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Black Studies

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BL ST 1. Introduction to African-American Studies
(5) BANKS, STEWART, WOOTEN
Explores historical and current social conditions of Black people in the United States. Topics include the following: origins of Black Studies; chattel slavery and resistance; Reconstruction; Jim Crow segregation; Harlem Renaissance; Black Nationalism; structural racism and anti-Blackness; Civil Rights and Black Power Movements; racial wealth gap; critical race theory and Neo-liberalism; carcerality and the prison industrial complex; white privilege and rage; and the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality in shaping Black identity and life chances. As a 5 unit course, BLST 1 is reading and writing intensive, with a focus on developing research skills through a Black Studies lens.
BL ST 1H. Introduction to African-American Studies- Honors Seminar
(1) BANKS, STEWART, WOOTEN
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 1; consent of the instructor.
Seminar course for select group of students participating in the College Honors program designed to enrich the large lecture experience. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings. Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
BL ST 2. Black Globalization
(4) MCAULEY, STRONGMAN, TREITLER
Repeat Comments: Not the same course as BL ST 2 from Fall 1969 - Winter 2011.
Explains the process of Globalization from the XV Century - when the very concept of race appeared in discourse - to the present through the lenses of the Black experience. The texts, films and lecture presentations counter the historiographical erasure of people of African descent in the making of the Modern World, foregrounds the critical role that Black subject played in both the Old and New Worlds and postulates that Globalization could not have ever taken place without their contributions.
BL ST 3. Introduction to African Studies
(4) DANIELS
A survey of the subject matter, themes, and methods of African Studies. While briefly surveying the prehistory and early states of Africa, the course focuses on the culture and society of the colonial and independence eras.
BL ST 3H. Introduction to African Studies
(1) STAFF
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 3; consent of instructor.
Seminar course for select group of students participating in the college Honors program designed to enrich the large lecture experience. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
BL ST 4. Critical Introduction to Race and Racism
(4) BANKS, JOHNSON, MICHEL, J. STE
Examines historical and contemporary manifestations of racism and anti-racism, as well as theoretical approaches to understand the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of race.
BL ST 4H. Critical Introduction to Race and Racism
(1) STAFF
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 4; consent of instructor.
Seminar course for select group of students participating in the College Honors program designed to enrich the large lecture experience. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings. Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
BL ST 5. Blacks and Western Civilization
(4) MCAULEY, ROBINSON, J. STEWART
An interdisciplinary analysis of the effect of Africa on Western civilization, specifically the politics, economics, and cultures of Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.
BL ST 5H. Blacks and Western Civilization
(1) MCAULEY, ROBINSON, J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 5; consent of instructor.
Seminar course for select group of students participating in the College Honors program designed to enrich the large lecture experience. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings. Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
BL ST 6. The Civil Rights Movement
(4) BANKS, JOHNSON, LIPSITZ, J. ST
History of the modern civil rights movements, its organization and ideology from its origins in the post reconstruction era to its triumphs with the end of legal racial segregation, and its recognition in the civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
BL ST 6H. The Civil Rights Movement- Honors
(1) BANKS, JOHNSON, LIPSITZ
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 6; consent of instructor.
Seminar course for select group of students participating in the college Honors program designed to enrich the large lecture experience. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings. Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
BL ST 7. Introduction to Caribbean Studies
(4) MCAULEY, STRONGMAN
Enrollment Comments: Students who have received credit for Black Studies 1B may not take this course for credit.
A survey of the culture and society of the Caribbean. After surveying Amerindian communities and examining the impact of the Atlantic slave trade, focus will be on slavery, emancipation, African and Creole cultures,and the issues accompanying an independent nationhood status.
BL ST 7H. Introduction to Caribbean Studies
(1) MCAULEY, STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 7; consent of instructor.
Seminar course for select group of students participating in the college Honors program designed to enrich the large lecture experience. Additional assignments and rigorous discussion of readings. Intended for highly motivated and well-prepared students actively engaged in critical thought.
BL ST 14. The History of Jazz
(4) DANIELS, JOHNSON, LIPSITZ, J.
A survey of the historical origins and development of jazz, beginning with the West African heritage and the African-American folk tradition, and examining the social and cultural context of this twentieth-century music.
BL ST 15. African American Psychology
(4) TETTEGAH
Examines manifestations of psychological characteristics of people of African decent, cultural and behavioral norms, and ways that race, class, gender and sexuality affect their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Connections between Africa, the Caribbean, and Afro-America are explored.
BL ST 33. Major Works of African Literatures
(4) STRONGMAN, AKUDINOBI
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Comparative Literature 33.
An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Africa through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North, West, East, Central, and South Africa varies.
BL ST 38A. Introduction to African-American Literature (Part 1)
(4) BATISTE, J. STEWART, STRONGMAN
Enrollment Comments: Same course as English 38A.
African-American literature from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance.
BL ST 38AH. Honors Seminar on African-American Literature (Part 1)
(1) BATISTE
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 38A; consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as ENGL 38AS.
Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in Black Studies 38A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the Black Studies 38A reading list, and supplemental writing.
BL ST 38B. Introduction to African-American Literature (Part II)
(4) BATISTE, J. STEWART, STRONGMAN
Enrollment Comments: Same course as English 38B.
African-American literature from the 1930s to the present.
BL ST 38BH. Honors Seminar on African-American Literature (Part 2)
(1) BATISTE
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in Black Studies 38B; consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as English 38BS.
Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in Black Studies 38B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the Black Studies 38B reading list, and supplemental writing.
BL ST 45. Black Arts Expressions
(4) LIPSITZ, STEWART, J. STEWART
A comparative examination of the traditions of African American music, literature, dance, folklore, cinema, the visual arts, and musical theatre. No prior musical background is required, though some musicological concepts and nomenclature are employed.
BL ST 49A. Survey of African History
(4) MIESCHER, CHIKOWERO
Enrollment Comments: Same course as History 49A. Not open for credit to students who have completed History 49A.
Prehistory to c. 1800. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on organization of production, state formation, African civilizations and identities, science and technology, beliefs and knowledge systems, Africa?s interaction with the world economy, such as through enslavement and slave trades. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.
BL ST 49B. Survey of African History
(4) MIESCHER, CHIKOWERO
Enrollment Comments: Same course as History 49B. Not open for credit to students who have completed History 49B.
1800 - 1945. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on African civilizations and identities, European colonial conquests, governance and colonial economies, African resistance and engagement with global capitalism. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.
BL ST 49C. Survey of African History
(4) CHIKOWERO,MIESCHER
Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. Quarters usually offered: Spring. Same course as Black Studies 49C. Not open for credit to students who have completed History 49C.
1945 to present. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on colonialism and decolonization, nationalism and self-liberation, development and neocolonialism, Cold War contexts, as well as African experiences of independence and the everyday in our contemporary, global world. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.
BL ST 50. Mass Media, Blackness and the Politics of Representation
(4) STAFF
The development of Black stereotypes. Studying literature, comic books, comic strips, cartoons, music, theater, cinema, broadcasting, and television, students analyze the mythical imageries which have created stereotypes.
BL ST 99. Independent Studies in Black Studies
(1-4) STAFF
Prerequisite: BL ST 1 or 3 or 4 or 7 and one additional course in Black Studies.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 2.8 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Open to non-majors. Designed for majors. Cannot be applied towards the Major or Minor in Black Studies.
Independent studies and mentorship in Black Studies under the direction of a faculty member in the department.
BL ST 99RA. Independent Research Assistance in Black Studies
(1-4) STAFF
Prerequisite: BL ST 1 or 3 or 4 or 7 and one additional course in Black Studies.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 2.8 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Open to non-majors. Designed for majors. Cannot be applied to the Major or Minor in Black Studies.
Coursework shall consist of faculty supervised research assistance.
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BL ST 100. Africa and United States Policy
(4) MCAULEY
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Post-World War II Africa and United States foreign policy. Special attention is devoted to southern Africa and parallels between social movements in that part of the world and the United States civil rights movement.
BL ST 101C. Teaching 4 Social Justice
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: At least one course in one of these departments: Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Feminist Studies.
Enrollment Comments: AS AM 101C, BL ST 101C, CH ST 101C, and FEMST 101C are cross-listed.
This interdisciplinary course will highlight how a curriculum focusing on racial, ethnic, gender, and LGBTQ studies is central to teaching and learning within diverse societal contexts. This grounding is essential for K-12 teachers in History and English/Literature. Through a social justice framework, students will learn how classrooms are enhanced by Ethnic and Feminist Studies, placing graduates within the forefront of educational initiatives that position teaching and learning within an inclusive and equitable paradigm.
BL ST 102. Black Radicals and the Radical Tradition
(4) DANIELS, JOHNSON, LIPSITZ, J.
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
This course examines the tradition of radical thought and the relevance of this thought to the needs and interests of the Black community.
BL ST 103. The Politics of Black Liberation - The Sixties
(4) DANIELS, JOHNSON, LIPSITZ
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
The origins of various Black liberation organizations and their ideologies and strategies in the 1960s. Study of grass roots organizations and their struggles sheds light on the developments that occurred when this movement encountered the intransigence of entrenched American racism.
BL ST 104. Black Marxism
(4) LIPSITZ, MCAULEY, ROBINSON
Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
A theoretical explication and critique of the diverse Marxian analyses developed in Africa and the African Diaspora from the early 20th century. The course traces and analyzes the divergences of Black Marxisms from Western Marxism.
BL ST 106. Women and Politics of the Body
(4) BANKS
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines the relationship between race and gender in the construction of bodily politics that include perceptions of beauty and femininity. In understanding how race and gender matter in conceptualizations of beauty, this course centers Black women's bodies as important sites of resistance.
BL ST 108. Obama as a Political and Cultural Phenomenon
(4) J. STEWART, MADISON
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines the historical, cultural and political nature of the Obama phenomenon. Given the historical nexus of race and class in the United States, the course will explore the historical implications of the election.
BL ST 109. Empire: the Geopolitics of Race
(4) ALVES
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines the historical and contemporary role of the United States' foreign policy in the constitution of domestic and global racial orders. Special attention is devoted to the US intervention in Africa and Latin America and parallels between Pan African social movements in these parts of the world and the struggle for Black liberation in the United States. Analysis of current foreign policies oriented by the "war on terror" and energy security provides the context for exploring the continuous re-making of imperial geographies of anti-Blackness and white supremacy.
BL ST 117. Slavery and Modernity
(4) ALVES, MCAULEY
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
An interdisciplinary examination of Black slavery as both a historical event and an enduring condition. The course highlights the foundational role of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade in the making of European modernity, the white subject of rights and the black dispossessed nonbeing, liberal democracy, and contemporary regimes of black captivities. Special focus is given to the political and economic history of the United States, the Caribbean and Brazil as slavocracies and to the incomplete project of emancipation that renders Black citizenship at best elusive. Critical transnational perspective highlights the spatio-temporal continuum between plantation regimes and contemporary global racial apartheid.
BL ST 118. Comparative Rebellion
(4) STAFF
Examines key events in Brown/Black resistance and rebellion in the U. S. and the Borderlands. Using primary and secondary sources, the course emphasizes parallel rebellions, transnational revolutionary thought, and cross-racial alliances.
BL ST 122. The Education of Black Children
(4) TETTEGAH
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Explores the effects of social, political, and economic forces on the history of Black education. Examines ways of challenging the impacts of race, class, gender, and language in the educational achievement of Black children. Focuses on anti-bias/multicultural curricula in urban settings. Fieldwork required.
BL ST 124. Housing, Inheritance, and Race
(4) LIPSITZ
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Housing discrimination systematically skews opportunities and life chances in the United States across racial lines. This course examines the origins and evolution of fair housing laws, and the role that housing plays in asset accumulation, inheritance, and wealth.
BL ST 125. Queer Black Studies
(4) STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
An exploration of the intersection of Black Studies and Queer Studies from various theoretical, literary, historical, and multi-media perspectives. Cultural producers studied include: Audre Lorde, Marlon Riggs, Bayard Rustin, and Bruce Nugent.
BL ST 126. Comparative Black Literatures
(4) STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Comparative Literature 126.
Using a social constructionist approach to race, this course examines the multiple ways in which racial discourses operate in global literary cultures. It emphasizes that blackness need not be a homogeneous concept in order to continue to be a powerful agent in the postmodern world.
BL ST 127. Black Women Writers
(4) BATISTE, STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines the significance of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place as experienced and articulated in the literature of Black women of the African diaspora.
BL ST 128. The Black Experience in Southern California
(4) JOHNSON, WOODS
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
An interdisciplinary examination of the history, culture, economic conditions, policy debates, and social movements of Blacks in Southern California from 1781 to the present. Music, literature, film, autobiography, and social theory are used to analyze the processes of regional and racial transformation.
BL ST 129. Black Cities: Spatial Politics of Violence, Power and Resistance
(4) ALVES, WOOTEN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines spatial dynamics of anti-Blackness and spatial politics of resistance in relational and comparative geographical perspectives. Study of colonial histories of spatial violence and current patterns of residential segregation, homelessness, and police brutality, as well as the struggle for urban citizenship in societies of the African Diaspora. The goal of the course is threefold: a) it analyzes institutional policies and mundane practices that produce cityscapes as anti-Black; b) it interrogates the Marxist-oriented framework on "the right to the city;" and c) it gives visibility to Black gendered spatial praxes that challenge exclusionary city politics and their attending geographies of anti-Blackness.
BL ST 130A. Negritude and African Literature
(4) STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Recommended Preparation: Black Studies 1, 3 or 7.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have taken Black Studies 30A.
History of Francophone West Indian and African literature from the 1920s through the 1950s. Writers studied include Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, Leon Gontran Damas, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Jane and Paulette Nardal.
BL ST 130B. The Black Francophone Novel
(4) STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Recommended Preparation: Black Studies 3 or 7.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have taken Black Studies 30B.
A study of theoretical and literary discourses of decolonization that appeared simultaneously in Africa and the West Indies after the second World War. Writers studied include Mongo Beti, Camara Laye, Aime Cesaire, Ferdinand Oyono, Miriam Warner-Viegyra, Maryse Conde, and Simone Schwartz-Bart.
BL ST 131. Race and Public Policy
(4) WOODS
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Provides a theoretical overview of the role of race and ethnicity in local, national, and international public policy debates. Examines critical case studies of several policies: regional development, social welfare, environment, criminal justice, etc. Student policy projects with fieldwork component included.
BL ST 133. Gender and Sexuality in Black Studies
(4) BANKS, STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and class in creating disadvantage and advantage. In examining how racism, sexism, and heterosexism shape Black life chances in a 21st century context, this course focuses on systems of oppression that exist within and outside Black communities.
BL ST 136. Black Feminist Thought
(4) BANKS
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Examines past and contemporary scholarship in Black feminist thought. By examining the intervention of Black feminist thought within mainstream feminist theory and the field of Black Studies, this course presents a critical examination of the theoretical and practical contributions of Black feminist scholars.
BL ST 137E. Sociology of the Black Experience
(4) MCAULEY
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Sociology 137E.
Sociological overview of the experiences of Blacks in the United States from slavery to the present. Sociological analysis of the changing historical significance of Black poverty, the Black family, and the Black worker in the United States will be presented.
BL ST 138. African Religions in the Americas
(4) MICHEL, STRONGMAN
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Religious Studies 156.
A study of Neo-African religions in the Americas, with special emphasis on Haitian Vodou. Beliefs, myths, philosophical perspectives, moral order, rituals and practices as well as social and political dynamics are examined in various contemporary religious communities. Women's roles and sexuality issues are also explored.
BL ST 142. Music in African-American Cultures: U.S.A.
(4) STEWART
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Introduction to the music of African-Americans in the U.S.A. from the antebellum era to the present, including folk, religious, popular, and classical music forms. The sociology of Black music in America forms the basis for lectures and discussions.
BL ST 143. Hip-Hop
(4) STEWART, JOHNSON, LIPSITZ
Designed to introduce students to the history and contemporary influence of hip hop, including rap music, break dancing, graffiti, Bboying, djing, fashion, global marketing, etc. Traces the history of hip hop from its early emergence in the Bronx in the 1970s to its emergence as the global soundtrack of the 21st century. Students will also study the particular urban geographies of hip hop culture and its critique of social, political, and economic conditions of Black life.
BL ST 145. Survey of Theories of Performance and Identity
(4) BATISTE
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Course examines theories of performance, identity and culture. It queries the way the categories through which we live are themselves performative and examines the relationship between these and more conventional forms of staged and public performances.
BL ST 146. Topics in Performance Practices, Histories and Genres
(4) BATISTE
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Practices, traditions, histories, methodologies, and genres of Black performance as chosen by instructor. Radical traditions might focus on plays, spoken word, or oratory; a methodological topic might focus on ethnography. A genre might be dance; a history, Shakespeare or burlesque.
BL ST 147PL. Performance of Literature
(4) BATISTE
Prerequisite: Upper-Division Standing.
Recommended Preparation: One of the following courses is recommended: English 38A, 38B, Black Studies 38A, 38B, 145, or 146.
Enrollment Comments: Same Course as English 176PL
Explores relationships between performances of identity, literary analysis, and the staging of literature. Students conceptualize the performance of identity, space, and text through original dramatization of literary materials that they prepare, stage, and embody. No theater experience required.
BL ST 151. Gender, Sexuality and African Cinema
(4) AKUDINOBI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 193GS is the former number of BL ST 151. Students who have completed BL ST 193GS with a C- or below may take BL ST 151 as a legal repeat.
Critical explorations of aesthetic, narrative, thematic, ideological, cultural and interdisciplinary configurations which frame representations of femininities, masculinities, and sexualities in African cinema. The complex dynamics between art and society, issues of identity, difference, agency, resistance, and change, will be explored.
BL ST 152. Music of the African Diaspora
(4) JOHNSON, STEWART
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
A survey of select African derived musical traditions from the Caribbean, North and South America, and Africa.
BL ST 153. Black Feminism and Popular Music
(4) TINSLEY
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
This course engages the music of Black women recording artists as popular, accessible expressions of African American feminisms that reach worldwide audiences. Beginning with close analysis of women artists' songs and videos, we read their oeuvre in conversation with Black feminist theoretical works. The course provides students with an introduction to media studies methodology as well as Black feminist theory, and to challenge us to close the gap between popular and academic expressions of Black women's concerns.
BL ST 154. Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Concurrently offered with BL ST 254.
This course investigates environmental injusticethat some people, especially poorer people, bear a disproportionate burden of living in communities with environmental hazardsand environmental racismthat a high coincidence exists between the location of toxic waste sites and Black and Brown communities, even when they are predominantly middle class.
BL ST 155. Dreams and Conflicts: Black Visual Culture
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enables students to think critically about how visual politics have shaped the landscape of race, how visual arts are related to other expressions of culture, such as music, theatre, and dance, and how Black artists have embodied and contested regimes of racial knowledge anchored in the visualization of Blackness.
BL ST 160. Analyses of Scientific Racism in the United States
(4) MADISON, J.STEWART, KEEL
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
In-depth analysis of the history, ideological and scientific origins of racism in the United States from the nineteenth century. The effects of institutional racism on social policy, desegregation, integration, and affirmative action programs are also examined.
BL ST 161. "Third World" Cinema
(4) AKUDINOBI, ROBINSON
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Film Studies 161.
Studies representative films from Africa, Asia, and Latin America from the 1950s to the present. Explores the socio-cultural and aesthetic dimensions of these cinemas (which have emerged as the "other" of Hollywood and European cinema).
BL ST 162. African Cinema
(4) AKUDINOBI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Critical perspectives on African cinema from its inception to the present. Production contexts, aesthetic/narrative strategies, ideological/ representational concerns are examined along with issues of authorship, culture, gender, identity, post-coloniality, etc.
BL ST 165. African Popular Culture
(4) AKUDINOBI
Enrollment Comments: Different course than BL ST 165 from Fall 1999 - Fall 2011
Examines contemporary African cultural production as a dynamic field where, through fashion, photography, music, film, television, politics, fiction, magazines, art, advertisement, sports, religion, and new media, issues of class, identity, gender, agency, community, heritage, subcultures, transformation, globalization, among others, converge.
BL ST 169AR. African-American History
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Black Studies 1 or 5 or History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed Black Studies 169A.
Influence/experience of Africans/African-Americans in United States history. Origins and developments of slavery and racism in British colonies.
BL ST 169BR. African-American History
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Any lower-division course in Black Studies or History, or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed Black Studies 169B or History 169BR.
Influence/experience of Africans/African-Americans in United States history. Nineteenth-century expansion of slavery, anti-slavery, civil war, reconstruction and development of segregation.
BL ST 169CR. African-American History
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Black Studies 1 or 5 or History 17A or 17B or 17C or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as History 169CR.
Repeat Comments: Not open for credit to students who have taken History 169CR.
Influence/experience of Africans/African-Americans in United States history. Twentieth-century New South, urban migration and desegregation.
BL ST 170. African-Americans in the American Cinema
(4) ROBINSON
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
An examination of the representation of African-Americans in the Hollywood feature film from 1915 to the present. The course explores the relationship between screen icons and the racial attitudes held by Black and White Americans.
BL ST 171. Africa in Film
(4) AKUDINOBI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Explores, with examples from dominant (Hollywood) cinema and African cinema, what the sample films show about the relationship between ideology and representation, especially the reference points through which Africa functions as a site of complex and conflicting meanings.
BL ST 172. Contemporary Black Cinema
(4) ROBINSON
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
The course explores the new directions in African-American cinema with emphasis on the directors, the aesthetics and the social content of contemporary Black film. The problems of production, distribution, and exhibition will be examined.
BL ST 174. From Plantations to Prisons
(4) ALVES
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Provides a critical perspective on current patterns of policing and mass incarceration in the United States and beyond. The course examines the historical roots and ideological justifications for police and prison and how notions of crime and order shape the ways we understand and justify and justify anti-Black policing policies. Focuses on fighting-crime strategies (such as one-strike, zero tolerance and the war on drugs) and their deepening of social vulnerabilities along gender, race, sexuality and class lines. Engages with abolitionist responses to neoliberal carcerality and its prison industrial complex.
BL ST 175. Black Diaspora Cinema
(4) AKUDINOBI
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Survey of Black cinematic expressions from the Americas, Europe and Africa as they articulate and negotiate racial, cultural and gendered identities. Analysis of these films will be related to specific national cinemas, narrative categories, representational strategies and aesthetic forms.
BL ST 179. Black Film Production
(4) STEWART, AKUDINOBI, BANKS
Prerequisite: Upper Division Only.
This course is designed to teach students Black film history as a production workshop. Students will learn the technologies used by Black filmmakers from Oscar Micheaux to Ava DuVernay. The class will write and produce scenes on iMovie reflecting the styles and techniques of a particular period in Black film production.
BL ST 180. Capstone Seminar for Minors
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing. Two courses from BLST 1, 2, 3, 7 must be completed before enrolling in BLST 180.
Enrollment Comments: This course is currently offered to BLST minors.
Capstone seminar for minors designed to strengthen students' reasoning, writing, and research skills, as well as highlight how the Black Studies minor will enhance their major degree(s).
BL ST 190A. Senior Thesis Seminar in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Open to senior Black Studies majors who have completed most of the degree requirements.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 190A, formerly BL ST 190, is now part of the Black Studies senior thesis series. Students must be a BL ST major, senior standing, and receive consent from the department to enroll.
Focus on producing a research proposal by identifying a research topic and research question, argumentation (why the study matters), methods and methodology, and literature search and review.
BL ST 190AH. Honors Thesis Seminar in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: By Department invitation only. Open to senior Black Studies majors who have completed most of the degree requirements.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 190AH was formerly BL ST 195A. Students must be a BL ST major, senior standing, and receive consent from the department to enroll.
Focus on producing a research proposal by identifying a research topic and research question, argumentation (why the study matters), methods and methodology, and literature search and review.
BL ST 190B. Senior Thesis Seminar in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Open to senior Black Studies majors who have completed most of the degree requirements.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 190B is part of the Black Studies senior thesis series. Students must be a BL ST major, senior standing, and receive consent from the department to enroll.
Focus on method/methodology (in connection to data collection), data collection, and initial analysis of data.
BL ST 190BH. Honors Thesis Seminar in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: By Department invitation only. Open to senior Black Studies majors who have completed most of the degree requirements.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 190BH was formerly BL ST 195B. Students must be a BL ST major, senior standing, and receive consent from the department to enroll.
Focus on method/methodology (in connection to data collection), data collection, and initial analysis of data.
BL ST 190C. Senior Thesis Seminar in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Open to senior Black Studies majors who have completed most of the degree requirements.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 190C is part of the Black Studies senior thesis series. Students must be a BL ST major, senior standing, and receive consent from the department to enroll.
Focus on continuing analysis and data discussion and completing the senior thesis.
BL ST 190CH. Honors Thesis Seminar in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: By Department invitation only. Open to senior Black Studies majors who have completed most of the degree requirements.
Enrollment Comments: BL ST 190CH was formerly BL ST 195C. Students must be a BL ST major, senior standing, and receive consent from the department to enroll.
Focus on continuing analysis and data discussion, completing the senior honors thesis, and preparing to present an academic paper at the departmental Spring Colloquium for earning distinction (honors) in the major.
BL ST 191AAZZ. Special Topics in Black Studies.
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 16 units provided letter designations are different (only 4 units may be applied toward the major from BL ST 191AA-ZZ and BL ST 193AA-ZZ combined.)
Designed to broaden opportunities for students by offering topics related to the Black experience.
BL ST 191A. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191AB. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191BB. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191BF. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191CB. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191CM. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191DD. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191DS. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191ES. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191EW. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191EX. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191G. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191GJ. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191GT. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191HJ. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191I. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191IB. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191J. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191JJ. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191JS. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191KK. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191KS. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191LL. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191MB. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191MC. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191MM. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191NC. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191NK. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191OP. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191P. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191Q. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191R. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191RR. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191RS. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191SG. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191SK. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191SL. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191SS. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191T. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191TD. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191TG. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191TK. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191U. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191V. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191W. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191X. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191XL. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191XX. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 191Y. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191Z. Special Topics in Black Studies
BL ST 191ZJ. Special Topics in Black Studies.
BL ST 193AAZZ. Seminars in Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations are different (only 4 units may be applied toward the major from BL ST 191AA-ZZ and BL ST 193AA-ZZ combined).
Seminars focus on a specific topic chosen by the professor, involve in-depth reading of a number of works and the writing of papers on subjects chosen in consultation with the instructor. See department website for seminar titles.
BL ST 193A. Malcolm X And His Times.
BL ST 193AA. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193AD. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193B. Afro-American History.
BL ST 193BB. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193BP. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193BT. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193C. Caribbean Women Writers.
BL ST 193CB. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193CC. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193CJ. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193CM. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193CW. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193D. C.L.R. James And The World.
BL ST 193DC. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193DD. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 193E. Children's Literature/Storytelling And The Black Experience.
BL ST 193EE. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193F. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193FF. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193G. The Marcus Garvey Movement.
BL ST 193GG. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193GL. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193H. Afro-American Literature.
BL ST 193HA. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193HH. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193I. Blacks In The Military.
BL ST 193IB. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193II. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193J. Langston Hughes.
BL ST 193JJ. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193JS. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193K. Black Women, Power, and Politics
BL ST 193L. Racism, Sports, And Politics: History Of The Black Athlete In The U.S.
BL ST 193LS. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193MW. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193O. Visualizing The Black Experience Through Video Procution
BL ST 193P. Black American Culture In The 19th And 20th Centuries
BL ST 193PR. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193Q. Religious Signs/Symbols In Afro-American Art And Literature
BL ST 193R. History And Languages Of The Swahili Peoples
BL ST 193RS. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193S. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193ST. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193TK. Seminars in Black Studies
BL ST 193U. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 193V. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 193W. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 193WW. Seminars In Black Studies.
BL ST 193X. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 193Y. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 193Z. Seminars In Black Studies
BL ST 194A. Ethnic Studies Teacher Education Seminar
(2) ZARATE
Prerequisite: At least one course in one of these departments: Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Feminist Studies.
Designed for students who are Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Asian American and/or Feminist Studies majors in the ÉXITO (Educational eXcellence and Inclusion Training Opportunities) program. Central to the year-long seminar will be preparations for students' pursuit for a career as K-12 Ethnic Studies educators. Students will have direct assistance for preparing and applying to Masters/Teacher Education Programs as well as professionalization workshops.
BL ST 194B. Ethnic Studies Teacher Education Seminar
(2) ZARATE
Prerequisite: At least one course in one of these departments: Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Feminist Studies.
Designed for students who are Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Asian American and/or Feminist Studies majors in the ÉXITO (Educational eXcellence and Inclusion Training Opportunities) program. Central to the year-long seminar will be preparations for students' pursuit for a career as K-12 Ethnic Studies educators. Students will have direct assistance for preparing and applying to Masters/Teacher Education Programs as well as professionalization workshops.
BL ST 194C. Ethnic Studies Teacher Education Seminar
(2) ZARATE
Prerequisite: At least one course in one of these departments: Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Feminist Studies.
Designed for students who are Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Asian American and/or Feminist Studies majors in the ÉXITO (Educational eXcellence and Inclusion Training Opportunities) program. Central to the year-long seminar will be preparations for students' pursuit for a career as K-12 Ethnic Studies educators. Students will have direct assistance for preparing and applying to Masters/Teacher Education Programs as well as professionalization workshops.
BL ST 197. Research Seminar
(1-8) STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of department/and or instructor.
Enrollment Comments: It is recommended that the student have a 3.0 grade point average prior to enrolling in this course.
Directed field research or writing seminar on a topic in Black Studies.
BL ST 198. Readings In Black Studies
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Black Studies.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA for the preceding 3 quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined. Enrollment limited.
Reading and discussion will be centered around a single topic or problem to be announced in advance by the instructor.
BL ST 199. Independent Studies in Black Studies
(1-4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; minimum 3.0 cumulative and major GPA for the preceding three quarters; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Black Studies; consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 3.0 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Students must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative and major GPA for the preceding 3 quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Independent studies in Black Studies.
BL ST 199RA. Independent Research Assistance in Black Studies
(1-5) STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; minimum 3.0 cumulative and major GPA for the preceding 3 quarters; completion of 2 upper-division courses in Black Studies; consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a cumulative 3.0 for the proceeding 3 quarter(s). Students must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative and major GPA for the preceding 3 quarters and are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined.
Coursework shall consist of faculty supervised research assistance.
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BL ST 206. Graduate Proseminar
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Completion of at least 12 upper-division units related to the subject matter of the course.
Critical inquiry based on dissertation related research addressing several issues in the curricular development of black studies: research writing, formal presentation, postdoctoral programs, revision, and journal publication process.
BL ST 208. Issues in Black Studies Epistemology and Pedagogy
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Introduces students to Black Studies as a field with its own logic and history of inquiry. Students gain a methodology for creating paradigms, organizing and interpreting data, and constructing knowledge through research and teaching in Black Studies.
BL ST 210. Harlem and Other Renaissances in Global Perspective
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Examines renaissances as a social, economic, political, and cultural phenomena in comparative world perspective. Interrogates Harlem, Irish, Italian, Mexican renaissances.
BL ST 211. Black Museum Studies
(4) J. STEWART
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Examines museums, historic houses, and exhibitions globally with particular attention to the representation of Blacks and people of color in such institutions.
BL ST 212. History of Racial Thought
(4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
Examines race from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century from the perspectives of science and medicine. Explores how intersections of race, medicine, and public health have shaped the study Blacks, Latina/os, Asians and Jews.
BL ST 215. Black Europe
(4) FRANCE WINDDANCE TWINE
What does it mean to reside in a nation that classifies Black bodies as "foreign" and as unable to symbolically represent the nation? Examines the African Diaspora in Western Europe. Considers the economic, political, cultural, social and national experience of Black in France, Italy, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Topics covered will include citizenship, post-colonialism, community formation, ethnic violence, and media representations.
BL ST 216. 1968 in Global Perspective
(4) STEWART
Examines the series of ideas that Black people and other activists around the world developed and advanced in the 1960s that reached fruition in 1968. It examines the political protests, criticality, and art of the United States, Mexico, France, Argentina, and Eastern Europe that emerged in a quest for freedom that crossed geographical lines. Explores what lessons in intersubjectivity 1968 can teach us today.
BL ST 254. Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice
(4) J.STEWART
Prerequisite: Graduate Students only.
This course investigates environmental injustice?that some people, especially poorer people, bear a disproportionate burden of living in communities with environmental hazards?and environmental racism?that a high coincidence exists between location of toxic waste sites and Black and Brown communities, even when they are predominantly middle class.
BL ST 501. Teaching Methodology in Black Studies
(1-4) STAFF
Prerequisite: Appointment as teaching assistant in Black Studies.
For graduate students who serve as teaching assistants: analyses of texts and materials; discussion of teaching techniques; conducting discussion sections; formulation of topics and questions for papers and examinations; and grading papers and examinations under supervision of instructor assigned to course.
BL ST 596. Directed Reading and Research
(2-5) STAFF
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit on approval of chair.
Individual tutorial. Plan of study must be approved by department chair.
BL ST 598. Master's Thesis Research and Preparation
(2-8) STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
To assist graduate students who are doing research or writing their master's thesis in African area studies and/or Black Studies.
BL ST 599. PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation
(2-12) STAFF
PhD Dissertation Research and Preparation