Africana Studies (AFCS)

CodeTitleSHUsually offeredNUpathPrerequisitesRecent instructors
AFCS 1101Introduction to African American and Africana Studies4fallDDLayla Brown
Nicole Castor
AFCS 1113Black Popular Culture4fallDD, ICCaleb Gayle
Nicole Castor
AFCS 1128The African Experience Through Music4
AFCS 1140Introduction to African-American History4
AFCS 1225Gender, Race, and Medicine4DDMargot Abels
AFCS 1261Global Caribbean4springKris Manjapra
AFCS 1270Introduction to Global Health4fall, summerSIRichard Wamai
AFCS 1949Covering Race in Pop Culture and the Media4DD, IC
AFCS 1990Elective1–4
AFCS 2270Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality4fallDD, SIAnjanette Chan Tack
AFCS 2296Early African-American Literature4fallDD, ICAlanna Prince
Nicole Aljoe
AFCS 2318New England Stories: Storytelling and the African American Experience4DD, IC
  • one of:
    • ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • WRIT 201M
    • ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
AFCS 2325Black Feminist Studies4fall, springDD, SI
  • one of:
    • ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • WRIT 201M
    • ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
Regine Jean-Charles
Tiffany Rahman
AFCS 2330Afro-Latin American Studies4fallDD, SILayla Brown
AFCS 2337African American History Before 19004springDD, IC
  • one of:
    • ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • WRIT 201M
    • ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
Caleb Gayle
Kabria Baumgartner
AFCS 2355Race, Identity, Social Change, and Empowerment4fall, springDD
  • one of:
    • ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • WRIT 201M
    • ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
Catalina Tang Yan
Matthew Lee
Vivek Mishra
AFCS 2380Black Families and Incarceration4fallDDPatrice Collins
AFCS 2390Africa and the World in Early Times4
AFCS 2392African Film4DD, IC
AFCS 2410Possession, Sacrifice, and Divination in African Diasporic Religions4DD, SI
AFCS 2455American Women Writers4fallDD, ICCarla Kaplan
AFCS 2465The Scope and Dynamics of Conflicts in Africa4DD, SI
AFCS 2600Issues in Race, Science, and Technology4
AFCS 2618Community Psychology4DD, SI
AFCS 2619Race and Religion in Film4DD, IC
AFCS 2690Boston in Literature4EX, IC
AFCS 2900Swahili, Culture, and Politics in Kenya4EX
AFCS 2973Topics in Africana Studies4Regine Jean-Charles
AFCS 2990Elective1–4
AFCS 2991Research Practicum2–4
AFCS 3120Race, Crime, and Justice4fallDDBrandon Craig
Patrice Collins
AFCS 3210Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance4springDDAnnakay Wright
Korey Tillman
AFCS 3305Beyond the Binary: Race, Sex, and Science4fallDD, SIKathleen Creel
AFCS 3323Race, Inequality, and the Law4DD, SI
AFCS 3404African American Rhetorical Traditions4DD, IC
  • one of:
    • ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • WRIT 201M
    • ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
    • ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
AFCS 3424Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora4fallDD, SIRichard Wamai
AFCS 3512Religion, Race, and Politics4DD, ICNicole Castor
AFCS 3664Black Poetry and the Spoken Word4
AFCS 3900Gender and Black World Literatures4fallDD, ICRegine Jean-Charles
AFCS 3990Elective1–4
AFCS 4526Afro-Asian Relations in the Americas4DD, SIAnjanette Chan Tack
AFCS 4588Literature in Context4DD, IC
AFCS 4700Capstone4CE, WI
AFCS 4939Community Health, Culture, and Development in Kenya4EX
AFCS 4973Topics in African American Studies4
AFCS 4990Elective1–4
AFCS 4991Research4EX
AFCS 4992Directed Study1–4
AFCS 5001Special Topics in Race and the Law4springALEXANDER STEIN
Margaret Burnham
AFCS 5544Seminar in Black Leadership4
AFCS 6962Elective1–4

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