Summer 2019 Course Listings

Summer 1:

CAS AA 207 A1 – Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
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. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
(IND) Mon./Tues./Thurs. 1-3:30 pm
Location: EPC 208
Staff

CAS AA 305 A1 – Toni Morrison’s American Times
Examines four of the Nobel Laureate’s novels, using primary and secondary materials to construct historical contexts and critical perspectives.
(IND) Tues./Thurs. 9 am-12:30 pm Add & Drop Dates
Location: KCB 103
Mary Anne Boelcskevy

Approved Courses:

CFA MH 410 A1 – The Poetics and Politics of Hip Hop
Students engage with hip-hop history, including aesthetic trends, some important artists and works, regional styles, and relationship with the larger sociocultural context. Students will critique and remake hip hop canons. The course investigates how hip hop is shaped by race, class, and gender issues. Students will acquire and apply listening, viewing, and reading skills to interpret primary and secondary sources and bring their analyses of these sources to bear. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness.
(LEC) Mon./Wed. 1-4:30 pm
Location: CFA 216
Michael Birenbaum Quintero

CFA MH 432 A1 – History of Jazz
No prereq; open to all students. A chronological study of the history of — and topics in — jazz, from its beginnings to the present, focusing on styles, major performers and recordings, individuality and sound, instruments, voices, and forms, as well as social and cultural issues, such as race, popularity and commercialism, the individual versus and within the group, American identity and global rejection/admiration. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
(IND) Tues./Thurs. 1-4:30 pm
Location: CFA 216
Andrew Shenton

Summer 2:

CAS AA 335 B1 – Sociology of Race, Glass, & Gender
Prereq: at least one prior 100- or 200-level sociology course, CAS WS 101/102, or consent of the instructor. Examines race, class, gender, and sexuality as intersecting axes of stratification, identity, and experience. Draws heavily from feminist theories in both sociology and history in order to analyze how these intersections can be applied to understanding social problems and structures.
(IND) Mon./Wed. 6-9:30 pm Add & Drop Dates
Location: SOC 241
Sarah Miller

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