AFRC1780 - Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in Urban University-Community Rltn

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in Urban University-Community Rltn
Term
2025A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC1780401
Course number integer
1780
Meeting times
W 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Ira Harkavy
Theresa E Simmonds
Description
This seminar helps students develop their capacity to solve strategic, real-world problems by working collaboratively in the classroom, on campus, and in the West Philadelphia community. Students develop proposals that demonstrate how a Penn undergraduate education might better empower students to produce, not simply "consume," societally-useful knowledge, as well as to function as caring, contributing citizens of a democratic society. Their proposals help contribute to the improvement of education on campus and in the community, as well as to the improvement of university-community relations. Additionally, students provide college access support at Paul Robeson High School for one hour each week.
Course number only
1780
Cross listings
HIST0811401, URBS1780401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Use local description
No

AFRC1500 - World Musics and Cultures

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
404
Title (text only)
World Musics and Cultures
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
404
Section ID
AFRC1500404
Course number integer
1500
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
James Sykes
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1500
Cross listings
ANTH1500404, MUSC1500404
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC1500 - World Musics and Cultures

Status
X
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
403
Title (text only)
World Musics and Cultures
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
403
Section ID
AFRC1500403
Course number integer
1500
Meeting times
CANCELED
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Ryan L Tomski
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1500
Cross listings
ANTH1500403, MUSC1500400
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC1500 - World Musics and Cultures

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
402
Title (text only)
World Musics and Cultures
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
402
Section ID
AFRC1500402
Course number integer
1500
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Laurie Lee
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1500
Cross listings
ANTH1500402, MUSC1500402
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC1500 - World Musics and Cultures

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
World Musics and Cultures
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC1500401
Course number integer
1500
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-1:29 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Shivanand Boddapati
Jiwon Kwon
Carol Ann Muller
Echezonachukwu Chinedu Nduka
Kingsley Kwadwo Okyere
Description
This course examines how we as consumers in the "Western" world engage with musical difference largely through the products of the global entertainment industry. We examine music cultures in contact in a variety of ways-- particularly as traditions in transformation. Students gain an understanding of traditional music as live, meaningful person-to-person music making, by examining the music in its original site of production, and then considering its transformation once it is removed, and recontextualized in a variety of ways. The purpose of the course is to enable students to become informed and critical consumers of "World Music" by telling a series of stories about particular recordings made with, or using the music of, peoples culturally and geographically distant from the US. Students come to understand that not all music downloads containing music from unfamiliar places are the same, and that particular recordings may be embedded in intriguing and controversial narratives of production and consumption. At the very least, students should emerge from the class with a clear understanding that the production, distribution, and consumption of world music is rarely a neutral process. Fulfills College Cross Cultural Foundational Requirement.
Course number only
1500
Cross listings
ANTH1500401, MUSC1500401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC1400 - Jazz Style and History

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jazz Style and History
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC1400401
Course number integer
1400
Meeting times
MW 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Max Allan Johnson
Description
This course is an exploration of the family of musical idioms called jazz. Attention will be given to issues of style development, selective musicians, and to the social and cultural conditions and the scholarly discourses that have informed the creation, dissemination and reception of this dynamic set of styles from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Fulfills Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
Course number only
1400
Cross listings
MUSC1400401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Use local description
No

AFRC1310 - Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC1310401
Course number integer
1310
Meeting times
MW 5:15 PM-6:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Roquinaldo Ferreira
Description
This course focuses on the history of selected African societies from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The primary goal is to study the political, economic, social, and cultural history of a number of peoples who participated in the Atlantic slave trade or were touched by it during the era of their involvement. The course is designed to serve as an introduction to the history and culture of African peoples who entered the diaspora during the era of the slave trade. Its audience is students interested in the history of Africa, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic world, as well as those who want to learn about the history of the slave trade. Case studies will include the Yoruba, Akan, and Fon, as well as Senegambian and West-central African peoples.
Course number only
1310
Cross listings
HIST1310401, LALS1310401
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No

AFRC1200 - Introduction to African American Literature

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Introduction to African American Literature
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC1200401
Course number integer
1200
Meeting times
TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Dagmawi Woubshet
Description
An introduction to African-American literature, ranging across a wide spectrum of moments, methodologies, and ideological postures, from Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
Course number only
1200
Cross listings
ENGL1200401, GSWS1201401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No

AFRC1187 - The History of Women and Men of African Descent at the University of Penn

Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
The History of Women and Men of African Descent at the University of Penn
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
301
Section ID
AFRC1187301
Course number integer
1187
Meeting times
M 10:15 AM-1:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Charles L Howard
Daina A Troy
Description
The history of the women and men of African Descent who have studied, taught, researched, and worked at the University of Pennsylvania provides a powerful window into the complex history of Blacks not only in America but throughout the Diaspora. This class will unpack, uncover, and present this history through close studies of texts and archived records on and at the university, as well as through first hand accounts by alumni and past and present faculty and staff members. These stories of the trials and triumphs of individuals on and around this campus demonstrate the amazing and absurd experience that Blacks have endured both at Penn and globally. Emphasis will be placed on the research process with the intent of creating a democratic classroom where all are students and all are instructors. Students will become familiar with archival historical research (and historical criticism) as well as with ethnographic research. Far more than just a survey of historical moments on campus and in the community, students will meet face to face with those who have lived and are presently living history and they will be faced with the challenge of discerning the most effective ways of documenting, protecting, and representing that history for future generations of Penn students.
Course number only
1187
Use local description
No

AFRC1177 - African American History 1876 to Present

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
African American History 1876 to Present
Term
2025A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
401
Section ID
AFRC1177401
Course number integer
1177
Meeting times
MW 5:15 PM-6:44 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Vaughn A Booker
Description
A study of the major events, issues, and personalities in Afro-American history from Reconstruction to the present. The course will also examine the different slave experiences and the methods of black resistance and rebellion in the various slave systems.
Course number only
1177
Cross listings
HIST1177401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
History & Tradition Sector
Use local description
No