Minor in Africana Studies

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The Minor in Africana Studies is a highly flexible program that pairs well with anthropology, history, political science, women’s, gender and sexuality studies and much more. Students in the minor build an academic foundation in the cultural, political and intellectual experiences of people of African descent in the Americas, Caribbean, Europe and Africa. Requirements include one core class, with the remaining 18 credits to be chosen from electives.

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Course Requirements

This Bulletin covers the degree requirements for students matriculating in the current academic year. Students who matriculated before the current year can find their requirements in the relevant archived Bulletin.

The following requirements must be fulfilled: 18 credits, including 6 credits in required courses and 12 credits in elective courses, consisting of two courses (6 credits) from the Black epistemologies concentration and two courses (6 credits) from the Black ontologies concentration.

Code	Title	Credits
Required
AFST 1001	Introduction to Africana Studies
AFST 2001	The Black Radical Tradition
Electives
Two courses (6 credits) in Black epistemologies and two courses (6 credits) in Black ontologies, selected from the lists below.
Black epistemologies
Two courses selected from the following:
AFST 3003	Topics in Africana Studies ^*
ANTH 3702	Anthropology of Latin America
ANTH 3708	Anthropology of Africa
ANTH 3791	Topics in Regional Anthropology (Anthropology of the Caribbean)
ANTH 3801W	African Roots from Australopithecus to Zimbabwe
AMST 3950W	Special Topics (US Black Radicalism) ^*
CAH 2193	Introduction to the Arts and Material Culture of Africa
CAH 2194	History of Modern African Art
CAH 3191	Resistance and Protest in Modern and Contemporary African Art
CAH 3192	Aesthetics and Politics of Waste in African Art
CAH 4151	Seminar in African Art
CMUS 2110	History, Culture, and Aesthetics of Hip Hop Music
CMUS 2123	Musical Cultures of African Americans
CTAD 4592	Special Topics in Theatre Studies (History of African American Theatre)
ENGL 2610W	Introduction to Black Literature of America I
ENGL 2611W	Introduction to Black Literature of America II
ENGL 2711	Postcolonialism and Migration in Global Anglophone Literature and Film
ENGL 3570	Nineteenth-Century Black Literature
ENGL 3940	Topics in African American Literary Studies ^*
ENGL 3950	Cultural Theory and Black Studies
FILM 2153	History of World Cinema I
FILM 2154	History of World Cinema II
FREN 3560	Topics in Contemporary Francophone Literature and Cinema ^*
IAFF 2093	Africa: Problems and Prospects
IAFF 3188	Special Topics in Middle East Studies (Anthropology of Islam)
IAFF 3189	Special Topics in African Studies ^*
SOC 2152	Media, Power, and Politics
SOC 2173	Social Movements
SOC 2189	Special Topics in Criminal Justice ^*
WGSS 3170	Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies ^*
WGSS 3481	Women in Islam
WGSS 3890W	Black Women in the Twenty-First Century
Black ontologies
Two courses selected from the following:
AFST 2002	Black Internationalism
AFST 3001	Documenting Black Lives
AFST 3003	Topics in Africana Studies ^*
AFST 4001	Independent Study in Africana Studies
AMST 2011	Modern American Cultural History
AMST 2020W	Washington, DC: History, Culture, and Politics
AMST 4702W	Race, Medicine, and Public Health
ANTH 2750W	Latinos in the United States
ANTH 3891	Special Topics in Archaeology (The Black Atlantic)
ANTH 3991	Special Topics (Race and Policing)
GEOG 3154	Geography of the Middle East and North Africa
GEOG 3161	Geography of Latin America
GEOG 3164	The Geography of Africa
HIST 3360	African American History to 1865
HIST 3361	African American History Since 1865
HIST 3362W	African American Women's History
HIST 3520	Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
HIST 3710	History of Latin America I
HIST 3711	History of Latin America II
HSCI 2050	Foundations of Health Equity (North Africa and the World)
IAFF 2190W	Special Topics (North Africa and the World) ^*
IAFF 3210W	Migration, Gender, and International Development
IAFF 3904	The Middle East Since 1945: A History of the Present
PSC 2221	African American Politics
PSC 2482	African International Politics
SOC 2169	Urban Sociology
SOC 2170	Class and Inequality in American Society
SOC 2172	Institutional Racism: Policies and Prescriptions
SOC 2179	Race and Minority Relations
SPAN 3430	Afro-Latin America in the Diaspora
WGSS 3530	Women in Africa

*Topics vary by semester. Consult the Schedule of Classes for each semester's offerings.

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