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Fall 2025 Graduate Courses<\/h2>\n

CAS AA 571: Problems in the African Diaspora Art History\u2014Nicole Smythe-Johnson<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 571: Problems in the African Diaspora Art History\u2014Nicole Smythe-Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fri 11:15am-2:00 pm<\/p>\n

Introduces students to the field of African Diaspora Art History. Each week we look at a different problems of diasporic beginnings, language, archives, giving students various entry points into the issues that shape the sub-field.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meets with CAS AH 571<\/p>\n

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CAS AA 580: White Supremacist Thought: Self, Culture and Society since the 18th Century\u2014Ronald Richardson<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 580: White Supremacist Thought: Self, Culture and Society since the 18th Century\u2014Ronald Richardson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue 12:30pm-3:15pm<\/p>\n

Within a global and comparative context, this course explores the simultaneous, mutualistically symbiotic emergence and sustained codependent development of autonomous individuality and white supremacy in western Europe and the United States from the 18th century to the present day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meets with CASHI 580<\/p>\n

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CAS AA 588: Women, Power, and Culture in Africa\u2014Linda Heywood<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 588: Women, Power, and Culture in Africa\u2014Linda Heywood<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thu 3:30pm-6:15pm<\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

Meets with CASHI 588<\/p>\n

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CAS AA 591: Black Thought: Literary and Cultural Criticism in the African Diaspora\u2014Chad Williams<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 591: Black Thought: Literary and Cultural Criticism in the African Diaspora\u2014Chad Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue\/Thu 12:30pm-1:45pm<\/p>\n

An introduction to the cultural criticism of African-America and the Black Diaspora. This ranges from literary, theoretical and public conversations centered on race, and interrelated issues such as gender, sex, and migration. The course hones in on specific trends, themes, topics and characteristics of this work and assesses its relationship to historical and contemporary political and social contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Undergraduate Prerequisites: two previous literature courses or junior or senior standing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meets with CASEN 537<\/p>\n

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CAS AA 616: Religion, Race, Climate Change\u2014James Hill Jr<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 616: Religion, Race, Climate Change\u2014James Hill Jr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tue 3:30pm-6:15pm<\/p>\n

A multi-disciplinary course delving into the influence of religion and race on human behavior and non-human, planetary realities at local and global scales. It focuses on the historical, systemic, and societal implications associated with ongoing climate change debates. Fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry I.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CAS AA 630: Black American Cinema\u2014Ari James<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 630: Black American Cinema<\/span>\u2014Ari James<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mon\/Wed\/Fri 2:30pm-3:20pm<\/p>\n

A survey of important genres and movements in the history of Black American cinema, with possible focus on race films, civil rights dramas, horror and Blaxploitation films, postcolonial cinema, the LA Rebellion school, Black independent film, afrofuturism, and\/or more. <\/span><\/p>\n

This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Aesthetic Exploration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CAS AA 808: Seminar: Minority Relations\u2014Pamela Zabala-ortiz<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 808: Seminar: Minority Relations<\/span>\u2014Pamela Zabala-ortiz<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mon 12:30pm-3:15pm<\/p>\n

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 GRS SO 808.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CAS AA 871: Seminar: African American History\u2014Bradley Craig<\/h4>

\nCAS AA 871: Seminar: African American History<\/span>\u2014Bradley Craig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wed 8:00am-10:45am<\/p>\n

Graduate seminar in African American history surveys shifts in historiography in the last 25 years in slavery studies, Black women’s, Black youth history, Great Migration, the histories of racial justice and coalitional movements (CR, BP, BLM), and the recent turn in carceral studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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