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Program checklist · Africana Studies (Minor)

Africana Studies (Minor)

Simmons University · Boston, MA

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Africana Studies (Minor)
Catalog edition
2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The Africana Studies minor consists of 5 courses (20 credit hours) of coursework. Students in the minor are required to complete the following program of study.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
167783
CourseShelf checklist
CK_167783_9ed3dca1
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Minor Requirements

37 items
  1. AST 101
    Introduction to Africana Studies
    As published: “AST 101”
  2. AST 202
    Introduction to Black Popular Culture
    As published: “AST 202”
  3. AST 101
    Introduction to Africana Studies
    As published: “AST 101”
  4. AST 170
    Introduction to 21st Century Global Literature
    As published: “AST 170 / LTWR 170”
  5. AST 176
    African American Fiction
    As published: “AST 176 / LTWR 176”
  6. AST 202
    Introduction to Black Popular Culture
    As published: “AST 202”
  7. AST 210
    Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)
    As published: “AST 210 / WGSS 210”
  8. AST 232
    Race, Gender & Health
    As published: “AST 232 / SOCI 232 / WGSS 232”
  9. AST 234
  10. AST 241
    Contemporary Black Women Writers
    As published: “AST 241 / LTWR 241 / WGSS 241”
  11. AST 275
  12. AST 307
    Black History at the Movies
    As published: “AST 307”
  13. AST 313
  14. AST 344
    Poetry for the People: Black Queer Poets
    As published: “AST 344 / SOCI 344 / WGSS 344”
  15. AST 350
    Independent Study
    As published: “AST 350”
  16. AST 355
    Senior Thesis
    As published: “AST 355”
  17. AST 365
    Intimate Family Violence: A Multicultural Perspective
    As published: “AST 365 / SOCI 365 / WGSS 365”
  18. AST 370
    Internship
    As published: “AST 370”
  19. AST 375
    Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project
    As published: “AST 375 / HIST 354 / WGSS 375”
  20. AST 386
    Prisons in Political Thought
    As published: “AST 386 / POLS 386”
  21. HIST 118
    Latin American History
    As published: “HIST 118”
  22. HIST 210
    African American Experience
    As published: “HIST 210”
  23. HIST 213
    Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History
    As published: “HIST 213”
  24. HIST 214
    African Diaspora
    As published: “HIST 214”
  25. HIST 217
    Caribbean History
    As published: “HIST 217”
  26. HIST 240
    The Atlantic World 1500-1800
    As published: “HIST 240”
  27. LTWR 230
    Postcolonial Film
    As published: “LTWR 230”
  28. LTWR 235
  29. LTWR 327
    Psychoanalysis, Race and Sexuality
    As published: “LTWR 327”
  30. POLS 215
    The Politics of Exclusion
    As published: “POLS 215”
  31. POLS 226
    State and Local Politics
    As published: “POLS 226”
  32. POLS 228
    The War on Drugs
    As published: “POLS 228”
  33. POLS 242
    Colonial & Postcolonial Politics of Africa
    As published: “POLS 242”
  34. POLS 386
    Prisons in Political Thought
    As published: “POLS 386 / AST 386”
  35. RGS 101
    Identity and Power
    As published: “RGS 101 / WGSS 101”
  36. RGS 355
  37. SOCI 347
    Antiracism and Social Justice
    As published: “SOCI 347”
Source. Simmons University, catalog 2026-2027 — https://simmons.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2026-2027/undergraduate-course-catalog/programs-of-study/the-department-of-race-gender-and-sexuality-studies/africana-studies-minor. Captured page pages/2041.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.