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 StudiesLAH1LAMS	3
AFS 101	Development of Black IdentityLAH1LAMS	3

Survey of Africa – 3 Credits

Choose one of the following:

AFS 104	Survey of Africa	3
HIST 110	African CivilizationLAH1	3

Survey of African American History – 3 Credits

Choose one of the following:

AFS 201	African American History ILAH1	3
AFS 202	African American History IILAH1	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 LiteratureLAA2	3
AFS 240	Dynamics of Racism	3
WLC 195	Elementary World Language	1-5
WLC 296	Study Abroad Experience	1-3

The AFS Program will recognize African centered or diasporic languages transferred from an accredited institution. Languages include, but are not limited to, Akan, Kiswahili, Standard Arabic, Wolof, Somali, Zulu, and Portuguese among others. Please contact both the Department of World Languages and Cultures and Africana Studies Program if you have any questions.

WLC 296 needs approval of the Department of World Languages and Cultures and the Africana 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
	or
MUS 363	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-Present	3
AFS 456	The Black Church and Religious Traditions	3
GEOG 326	Africa	3
HIST 301	Colonial Africa	3
HIST 318	Modern Africa	3
HIST 319	Revolutionary South Africa	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.