Africana Studies
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Minor Requirements — 18 Credits
Africana Studies Core Courses (12 Credits)
Foundations of Africana Studies - 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
| AFS 100 | Introduction to Africana Studies | 3 |
| AFS 101 | Development of Black Identity | 3 |
Survey of Africa - 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
Survey of African American History - 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
| AFS 201 | African American History I | 3 |
| AFS 202 | African American History II | 3 |
Special Topics in Africana Studies- 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
| AFS 102 | The Black Woman in America | 3 |
| AFS 205 | Survey of African American Literature | 3 |
| FL 195 | Elementary World Language | 5 |
| FL 296 | Study Abroad Experience | 3 |
| MCS 101 | Multiculturalism in the United States: Concepts and Issues | 3 |
| MUS 150 | History of Rock and Roll | 3 |
| MUS 296 | Jazz Music: History and Appreciation | 3 |
The AFS Program will recognize African centered or diasporic languages transferred from an accredited institution. Languages include, but not limited to, Akan, Kiswahili, Standard Arabic, Wolof, Somali, Zulu, Portuguese among others. Please contact both the Department of World Languages and Cultures and Africana Studies Program if you have any questions.
FL 296 needs approval of the Department of World Languages and Cultures and the African Studies Program.
Africana Studies Upper Division Electives (6 Credits)
Choose two of the following courses (one course must be an AFS prefix):
| AFS 303 | Blacks in the American West | 3 |
| AFS 310 | African Americans and U.S. Education | 3 |
| AFS 340 | The Black Family | 3 |
| AFS 360 | Routes of Black Music | 3 |
| AFS 386 | Political Economy of Modern Africa | 3 |
| AFS 395 | Aspects of the African-American Experience | 3 |
| AFS 396 | African and African American World Views | 3 |
| AFS 399 | Community Study Project | 1- 4 |
| AFS 404 | History of Blacks in Film | 3 |
| AFS 415 | Black Psychology | 3 |
| AFS 422 | Directed Studies | 1- 4 |
| AFS 450 | African American History 1896-2016: From Homer Plessy to Barack Obama | 3 |
| AFS 456 | The Black Church and Religious Traditions | 3 |
| ART 482 | Arts of Indigenous People | 3 |
| CRJ 475 | Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Class in Criminal Justice | 3 |
| GEOG 326 | Africa | 3 |
| HIST 301 | Colonial Africa | 3 |
| HIST 312 | History of Brazil | 3 |
| HIST 314 | History of Latin America to 1855 | 3 |
| HIST 315 | History of Latin America: 1855 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 316 | History of Caribbean and Central America | 3 |
| HIST 318 | Modern Africa | 3 |
| HIST 319 | Revolutionary South Africa | 3 |
| PSCI 316 | Latin American Politics | 3 |
Notes: AFS 395, Aspects of the African American Experience, is a variable subtitle course that students may take more than once under different subtitles.
AFS 399 and AFS 422, when taken by minors, must always be taken for three semester credits.