ENROLL

Charisse Burden-Stelly

This course focuses on theories, ideologies, frameworks, and methodologies that constitute: 1) the Black intellectual tradition in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and 2) Africana Studies as an academic discipline. The course is structured around interrogations of Black strategies and struggles for justice, recognition, self-determination, and freedom. We will read and discuss classic and contemporary scholarship concerning the study of the Black experience in the United States and the African Diaspora, and that has shaped the discipline of Africana Studies. Thinkers covered include W.E.B. DuBois, Angela Y. Davis, Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, Patricia Hill Collins, and Molefi Asante.

Christopher Martin

For students with some experience in writing poetry, this workshop further develops craft and vision. Readings and exercises will be used to expand the poet's individual range, and to explore the power of poetic language. Over the ten weeks, each poet will write and revise a significant portfolio. 

Prerequisite: English 160, 161, 261, 262, 263, 265, 270, 271, 273, 280, 286, Cinema and Media Studies 271, 278, 279, Cross Cultural Studies 270 or Theater 246

Johannes M. Wietzke

In this course we will read and examine selections from Herodotus's Histories in Greek, as well as the whole of the work in English. We will explore questions about historiography, culture, ethnicity, ancient warfare, contact between Greece and Persia, among other issues.

Prerequisite: Greek 204 or the equivalent