AFAMAST 1101 - Introduction to African American and African Studies

Introduction to the scholarly study of the Africana experience, focusing on patterns of resistance, adaptation, diversity, and transnational connections.

GEN Foundation: Social and Behavioral Sciences; GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

Section I

Time: Tuesday  & Thursday, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Instructor: Dr. Michael R. Fisher Jr.

Section II

Time: Online Asynchronous 

Instructor: Dr. Ashley Smith-Purviance

AFAMAST 1111 - Introduction to Africa

This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to the history, peoples, and cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Via a diverse set of sources and mediums, including films, literature, visual art, human rights reports, etc., students will be introduced to a number of important expressions, ideas, episodes, events, and trends in Africa, past and present. 

This course fulfills the Historical and Cultural Studies GE Foundation. 

Time: Tuesday & Thursdays 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Franco Barchiesi 

AFAMAST 1112 - Introduction to the Black World

This course introduces students to the history & present of the global Black world(s) encompassing Africa & its diasporas.

It explores the racial ideologies that shaped blackness, and looks to its political, cultural, social, & religious expressions.

Students discuss black movements, diversity, and anti-black politics. They learn to look at lived realities of blackness through an intersectional lens.

Gen Foundation: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Studies 

Time: Online Asynchronous

Instructor: Dr.Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuaa

AFAMAST 2006- American Civics: Freedom, Democracy, and Struggle

This course examines American civic traditions from an interdisciplinary perspective. We will investigate the conceptual and historical roots of key texts, alongside their impacts and ongoing legacies in the United States and beyond. Key themes include: the contested relationships among church, state, and economy; debates over the meaning of democracy and citizenship; competing notions of progress.

Civic Literacy
GEN Foundation: Historical and Cultural Studies

Cross Listed: WGSST & COMPSTD

Time:  Wednesday & Friday 11:10AM-12-30PM 

Instructor:  Dr. Spencer Dew

AFAMAST 2050 - Hip Hop 50: Hip Hop Music, History & Culture

This course explores Hip Hop music, touching upon its historical background and providing a concise overview of the associated culture. While a primary focus of this course will be Hip Hop music, participants will develop an understanding of Hip Hop culture, focusing on its primary elements (DJing, B-Boying, Graffiti, and Emceeing).

GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts open to student with credit for Music 2050

Cross-listed: Music

Time: Monday 3:55 PM - 5:15 PM Online  & Wednesday 3:55 PM - 5:15 PM In Person

Instructor:  Dr. Stevie Johnson

AFAMAST 2201 - Major Readings in African American and African Studies

Iintroduction to major authors and texts contributing to the discourses that have shaped and defined African American and African Studies from its inception to the present.

GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

Major Requirement

Time: Wednesday & Friday 9:35AM-10:55AM

Instructor: Dr. Shavagne Scott

AFAMAST 2275 - Blackness and the Politics of Sports

The purpose of this course is to assist students in understanding the historical relationship between African Americans & the professional sports industry. 

We will explore how the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality function in the world of sports & investigate the cultural tendency to praise athletic achievement over educational or career ambitions. 

This course fulfills the Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Diversity GE foundation.

Time: Wednesday & Friday 11:10AM-12:30PM

Instructor: Dr. Judson Jeffries

AFAMAST 2281 - Introduction to African-American Literature

A study of representative literary works by African-American writers from 1760 to the present.  

GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts
GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

Cross Listed: English

Times: Monday & Wednesday, 11:10AM-12:30PM 

Instructor: Dr. Cynthia Young

AFAMAST 2367.04 - Black Women Writers: Text and Context

Writing and analysis of black women's literary representations of issues in United States social history.

GEN Foundation: Literary, Visual & Performing Arts, GEN Foundation: Race, Ethnicity & Gender Diversity

Cross Listed: Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies

Time: Online: Asynchronous

Instructor: AAAS Faculty 

AFAMAST 3083 - Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

Examines the origins, evolution, and outcomes of the African American freedom struggle, focusing on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World

Cross Listed: History

Time: Wednesday & Friday 9:35AM-10:55AM

Instructor: Dr. Judson Jeffries

AFAMAST 3086 - Black Women in Slavery and Freedom

This course traces the experiences and struggles of African American women from slavery through the Civil Rights/Black Power era. 

GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility

Cross Listed: History

Time: Monday & Wednesday 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Monica Stigler-Johnson

AFAMAST 3260 - Global Black Cultural Movements

This course focuses on hemispheric studies in the Americas, examining black cultural movements emerging after emancipation through the present.

Gen Theme: Lived environments

Time: Tuesday & Thursday, 11:!0AM-12:30PM

Instructor: Dr. Judson Jeffries

AFAMAST 3310 - Global Perspectives on the African Diaspora

The course studies the historical processes, key figures and ideas, and cultural expressions of the worldwide dispersion of people of African descent from different times and places. 

GEN Theme: Lived Environments

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 2:20PM-3:40PM

Instructor: Dr. Lupenga Mphande

AFAMAST 3376 - Arts and Cultures of Africa and the Diaspora

An overview of African and African diaspora cultures from a historical perspective. Cultural media will include art, literature, film, dance, and photography.

GEN Theme: Migration, Mobility, & Immobility

Cross Listed: History of Art

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Lupenga Mphande

AFAMAST 3440 - Theorizing Race

Introduction to issues of "race," consideration of the historical emergence and development of ideas of "race" and of racist practices, along with their contemporary formations.

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World

Cross Listed: Philosophy

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 9:35AM-10:55AM

Instructor: Dr. Kwaku Korang

AFAMAST 3450 - The Art and Politics of Hip-Hop

Explores the world of Hip-Hop, from its birth in the Bronx to its infiltration of music, fashion, television, film, dance, print culture, and politics.

It considers critically the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, and geography as well as the ways in which Hip-Hop functions simultaneously as aesthetic, analytic, and politic.

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World

Time: Monday 2:20PM-3:40PM Online & Wednesday 2:20PM-3:40PM In Person

Instructor: Dr. Stevie Johnson

AFAMAST 4571 - Black Visual Culture and Popular Media

An examination of African Americans in visual culture and the theories of representation in popular media.

GEN Theme: Traditions, Cultures, & Transformations

Time:  Monday & Wednesday 3:55Pm-5:15PM 

Instructor:  Dr. Kam Copeland

AFAMAST 4620 - Race, Policing, and the American City 

This course is an offering of the Ohio Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP). The course is a class with both campus students and incarcerated students at London Correctional Institution, a state prison facility in London, Ohio. The class meets once a week at the prison facility. Students are enrolled only by permission of instructor. Potential students must complete a questionnaire to indicate their interest in the course. Please visit https://opeep.osu.edu/courses-0 to complete this required form.

"Race, Policing, & the American City" is a reading-& discussion-intensive seminar on race & the criminal punishment system in the US from 1890 to the present. Based on its "Citizenship for a Just & Diverse World" thematic designation, this course explores how various groups theorize, practice, & advance different - perhaps even divergent - visions of citizenship.

GEN Theme: Citizenship for a Diverse & Just World

Time:  Thursday 5:30PM-8:15PM  OFF CAMPUS

Instructor: Dr. V.N. Trinh 

AFAMAST 5030 - Mapping Migration, Bordering, and Racial (Im)Mobility in (Eastern) Europe

This course centers Cultural Studies, History, Legal Studies, Sociology, critical theories of migration, race and racialization to illustrate how perceptions of migrants and prejudice against them affects internal perceptions and hierarchies, transnational interactions, and even precipitates and perpetuates conflict in Europe, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Cross listed: SLAVIC

Undergraduate & Graduate Level 

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang

AFAMAST 5189S - Community Development: Field Research and Seminar (Black Studies & the Pursuit of Career Success in a Changing World)

This course explores how Black Studies connects to professional careers and can lead to career success. In this class, we explore the experiences of career professionals in the US from a range of areas (attorneys, judges, dance instructors, medical professionals, nurses, engineers, dentists, professors, entrepreneurs, bankers, CEOs, and educators) and examine how their career path are informed and influenced by black studies.  We investigate how African Americans and people of African descent experience and are influence by the professional world as well as how they influence career paths nationally and globally. More specifically, students will be matched with career professionals (teachers, attorneys, judges, dance instructors, medical professionals, nurses, engineers, dentists, professors, entrepreneurs, bankers, CEOs, and educators) who identify with AAAS and understand the benefits of AAAS within the professional world.

AAAS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 

Undergraduate 

Time: Wednesday 5:00-7:40PM

Instructor: Dr. Jerrell Beckham 

AFAMAST 5240 - Race and Public Policy in the United States

This course explores Race and Public Policy in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. In particular, the class is designed to look at the long list of "hot topics" in the current policy landscape, including policing, housing, wealth gap, immigration, voting, political representation, and other.

Cross-Listed: COMPSTD and PUBAFRS

Undergraduate & Graduate Level 

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Michael R. Fisher Jr. 

AFAMAST 5030 - Mapping Migration, Bordering, and Racial (Im)Mobility in (Eastern) Europe

This course centers Cultural Studies, History, Legal Studies, Sociology, critical theories of migration, race and racialization to illustrate how perceptions of migrants and prejudice against them affects internal perceptions and hierarchies, transnational interactions, and even precipitates and perpetuates conflict in Europe, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Cross listed: SLAVIC

Undergraduate & Graduate Level 

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang

AFAMAST 5240 - Race and Public Policy in the United States

This course explores Race and Public Policy in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. In particular, the class is designed to look at the long list of "hot topics" in the current policy landscape, including policing, housing, wealth gap, immigration, voting, political representation, and other.

Cross-Listed: COMPSTD and PUBAFRS

Undergraduate & Graduate Level 

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 12:45PM-2:05PM

Instructor: Dr. Michael R. Fisher Jr. 

AFAMAST 8899 - 01   Interdepartmental Seminar

This graduate seminar offers an introduction to blackface minstrelsy and its afterlives. We will trace the contours of blackface minstrelsy from its origins in the nineteenth-century United States to its resonances in the present day, drawing on examples from music, theater, film, television, literature, and popular culture. Emphasizing sonic and embodied performances of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and ability, we will consider the historical contexts in which blackface minstrelsy emerged as well as its enduring legacies. Specific topics we will consider include authenticity and appropriation, Black performers in blackface, blackface minstrelsy beyond the ?mask,? and the global routes of minstrelsy.

As an ?interdepartmental seminar,? this course is designed for graduate students across departments who are interested in blackness, music, and performance. We will engage with scholarship from Black Studies, Music Studies, and related fields. No previous formal study of music or ?musicianship training? is required.

Time: Tuesday & Thursday 3:55PM-5:15PM  

Instructor: Dr. Elea Proctor

AFAMAST 8995 - Thesis and Dissertation Proposal Writing

This seminar is designed for students to write a thesis or dissertation prospectus. By the course's end, students submit a prospectus that can be used for fellowship & grant applications or shared with a committee. A prospectus is a detailed plan of a project. It includes key questions, a plan to address the questions, the scope of the project, hypotheses, a literature review, & a bibliography.

Time: Wednesday 2:15Pm-5PM

Instructor: Dr. Cynthia Young