Academics

Curriculum

You can add an Africana Studies mnuajor to your transcript with as few as 10 courses, and a minor with only 6. You may already be close. See what you’ve taken that may already count.

ADVISING/CURRICULUM SHEETS COURSE DESCRIPTIONS LEARNING OUTCOMES

Degree Requirements

A total of 120 credits are required to graduate, at least 42 of which must be at the 300 level or above. A minimum of 30 credits are required for the Africana Studies major, as follows:

Required Courses

  • AAF 201: Introduction to Africana Studies
  • AAF 202: Introduction to the Culture of the African Diaspora

At least 6 credits from each of the following areas:

History and Politics

  • AAF/HIS 150 Introduction to African American History
  • AAF 380 Civil Rights Movement
  • AAF 372 Afro-Americans and the Legal System
  • AAF 415 Dynamics of Social Change in the Caribbean
  • AAF/EDC 325 History of African American Education
  • AAF/HIS 366 Black Political Thought, Civil Rights/Black Power Age
  • AAF/HIS 359 History of Slavery in America
  • AAF/HIS 388 History of Sub-Saharan Africa
  • AAF/PSC 408 African Governments and Politics
  • AAF/PSC 410 Issues in African Development
  • AAF/PSC 466 Urban Problems
  • AAF/PSC 484 Global Equity, Justice, and Social Media 
  • AAF 353 African and Indigenous Slavery in New England and the Mid-Atlantic
  • AAF 206 Free Women of Color in the Atlantic World
  • AAF 235 Talent Development at URI: History, Legacy, Impact
  • AAF 205 Early African Civilizations

Arts and Humanities

  • AAF/MUS 208 History of Hip Hop
  • AAF/ENG 247 Introduction to Literature of the Diaspora
  • AAF/ENG 248 Afro-American Literature: 1900-Present
  • AAF 352 Black Images in Film
  • AAF 361 Afrofuturism and Black Futures
  • AAF/ENG 362 African-American Literature Genres
  • AAF/ENG 363 Afro-American Fiction
  • AAF/ENG 364 Contemporary African Literature
  • MUS 398/598 West African Percussion
  • AAF 462 Contemporary African Poetry and Writing

Social and Behavioral Science 6-9 units

  • AAF 230 Black Lives Matter
  • AAF 239 Leadership in the African Diaspora 
  • AAF/SOC 240 Race and Ethnicity
  • MAF 300 Race, Gender, Colonialism, and Science 
  • AAF/PSY 399 Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
  • AAF 390 Directed Study or Research (Permission of director by override only)
  • AAF 401 The Earl N Smith III Cabo Verde Study Abroad
  • AAF 412 Economics of Racism
  • AAF 498 Senior Seminar