Africana Studies and English, BA (Boston)

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BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog
All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Introduction to College

INSH 1000 — Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern

Introduction to Africana Studies

AFCS 1101 — Introduction to African American and Africana Studies

Approaches to the Field

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Complete three of the following. AFCS 4700 will also fulfill the capstone requirement of this program:

Choose 12 semester hours from:
- AFCS 1140 — Introduction to African-American History
- AFCS 1225 — Gender, Race, and Medicine
- AFCS 1270 — Introduction to Global Health
- AFCS 2270 — Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
- AFCS 2325 — Black Feminist Studies
- AFCS 2600 — Issues in Race, Science, and Technology
- AFCS 3120 — Race, Crime, and Justice
- AFCS 3305 — Beyond the Binary: Race, Sex, and Science
- AFCS 3323 — Race, Inequality, and the Law
- AFCS 4700 — Capstone
- AFCS 5001 — Special Topics in Race and the Law
- AFCS 5544 — Seminar in Black Leadership

Exploring Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Production

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Complete two of the following:

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- AFCS 1113 — Black Popular Culture
- AFCS 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- AFCS 2455 — American Women Writers
- AFCS 2619 — Race and Religion in Film
- AFCS 2690 — Boston in Literature
- AFCS 3404 — African American Rhetorical Traditions
- AFCS 3664 — Black Poetry and the Spoken Word
- AFCS 3900 — Gender and Black World Literatures
- AFCS 4588 — Literature in Context

Understanding Society and Social Movements

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Complete two of the following:

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- AFCS 1261 — Global Caribbean
- AFCS 2318 — New England Stories: Storytelling and the African American Experience
- AFCS 2325 — Black Feminist Studies
- AFCS 2330 — Afro-Latin American Studies
- AFCS 2337 — African American History Before 1900
- AFCS 2380 — Black Families and Incarceration
- AFCS 2390 — Africa and the World in Early Times
- AFCS 2410 — Possession, Sacrifice, and Divination in African Diasporic Religions
- AFCS 2900 — Swahili, Culture, and Politics in Kenya
- AFCS 3210 — Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance
- AFCS 3424 — Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora
- AFCS 4526 — Afro-Asian Relations in the Americas
- AFCS 4939 — Community Health, Culture, and Development in Kenya

Foundational Courses

One of:
- ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
ENGL 1400 — Introduction to Literary Studies
One of:
- ENGL 1700 — Global Literatures 1
- ENGL 1701 — Global Literatures 2

Diversity

From the catalog
Complete one of the following (you may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below):

One of:
- ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
- ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
- ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
- ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
- ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity

Literary Periods

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Pre-1850
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 1600 — Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- ENGL 3101 — Early Literatures
- ENGL 3120 — 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures
- ENGL 3160 — Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures
- One of:
  - ENGL 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
  - JWSS 3678 — Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity
From the catalog
Post-1850
Complete one of the following:
One of:
- ENGL 2301 — The Graphic Novel
- ENGL 2450 — Postcolonial Literature
- ENGL 2451 — Postcolonial Women Writers
- ENGL 2455 — American Women Writers
- ENGL 2470 — Asian-American Literature
- ENGL 2600 — Irish Literary Culture
- ENGL 3161 — 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures

Theories and Methods

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 1160 — Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 1410 — Introduction to Research on Writing
- ENGL 1450 — Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
- ENGL 2520 — Science Fiction
- ENGL 2620 — What Is Nature?
- ENGL 3325 — Rhetoric of Law
- ENGL 3381 — The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing
- ENGL 3400 — Opening the Archive
- ENGL 3487 — Film and Text
- ENGL 3700 — Narrative Medicine
- LING 1150 — Introduction to Linguistics
- LING 2350 — Linguistic Analysis
- LING 3450 — Syntax
- LING 3452 — Semantics
- LING 3454 — History of English
- LING 3456 — Language and Gender

Major Seminar

ENGL 3710 — Major Seminar

Writing

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- ENGL 2700 — Creative Writing
- ENGL 2710 — Style and Editing
- ENGL 2760 — Writing in Global Contexts
- ENGL 2770 — Writing to Heal
- ENGL 3375 — Writing Boston
- ENGL 3376 — Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL 3377 — Poetry Workshop
- ENGL 3378 — Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 3380 — Writing Seminar

English Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog
Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement.

Integrative Course

From the catalog
Complete one of the following:

One of:
- One of:
  - AFCS 2296 — Early African-American Literature
  - ENGL 2296 — Early African-American Literature
- AFCS 3404 — African American Rhetorical Traditions
- AFCS 3664 — Black Poetry and the Spoken Word
- One of:
  - AFCS 3900 — Gender and Black World Literatures
  - ENGL 3900 — Gender and Black World Literatures

Capstone

From the catalog
Complete one of the following. AFCS 4700 will also fulfill an Approaches to the Field course requirement of this program:

One of:
- AFCS 4700 — Capstone
- ENGL 4710 — Capstone Seminar

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

AFCS 2296 ↔ ENGL 2296 (tier B)
AFCS 3404 ↔ ENGL 3404 (tier B)
AFCS 3900 ↔ ENGL 3900 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

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