Dear Students,

I'd like to call your attention to two ARMS related courses, for which you are eligible to pre-enroll (by e-mailing me at the appropriate time).

ARMS 250, Asian Americas, Professor Rika Ito

The course surveys diverse historical, political, and cultural experiences of Asian Americans starting from Chinese immigrants in the mid 19th century to the recent refugees from Southeast Asia since the 1970s. Combined with various texts (histories, memoirs, plays, documentary and featured films, etc.) students will explore the unique and distinctive qualities of various Asian-Americans groups. One of the key focus will be on the language issues. This class will also have a civic engagement component. Students will conduct oral history projects with Vietnamese refugees who have been coming to Northfield since 1975 with the support of the Northfield Refugee Committee, and will share these findings in public at the end of the semester.

Africa and the Americas 231: Africa and the Americas:
The Ties that bind, Professor Abdulai Iddrisu

The seminar examines the African background of African Americans and links between Africans and African Americans. The course examines the dynamics of precolonial West African societies, the nature of the interaction between Africa and the New World and the role played by Africans, African culture and African institutions in the political, economic, cultural and religious life of the New World. Students also examine the ties that bind Africans and African Americans and explore questions such as— to what extend was the iconography of Africa so used to mobilized Africans in dispersion, and how effective was the consciousness of Africa sustained in the New World and finally the contributions of African American to Africa.

Also, I've been compiling a list of the other courses being offered spring semester that count for ARMS.  I've probably missed one or two, but here's the ones that I noticed in the class and lab. 

English 200H: Women Writers of the African Diaspora

English 345: Literature of the Southwest

History 181: Civil Rights Revolution

History 199: Africa after 1865

History 277: African American History

Religion 121G: (this year only), African Americans and the Bible

Religion 267: African American Religious Thought

Soc/Anthro 128: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Soc/Anthro 261: Gender in Cross Cultural Perspective

Soc/Anthro 264: Race and Class in U. S. Culture

Spanish 273: Heritage of the Hispanic US.

Any questions?  E-mail me, or come by during office hours,
M 12-1, Tuesday 3-4, Thursday 12:30-1:30, in Holland 532.

Mike Fitzgerald, Director, ARMS

 

Semester I Courses that count for Fall 2009-10

ARMS 122
Intro to ARMS

English 111
Depending on topic, approved on individual basis by ARMS Director

English 205
Racial and Multicultural Lit

History 282
Native American History

History 288
Civil War and Reconstruction

Music 237
World Music

Religion 121
Depending on topic, approved on individual basis by ARMS Director

Soc/Anth 128
Intro to Cultural Anthropology

Soc/Anth 242
Contemporary Native Americans

Soc/Anth 299
Sociology of Music

Social Work 373
Culturally Competent Practice

Thanks,
Prof. Fitzgerald
Director ARMS

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