AFST

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Study and analysis of peoples, forces, institutions, and cultures of the Caribbean. African, European, United States, and Western Hemisphere influences on Caribbean development. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 17.) History & political science

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Themes in the history of Africa south of the Sahara from earliest times to 1800. Salient themes include Nile Valley civilizations, trans-Saharan trade, early social and economic systems, West African states, especially the Empire of Mali, Islamic influences, state formation, Swahili coastal city states, and Indian Ocean trade. Origins, development, and consequences of the Atlantic slave trade. This course is the same as History 3560.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits Themes drawn from all regions of the continent of Africa south of the Sahara from 1800 to the present. The Islamic revolutions, the Zulu Empire and political evolution in South Africa, the rise of legitimate trade, the impact of European missionaries and explorers, imperialism, the colonial state, nationalist independence movements, and post-independence challenges, and current economic, political, and current issues. This course is the same as History 3561.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to history, art, philosophy and religion of the Nile Programs and Courses of Instruction Valley civilizations of Kemet (Egypt), Nubia and Kush. Ancient Ethiopian kingdom of Axum. African links to Greece and Rome.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits History of people and politics in Southern Africa. Major political, economic and social developments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Focus on South Africa as central to regional economic and political evolution.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits Creation and history of the African diaspora. Economic, political, and sociocultural interrelationships of Africa and the African diaspora. Core Studies 4 or 9.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

one of the following: Africana Studies 3110 (0.3),

3 hours; 3 credits Political developments in the African states. Patterns before and after independence. Development of nationalism. Political integration, institution building, one-party systems, role of the military, and protest movements. Problems of regional and African unity. This course is the same as Political Science 3306. Political Science course in the 1000-level range, or Africana Studies 0.1, 0.11, or 1001.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Core Studies 3 or Core Curriculum 1230 or any

Black Thought in the 20th Century 3 hours, 3 credits Interdisciplinary examination of debates in the African diaspora through the lenses of history, literature, politics, and culture. Debates about freedom in the age of decolonization. Topics include: W.E.B. Du Bois’ schisms with Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey; Black cultural movements such as Afrocubanismo, Harlem Renaissance and Négritude as expressed by Paulette Nardal, Édouard Glissant, Aimé Césaire; postcolonial African and Pan-African World intellectualism and Léopold Sédar Senghor, Julius Nyerere, and Kwame Nkrumah; gender and Pan-Africanism; the transformation of Black women’ s 20th century activism and Eslanda Roberson, Shirley Graham DuBois and Claudia Jones; social media and contemporary constructions of racial identity. This course is the same as American Studies 3309.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Afrofuturism and the Black Diasporic Imaginings 3 hours, 3 credits AFST 1001 Introduction to Contemporary Africa Reimagining Black futures through culture, history and technology. Interdisciplinary examination of history, literature, 3 hours; 3 credits politics, and culture of the Afro-futurist movement. Topics Historical, cultural, religious, social, educational, and economic include: Black imaginations as tools of resistance, the influence background of the African continent. (Not open to students of Disco, House, and psychedelic funk music, the origins of who have completed Africana Studies 0.1.) Afro-futurist perspectives, Afro-Futurism and African Futurism, Afro-futurism in popular culture. We will examine figures such as José Antonio Aponte, W.E.B. DuBois, Sun Ra, pop culture AFST 1020 Introduction to African American Studies icons like Janelle Monae and Beyoncé, and characters from the 3 hours; 3 credits Marvel Comic universe. Growth and development of social, political, economic, cultural, and religious institutions of the African American community.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits African Americans from the era of the Atlantic slave trade through the Civil War. Topics include the African origins of African Americans, defining African Americans, the slave trade, free Blacks in antebellum America, role of gender and class, Black family and community, origins of the black church, slavery, resistance and abolitionism. This course is the same as History 3413.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits African Americans since the end of the Civil War. Topics include Blacks and Reconstruction, Blacks and Redemption, "The Nadir," emigration and colonization, the Great Migration, Blacks in World Wars I and II, Marcus Garvey, Black Nationalism, Blacks and the Great Depression, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, ¬post-Civil Rights Black politics, mass incarceration, 21st century political movements. This course is the same as History 3414.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

4 hours; 4 credits Analysis of the role of women in the black freedom struggle concentrating on the period from 1940-1980. Focus on women activists, theorists, and women-led organizing efforts that helped to define and orient the black freedom struggle. Examine interlocking issues of gender, sexuality, class, and race in postwar America and the development of the modern civil rights movement. This course is the same as Political Science 3157 and Women’s and Gender Studies 3350. 1004, 1005, or 1006 or Core Curriculum 1230[2.3]; or Women’s and Gender Studies 1001 or Africana Studies 1020.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Political Science *1001[1.51], 1002[1.7], 1003,

3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of Black protest and liberation movements from the slave revolts to recent urban rebellions. Immediate underlying causes of specific events. Such major trends as the civil rights movement, Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and the Third World movement.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 Hours; 3 Credits The emergence of an African diasporic community in downstate New York (Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island) from early Dutch settlement through the 21st century. Topics to be covered include slavery, the African burial ground, black churches, the underground railroad, anti-slavery activity, free black communities, black politics in New York, civil rights movement, and African and Caribbean immigration. Changing definitions of black identity. Historic sites and material culture as sources for local history will be discussed. Not open to students who have taken Africana Studies 60.1 in the Spring 1998 semester.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English1010

3 hours; 3 credits Emergence of Caribbean societies during the era of indentured servants in the islands. Imported institutions and their changing character in the new environment.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Comparative approach to the government and politics of the contemporary Caribbean. Major states in the Caribbean: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, the Commonwealth Caribbean; and selected members of other territories. The political economy of these societies and the growth of mass movements. Foreign policies of various Caribbean states. This course is the same as Political Science 3305.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

l 3 hours; 3 credits Study of selected topics in the history and politics of the Africana world. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

4 hours; 4 credits The course explores the oral tradition in Africa. It gives specifi attention to its interpretations, its compositions, and its transformation. It introduces the student to poetry, prose, epics, folktales, sagas storytelling, folk drama, drum language praise and freedom songs, contemporary styles of oral literature and the performers who shape these forms. This course in the same as Comparative Literature 3632.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1]

4 hours; 4 credits Survey of twentieth-century fiction, drama, poetry of sub- Saharan Africa. Works by such authors as Achebe, Ekwensi, Emecheta, Ngugi, Oyono, Laye, Dadie, Clark, Sembene, Senghor, Soyinka. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3619.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1] or 1.7.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Inventing identity through black performance. The appropriation and performance of race towards widely divergent ends within and outside of African American culture. Self empowerment through racial stereotyping. Performance as a principal medium of cross cultural imagination and self definition. The "subject" i opposition to the "other." Examination of performance structures emerging from mimicry and appropriation. Performance styles include: the exotic shows of nineteenth century Europe, the blackface minstrel theater, Carnival in the Americas, popular culture. This course is the same as American Studies 3709.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

4 hours; 4 credits Literature from the colonial period through the Harlem Renaissance. Slave narratives, rhetoric of abolition, formal and vernacular aesthetics. Such writers as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Paul L. Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes. This course is the same as English 3160. Programs and Courses of Instruction

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

one of the following: English 1010 [1] or 1.7.

4 hours; 4 credits Literature from 1930 to the present. Naturalism and protest, the Black Aesthetic, women's literature. Such writers as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Toni c Morrison. This course is the same as English 3161.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1] or 1.7.

3 hours; 3 credits Lectures, studies, and workshops in Black theater. Liaison with professional and community theater. This course is the same as English 3169 and Theater 2502.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Race and American political and literary culture from the American Revolution to urban modernism. The South as a paradigm of American culture, constructions of "race," tensions between democratic ideals and elaborate race and class distinctions. Readings from Thomas Jefferson, slave narratives, Herman Melville, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mark Twain, Uncle Remus, Charles Chesnutt, and others. Cultural legacies and entanglements of minstrelsy, the blues, and jazz. This course is the same as American Studies 3306.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits African American oral tradition and African American culture. Survival of the African culture. Oral history, spirituals, folktales, blues, toasts, dozens, etc. Uses of the oral tradition in literature. This course is the same as English 3158.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1] or 1.7.

4 hours; 4 credits Introduction to the historical development and linguistic structure of African American English presented through the n analysis of its underlying linguistic structure; social, cultural and educational considerations of its use; comparison of the major theories of African American English development, including its relationship to other dialects of American English and Caribbean creole languages. This course is the same as LING 3024 and ENGL 3526.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1].

Alias

LING 3024

3 hours; 3 credits Historical survey of the contributions of Black art to American culture. Study of the Black experience through works of art. This course is part of the joint program in elementary education with a specialization in African American studies and is open to all students.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours;

Subject

AFST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Origin, early development, and history of jazz to the present. Required reading and listening. This course is the same as Music 2104. Music 1300 or permission of the chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Core Studies 2.2 or Core Curriculum 1130 [1.3] or

Alias

MUSIC 2104

4 hours; 4 credits Black culture and writings in the Caribbean. Reflections on alienation and independence. Literary liberation movements, Negrism, Indigenism, and Negritude as the first step towards emancipation from a European cultural vision. Writers from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking countries will be examined. All readings will be in English. This course is the same as Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 3315W and Comparative Literature 3623. (Not open to students who have completed Puerto Rican and Latino Studies [54].)

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1].

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Origins and Social function of Reggae Music 3 hours; 3 credits Investigation of the history of the reggae genre; research into African spirituality and “new world” religions. Analysis of surviva strategies in the post-slavery era and their role in solidifying links between Caribbean people and their African heritage. Exploration of reggae music and artists. Connecting reggae to global social and political movements. Exploration of reggae as a progenitor of new musical genres in the global economy. This course is the same as American Studies 3707 and Caribbean Studies 3050.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Africana Studies 95 4 hours; 4 credits Sex and sexuality in the Caribbean and its diaspora; exploration of how sexuality intersects with and diverges from culture and nationalism, notions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Social science and literary texts explore a range of experiences from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, including heterosexuality, interracial relationships, homosexuality, love, violence, and desire; critical and theoretical texts examine the structures of gender and sexual relations, and relationships between sex and race. This course is the same as Caribbean Studies 3118, Comparative Literature 3620, and Women’s and Gender Studies 3118.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours, 3 credits Introduction to the steelpan instrument, its history, and its use as a tool of community development. This course is the same as CAST 3020 and MUSC 2111.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Alias

CAST 3020

4 hours; 4 credits Black women novelists, short story writers, and essayists. l Cross-cultural comparisons with African and Caribbean novelists. Readings of selected essays in feminist criticism. This course is the same as English 3162 and Women's and Gender Studies 3117.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1] or 1.7.

3 hours; 3 credits African American men, manhood, and masculinities in American and African American culture. Examination of literary, folk, popular, and political texts by men and women, whites and blacks. Starting Fall 2019 satisfies Flexible Core US Experience in its Diversity requirement.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 [1] or 1.7.

the Arts 3 hours; 3 credits Study of selected topics in the literature, culture, and the arts of the Africana world. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1012 [2] or sophomore status or

3 hours; 3 credits The Black family as a social unit in the experience of Black Americans from slavery to the present. Comparison with African family patterns past and present. (Not open to students who have completed Afro-American Studies 3206 [20.1].)

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits An interdisciplinary study of African Americans and urban life. Drawing on the methodological approaches of history, literature, and folklore primarily, although not exclusively, this course will examine the African American experience in United States cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Where appropriate, comparisons will be made with non-United States cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, or London. Topics chosen from: urban slavery, free blacks in Northern cities, race riots, "great migration", Caribbean migration, urban economics, urban politics, the urban novel, the black family in the city, the blues, contemporary urban folklore.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits Sociological approaches to the study of racial and ethnic relations. Historical and contemporary constructions of identity, assimilation, stratification, and interaction between groups. This course is the same as Sociology 2601. or Core Studies 3 with a grade of B- or higher, or Sociology *1101 or permission of the chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Core Curriculum 1230 with a grade of B- or higher

3 hours; 3 credits Examination of the relationships between the American judicial system and the socioeconomic status of Blacks. The role of law in the systematic subordination of Black rights. The use of law to ease the burden of racism.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010 or Africana Studies 1020

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Examine the historical context of Black entrepreneurship and ecosystems that support Black entrepreneurship in the United States. Provide knowledge and skills to start and grow for-profit and non-profit ventures. Topics include: History and development of African American business enterprise and entrepreneurs from Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League to the present; Political philosophy of "black capitalism"; small and large businesses and the Black community; the impact of governmental programs on business development; case studies of successful African American businesses; Ecosystems and Black Entrepreneurship; Developing and communicating business plans. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 34.) This course is the same as Business Management 3231.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

3 hours; 3 credits Goals, structures, and administration of community development programs and poverty programs past and present. Field trips to day care centers, youth programs, and adult learning centers. Practice in program design. (Not open to students who have completed Afro-American Studies 30.)

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of the role of gender in the greater Caribbean as it intersects with race and ethnicity in shaping nation-building, the economy, political relations, notions of citizenship, rights, policymaking, familial and societal relations, and cultural practices. This course is the same as Caribbean Studies 3115, Political Science 3247, and Women’s and Gender Studies 3367. permission of the chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1012 [2] or sophomore status or

3 hours; 3 credits Analysis of the factors responsible for the movement of Caribbean peoples to mainland North America; achievements, frustrations, and contributions of Caribbean communities to the host country; linkages between Caribbean-Americans and the Caribbean. 3140, 3145, or Core Studies 3, 4, 9, or Core Curriculum 1220, 1230, 3207, or History 3005 or History 1101.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

one of the following: Africana Studies 1040, 17,

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours, 3 credits Introduction to the physical and environmental characteristics of the Caribbean and the issues challenging these settings and concepts. Survey of theories of climate justice emerging from these concerns. Focus on the relationship of Caribbean history and development to the regional issues, policies and practices that impact the environment. Study of contemporary environmental justice initiatives. This course is the same as Caribbean Studies 3130, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies 3130, and Anthropology 3145.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Sophomore, Junior or Senior Standing

3 hours; 3 credits Interpretation and critical evaluation of the history, role, and image of the Black woman in America; emphasis on the burdens of racism, sexism, the economy, the Black "matriarch," health care, feminism and womanism, and contemporary issues. This course is the same as Women's and Gender Studies 3446. 9 or Core Curriculum 1230 or 3207 [20.07], Women's and Gender Studies 1001; or permission of chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Africana Studies 1020 or 3260, Core Studies 3 or

3 hours; 3 credits Historical constructions of race and gender; difference as it contributes to structural and institutional inequalities; ideologic debates among marginalized groups within nation states, legislatures, schools, neighborhoods, prisons, marketplaces, social and political organizations and government institutions; the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class in social movements, grassroots organizations, political parties and civic associations. This course is the same as Women’s and Gender Studies 3488, American Studies 3362, and Sociology 3362.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

4 hours, 4 credits Critical examination of major issues on African women and feminism. Commonalities of experiences through the exercise of patriarchy and injustices privileging and oppressing some people based on their gender. Critiques of feminism that have emerged from African women scholars, as a hierarchical structure that privileged western thought and experiences. Consequences of debate to gender relations on the African continent. Focus on developing students’ writing skills. Writing- intensive course. This course is the same as Political Science 3393W and Women’s and Gender Studies 3349W. Political Science *1001[1.51], 1002[1.7], 1003, 1004, 1005, or 1006, or Core Curriculum 1230[2.3] or Women’s and Gender Studies 1001 or Africana Studies 1001. Africana Studies 97

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English *1012 [2] and one of the following:

3 hours; 3 credits Women's power, activism, and inequality on the basis of gender in the African continent. Explorations of gender-based inequality and the way African women exercise formal power. African women scholars' and activists' theoretical and practical analyses of feminism and the consequences of such analyses on gender relations in the continent. Theoretical readings and case studies. Course may have a national, regional, or continental focus. This course is the same as Political Science 3412 and Women's and Gender Studies 3447. Studies 9, or any Political Science course in the 1000-level range, or Africana Studies 1001, or Women's and Gender Studies 10.7 or 1001, or English 1010 or equivalent, or permission of department.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Core Studies 3 or Core Curriculum 1230 or Core

3 hours; 3 credits Black men in the United States, their relationship to the family, black women, and each other. Social, economic, cultural contexts. Critical examination of the impact of racism, public policy, and cultural norms. Explorations of models for social success and failure.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1010

Programs and Courses of Instruction nd:

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Study of selected topics in the society and economy of the Africana world. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. permission of the chairperson. al

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

English 1012 [2] or sophomore status or

9 hours field work plus conferences and independent work; 3 credits Field experience in professional and community organizations in preparation for careers in such areas as law, government, the arts, business, teaching, and community service. Individual and group conferences with faculty mentor. Directed readings in a variety of fields in the related disciplines of Africana Studies such as sociology, history, or political science that relate to the field experience. Preparation and presentation of a critical report of the experience. Studies and permission of the chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

A minimum of 9 credits in courses in Africana

3 hours; 3 credits Study of a topic in Africana studies related to the humanities. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. courses and permission of the chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

completion of an approved program of advanced

3 hours;

Subject

AFST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

3 hours; 3 credits Lectures, research, and study in selected historical, political, economic, and social aspects of life in a selected country or in a region of the United States. Lectures by Brooklyn College and host-country scholars, in cooperation with a university in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, or the United States may be supplemented by field work and library and empirical research. Course may not be taken more than once. Consult department for locale of a specific offering. chairperson.

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

Africana Studies 1001, or permission of the

Minimum of nine hours conference and independent work; 3 credits Independent research project and reading of advanced material on an approved topic supervised by a faculty member. Project culminates in a full-length research paper based on primary and/or secondary sources. Writing-intensive course. Africana Studies Department courses and permission of the instructor and the chairperson; English *1012 [2].

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AFST

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course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

completion of an approved program of advanced

Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Reading of advanced material supervised by a faculty member. Written report or final examination. Africana Studies Department courses and permission of the instructor and the chairperson. The following inactive course(s) will only be offered if there is sufficient dema

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-undergraduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

completion of an approved program of advanced

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

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course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

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AFST

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course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

South America, or the United States 90 hours; 6 credits Lectures, research, and study in selected historical, political, economic, and social aspects of life in a selected country or in a region of the United States. Lectures by Brooklyn College and host country scholars, in cooperation with a university in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, or the United States may be supplemented by fieldwork, and library and empirical research. This course may not be taken more than once. sciences or the humanities; or permission of the chairperson.

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AFST

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course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Prerequisite

completion of 6 graduate credits in the social

30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Introduction to social change in sub-Saharan Africa from the era of the slave trade to the end of World War II. Emphasis on internal transformations sparked by industrialization, imperial expansion and colonization, including political innovations, changing market relations as well as transformations in kinship and gender relations. In depth coverage of slavery, women in the economy, the development of an African working class, religious transformations, the emergence of new elites, the growth of modern political activism, and resistance to colonization. This course is the same as History 7580X. The following inactive course(s) will only be offered if there is sufficient demand:

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu

Subject

AFST

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027-graduate

Source

www.brooklyn.edu