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ELA 1500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The First Year
Courses designed for first-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ELA 1600 - Collect, Select, Reflect
Transcripts and resumes in the 21st century have to be more than documentation on paper. This is not only because computers have become ubiquitous, but also because digital technology allows us to represent who we are to others and to ourselves in more multi-dimensional ways than print can. In this class you will assemble three e-portfolios. Together students will view, critique, and give feedback to each other’s work.
Credits: 1
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ELA 2500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Second Year
Courses designed for second-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ELA 2890 - Strategies for Academic Achievement
This course introduces strategies that will enable students to be effective learners. These tools include methods for learning, planning, and critical thinking. Specific topics include: methods for time management, prioritization, note-taking, test preparation, habit formation, assessment of arguments and data, productive approaches to challenges, and utilization of University resources.
Credits: 3
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ELA 3500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Third Year
Courses designed for mostly third-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree. Some topics may focus on career exploration.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ELA 4500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Fourth Year
Courses designed for fourth-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENAM 3110 - American Literature to 1865
Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3120 - American Literature Since 1865
Surveys American literature, both prose and poetry, from the Civil War to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3130 - African-American Literature I
Analyzes the earliest examples of African-American literature, emphasizing African cultural themes and techniques that were transformed by the experience of slavery as that experience met European cultural and religious practices. Studies essays, speeches, pamphlets, poetry, and songs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3140 - African-American Literature II
Continuation of ENAM 3130, this course begins with the career of Richard Wright and brings the Afro-American literary and performing tradition up to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3150 - The American Renaissance
Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3160 - Realism and Naturalism in America
Analyzes American literary realism and naturalism, its sociological, philosophical, and literary origins as well as its relation to other contemporaneous literary movements. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3180 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3240 - Faulkner
An intensive study of the works of William Faulkner in the contexts of American literature, southern literature, and international modernism.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus
Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3300 - American Poetry
Studies theme and technique in major American poets. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3400 - American Fictions
Classic American fiction 1800-1900. Readings vary but may include Cooper, Sedgewick, Stowe, Hawthorn, James, Twain, Chestnutt, Chopin, Dreiser, Crane, Melville
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3450 - American Short Novel
Examines American short novels since 1840 by such authors as Poe, Melville, James, Jewett, Crane, Larsen, Faulkner, Reed, MacLean, Auster, and Chang. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3500 - Studies in American Literature
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3510 - Studies in African-American Literature and Culture
Intensive study of African-American writers and cultural figures in a diversity of genres. Includes artists from across the African diaspora in comparative American perspective. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3520 - Major American Authors
Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3570 - Contemporary Ethnic American Fiction
This course introduces students to the growing body of fiction by recent American writers of ethnic and racial minorities. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3750 - Sex and Sentiment
Focuses on the rise of sentimental novels and sensational novels between the American Revolution and the Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3770 - Women in American Art
Analyzes the roles played by women as artists and as the subjects of representation in American art from the colonial period to the present. Some background in either art history or gender studies is desirable. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3780 - Science and Identity in American Literature
Studies literary representations of science, pseudo-science and technology in nineteenth century America, particularly works that explore the possible effects of science on personal, civic, and social identity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3850 - Folklore in America
Surveys the traditional expressive culture of various ethnic and religious groups in America, including songs, folk narratives, folk religion, proverbs, riddles. Emphasizes southeastern Anglo-Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3870 - Literature of the West
Analyzes selected works by writers of the Western United States from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasizes the Anglo-American exploration, settlement, and development of the West, as well as readings from other ethnic groups, including Native and Hispanic Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3880 - Literature of the South
Analyzes selected works of poetry and prose by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3890 - Mass Media and American Culture
Studies the development and impact of mass forms of communication in America including newspapers, magazines, film, the wireless and the radio, television, and the Internet. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 4500 - Advanced Studies in American Literature
Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 4814 - African-American Women Authors
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 4840 - Fictions of Black Identity
This class will examine novels, essays, critical works that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. We will explore the notion that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Among the questions to consider: how does one make and measure Black identity? What is the value of racial masquerade? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, AAS or English major or minor.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 4845 - Black Speculative Fiction
This course seeks to explore the world of African American ‘speculative’ fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, English major or minor, AAS major or minor.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 1500 - Masterworks of Literature
An introduction to the study of literature. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How do we prepare ourselves to be the best possible readers of imaginative literature?
Credits: 3
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ENGL 1550 - Literature and the Professions
An introduction to the study of literature that focuses on the intersections between imaginative literature and other fields of human endeavor. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How can becoming a better reader enhance other aspects of our careers and our lives?
Credits: 3
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ENGL 2010 - History of European Literature I
Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.
Credits: 4
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ENGL 2020 - History of European Literature II
Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts.
Credits: 4
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ENGL 3610 - The English Novel in the Nineteenth Century
This course will examine the major British novels of the 19th Century in the context of their setting in London and British culture. The course will include visits to London sites presented in the works that will be read. Readings include such major novelists as Dickens, Bronte, Wilde, Stoker, and others.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 3810 - History of Literatures in English I
A three-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3810 covers the period up to 1660; ENGL 3820, the period 1660-1880; and ENGL 3830, the period 1880 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 3820 - History of Literatures in English II
A three-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3810 covers the period up to 1660; ENGL 3820, the period 1660-1880; and ENGL 3830, the period 1880 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 4993 - Independent Study
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, English major or minor, AAS major or minor.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENGL 4998 - Distinguished Majors Program
Directed research leading to completion of an extended essay to be submitted to the Honors Committee. Both ENGL 4998 and 4999 are required of honors candidates. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 4999 - Distinguished Majors Program
Directed research leading to completion of an extended essay to be submitted to the Honors Committee. Both courses are required of honors candidates. Graded on a year-long basis. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENPG 3800 - Tutoring Peer Writers
Prepares undergraduates to tutor peer writers by introducing them to theories of writing and practices of peer tutoring. Successful completion of the course will qualify students to apply for part-time paid peer tutoring positions in the Writing Center. Students may also use this course to prepare for volunteering as writing tutors in their local communities.
Credits: 3
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FORU 1500 - Introduction to the Forums
This course will introduce first-year students to their forum topic. Students should enroll in the section associated with the forum to which they were accepted. (See http://college.as.virginia.edu/forums for information on the forums.)
Credits: 3
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FORU 1510 - Continuing the Forum
This course follows the first-semester introductory forum class and keeps students engaged in the content of their forum. Students should enroll in the section associated with the forum to which they were accepted. (See http://college.as.virginia.edu/forums for information on the forums.)
Credits: 1
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GSVS 2050 - Sustainable Energy Systems
Sustainable energy is not just about the component technologies, it’s about how they fit together to create a complete energy system. Put another way, the individual technologies are only pieces of a much larger puzzle. In this class we will study the science and technology behind those energy “pieces” in an attempt to better define at least their present day shapes. We will then explore ways of assembling them into total energy systems. Prerequisite: High school level physics and chemistry.
Credits: 3
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GSVS 2150 - Global Sustainability
This integrated and interdisciplinary course provides foundational knowledge on the multifaceted aspects of both problems and solutions related to sustainability, and challenges participants to deepen their understanding of global sustainability issues through a real-world, collaborative Think Global/ Act Local project.
Credits: 3
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GSVS 3160 - The Politics of Food
How and what we eat is basic to who we are as individuals, as a culture, and as a polity. This course looks at the production and consumption of food in a political context, focusing on controversies over agricultural subsidies, labeling requirements, taxation, farming practices, food safety, advertising and education.
Credits: 3
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GSVS 4991 - Capstone Seminar in Global Studies Environments and Sustainability
This course is the required Capstone Seminar in the Global Environments and Sustainability track of Global Studies
Credits: 3
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GSVS 4993 - Independent Study in Environments and Sustainability
This course is an independent study to be arranged by student in consultation with faculty.
Credits: 1 to 6
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KICH 1010 - Introduction to Maya K’iche’ I
This class is an introduction to K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by about a million people in the western Highlands of Guatemala; it is one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. This class aims to make students competent in basic conversation and to introduce students to Maya culture. It is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in less commonly taught languages.
Credits: 3
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KICH 1020 - Introduction to Maya K’iche’ II
This class is the second part of a year-long introductory sequence to K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by about a million people in the western Highlands of Guatemala, and one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. Students will enrich and expand their conversational skills and cultural knowledge from K’iche’ 1010. It is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in less commonly taught languages. The completion of KICH 1010 with a grade of C- or higher.
Credits: 3
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KICH 2010 - Intermediate Maya K’iche’ I
This class is the 3rd level of a 4-part sequence in K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by a million people in western Guatemala. Here students will cover more advanced grammar (verb modalities), a broader range of scripts (colonial vs. modern orthography), and conduct research based on the K’iche’ Oral History project at UNM. The class is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in LCTLs. The completion of KICH 1010 and 1020 with a grade of C- or higher.
Credits: 3
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KICH 2020 - Intermediate Maya K’iche’ II
KICH 2020 is the capstone course in a four-part sequence in K’iche’, a Maya language spoken by a million people in western Guatemala. Students will build from earlier coursework to write an original essay in the target language, integrating primary and secondary sources like published works and interviews that they conduct. The class is offered as part of the UVa-Duke-Vanderbilt consortium for distance learning in LCTLs. The completion of KICH 1010, 1020 and 2010 with a grade of C- or higher.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 2010 - Introductory Accounting I
Designed to introduce students to the language of business, the course begins with the role of financial data in contemporary society, proceeds to develop the accounting model for capturing financial data, and finishes with the problems of measuring and reporting income, assets, liabilities, and equities.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 2020 - Introductory Accounting II
Continuation of ACCT 2010. Approximately one third of the course deals with additional financial accounting topics, emphasizing managerial considerations and financial analysis. Cost accumulation, allocation, and product cost methods are studied in a manufacturing setting. Matters such as evaluation of performance planning, cost behavior, and special decisions are emphasized. Prerequisite: ACCT 2010.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 3110 - Intermediate Accounting I
An intensive study of the generally accepted accounting principles for asset valuation, income measurement, and financial statement presentation for business organizations, and the processes through which these principles evolve. Prerequisite: ACCT 2020.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 3120 - Intermediate Accounting II
Continuation of ACCT 3110, emphasizing accounting for the equities of a firm’s investors and creditors. Covers special problem areas in financial accounting including accounting for leases, pensions, and income taxes. Prerequisite: ACCT 3110.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 3140 - Cost Accounting
Addresses analysis of cost behavior and volume profit relationships; responsibility accounting and reporting flexible budgets; and the use of standard costs to guide and control performance. Prerequisite: ACCT 2020.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 4450 - Federal Taxation I
An analysis of the federal income tax law and its application to individuals. A study is made of problems covering personal and business tax situations. Several cases are assigned for which the student prepares illustrative tax returns. Prerequisite: ACCT 2020 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 4700 - Federal Accounting
Provides a comprehensive overview of accounting principles, terminology, concepts, and standards unique to federal accounting to include an analysis and discussion of the laws, regulations, rule-setting organizations, and policies leading to current day federal accounting and reporting practices. Requisite: ACCT 2020
Credits: 3
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AAS 1010 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies I
This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; the rise of anti-slavery movements; and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century.
Credits: 4
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AAS 1020 - Introduction to African-American and African Studies II
This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 1010. Drawing on disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Religious Studies, Political Science and Sociology, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora.
Credits: 4
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AAS 2224 - Black Femininities and Masculinities in the US Media
This course, taught as a lower-level seminar, will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of ‘Blackness’ in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.
Credits: 3
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AAS 2450 - The Health of Black Folks
An interdisciplinary course analyzing the relationship between black bodies and biomedicine both historically and in the present. The course is co-taught by Norm Oliver, M.D. (UVa Department of Family Medicine), and offers political, economic, and post-structuralist lenses with which to interpret the individual and socio/cultural health and disease of African-Americans. Readings range across several disciplines including anthropology, epidemiology/public health, folklore, history, science studies, political science, sociology and literary criticism. Topics will vary and may include: HIV/AIDS; reproductive issues; prison, crime and drugs; and body size/image and obesity; the legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials. Cross listed as ANTH 2450.
Credits: 3
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AAS 2700 - Festivals of the Americas
Communities throughout the Caribbean, and South, Central and North America celebrate festivals which are rooted in religious devotion, and which serve to mark sacred time and and to assert claims about religious, ethnic, and national identities. The class will read ethnographic accounts and listen to musical recordings of signature religious festivals–such as Saint Patrick’s Day in Boston, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and Carnival in Brazil.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3000 - Women and Religion in Africa
This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women
Credits: 3
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AAS 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives
Breaking with popular constructions of the region as a timeless tropical paradise, this course will re-define the Caribbean as the birthplace of modern forms of capitalism, globalization, and trans-nationalism. We will survey the founding moments of Caribbean history, including the imposition of slavery, the rise of plantation economies, and the development of global networks of goods and peoples.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3200 - Martin, Malcolm and America
An intensive examination of African-American social criticism centered upon, but not limited to, the life and thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. We will come to grips with the American legacy of racial hatred and oppression systematized in the institutions of antebellum chattel slavery and post-bellum racial segregation and analyze the array of critical responses to, and social struggles against, this legacy.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3231 - Rise and Fall of the Slave South
A history of the American South from the arrival of the first English settlers through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Cross-listed with HIUS 3231.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3240 - Plantations in Africa and the Americas
Comparative analysis of plantation culture, economy and polity in Africa, the US, and the Caribbean. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3250 - MotherLands: Landscapes of Hunger, Futures of Plenty
This course explores the legacy of the “hidden wounds” left upon the landscape by plantation slavery along with the visionary work of ecofeminist scholars and activists daring to imagine an alternative future. Readings, guest lectures, and field trips illumine the ways in which gender, race, and power are encoded in historical, cultural, and physical landscapes associated with planting/extraction regimes such as tobacco, mining, sugar, and corn.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus
Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3351 - African Diaspora Religions
This seminar examines changes in ethnographic accounts of African diaspora religions, with particular attention to the conceptions of religion, race, nation, and modernity found in different research paradigms. Prerequisite: previous course in one of the following: religious studies, anthropology, AAS, or Latin American studies.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3356 - Culture, Race and World Politics
This course explores the role of culture and race in international politics. Cultural and ethnic factors have long influenced international relations, especially in the post Cold War era. These “identity” issues raise new questions about the role of national sovereighty and the prospects for democracy in countries around the world. We focus on several broad themes structured around the pivot of identity and otherness.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3400 - Changing Worlds, Making Tradition: Culture and Identity in South Africa
Students will have a unique opportunity to explore another culture that of the Venda region in South Africa with linguists from that region. Students will work with visiting faculty to consider the forces shaping Venda culture today. In particular, we will discuss the ways in which indigenous knowledge is constructed and contested in contemporary Africa, and the intersections of this practice with post-colonial thought.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3456 - The Supreme Court and the Civil Rights Movement
This course explores the role of the United States Supreme Court in defining the legality of racial distinctions in the United States in the post-Civil War era. Special attention is paid to the role of the court’s landmark 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The class will be taught in a discussion format based upon assigned readings.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3457 - Issues in Civil Rights Law
An exploration of critical issues in modern civil rights law. We engage competing visions of racial equality through law by examining topics such as school desegregation, affirmative action, urban policymaking, and the crisis of mass incarceration. This course will also highlight the limitations of civil rights law and consider the ways in which the law is often complicit in perpetuating race, gender and class hierarchies.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3471 - History of American Labor
This course examines the economic, cultural, and political lives of the US working classes from the end of the Civil War to the present.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3500 - Intermediate Seminar in African-American & African Studies
Reading, class discussion, and written assignments on a special topic in African-American and African Studies Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3652 - African American History since 1865
This course surveys the major political, economic, and cultural developments in black America from the end of the Civil War to the present. Through an engagement with various primary and secondary texts, and multimedia, students examine African Americans’ endeavors to build strong families and communities, create socially meaningful art, and establish a political infrastructure capable of bringing into existence a more just and humane world.
Credits: 3
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AAS 3749 - Food and Meaning in Africa and the Diaspora
This course investigates the traditions and symbolics of food and eating in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora – wherever people of African descent have migrated or have been forced to move. This course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat’ or don’t eat’ hold meaning for people within a variety of cultural contexts.Topics will include symbol, taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship & beauty, among others.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4070 - Directed Reading and Research
Students in the Distinguished Majors Program should enroll in this course for their first semester of thesis research.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4080 - Thesis
Second-semester DMP students should enroll in this course to complete their theses.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4109 - Civil Rights Movement and the Media
Course examines the crucial relationship between the Civil Rights Movement and mass media from 1950s through early 1970s, looking at a variety of media forms: Hollywood cinema, network television, mainstream newspapers, photojournalism, the black press, and news as primary documents that can tell us something about American race relations during this period and how the nation responded to challenges posed by a powerful social change movement.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4500 - Advanced Seminar in African-American and African Studies
Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminatiing in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4501 - Advanced Research Seminar in History & AAS
Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year AAS and History students–double majors and others. Crosslisted with the History major seminar.
Credits: 4
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AAS 4570 - Advanced Research Seminar in African-American & African Studies
Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4845 - Black Speculative Fiction
This course seeks to explore the world of African American ‘speculative’ fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field.
Credits: 3
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AAS 4993 - Independent Study
Allows students to work on an individual research project. Students must propose a topic to an appropriate faculty member, submit a written proposal for approval, prepare an extensive annotated bibliography on relevant readings comparable to the reading list of a regular upper-level course, and complete a research paper of at least 20 pages.
Credits: 1 to 12
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AIRS 100 - Leadership Laboratory
A mandatory laboratory in leadership and followership development for AFROTC cadets. As a complement to the air science classes, this laboratory focuses on applying leadership principles and understanding leaders’ responsibilities while emphasizing the benefits of practical experience. (2 hrs.) Prerequisite: Enrollment in Air Force ROTC.
Credits: 0
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AIRS 101 - AFROTC Physical Training
Fulfills weekly physical training requirement for AFROTC cadets. Emphasis is placed on increasing cardio-vascular endurance through various forms of exercise, including, but not limited to, calisthenics, circuit training and running.
Credits: 0
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AIRS 1100 - The Foundations of the U.S. Air Force
Introduces the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Topics include mission and organization of the Air Force, officership and professionalism, military customs and courtesies, Air Force officer career opportunities. Corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs)
Credits: 1
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AIRS 1200 - The Foundations of the U.S. Air Force
Introduces the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. Topics include Air Force core values, leadership team building and communication skills. Corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs.)
Credits: 1
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AIRS 2100 - The Evolution of Air and Space Power
Examines general aspects of air and space power through a historical perspective, from the first balloons and dirigibles through the Korean War. Presents historical examples of the development of Air Force capabilities and missions to demonstrate the evolution of what has become today’s USAF air and space power. Investigates several fundamental truths associated with war in the third dimension (e.g., Principles of War and Tenets of Air and Space Power). Considers the general element and employment of air and space power from institutional, doctrinal, and historical perspectives. Discusses the importance of Air Force core values using operational examples and historical Air Force leaders. Continues to develop communication skills. Corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs.)
Credits: 1
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AIRS 2200 - The Evolution of Air and Space Power
Examines general aspects of air and space power through a historical perspective, from the Vietnam Conflict to the space-age global positioning systems used in today’s conflicts. Presents historical examples of the development of Air Force capabilities and missions to demonstrate the evolution of what has become today’s USAF air and space power. Investigates several fundamental truths associated with war in the third dimension (e.g., Principles of War and Tenets of Air and Space Power). Considers the general element and employment of air and space power from institutional, doctrinal, and historical perspectives. Discusses the importance of Air Force core values using operational examples and historical Air Force leaders. Continues to develop communication skills. Corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs.)
Credits: 1
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AIRS 3100 - Concepts of Air Force Leadership and Management
Focuses on the study of leadership, management fundamentals, professional knowledge, and communication skills required of an Air Force junior officer. Case studies are used to examine Air Force leadership and management situations as a means of demonstrating and exercising practical application of the concepts being studied. Prerequisite: Officer Field Training attendance; corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs.)
Credits: 3
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AIRS 3200 - Concepts of Air Force Leadership and Management
Focuses on the study of leadership, management fundamentals, professional knowledge, Air Force personnel and evaluation systems, leadership ethics, and communication skills required of an Air Force junior officer. Case studies are used to examine Air Force leadership, core values, and military ethics as a means of demonstrating and exercising practical application of the concepts being studied. Prerequisite: Officer Field Training attendance; corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs.)
Credits: 3
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AIRS 4100 - National Security Affairs/Preparation for Active Duty
Examines the national security process, constitutional provisions, advanced leadership ethics, joint operations, and Air Force doctrine. Topics include the military as a profession, officership, civilian control of the military, and current issues affecting the military. Emphasizes refining communication skills through cadet briefings. Prerequisite: AIRS 3100 and/or 3200; corequisite: AIRS 100. (2 hrs.)
Credits: 3
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