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64 courses with the subject AFRS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

AFRS 1100Introduction to Africana Studies3

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Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 1501Global Social Science: Africana Studies3

Subject: AFRS
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 1512Local Arts/Humanities: Africana Studies3

th ANTH 2126 - World Population Problems (3)

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2050Topics in Africana Studies3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2103Introduction to Hip Hop3

Subject: AFRS
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2105Black Images in the Media in the U.S3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2107Global Hip Hop3

Subject: AFRS
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2111Yoruba Language and Culture I3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2112Yoruba Language and Culture II3

Subject: AFRS
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2120African American Women3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2156African Civilization3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2160The African American Experience through Civil War3

Cross-listed Course(s): HIST 2160. Exploration of circumstances that brought Africans to the Americas and their experience during the era of slavery. Emphasis on the political, economic, and socio- cultural systems that maintained slavery in the South and constrained freedom in the North and the responses and struggles of African Americans. Topics include: slavery/slave trading to the Americas; the system of slavery in British North America; free blacks; political compromises sustaining the peculiar institution; and the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the freedom, citizenship, and suffrage of African- Americans.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2161The African American Experience: Civil War to Civil Righ3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2170Introduction to Health and Environmental Issues in the

Africana World (3)

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2172Black Sexuality and Health3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2174Environmental Literature in Africa and the Caribbean3

Introduction to an environment-centered approach in literary and cultural studies through the study of a selection of poems, fictions, plays, and critical literary essays by African and Caribbean writers. Cultural and environmental studies are brought into interdisciplinary dialogue about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and the Caribbean. Also explores the contributions of postcolonial studies to eco-criticism and the narratives of environmental justice in developing countries.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2206African Literature, Music, and Art3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2207Pan-Africanism3

Subject: AFRS
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Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2208Education of African Americans3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2215Black Families in the United States3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2221Modern Africa3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 2301Introduction to African American Literature3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3050Topics in Africana Studies3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3101Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in the U.S3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3121Contemporary African Art3

2026-2027 UNC CHARLOTTE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3150The African American Church and Civil Rights3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3154Globalization in African History3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3155Health and Healing in Africa3

or HIST 3155 - Health and Healing in Africa (3)

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3159African American Poetry3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3179African American Political Philosophy3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3192African Cinema3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3200Folklore of Africa and the African Diaspora3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3218Racial Violence, Colonial Times to Present3

or HIST 3218 - Racial Violence, Colonial Times to Present (3)

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3240Race and the Law3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3250African Americans and Health Communication3

Focuses on the use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions regarding health among African American populations. Considers how health messages are created and the impact they have on African Americans within the context of their lives.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3260Slavery, Racism, and Colonialism in the African Diaspora3

(3) Cross-listed Course(s): LTAM 3260 and HIST 3190. Designed to explore how race and racism, slavery, and colonialism served as principal institutions and constructs shaping the experience between Africa and the emerging African Diaspora in the New World. Students will consider how the maintenance of Western social, economic, and political superiority materialized as functions of these three important historical developments.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3261Psychology of the Black Experience3

402 | College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3262Philosophy and Race3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3264Business Culture and Entrepreneurship in Africa3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3265African Economic Development3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3270Afro-Latin American History3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3278Race in the History of Brazil3

or HIST 3178 - History of Brazil (3) or LTAM 3278 - History of Brazil (3)

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3280Blacks in Urban America3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3290Research Methods3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3328West African Art and Display3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3395African American Art3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3692Colloquium3

Subject: AFRS
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3895Independent Study3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
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Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 3990Senior Project in Africana Studies. (2-15) Prerequisite(s)

Senior standing. Completion of a senior research paper on an academic topic or a community-related written project. Emphasis on mastery of academic skills and content of the field or specific discipline.

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4040Topics in Africana Studies (3)*

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4050Topics in Africana Studies3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4100African Diaspora Theory (3) (Honors section)3

Project/Thesis Course

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: credit hours
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4105African International Relations3

or POLS 3169 - African International Relations (3)

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4120Explores how cultural, political, historical and economic

factors shape African American women’s positions and opportunities in society today.

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4401Professional Internship in Africana Studies3

Prerequisite(s): Permission of department chair; Junior or Senior standing; Africana Studies major or minor; a minimum GPA of 2.5; AFRS 1100; and up to 12 credit hours of other AFRS courses. Internship in wide- ranging working environments, including government establishments, private businesses, as well as not-for-profit organizations, especially those focusing on issues affecting African and African Diaspora populations. The internship provides students with experiential learning in an environment that is consistent with the student’s professional goals and growth.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4600Senior Seminar in African Studies3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4630Environmental and Public Health in Africa3

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4640Environment, State, and Society in the Caribbean and Latin

America (3)

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4652Race, Health, and the African Diaspora3

Unrestricted Elective Courses, Double Major and/or Minor to Complete Requirements for Graduation Students must earn a minimum of 120 credit hours to graduate. This requirement can be fulfilled through a combination of elective courses, a minor, or a double major. The 120-credit minimum must be satisfied regardless of the specific academic path chosen (e.g., a minor combined with electives). Degree Total = 120 Credit Hours

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 4790Africana Studies Senior Honors Project/Thesis3

The honors project/thesis leads to a research, creative, and/or community engagement project/thesis. The honors project/thesis product may be in the form of digital (e.g., web-based), textual (a minimum of 20-page paper), database development, or a creative work. The product must show evidence that the honors project/thesis is driven by the quest to solve an applied problem, or develop a better understanding of a theoretical or practical issue.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 50006999 - Africana Studies Elective3

GEOG 5000-6999 - Geography Elective (3) HIST 5000-6999 - History Elective (3)

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 6610Diaspora and Transnational Theories3

Focuses on the dialectical relationships between the social theories of nation, state, ethnicity, identity, race, and culture on one hand and the emerging theorizing of the diaspora and transnational networks on the other. The historical contexts that have shaped the African Diaspora and the more recent global transnational networks will be emphasized throughout the course.

Subject: AFRS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 6630Graduate Colloquium. (3) Prerequisite(s): prior

written permission of instructor and Graduate Program Director. Focuses on an interdisciplinary theme that combines two or more of the following: literature, language, politics, health issues, social policy, education, popular culture, history, performance theory, pedagogy, etc. Students write short papers and reports directed toward developing breadth in the theoretical and empirical understanding of a topic in Africana Studies using interdisciplinary approaches. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

AFRS 6901Directed Readings/Research. (3) Prerequisite(s)

prior written permission of instructor and Graduate Program Director. A directed research on a specific theme in Africana Studies. Students will produce a publishable essay at the end of the semester based on original research. The goal is for students to develop research, theoretical and analytical depth in an area of study in Africana Studies. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.

Subject: AFRS
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

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