Catalog: Boston College 2004-2005 Catalog | |
| policy course on the current status of African-Americans, Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans ... in science education, Indigenous Peoples health, and the genome project will be ... | |
| Leventman BK 155 Introduction to African-American Society (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with SC ... and cultural struggles waged by African descent people and their struggles in ... music as one of the principal vehicles Africans in Diaspora used to empower and ... galvanize their people to embrace an ancestral racial memory ... . Lawrence Watson BK 210 Survey of the African-American Societies (Spring: 3) Malcolm X defined ... African-Americans as all people of African descent living in the Western ... accounts for the differences between African-Americans who are Brazilians, Jamaicans, Haitians ... and North Americans? Did the Africans who were brought to the New World just ... of their captors or did they bring African traditions with them? How much impact ... This course will show the ways in which Africans adjusted to and overcame the conditions ... | |
| . Laura Tanner EN 236 Nature in American Culture (Fall: 3) Charles P. Lord EN ... . Cummings EN 246 Introduction to Asian American Literature (Fall: 3) This course ... literary works by and about Asian Americans dating back to the early stages of ... . This course defines the term Asian American broadly and will discuss at length why ... has been adopted by so many different peoples. This course will take an explicitly ... will examine post-1945 European, North American, and South African drama. Topics will ... self; colonialism and the Other and the American family in the age of AIDS. Our plays ... utopian impulse the Manson Group, The Peoples Temple, Branch Davidians, and Heavens ... | |
| Robert Chibka EN 389 Twentieth-Century American Fiction: American Dreams (Fall: 3) This ... on the way in which twentieth-century American fiction exposes the social and economic ... bases of the American dream. How do literal and metaphorical ... of individual and collective American identities? What is the relationship ... texts we will study? How do women and people of color buy into America's cultural ... of a distinctive tradition in American poetry grounded in the formal ... . Robert Kern EN 399 The City and American Literature (Fall: 3) This course ... about urban life throughout the American literary tradition. Readings will begin ... are central to the ideas of seminal American thinkers and artists, including ... to Gwendolyn Brooks. Eoin Cannon EN 410 American Fiction to 1860 (Spring: 3) Fulfills ... | |
| to their increasing contact with the peoples, products, cultures, and ideas from Asia ... and cultural) upon Europeans and Latin Americans (Indigenous, Iberian, and African), ... in England, France, and their American colonies. The period is viewed as a ... HS 100 Major Political Rivalries in American History (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Any ... | |
| historically. Davarian Baldwin HS 104 American Presidency (Fall: 3) Offered Biennially ... and other Vietnam era movements, and American soldiers experience during and after ... of the history of gay and lesbian people, movements, consciousnesses, ... about homosexuality and homosexual people. Paul Breines HS 161 Biographies of ... to analyze the ideas and deeds of Latin American men and women who had a significant ... Cultural Diversity Core Requirement African American freedom struggles and ... , culture and exuberance of both the African American struggle for civil rights and ... and the arts will reveal black peoples both stratified and dynamic engagement ... will help students understand how black people both shaped and were shaped. Davarian ... Baldwin HS 181-182 American Civilization I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) ... | |
| society, economy, and ideas upon which American Civilization is founded. Consideration ... to continuity, change, and conflict in American society. The Department HS 189-190 ... Afro-American History I and II (Fall/Spring: 3) ... examines the history and culture of African-Americans from the pre-colonial period to the ... of key issues in the history of Andean peoples: ethnicity, colonialism, gender, the ... Offered Biennially Conflicts between Africans and European settlers in southern ... first encounters between European and African societies, the course examines the ... of racial inequality, and the resulting African protest movements and guerrilla warfare ... constructs at various points in African American history. Karen Miller ... | |
| is, in Fidel Castros words, a Latin African country, some attention will be focused ... structure and the roles of the freed people. The compass of the course embraces a ... government. Peter Weiler HS 376 Latin American Women/Themselves (Spring: 3) ... students will read testimonies by Latin American women. We will deal with the problem of ... | |
| , this course will survey key themes in African American life from 1899 to 1950 ... . Davarian Baldwin HS 514 The American Civil War and Reconstruction (Fall: 3) ... attention to the transformation of American politics in the second half of the ... the Courts decisions reflect and shape American societys political, economic, social, ... for both repression and liberation in American womens lives. In this course we will ... , the ethnic and religious tensions in American life, the Great Depression and the New ... Deal, and American involvement in this centurys two World ... , and the contemporary crisis in the American economy. Mark Gelfand HS 553 The Old ... society. Cynthia Lyerly HS 558 American Irish (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: Any two ... and 1920 alone. This vast movement of people was of great historical significance on ... | |
| political and cultural developments in American history. This course will examine the ... twentieth century. Kevin Kenny HS 560 American Environment (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: ... and suburbanization, transportation, American manufacturing from giant to rust belt, ... the territorial expansion of the American empire, the development of and debate ... powers, and the struggle for American markets in Asia and elsewhere. Seth ... Jacobs HS 606 Racial Violence in American History (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: Any ... , and ethnic violence against Native Americans, European emigrants, the African ... Americans, Chicanos, and Asian Americans. Topics include: trail of tears, slavery ... Feimster HS 608 Family and Gender in American History (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: Any ... the evolving structure and ideology of American family life. Although womens history ... | |
| voluntary and involuntary movement of people of African descent around the Atlantic ... by the massive forced migrations of Africans across the Atlantic and the creation of ... African communities throughout the Americas, ... connections were developing. Africans and people of African descent were ... and interpretations in the field of American history up to Reconstruction. Lynn ... and interpretations in the field of American History since Reconstruction. We will ... and traditional approaches to modern American history. James OToole HS 896 Core ... Kenny HS 980 Seminar: Twentieth Century American Society and Culture (Spring: 3) Offered ... | |
| racism. A focus on racism toward African Americans will also allow independent ... Asians, Latinos, and native indigenous peoples. Horace Seldon PL 275 Philosophy in ... particular focus on community in the American context. Some of the central historical ... religious forces that have shaped both American community and the American ... in the political thinking of the American founders. The seminar then considers ... at an assessment of contemporary American thinking on community. Joseph Flanagan ... of community, particularly in the American context; the historical, cultural, ... and religious forces that have shaped American community and the American ... | |
| in the United States, including African American, Asian American, Hispanic and ... Native American groups. We will also review available ... PS 354 Culture, Identity, and Asian American Experience (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: PS ... course is a requirement for the Asian American Studies Concentration. This course ... and historical experience of Asian Americans and employs psychological, historical, ... issues of particular relevance to Asian American communities. Ramsay Liem PS 360 ... words mean? Do they realize that other people have minds? We will look at Piagets ... | |
| Department RL 300 The French and the Peoples of America (Fall: 3) Satisfies ... to attempts of the French to understand peoples different from themselves in the ... of their encounters with Native Americans, descendants of African slaves, Colonial ... Conducted in French. A crossroads where Americans and French have met since the ... | |
| The Department SC 043 Introduction to African-American Society (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross Listed ... This is an introduction to studies of African peoples in the Americas as revealed in ... and behavioral sciences. This survey of African-Americans is not chronological, but topical. ... | |
