Academics
Curriculum
You can add an Africana Studies major 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.
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 African American Studies
- AAF 202: Introduction to the Culture of the Diaspora
At least 6 credits from each of the following areas:
History and Politics
- AAF 290/WMS351A African American Women: Service, Community, and Self
- AAF 380 Civil Rights Movement
- AAF 372 Afro-Americans and the Legal System
- AAF 415 Dynamics of Social Change in the Caribbean
- AAF/HIS 150 Introduction to African American History
- AAF 355A/HIS393M Contemporary African-American Political Thought
- AAF 355B/HIS393L Black Urban History
- AAF 355C/HIS 393E History of Black Women Artists
- AAF 355I/HIS393I Black Women in the US: Colonial Times to the Present
- 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
Arts and Humanities
- AAF/ARH 330 African-American Artist in Context I
- AAF/ARH 331 African-American Artist in Context II
- AAF/ENG247 Introduction to Literature of the Diaspora
- AAF/ENG 248 Afro-American Literature: 1900-Present
- AAF 352 Black Images in Film
- AAF/ENG 360 Africana Folk Life
- AAF/ENG 362 African-American Literature Genres
- AAF/ENG 363 Afro-American Fiction
- AAF/ENG 364 Contemporary African Literature
Social and Behavioral Science 6-9 units
- AAF/PSY 399 Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
- AAF 390 Directed Study or Research (Permission of director by override only)
- AAF 498 Senior Seminar
Although the following social science courses are not cross-listed with an AAF designation, they also meet the Social and Behavioral Science requirement.
- SOC 240 Minority and Majority Relations
- SOC 318 Social Movements and Social Change
- SOC 240 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC 336 Social Inequality
- SOC 428 Institutional Racism
- PSY 479I Contemporary Problems/Seminar in Non-Violence