BA in Africana Studies

Course Requirements

The following requirements must be fulfilled:

The general requirements stated under Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Undergraduate Programs.

Additional curriculum requirements:

Required for the major—39 credits:

• Introduction to Africana Studies (taken within three semesters of declaring the major)

African American studies:

• African American History to 1865
• Race and Minority Relations
• Nineteenth-Century Black Literature
• Cultural Theory and Black Studies

Another course from the following designated courses:

• The American City
• Topics in African American Literary Studies
• African American Poetry
• African American History to 1865
• African American History Since 1865
• African American Women’s History
• The American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
• History of Jazz
• Topics in Music History and Literature
• Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream
• Class and Inequality in American Society
• Race and Minority Relations
• Urban Sociology

Four courses in African studies:

• Anthropology of Africa
• Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
• West Africa to Independence

Two additional courses from the following list of designated courses

• Topics: Africa
• African History to 1880
• Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
• Women in Africa
• West Africa to Independence
• African Roots from Australopithecus to Zimbabwe
• Africa: Problems and Prospects
• Comparative Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
• African International Politics
• Topics in French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures in Translation
• Topics in Contemporary Francophone Literature and Cinema
• Geography of the Middle East and North Africa
• The Geography of Africa

Two courses in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies:

• History of Latin America I

Another course from the following list of designated courses

• U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture
• Topics in U.S. Latina/o Literature and Culture
• Topics in French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures in Translation
• Topics in Contemporary Francophone Literature and Cinema
• Geography of Latin America
• Latin America: Problems and Promise
• History of Latin America II
• Special Topics
• The Anthropology of Gender: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• Women in Africa
• African American Women’s History
• Philosophy of Race and Gender
• Women in Islam

One additional course from above or from the following:

• Washington, DC: History, Culture, and Politics
• Twentieth Century U.S. Immigration
• The Ancient Near East and Egypt to 322 B.C.
• Islamic Religion and Art
• Islamic Philosophy and Theology
• People, Land, and Food
• Cities in the Developing World