Africana Studies (BA)

This course of study is for students who want to pursue a liberal arts major in Africana studies. Students who anticipate professional careers or graduate study in liberal arts should consider this major track.

Program Requirements:

The major requires 36 semester hours comprising the following:

AST 101	Introduction to Africana Studies	4
AST 102	Black Cultures in U.S. Society Of African Americans	4
AST 240	African American Intellectual History	4

Eight semester hours contributing to an interdisciplinary knowledge of Africana studies, no more than four hours of which may be taken in any one department.

Courses that count toward the satisfaction of this requirement include:

AST 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
AST 249	Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender in Comparative Settings	4
AST 275	Soul Funk and Civil Rights	4
AST 307	Black History At the Movies: Truth Telling or Story Telling	4
AST 313	The Black Struggle for Schooling in the The United States	4
AST 365	Intimate Family Violence	4
AST 388	Black Popular Culture & the Education of Black Youth	4
ENGL 176	African American Fiction	4
ENGL 275	American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance	4
HIST 217	Caribbean History	4
POLS 215	The Politics of Exclusion	4
POLS 242	Colonial & Postcolonial Politics of Africa	4

Eight semester hours of electives.

Courses listed under the “interdisciplinary knowledge” requirement may count as electives only if they are not counted toward the satisfaction of the “interdisciplinary knowledge” requirement.

Other electives are:

ART 251	African Art: 3000 BC to the Present	4
ART 255	African American Art	4
HIST 210	African American Experience	4
HIST 213	Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History	4
POLS 211	Politics of Cities	4

Eight semester hours from

AST 350	Independent Study	4
	OR
AST 355	Senior Thesis	4
	OR
AST 370	Internship	Variable

Any AST course numbered 350 and above will satisfy half of the College’s Independent Learning requirement. Two such courses will satisfy the entire Independent Learning requirement. Students may also satisfy the College’s Independent Learning requirement by taking appropriate courses or completing approved projects in an area other than Africana Studies.