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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Africana Studies
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Associate Professors: , Bowles (Anthropology), Fache(French and Francophone Studies)
Assistant Professors: Harper-Shipman, Wiemers (History)
Visiting Assistant Professor:
Africana Studies Affiliated Faculty
Dan Aldridge (Chair) (History)
Suzanne Churchill (English)
Joseph Ewoodzie (Sociology)
Brenda Flanagan (English)
Rick Gay (Educational Studies)
Melissa Gonzalez (Hispanic Studies)
Michael Guasco (History)
Gerardo Marti (Sociology)
Ken Menkhaus (Political Science)
Clark Ross (Economics)
Fred Smith (Economics)
Anne Wills (Religion)
Faculty Emeritus
Nancy Fairley (Anthropology)
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Major Requirements (A.B. Degree)
The Africana Studies Department requires 10 courses for the completion of the major. It is highly recommended that students begin their study with AFR 101. Students must succesfully complete the following major curriculum:
- Gateway Course: AFR 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies
- One course: Methods Courses category
- Two courses: Cultural Production and Expression category
- Two courses: Historical and Geographical Investigations category
- Two courses: Social Thought and Institutions category
- One Intellectual History Course: AFR 300-308 - Major Thinkers in Africana Studies
- Senior Capstone: AFR 495 - Senior Capstone in Africana Studies
Notes:
Africana Studies Honors
Students who qualify during their junior year with a minimum GPA and an approved research proposal (submitted by May 30 of the junior year) will be eligible to complete a year-long thesis and enroll in a one-credit thesis course (AFR 498 ) by way of which honors in the major can be earned. This course will be taught as an Independent Study. Please note that students who write a thesis must still complete the capstone course (AFR 495 ). To qualify for honors at graduation, candidates must earn an average of 3.5 or above in the major and an overall average of 3.2 or above. In the case of an exceptional academic record, together with a thesis of the highest quality, the department may confer high honors.
Minor Requirements
The Africana Studies Department requires six courses for the completion of the minor. It is highly recommended that students begin their study with AFR 101.
Three Required Courses
Gateway: AFR 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies
Methods: (Must be completed by the end of the junior year.)
Capstone: AFR 495 - Capstone in Africana Studies
Three Elective Courses selected from the following four categories. Only one course from each category may be counted towards the minor:
Cultural Production and Expression
Historical and Geographical Investigations
Social Thought and Institutions
Intellectual History
Methods Courses
Methods course must be completed by the end of the junior year.
Cultural Production and Expression Courses
Historical and Geographical Investigations
- AFR 120 - Afro-Latin America (= LAS 120)
- AFR 221 - Introduction to Caribbean Studies
- AFR 235 - The 1959 Cuban Revolution (=HIS 362, =LAS 235)
- AFR 321 - Special Topics: Black Lives and Black Protests in the Americas and the Caribbean
- AFR 322 - Black Feminist Surveillance
- AFR 329 - Women & Slavery in the Black Atlantic
- AFR 332 - Black Leaders of Africa and the Caribbean
- AFR 340 - African American Intellectual History
- AFR 350 - History of Southern Black Education
- AFR 360 - History of the Caribbean: Race, Nation, and Politics (= LAS 360, HIS 360)
- ANT 232 - Contemporary Ghana
- ANT 257 - African Roots, American Soils
- FRE 364 - Paris Noir
- GER 351 - Special Literary Topics:
- HIS 163 - Place & Nation in Modern Latin America
- HIS 168 - Africa to 1800
- HIS 169 - The Making of Modern Africa
- HIS 230 - African Diasporas, German Encounters: Histories, Conflicts and Movements
- HIS 263 - Development and Dissent in Africa
- HIS 267 - Health and Society in Africa
- HIS 302 - African American History to 1877
- HIS 303 - African American Society & Culture since 1877
- HIS 357 - The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
- HIS 358 - Civil Rights Wars, Civil Rights Warriors
- HIS 360 - History of the Caribbean: Race, Nation, and Politics (=AFR 360, =LAS 360)
- HIS 366 - Slavery and Africa
- HIS 369 - Urban Africa/Popular Culture
- HIS 440 - Slavery in the Americas
- HIS 449 - Age of Revolution: The United States in the 1960s
- HIS 451 - African American Cultural History
- HIS 465 - Colonialism and Imagination in Early Latin America
- HIS 466 - Migrations and Immigration in Latin America
- HIS 467 - Family and Families in African History
- HIS 469 - Work, Gender, and Political Imagination in Africa
- LAS 120 - Afro-Latin America (= AFR 120)
- LAS 235 - The 1959 Cuban Revolution (= AFR 235, =HIS 362)
- LAS 360 - History of the Caribbean: Race, Nation, and Politics (= AFR 360, = HIS 360)
Social Thought and Institutions
Intellectual History Courses
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