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Nov 04, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Africana Studies Concentration
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Africana Studies Overview
Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the life of people of African ancestry in Africa and the African Diaspora (especially the U.S. and Caribbean). In this vein, those who concentrate in Africana Studies approach topics, such as human rights, environmental degradation and renewal, democracy, revolution, and bioethics using a multidisciplinary lens. Our concentration prepares students with a cultural, political, social, and geographical awareness of the ways people of African descent in the diaspora and on the continent have lived, worked, played, and fought for self-definition. As Africa continues to be a point of economic interest, political conflict, and environmental activism, the study of the continent and those of African ancestry all over the globe remains central to understanding the modern world.
Because Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary concentration, its courses approach the lives of African people and those in the diaspora from a variety of perspectives and in different periods of time. Such interdisciplinarity is its strength, and students who take courses in Africana Studies will develop a deep understanding and appreciation for the culture, politics, art, and history of those of African ancestry living in Africa, North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Africana Studies Concentration Requirements
Six courses are required to complete the Africana Studies concentration:
- Two Core Courses which survey African American history and literature.
- Three Elective Courses carrying the Africana Studies attribute.
- One Advanced Research Course carrying the Africana Studies attribute.
Core Courses
Students must complete both a 100-level survey course in African American history and a 100-level survey course in African American literature.
Elective Courses
Elective Courses carrying the Africana Studies attribute are offered through multiple departments and academic programs.*Always check the course grid for new Africana Studies courses each semester.
Elective courses offered within the previous 2 Academic Years include:
- ARTH 156 - African Art and Architecture
- ARTH 220 - Sub-Saharan African Art: Challenges of Evidence, Interpretation, Preservation & Ownership
- CMLT 208 - Caribbean Women Writers
- CRES 220 - Special Topics in CRES Soc Science
- CRES 230 - Difficult Dialogues on Race and Racism
- EDUC 152 - Complexities of Urban Schooling
- EDUC 254 - Education in Film: Media Representations of Race, Class, Gender & Schooling
- EDUC 255 - Ethnography at School
- EDUC 281 - Critical Pedagogies
- ENG 182 - African American Literature I
- ENG 293 - Special Topics in African American Literature
- FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film
- FREN 164 - Haiti and the French Antilles
- FREN 249 - The French-Speaking World In the 21st Century
- GEOG 140 - Race and Urban Space
- GEOG 274 - Africa’s Development in Global Context
- HGS 108 - Africa, War and Genocide: From Kingdoms to Now
- HIST 044 - Picking up the Gun: A History of Violence in African American Social and Political Movements
- HIST 085 - Introduction to African History
- HIST 107 - Special Topics in Global History
- HIST 116 - Pre-Colonial African History
- HIST 204 - Special Topics in US History
- HIST 206 - Africans in the Americas, 1500-1888
- HIST 214 - The American Civil War
- HIST 216 - Special Topics in US History
- HIST 220 - The Black Radical Tradition
- HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 225 - Blacks & Reds: African Americans, Socialists, and Communists in the 20th Century
- HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
- HIST 239 - Special Topics Course in Global History
- HIST 288 - Sem: Public History
- HIST 293 - African American Freedom Dreams in the 20th Century
- ID 121 - Culture, Health, and Development: What Makes Us Sick?
- ID 125 - International Development and its Alternatives: Theory, Practice, Action
- ID 223 - Educational Policy Issues in Developing Countries: Course Value
- ID 257 - Sex and development: the intersection of sexuality, morality, and modernity
- ID 265 - Global Issues in Education
- ID 283 - Cultures of Exile
- ID 291 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging
- IDND 200 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Race, and Area Studies
- PSCI 209 - Minority Political Behavior
- PSYC 236 - Stigma and Health
- PSYC 245 - TRUE CRIME: Gender, Race, and Sexuality as Lenses
- PSYC 246 - Black Feminism as Praxis: From the Ancestral to the Astral
- SOC 160 - Global Cultures and Identities
- SOC 102 - Race and Autobiography
- SOC 254 - Class and Status in Black American Life
- SCRN 124 - History of International Cinema Since 1960
- TA 133 - African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration
- WGS 200 - Topics in Feminist Theory
- WGS 240 - Special Topics: Women’s and Gender Studies
Advanced Research Courses
Advanced Research Courses are 200-level courses which include a significant research component. *Courses from the Elective Course lists may fulfill the Advanced Research Course requirement with permission from the student’s adviser. Note that special topics or capstone courses in other departments may also carry an Africana Studies attribute when the topic is relevant to the concentration.
Suggested Advanced Research Courses include, but are not limited to:
Africana Studies Faculty
Eduard Arriaga-Arango, Ph.D.
Barbara Beall-Fofana, Ph.D.
Nigel O.M. Brissett, Ed.D.
Ed Carr, Ph.D.
Eric DeMeulenaere, Ph.D.
Joseph Guzman, Ph.D.
Anita Häusermann Fábos, Ph.D.
Odile Ferly, Ph.D.
Ellen Foley, Ph.D
Lynn Frederikson
Eric Hofbauer
Esther Jones, Ph.D.
Eric Kesse, Ph.D.
Willem Klooster, Ph.D.
James Murphy, Ph.D.
Nicole Overstreet, Ph.D.
Ousmane Power-Greene, Ph.D.,- Director
Raphael Rogers, Ph.D.
Kourtney Senquiz, Ph.D.
Shelly Tenenbaum, Ph.D.
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