Schedule of classes

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by  University of Maryland (College Park, Md.).

This printed version of the Schedule of Classes is current as of 1/4/22 2:32 PM.
AASP African American Studies Fall 2021
AASP100 Introduction to African American Studies
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: SH, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
Significant aspects of the history of African Americans with particular emphasis on the evolution and
development of black communities from slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary introduction to social,
political, legal and economic roots of contemporary problems faced by blacks in the United States with
applications to the lives of other racial and ethnic minorities in the Americas and in other societies.
0101 Shane Walsh Seats (Total: 35)
MWF 10:00am - 10:50am TYD 1132
0201 Shane Walsh Seats (Total: 35)
MWF 12:00pm - 12:50pm WDS 1114
0301 Shane Walsh Seats (Total: 35)
MWF 2:00pm - 2:50pm JMZ 2206
0401 George Kintiba Seats (Total: 30)
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm LEF 2166
0501 Jason Nichols Seats (Total: 35)
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm SQH 1119
0601 Jason Nichols Seats (Total: 35)
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm ARC 1103
AASP100H Introduction to African American Studies
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: SH, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
Significant aspects of the history of African Americans with particular emphasis on the evolution and
development of black communities from slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary introduction to social,
political, legal and economic roots of contemporary problems faced by blacks in the United States with
applications to the lives of other racial and ethnic minorities in the Americas and in other societies.
0101 George Kintiba Seats (Total: 5)
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm LEF 2166
AASP101 Public Policy and the Black Community
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3 CORE: SB General Education: DSHS
Pass-Fail
Formerly: AASP300.
The impact of public policies on the black community and the role of the policy process in affecting the
social, economic and political well-being of minorities. Particular attention given to the post-1960 to
present era.
0101 Cecily Hardaway Seats (Total: 35)
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm TWS 0214
AASP200 African Civilization
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3 CORE: HO General Education: DSHU
Pass-Fail, Audit
A survey of African civilizations from 4500 B.C. to present. Analysis of traditional social systems.
Discussion of the impact of European colonization on these civilizations. Analysis of the influence of
traditional African social systems on modern African institutions as well as discussion of contemporary
processes of Africanization.
0101 George Kintiba Seats (Total: 40)
TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm TYD 1102
FC01 George Kintiba Seats (Total: 30)
TuTh 7:30pm - 8:45pm LEF 2166
Restricted to students in Freshmen Connection.
AASP202 Black Culture in the United States
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: SH, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
The course examines important aspects of African American life and thought which are reflected in
African American literature, drama, music and art. Beginning with the cultural heritage of slavery, the
course surveys the changing modes of black creative expression from the 19th-century to the present.
0101 Renina Jarmon Seats (Total: 35)
MWF 11:00am - 11:50am TWS 1106
0102 Renina Jarmon Seats (Total: 35)
MWF 1:00pm - 1:50pm ARC 1103
0103 Robert Choflet Seats (Total: 30)
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm TWS 0207
0104 Robert Choflet Seats (Total: 35)
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm EGR 0135
AASP202H Black Culture in the United States
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: SH, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
The course examines important aspects of African American life and thought which are reflected in
African American literature, drama, music and art. Beginning with the cultural heritage of slavery, the
course surveys the changing modes of black creative expression from the 19th-century to the present.
0103 Robert Choflet Seats (Total: 5)
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm TWS 0207
AASP210 Intro to Research Design and Analysis in African American Studies
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Introduces students to quantitative and qualitative research methods used in social science with a focus
on Black populations and African American Studies Research. Uses practical exercises, such as class
surveys and mock focus groups, to examine fundamental concepts of the research process from
conceptualization of research questions to interpretation of data and research articles. The course is
designed for undergraduate students with little or no background knowledge in social science research
methods.
0101 Angel Dunbar Seats (Total: 20)
MW 10:00am - 11:15am KEY 0124
AASP230 Social (In)Justice and African-American Health and Well-Being
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP, SCIS
African Americans suffer worse outcomes than non-Hispanic whites on nearly every health measure
and outcomes that link to overall well-being like depressive symptoms or homicides. Health disparities
are experienced by other underrepresented minority groups, but because of the unique historic and
current experiences of African Americans, the determinants and solutions to African American health
disparities are unique. The premise of this course is that African American health disparities are due to
social injustices perpetuated on the institutional level that have permeated the lived experiences of
African Americans leading to racial disparities in health and well-being. As such, the solutions on the
both policy, and community, level must have a social justice approach.
0101 Ashley Newby Seats (Total: 30)
TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am TLF 1101
AASP298B Constructions of Manhood and Womanhood in the Black Community
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: HO, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
Cross-listed with: WGSS265. Credit only granted for: WMST265, AASP298B or WGSS265. Formerly:
WMST265.
Investigates the ways that African Americans are represented and constructed in public and private
spheres and explores the social constructions and representations of Black manhood and womanhood
from various disciplinary perspectives.
0101 Michelle Rowley Seats (Total: 40)
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm ARC 1103
AASP298C African-American History to 1865
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3 CORE: SH, D General Education: DVUP
Pass-Fail, Audit
Cross-listed with: HIST254. Credit only granted for: HIST254 or AASP298C.
Survey of the principal developments in the history and culture of the peoples of African descent in
colonial North America and the United States to 1865. Examines the African past, the Atlantic slave
trade, variation in slavery, the growth of free black communities, the transformations of families and
cultural forms, and patterns of resistance.
0101 Christopher Bonner Seats (Total: 40)
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm KEY 0116
AASP298L African-American Literature and Culture
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHU,
Credits: 3 CORE: HL, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
Cross-listed with: ENGL234. Credit only granted for: ENGL234 or AASP298L.
An exploration of the stories black authors tell about themselves, their communities, and the nation as
informed by time and place, gender, sexuality, and class. African American perspective themes such as
art, childhood, sexuality, marriage, alienation and mortality, as well as representations of slavery,
Reconstruction, racial violence and the Nadir, legalized racism and segregation, black patriotism and
black ex-patriots, the optimism of integration, and the prospects of a post-racial America.
Cross-listed with ENGL234. Credit granted for AASP298L or ENGL234.
0201 Alexandria Nunn Seats (Total: 30)
MWF 12:00pm - 12:50pm KEY 0125
AASP298M Martin Luther King Jr.
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3 , D General Education: DSHS
Pass-Fail
Cross-listed with: HIST108C, AMST189C. Credit only granted for: HIST108C, AASP298M, or
AMST189C.
Examines the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. We immediately rethink the image of King who
liberals and conservatives construct as a dreamer of better race relations. We engage the complexities
of an individual, who articulated a moral compass of the nation, to explore racial justice in post-World
War II America. This course gives special attention to King's post-1965 radicalism when he called for a
reordering of American society, an end to the war in Vietnam, and supported sanitation workers striking
for better wages and working conditions. Topics include King's notion of the "beloved community", the
Social Gospel, liberalism, "socially conscious democracy", militancy, the politics of martyrdom, poverty
and racial justice, and compensatory treatment. Primary sources form the core of our readings.
0101 Quincy Mills Seats (Total: 15)
TuTh 9:30am - 10:45am TLF 2103
AASP298P Special Topics in African American Studies; Poverty, Race and African-American Children
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
An introductory multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary educational experience to explore issues
relevant to black life, cultural experiences, and political, economic, and artistic development.
0101 Cecily Hardaway Seats (Total: 20)
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:15pm JMZ 1117
AASP301 Applied Policy Analysis and the Black Community
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Prerequisite: AASP101; and (ECON201 or ECON200). Recommended: Completion of one semester of
statistics is recommended.
Development and application of the tools needed for examining the effectiveness of alternative policy
options confronting minority communities. Review policy research methods used in forming and
evaluating policies. Examination of the policy process.
0101 Ricco Hall Seats (Total: 25)
Tu 5:00pm - 7:30pm TLF 1101
AASP310 African Slave Trade
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Prerequisite: AASP202 or AASP100; or permission of BSOS-African American Studies department.
Formerly: AASP311.
The relationship of the slave trade of Africans to the development of British capitalism and its industrial
revolution; and to the economic and social development of the Americas.
0101 George Kintiba Seats (Total: 35)
W 2:00pm - 4:30pm KEY 1117
AASP313 Black Women in United States History
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Restriction: Sophomore standing or higher. Cross-listed with: WGSS314. Credit only granted for:
AASP313, WMST314 or WGSS314. Formerly: WMST314.
Black American women's history from slavery to the present. Focused on gaining a fuller understanding
of the effect of race, class and gender on the life cycles and multiple roles of Black women as mothers,
daughters, wives, workers and social-change agents.
For Fall 2020: Also offered as HIST329E. Credit granted for AASP313, HIST329E, or WMST314.
0101 Elsa Barkley Brown Seats (Total: 40)
TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm ONLINE
AASP377 Baldwin and the Black Atlantic
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
As one of the most important writers of his generation, James Baldwin articulated key truths about race
and racism in the United States. His fiction and non-fiction bear witness to the cruelty of anti-black
racism, while also attending to the complexities of love, hope, and community in the African-American
context and the context of democracy in the United States more widely. This course focuses on
Baldwin's non-fiction and its complicated relation to mid-century trends in black Atlantic theory, from the
racialism of Negritude to various iterations of existentialism to post-independence notions of Pan-
Africanism and Black Power. What emerges from our considerations will be a portrait of Baldwin as a
writer of the particularity of African-American experience and as a vernacular intellectual dedicated to
the articulation of localized forms of knowing and being, while also being attentive to the blurry borders
of blackness, whiteness, and the history of anti-black racism.
0101 John Drabinski Seats (Total: 25)
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm LEF 1220
AASP386 Experiential Learning
(Perm req) Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3-6
Pass-Fail
Restriction: Permission of BSOS-African American Studies department; and junior standing or higher.
0101 Marshal Washington Seats (Total: 10)
F 2:00pm - 4:30pm TLF 1102
AASP397 Senior Thesis
(Perm req) Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Restriction: Permission of BSOS-African American Studies department.
Directed research in African American Studies resulting in the completion and defense of a senior
thesis.
Contact department for information to register for this course.
AASP398G Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Gender, Labor and Racial Identities in Diaspora
Communities
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Analysis of the historical experiences and cultures of Africans in the diaspora.
Cross-listed with AMST328K. Credit only granted for AASP398G or AMST328K.
0101 Sharon Harley Seats (Total: 15)
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm KEY 0125
AASP398Q Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Black Baltimore in the Post Racial U.S: African
American Urban Culture in the Age of Obama
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Analysis of the historical experiences and cultures of Africans in the diaspora.
0101 Robert Choflet Seats (Total: 30)
Th 4:00pm - 6:30pm KEY 0125
AASP399 Research in African-American Studies
(Perm req) Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 1-3
Pass-Fail
African American Studies research labs are the settings in which the most recent scholarly work of each
faculty member takes place with the enterprise of conducting and disseminating research. Faculty
members operate as the team leader and faculty mentor working with undergraduate students around a
specific research topic or project. Students will have the opportunity to assist with reviewing literature,
data gathering, data management, coding analysis, and the preparation of conference presentations
and scholarly publications while advancing their own scholarship and interests, cultivating integrative
skills, and gain training in a specialized aspect of the African American Studies discipline, which may
not be otherwise available from other experiences on campus.
Contact department for information to register for this course.
AASP401 Research Directions in African-American Studies
Credits: 3 Grading Method: Regular
Restriction: Must have earned a minimum of 90 credits; and must be major in African-American
Studies.
Utilizing a pro seminar format, this course offers an overview of recent research on the experiences of
African Americans and the African diaspora. The course will cover selective topics from research
portfolios of department faculty related to the status of African Americans and the diaspora across a
number of topics. Students will read recent original research studies and discuss with the authors both
the theoretical underpinnings of the research, the methods and evaluate the interpretations. This course
fulfills the capstone requirement for African American studies majors and certificate students by
providing an opportunity to consolidate and integrate a range of ideas encountered in the curriculum.
0101 Oscar Barbarin Seats (Total: 15)
Th 3:30pm - 6:00pm TLF 1102
AASP413 Gentrification: Have You Met the New Neighbors?: Issues of Belonging and Displacement in
Urban Areas
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
This course will explore and consider current scholarship on the history, modes and implications of the
process of gentrification in various areas within the United States. The course will engage with history,
culture, and policy factors related to the redevelopment of urban areas. Course texts will be
interdisciplinary in their methodology and genre, and will include themes of race, gender, and class.
These texts, combined with student engagement, class discussion, and directed assignments will help
to develop a theoretical framework for the understanding of gentrification as systematic, profound and
in most if not all cases, irreversibly detrimental.
0101 Ashley Newby Seats (Total: 20)
TuTh 12:30pm - 1:45pm WDS 0104
AASP498J Special Topics in Black Culture; Racial Socialization of Children and Adolescents: Theory,
Research and Practice
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Advanced study of the cultural and historical antecedents of contemporary African and African
American society. Emphasis on the social, political, economic and behavioral factors affecting blacks
and their communities. Topics vary.
0101 Angel Dunbar Seats (Total: 30)
MW 2:30pm - 3:45pm TLF 1101
AASP498O Special Topics in Black Culture; African American and Latino Social, Cultural and Political
Relations: 1940 to Present
Credits: 3 Grading Method: Regular
Advanced study of the cultural and historical antecedents of contemporary African and African
American society. Emphasis on the social, political, economic and behavioral factors affecting blacks
and their communities. Topics vary.
Cross-listed with USLT498E. Credit granted for AASP498O or USLT498E.
0101 Jason Nichols Seats (Total: 35)
W 4:00pm - 6:30pm KEY 0116
AASP499P Advanced Topics in Public Policy and the Black Community; African-American Politics from
Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama
Grading Method: Regular,
Credits: 3
Pass-Fail, Audit
Examination of specific areas of policy development and evaluation in black and other communities.
Application of advanced tools of policy analysis, especially quantitative, statistical and micro-economic
analysis.
Jointly offered with GVPT368L. Credit only granted for AASP499P, GVPT368L, or PLCY388B.
0101 Kameron Patterson Seats (Total: 30)
Tu 3:30pm - 6:00pm TYD 1101
AAST Asian American Studies Fall 2021
AAST200 Introduction to Asian American Studies
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: SB, D
Pass-Fail DVUP
Cross-listed with: AMST298C. Credit only granted for: AAST200 or AMST298C.
The aggregate experience of Asian Pacific Americans, from developments in the countries of origin to
their contemporary issues. The histories of Asian Pacific American groups as well as culture, politics,
the media, and stereotypes, viewed from an interdisciplinary perspective.
0101 Binod Paudyal Seats (Total: 40)
TuTh 11:00am - 12:15pm HBK 0109
AAST201 Asian American History
Grading Method: Regular, General Education: DSHS,
Credits: 3 CORE: SH, D
Pass-Fail, Audit DVUP
Cross-listed with HIST221. Credit only granted for: AAST201 or HIST221.
Introduction to the history of Asian Americans and Asians in the United States and the Americas and to
the field of Asian American Studies, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics include theories of
race and ethnicity; Asian migration and diaspora to the Americas; Asian American work and labor
issues; gender, family, and communities; nationalism and nativism, and anti-Asian movements; Asian
Americans in World War II, the Cold War, and the issues in the civil rights & post-civil rights era.
0101 Patrick Chung Seats (Total: 40)
TuTh 3:30pm - 4:45pm TWS 1107
AAST222 Immigration and Ethnicity in America