Fall 2008 Course Offerings
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Requirements for the minor in Africana Studies
Completion of 18 hours including: 6 hours of upper division (300-400) level courses: AFST 302
(Gateway Course to Africana Studies) and AFST 481 (Senior Seminar). A total of 12 hours must
be taken from the following three hour courses:
AFST 201 Introduction to Africana Studies
AFST 285 Directed Studies
AFST 485 Directed Studies
AFST 489 Special Topics in Africana Studies
ENGL 205 Introduction to Africana Literature
ENGL 329 African-American Literature Pre- 1930
ENGL 339 African-American Literature Post- 1930
ENGL 393 Studies in Africana Literature and Culture
HIST 300 Blacks in the United States, 1607-1877
HIST 301 Blacks in the United States Since 1877
HIST 344 History of Africa to 1800
HIST 346 History of South Africa
COMM 425 Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement
SOCI 317 Minority Groups
SOCI 323 Sociology of Black Americans
Other electives approved by the program coordinator.AFST Courses
201 Introduction to Africana Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to the field of Africana Studies; interdisciplinary approach drawing from history, philiosophy, sociology, political studies, literature and performance studies; explores the African foundational relationship tp and connections with its Diaspora populations; covers Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and South America.
302 Gateway Course - Issues in Africana Studies. (3-0). Credit 3. Gateway to a series of courses offered for the minor in Africana Studies; explores topics such as afrocentrism, postcolonial studies, black cultural studies, black feminist theory for a close study of issues among African and African Diaspora populations in the United States, caribbean, Europe, and South America.
481 - Seminar. (3-0). Credit 3. Comparative studies of slave societies in the modern world; history and analysis of African-American feminism, comparative analyses of the social, political, and economic condition of African Americans and other African peoples of the Diaspora. Prerequisite: AFST 302; junior or senior classification