Africana Studies

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Departmental Honors

Senior students with at least a 3.0 average will be given the opportunity to write an honors thesis under departmental supervision.

Programs

• Africana Studies Major (BA)

• Africana Studies Minor

Courses

• AFRSTY 100 Introduction to African-American Literature
• AFRSTY 101 Introduction to Africana Studies
• AFRSTY 102 The History of African-American Education
• AFRSTY 108 African-American Social Movements
• AFRSTY 110 African-American History I
• AFRSTY 111 African-American History II
• AFRSTY 113 Islam and the African World
• AFRSTY 115G Black Consciousness
• AFRSTY 116 African Civilizations: Historical Perspectives
• AFRSTY 117 Modern African Historical Perspectives
• AFRSTY 118 Socialism in the African World
• AFRSTY 122 Black Cinema: American Myth, Racial Ideology, and Hollywood
• AFRSTY 150 African Images in Literature
• AFRSTY 201 The Roots of the African-American Family
• AFRSTY 210 The Making of the African Diaspora
• AFRSTY 220 Free and Slave in the New World, 1492-1888
• AFRSTY 225 The Origins of Caribbean Civilizations
• AFRSTY 230 African-American Women’s History
• AFRSTY 250 The Civil Rights Movement
• AFRSTY 260L African-American Folklore
• AFRSTY 270 The Black Image on Stage and Screen
• AFRSTY 292G African Caribbean Literature
• AFRSTY 300L Women in African Cultures
• AFRSTY 301 African-American Intellectual Thought
• AFRSTY 302 Martin and Malcolm X
• AFRSTY 310 Modern Caribbean Society
• AFRSTY 320 Problems in Urban Education
• AFRSTY 335 African-American Nationalism Before Garvey
• AFRSTY 343L African Diaspora Archaeology: Uncovering Roots, Routes, and Resistance
• AFRSTY 350L Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity
• AFRSTY 352L Harlem Renaissance
• AFRSTY 355L Black Popular Culture
• AFRSTY 401 Applied Research Methods in Africana Studies
• AFRSTY 404 Race, Class, and Health Inequalities
• AFRSTY 406 Race, Class, and Environmental Justice
• AFRSTY 407 Immigration Law and Race in America
• AFRSTY 408 Human Injustice, Reparations, and the Law
• AFRSTY 410 African-American Urban Politics
• AFRSTY 420 Race, Class, and Political Modernization
• AFRSTY 430 Race and the American Legal System
• AFRSTY 440 Post-Colonial Literature: Africa and the Caribbean
• AFRSTY 478 Independent Study
• AFRSTY 479 Independent Study
• AFRSTY 480 Topics in Africana Studies
• AFRSTY 489 Africana Studies Senior Thesis II
• AFRSTY 498 Africana Studies Honors Seminar I

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