AFAM 729 01 (10169) /HSAR779/AFAM112/HSAR379 TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Rise, development, and philosophic achievement of the world of New York mambo and salsa. Emphasis on Palmieri, Cortijo, Roena, Harlow, and Colon. Examination of parallel traditions, e.g., New York Haitian art, Dominican merengue, reggae and rastas of Jamaican Brooklyn, and the New York school of Brazilian capoeira.
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AFAM 739 01 (10171) /HSAR781/AFST781 Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 The seminar addresses a new frontier: rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas-the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Colombia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Colombia.
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AFAM 773 01 (10174) /SOCY630 T 11.30-1.20 Fall 2009 The ethnographic interpretation of urban life and culture. Conceptual and methodological issues are discussed. Ongoing projects of participants are presented in a "workshop" format, thus providing participants with critical feedback as well as the opportunity to learn from and contribute to ethnographic work in progress. Selected ethnographic works are read and assessed.
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AFAM 779 01 (10176) /RLST845/REL830 M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This course is an examination of the ways in which metaphors and symbols function at the intersection of various forms of oppression that coalesce into life styles of misery to produce social patterns of domination and subordination. We consider how conversations between Christian ethics and theology as well as other disciplines help frame possible trajectories of justice and justice making.
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AFAM 805 01 (10178) /AFST949/CPLT987/FREN949 Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 African history as represented in historiography, novels, and films. Limited to French and Francophone Africa. Themes include empire and epic; orality and literacy; the slave trade; contact, conquest, and resistance; the Congo Free State; the role of colonial intermediaries; the two world wars; decolonization and neocolonialism; and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Reading knowledge of French required.
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AFAM 814 01 (10182) /ER&M234/PLSC263/AFAM421/PLSC823 T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This course is an introduction to research on race and ethnicity in American politics. Topics include the social construction of race; intersections between race and gender; black, Latino, and Asian American public opinion and political participation; minority representation; the relationship among race, racism, and public policy; immigration and citizenship; state politics; the psychology of racial politics; and the role of race in campaigns. We discuss and debate the empirical contributions of this literature, as well as questions of theory, methodology, and research design.
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AFAM 880 01 (10184) HTBA Fall 2009 By arrangement with faculty.
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AFAM 895 01 (10185) HTBA Fall 2009 A noncredit, yearlong course required of all third-year students. Fall term consists of biweekly work-in-progress talks by Yale faculty, advanced graduate students, and outside speakers. Spring term has biweekly workshops that focus on the dissertation prospectus.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required
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TTh 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu The sexuality of American religion. Case studies and theoretical expositions map the relationship between sexuality and the texts, rituals, regulations, and communities of American religious cultures. Topics include seductive ministers, pedophile priests, abstinent sects, and complex marriages.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas So The development and operations of the American presidency. The political and constitutional evolution of the office, the modern executive establishment, and the politics of presidential leadership.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu The social, political, and economic changes that transformed American society from the turn of the twentieth century through World War II.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Introduction to the social, cultural, and political history of lesbians, gay men, and other socially constituted sexual minorities. Focus on understanding categories of sexuality in relation to shifting normative regimes, primarily in the twentieth century. The emergence of homosexuality and heterosexuality as categories of experience and identity; the changing relationship between homosexuality and transgenderism; the development of diverse lesbian and gay subcultures and their representation in popular culture; religion and sexual science; generational change and everyday life; AIDS; and gay, antigay, feminist, and queer movements.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Areas Hu, So Introduction to major themes and topics in African American experiences; basic methods of interdisciplinary analysis and interpretation in African American studies. Topics include black economic, political, and social institutions; self-identity and social status; literature, art, film, and music; and political and social issues and their relationship to changing social structures.
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MW 11.35-12.25 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Areas Hu A history of modern biology, especially evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, within its social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Topics include eugenics and sterilization, the Scopes trial, contraception and abortion, new reproductive technologies, medical genetics, the Human Genome Project, and human cloning.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu Significant themes in American life, 1607-1750: politics and imperial governance, social structure, religion, ecology, race relations, gender, popular culture, the rhythms of everyday life.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 24) 12/15/2009 T 9.00 Areas Hu An introduction to the cultural history of the United States from Reconstruction through the First World War, with special attention to the persistence of popular culture, the transformation of bourgeois culture, and the birth of mass culture during a period of rapid industrialization.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Skills WR Areas Hu, So Introduction to land use, transportation, town planning, and vernacular building patterns in the United States. After a brief review of Native American and colonial settlement patterns, the first section of the course (1800-1920) deals with traditional towns and large cities, the second (1920-2000) with peripheral growth that transformed downtowns and shaped diffuse metropolitan regions.
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TTh 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Expressions of national identity and national feeling in American performance history. The role of live performance in generating meanings of America, including race, ethnicity, and citizenship. Performance inherent in political demonstrations, sporting events, dance, and music.
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M 2.30-5.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 37) 12/18/2009 F 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period A study of the great American film comedians and an investigation into the psychology of laughter. Comedians from Chaplin and Keaton to the Marx brothers and Fields examined against a background of European comedy. Topics include comic form and technique, and their relevance to the American scene. Not a history of American film comedy.
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Th 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Portrayals of cognitive and linguistic impairment in modern fiction. Characters with limited capacities for language as figures of 'otherness.' Contemporaneous discourses of science, sociology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. The ethics of speaking about or for subjects at the margins of discourse.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Major works by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, with special attention to the composition, idioms, and group dynamics of different life-worlds: regional, national, and international. Connections from race and Southern history, through the high-gloss, fast-paced jazz age, to the traumas of World War I and the Spanish Civil War.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Relationships between medicine, health, and the media in the United States from 1870 to the present. The changing role of the media in shaping conceptions of the body; creating new diseases; influencing health and health policy; crafting the image of the medical profession; informing expectations of medicine and constructions of citizenship; and the medicalization of American life.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The persistent impulse in Western culture to imagine the end of the world and what might follow. Social and psychological factors that motivate apocalyptic representations. The differences and the constant features in apocalyptic representations from the Hebrew Bible to contemporary science fiction. Attitudes toward history, politics, sexuality, social class, and the process of representation in apocalyptic texts.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The idea of wilderness in American history, art, film, public policy, and literature, from the Puritans to the present. Authors include Thoreau, Faulkner, Jack London, Mary Rowlandson, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. A weekend field trip is held early in the term.
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