Africana Studies, BA (Boston)
Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogSocial Sciences HumanitiesBoston128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source
Official catalog page for this program
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 Africana Studies
- AFCS 1101 — Introduction to African American and Africana Studies
Approaches to the Field
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 8 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 5001 — Special Topics in Race and the Law
- AFCS 5544 — Seminar in Black Leadership
Exploring Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Production
From the catalog
Complete three of the following:
- Choose 12 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
From the catalog
Complete three of the following:
- Choose 12 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 2355 — Race, Identity, Social Change, and Empowerment
- 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 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
Electives
8 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete one AFCS course at the 2000 level or above.
Complete one AFCS course at the 3000 level or above.
Capstone Requirement
- AFCS 4700 — Capstone
Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under africana-studies-ba-boston, and the official page is the authority.