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Africana Studies Concentration

A Concentration in Africana Studies consists of at least 9 courses

Take 1 course from the following:

Course NumberTitleCredits
AFRST-102BLACKNESS ACROSS DIASPORA

1
AFRST-112FUNDAMENTALS OF RACE

1
AFRST-130BLACK SPACES

1
AFRST-190Exploring Social Justice

1

All concentrators must complete:

Course NumberTitleCredits
AFRST-201Diversity Reconsidered

1

Two courses selected from among:

Course NumberTitleCredits
AFRST-220Imagining Africa

1
AFRST-221Africa in Diaspora

1
AFRST-224/WMGST-224Gender, Space and Identity in the African Diaspora

1
AFRST-306Seminar: Blackness Matters In Europe

1
AFRST-382Global African Social Movements

1
AFRST-405/WMGST-405Seminar: Black Feminist Thought

1

Concentrators must complete both courses below for the Senior Program:

Course NumberTitleCredits
AFRST-549Senior Seminar in Africana Studies

1
AFRST-550Senior Program

1

Three electives selected from African Studies or other approved courses

Course NumberTitleCredits

SSIH Requirement

Courses in the Africana Studies concentration explore and examine issues that satisfy the Social, Structural, and Institutional Hierarchies requirement. The department emphasizes the breadth of these hierarchies by requiring its concentrators to grapple with them as they fulfill the two intermediate course requirements detailed above

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