Subject: AFST

Term: Fall 2025

AFST 212: History of Rock and Roll (100/8140)

TR 04:00-05:15 PM Aug 25-Dec 05

Rebuffi, M

This course surveys the music and culture of the rock and roll era, broadly defined to include much popular music since the 1950s to the present day. Music majors are to enroll in MUHI 312. Offered as AFST 212 and MUHI 212.

AFST 212: History of Rock and Roll (101/8141)

TR 04:00-05:15 PM Aug 25-Dec 05

Vance, C

This course surveys the music and culture of the rock and roll era, broadly defined to include much popular music since the 1950s to the present day. Music majors are to enroll in MUHI 312. Offered as AFST 212 and MUHI 212.

AFST 315: History of Jazz and American Popular Music (100/8142)

TR 10:00-11:15 AM Aug 25-Dec 05

Ferguson, P

Musical styles and structures of jazz and American popular music; emphasis on music since 1900. Recommended preparation: MUTH 202, MUTH 211, or MUHI 202. Offered as AFST 315 and MUHI 315.

AFST 365F: Afrofuturism and the Black Imaginary: Legacies and Futures (100/12332)

TR 11:30-12:45 PM Aug 25-Dec 05

Berger, M

This course explores the theoretical, literary and cultural expressions of Afrofuturism. The term Afrofuturism was developed in 1993 by scholar Mark Dery and is an all-encompassing term used to describe creative work - literature (especially science fiction), music, art - that focuses on Afro-diasporic ways of being and knowing. The course explores the multiple meanings and expressions of Afrofuturism and how it expands various literary traditions. Traditional speculative fiction canons have often distorted and/or erased the existence of people of color in the future. This course recenters these experiences. Readings will delve into the legacies of slavery, colonialism, entrenched inequalities to understand their impact on real and imagined technological futures. Students will spend time exploring how Afrofuturist writers and cultural workers imagine new possibilities that expand our sense of liberation and justice. Recommended preparation: Academic Inquiry Seminar (AIQS) or SAGES First Seminar. Offered as AFST 365F, ENGL 365F, ETHS 365F, RLGN 365F, WGST 365F and WLIT 365F.

AFST 386: Race and Racism (100/11519)

TR 02:30-03:45 PM Aug 25-Dec 05

Claytor, C

Race and Racism will discuss the classical and contemporary understandings of the concepts of race and racism. We will begin by taking an historical approach, delving into processes of racialization and the first instances where distinctions in human race were noted. We will survey theories of race and use a social constructions approach to examine how sociologists approach the study of racial and ethnic group difference. We will examine how definitions of racial groups have evolved over time and differ across contexts, as well as some of the underlying social and structural processes that create racial hierarchies. At the end of the course students should have a strong understanding of the mechanisms that reproduce systems of racial classification. The course will also examine patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades, centering our discussion on the legacies of racism, current discrimination, and new processes that are currently unfolding to reproduce inequality.While the course's main focus is to examine understandings of race and racism in the United States, we will devote some attention to how race and ethnicity emerge in different environments by examining race and racism in an international context. Offered as AFST 386, SOCI 386 and SOCI 486.