Africana Studies Minor

For the Africana Studies minor, students are required to complete seven courses in African Studies, two of which must be the two-semester AFRI 010A AF  & AFRI 010B AF  course, and five other Africana Studies courses that represent at least three disciplines.

Africana Studies Courses

Africana Studies

• •  AFRI 010A AF -Intro to Africana Studies
• •  AFRI 010ACAF -Intro to Africana Studies
• •  AFRI 010B AF -Research Methods
• •  AFRI 010BCAF -Research Methods
• •  AFRI 014 AF -Unruly Bodies: Black Womanhood
• •  AFRI 020 PZ -Intro African American Psych
• •  AFRI 110 PZ -Octavia E. Butler: Wild Seed
• •  AFRI 114 AF -Unruly Bodies: Black Womanhood
• •  AFRI 116 AF -Marxism & the Black Radical Trad
• •  AFRI 119 JT -Africana Journal & New Media
• •  AFRI 120 PZ -Black to Nature: Poetry & Thry
• •  AFRI 121 AF -Africana Philosophy
• •  AFRI 121IOAF -Africana Philosophy
• •  AFRI 124 AF -Post-Colonial African Theory
• •  AFRI 125 AF -Afro-Pessimism Politics of Hope
• •  AFRI 127 AF -Hip Hop, Reggae, and Religion
• •  AFRI 128 AF -Black Phenomenology
• •  AFRI 144A AF -Black Women, Feminism(s) & Arts
• •  AFRI 149 AF -Africana Political Theory
• •  AFRI 150 PZ -Black Spatial Matters
• •  AFRI 190 AF -Senior Seminar
• •  AFRI 190C AF -Senior Seminar
• •  AFRI 191 AF -Senior Thesis
• •  AFRI 191C AF -Senior Thesis
• •  AFRI 192 AF -Senior Project
• •  AFRI 193 AF -Senior Comprehensive Examination
• •  AFRI 195D AF -Caribbean Radicalism 20th C US
• •  AFRI 195E AF -Haitian Revolution
• •  AFRI 195F AF -Transnationalism
• •  AFRI 195G AF -The Black Male Experience
• •  AFRI 195H AF -Feminisms, Racism, Anti-racisms
• •  AFRI 199 AF -Independent Study & Research
• •  AFRI 199DR AF -Africana St: Directed Readings
• •  AFRI 199IRAF -Africana St: Indep Research
• •  AFRI 199RAAF -Africana St: Research Asstship

Art History

• •  ARHI 140 PO -The Arts of Africa
• •  ARHI 141A PO -(Re)present Africa:Art,Hist,Film
• •  ARHI 141M PO -Rep Blackness Music/Masculinity
• •  ARHI 144B PO -Daughters Africa Art Cinema Love
• •  ARHI 178 PO -Black Aesth/Poli (Re)presentatn
• •  ARHI 186L PO -Critical Race Thry/Representatn
• •  ARHI 186W PO -Interrog Whiteness:Race,Sex,Rep

English and World Literature

• •  ENGL 012A AF -Intr to Afr Amer Lit Before 1865
• •  ENGL 012B AF -Intro to Afr Amer Lit After 1865
• •  ENGL 122 AF -Healing Narratives
• •  ENGL 124 AF -AfroFuturisms
• •  ENGL 125C AF -Introduction to Afr-American Lit
• •  ENGL 170J PO -The Works of Toni Morrison
• •  ENGL 186 PZ -Post-Apartheid Novels
• •  LIT 147 HM -Writers from Africa/Caribbean
• •  LIT 155 HM -Post-Apartheid Narratives
• •  LIT 158 HM -Zora Neale Hurston
• •  LIT 160 AF -Caribbean Literature
• •  LIT 162 AF -African Literature
• •  LIT 163 AF -North African Literature/Culture
• •  LIT 165 AF -Caribbean Women Writers

French

• •  FREN 117 CM -African Novel and Film
• •  FREN 132 CM -North African Lit after Independ

History

• •  HIST 040 AF -History of Africa to 1800
• •  HIST 041 AF -Africa in World Politics from 84
• •  HIST 050A AF -African Diaspora in US to 1900
• •  HIST 050B AF -African Diaspora US since 1877
• •  HIST 133 AF -Slavery & Freedom in New World
• •  HIST 140 AF -Women: Power, Majesty, Slavery
• •  HIST 146 AF -Atlantic World of Slavery
• •  HIST 153 AF -Slave Women in Antebellum Amer
• •  HIST 171 AF -Hist African Amer Women in U.S.
• •  HIST 173 AF -Black Intl Pol in US
• •  HIST 176 AF -Civil Rights Movement Modern Era
• •  HIST 199 AF -Indep St Hist & Africana Studies

Media Studies

• •  MS 173 HM -Exile in Cinema

Music

• •  MUS 062 PO -Surv Am Mus: Harlem Renaissance
• •  MUS 077 PO -Jamaican Musical Aesthetics

Organizational Studies

• •  ORST 180 PZ -Black People in the Inlnd Empire
• •  ORST 198M PZ -Organizing in the 21st Century

Political Studies

• •  POLI 126 SC -Black Americans & Political Sys

Psychology

• •  PSYC 150 AF -Psych of the Black Experience
• •  PSYC 157 SC -Psych of the Black Woman

Religious Studies

• •  RLST 081 SC -Precol Afri Chrstian Spiritualit
• •  RLST 097 SC -Queer African Christianities
• •  RLST 142 AF -Prob of Evil: Afr-Amer Engagmnts
• •  RLST 150 AF -Eye of God: Race and Empire

Sociology

• •  SOC 035 PZ -Race and Ethnic Relations
• •  SOC 108 PZ -Moon Called Blk Wmn Preg&Chldbth
• •  SOC 109 PZ -Wokeness:Afri Amer Social Theory