is the United States examined critically as part of a global conversation about, and movement for, retrospective justice. Includes discussion of war crimes tribunals and truth commissions. Also offered as PO 559. Crawford, 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 564 From Slavery to Freedom: Abolition in Comparative Perspective. Legalized slavery was a natural and normal world-wide practice for thousands of years. This course examines the process of abolition in the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere. It compares abolition to the later regulation of forced labor and to contemporary slavery. Also offered as PO 564. Crawford, 4 cr, 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CAS AA 569 African American Economic History. Introduction to current research in African American economic history. Topics include slavery and its aftermath, the long-term evolution of racial economic differences, segregation, voting rights, and anti-discrimination legislation. Also offered as EC 569. Margo, 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 571 African American Art. Studies African American art and craft production from the early nineteenth century to the present against the background of the diaspora, reconstruction, and the modernist movements of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also offered as AH 571. Hill, 4 cr. 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CASAA 580 The History of Racial Thought. Study of racial thinking and feeling in Europe and the United States since the fifteenth century. Racial thinking in the context of Western encounters with non-European people and Jews; its relation to social, economic, cultural, and political trends. Also offered as CAS HI 580. Richardson, 4 cr. 2nd sem. (Sprg 09) Required for minor and M.A.

CAS AA 583 Black Radical Thought. Black radical thought in America, Europe, and Africa since the eighteenth century through writings of abolitionists, leaders of revolutions and liberation movements, and Black socialists. Emphasizes the global nature of the "Black World" and its role in world history. Also offered as CAS HI 583. Blakely, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)

CAS AA 586 African Americans Abroad. Develops awareness of the global nature of the African American experience through study of Black Americans' involvement in aspects of world development besides slavery and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Focus on Europe and the Americas; some attention to Africa and Asia. Also offered as CAS HI 586. Blakely, 4 cr. 2nd sem. (Sprg 09)

CAS AA 588 Women, Power, and Culture in Africa. Understanding the role of women in African history. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, power, religion, the economy, resistance movements, health, the state, and kinship. Emphasis on the period before independence. Also offered as CAS HI 586. Heywood, 4 cr. Not offered in 2008/2009.

CAS AA 590 The World and the West. Explores relations between the West and the Third World from 1850, focusing on national and cultural movements in the Third World, and places the African American struggle for freedom in the United States in global and comparative perspective. Also offered as CAS HI 590. Richardson, 4 cr. 1st sem. (Fall 08)