Africana Studies Major, BA

Program Description

Course Requirements

Foundation Courses

1. AAS 1301

   Introduction to Africana Studies
   3

Breadth Courses

1. AAS 2308

   African World Cultures

   or: HIS 3341 - African American His to 1865

   or: HIS 3342 - African American His since 1865

   or: HIS 3345 - Mod African American Urban His
   3
2. AAS 2310

   Research Methods in African and African American Studies
   3

Depth Courses

Capstone

1. AAS 4324

   Senior Seminar in African and African American Studies
   3

Science and Technology

1. BIO 1303

   Scientific Ethics
   3
2. BIO 1305

   Human Heredity, Genetics and Society
   3
3. HED 2306

   Understanding Health Disparities in the U.S.
   3
4. HIS 3351

   History of Science
   3
5. MAT 4304

   History of Mathematics
   3
6. PSY 3309

   Cross-Cultural Psychology
   3
7. PSY 3312

   Intro to Black Psychology
   3

Politics and Society

1. AAS 4302

   Race and Economics in the USA
   3
2. AAS 2302

   Politics of Africa
   3
3. EDU 2334

   Education, Culture, and Society
   3
4. GEO 3311

   Urban Geography
   3
5. JUS 3382

   Class, Race, Gender & Justice
   3
6. POS 3331

   Civil Rights
   3
7. POS 3371

   Urban Politics
   3
8. SOC 4311

   Sociology of the African American
   3

Literature and Language

1. ENG 1315

   Black Speculative Literature
   3
2. ENG 3309

   The Post-Colonial Novel
   3
3. ENG 3311

   Studies in African-American Literature
   3
4. ENG 3344

   The African-American Novel
   3
5. ENG 3349

   The Vernacular in African-American Literature and Culture
   3
6. ENG 3381

   Black Writers in American Literature
   3
7. ENG 4328

   African-American Women Writers
   3
8. ENG 4344

   African-American Cultural Texts: 1965 to the Present
   3
9. FLS 3311

   Yoruba Culture and Civilization in the Americas
   3
10. POR 2305

    Literature of Brazil and the Portuguese-Speaking World
    3
11. POR 3311

    Literature of Brazil and Portuguese-Speaking Africa in Translation
    3
12. POR 3312

    Cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking World
    3
13. SPA 4338

    Masterpieces of Afro-Hispanic Literature
    3
14. SWA 1311

    Elementary Swahili I
    3
15. SWA 1312

    Elementary Swahili II
    3

History and Theory

1. AAS 2303

   African Political Thought
   3
2. AAS 3306

   Negritude and Afrocentricity
   3
3. EDU 3343

   Cultural Diversity
   3
4. HIS 3352

   The African Presence in Mexico
   3
5. HIS 3353

   The African Presence in the Americas
   3
6. HIS 4356

   African American History Seminar
   3
7. POS 4356

   Black Political Thought
   3
8. SOC 3344

   Sex, Gender & Feminist Thought
   3
9. SOC 4364

   Race and Culture
   3

Culture and Identity

1. HIS 3332

   Cultural Dimensions of the African American Experience in the Caribbean
   3
2. HUM 2310

   African-American Culture
   3
3. AAS 2311

   Masculinity, Resistance and African-American Cultural Texts
   3
4. AAS 2312

   Afrocentric Wisdom and Values
   3
5. AAS 2315

   Language, Literacy and Liberation in Africa
   3
6. IDS 4371

   The American South in Popular Culture
   3
7. REL 3316

   Religion & Ethics
   3
8. SPH 2345

   Great African-American Speeches of the 20th and 21st Centuries
   3

Arts and Media

1. ART 2306

   African-American Art
   3
2. MUS 3339

   Afro-American Music
   3
3. AAS 2313

   From Back Stage to Center Stage: Black Female Playwrights in America
   3
4. PED 2116

   African Dance
   1