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MOJA Arts Festival: September 27 – October 7, 2012

2012 marks Charleston’s 29th annual MOJA Arts Festival: A Celebration of African-American and Caribbean Arts. Selected as one of the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top 20 events for many different years, the 2012 MOJA Arts Festival promises an exciting line-up of events with a rich variety of traditional favorites. The upcoming festival is scheduled for Thursday, September 27 through Sunday, October 7, 2012. Nearly half of MOJA’s events are admission-free and the remainder are offered at very modest ticket prices, ranging from $5 – $35.

For full event details and information or to purchase tickets: http://www.mojafestival.com/home/?page_id=2

For a MOJA Arts Festival Program Guide:
http://www.mojafestival.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012MOJA-Program-Book.pdf

Summer 2012/Fall 2012 Courses

Summer 2012

Course Number Course Name Day(s) Time Term Professor
AAST 300 Barbados and the Black Atlantic STUDY ABROAD   Maymester Roneka Matheny
AAST 300 Caribbean Social Movements and Immigration STUDY ABROAD   Maymester Robert Chase
AAST 300 Black Bodies in Cinema and Television MTWRF 7:45-9:30 Summer II Patricia Williams-Lessane
AAST 300 Hip Hop: Evolution and Impact MTWRF 11:45-1:30 Summer II Roneka Matheny

 

Fall 2012

Course Number Course Name Day(s) Time Professor
AAST 200 Introduction of African American Studies TR 10:50-12:05 Roneka Matheny
AAST 200 Introduction of African American Studies MWF 9:00-9:50 Anthony Greene
AAST 300 Hip Hop: Evolution and Impact MW (Express 1) 4:00-6:45 Roneka Matheny
AAST 300 Race-Ethnic Relations MWF 10:00-10:50 Anthony Greene
AAST 300 History of Black Power in the 20th Century M 4:00-6:45 Robert Chase
FYSM 170 Red, White, and Black: Race and Citizenship MW 2:00-3:15 Roneka Matheny
ENGL 216 Introduction to African American Literature TR 12:15-1:30 Valerie Frazier
ENGL 359 Contemporary American Poetry TR 1:40-2:55 Julia Eichelberger
ENGL 364 Black Women Writers MWF 10:00-10:50 Conseula Francis
HIST 216 African American History to 1865 MWF 11:00-11:50 Bernard Powers
HIST 272 Pre-Colonial Africa TR 1:40-2:55 Assan Sarr
HONS 381 History of the Civil Rights Movement MWF 1:00-1:50 Jon Hale
RELS 298 Islam in America MWF 11:00-11:50 Katie Hladky
THTR 316 African American Theater TR 12:15-1:30 Joy Vandervort-Cobb