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African-American & African Studies

AAS 3810 Race, Culture and Inequality
Fall 2025

This course will examine how culture matters for understanding race and social inequality. It will survey social science research about cultural forms such as everyday discourse, styles of dress, music, …

5.0
Rating
2.0
Difficulty
3.49
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AAS 3830 Being Human: Race, Technology, and the Arts
Spring 2025

This course is an introduction to Afrofuturism, exploring race and alienness, race and technology, and race and modernity through global futuristic representations of blackness in TV, film, music, art, and …

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Difficulty
3.58
GPA
AAS 3853 From Redlined to Subprime: Race and Real Estate in the US
Fall 2026

This course examines the history of housing and real estate and explores its role in shaping the meaning and lived experience of race in modern America. We will learn how …

2.5
Rating
3.5
Difficulty
3.69
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AAS 4005 Morven's Enslaved and Descendant Communities
Summer 2024

This course invites students to explore the complex, multilayered history and evolving interpretation of UVA's Morven Farm, with a focus on the site's 19th century enslaved and descendant communities. The …

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AAS 4070 Distinguished Major Thesis I
Fall 2026

Students in the Distinguished Majors Program should enroll in this course for their first semester of thesis research.

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Difficulty
3.90
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AAS 4080 Distinguished Major Thesis II
Spring 2026

Second-semester DMP students should enroll in this course to complete their theses.

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Difficulty
3.78
GPA
AAS 4109 Civil Rights Movement and the Media
Spring 2022

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 …

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2.66
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AAS 4500 Advanced Seminar in African-American and African Studies
Summer 2022

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 …

3.0
Rating
3.7
Difficulty
3.64
GPA
AAS 4501 Advanced Research Seminar in History & AAS
Fall 2025

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 …

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Difficulty
3.56
GPA
AAS 4559 New Course in African and African American Studies
Summer 2022

New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.

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Difficulty
3.63
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AAS 4570 Advanced Research Seminar in African-American & African Studies
Fall 2026

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 …

4.3
Rating
2.0
Difficulty
3.22
GPA
AAS 4725 Queer Africas
Spring 2021

How does "Africa" shape the contours of queerness? We will explore the complex iterations of afro-queer subjectivities in the the circum-Atlantic world. Importantly, we will examine the extent to which …

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Difficulty
3.18
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AAS 4993 Independent Study
Fall 2026

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 …

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Difficulty
4.00
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AAS 5559 New Course in African and African American Studies
Spring 2024

New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.

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Difficulty
3.78
GPA
AAS 7000 Introduction to Africana Studies
Spring 2026

This is an introductory course that will survey selected recent and classic texts in the interdisciplinary fields of African American, African, and Caribbean Studies. By the end of the course, …

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Difficulty
3.91
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AAS 9710 Woodson Institute Fellows Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research
Fall 2026

This is a supervised research course without formal classroom instruction.

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