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.
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 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/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
Arts and Humanities
- AAF/ENG247 Introduction to Literature of the Diaspora
- AAF/ENG 248 Afro-American Literature: 1900-Present
- AAF 298 Introduction to West African Dance
- 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
- 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
- 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 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