Modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor, exist on the basis of what Karl Marx called the ?formation and augmentation of capital.? Elombe Brath has observed that Africans are the only people in the world that have been held as capital. This seminar explores the past, present, and future relationship of capitalism and race by investigating the economic realities of people of African descent in various countries, especially the U.S., Colombia, Cape Verde, France, Brazil, Jamaica, and South Africa.

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This course is an intensive 4-credit hour course that meets 2.5 hours per week, with critical reading, discussion, writing, and analysis of texts, images, and films as its components. It is an academic reading-writing course, designed for the undergraduate non-native speakers of English (NNS) writers; however, interested graduate students are also welcome to enroll. The students who enroll must have achieved, at least, an advanced level of English language proficiency.

Appropriate for graduate students and upper division undergraduate students. Focuses on skills needed for writing academic papers and research projects. Provides oral presentation practice related to writing assignments. Develops awareness of authentic text types representing various academic disciplines, revealed by corpus linguistics research. Examines considerations of context, audience, purpose, reader writer relationships, and culture.

Builds confidence for writing and speaking in academic and professional contexts for undergraduate and graduate students. Helps students learn to use language accurately and appropriately in written texts and for oral presentations. Includes in-class activities such as grammatical consciousness-raising, text analysis, production practice, proofreading and editing for typical second language errors, and targeted speaking exercises. Helps students chart individual progress by keeping a personal inventory of patterns of errors.

Promotes the achievement of an expert level of second language writing proficiency demanded by the university's academic community. Uses critical inquiry to explore global and local issues from multicultural perspectives as a basis for writing. Emphasizes the creation, revision, and reshaping of meaningful, clearly written texts in a variety of genres. Analyzes cultural influences on writing in different languages. Helps develop informed and independent writers.

Develops oral communication skills of advanced ESL students for academic formal presentations and informal discussion. Builds confidence and improves intelligibility through focus on English sounds, rhythm, stress, and intonation. Provides guidance and feedback for the attainment of an expert level of second language speaking and listening proficiency.

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