Africana Studies, Minor

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Official catalog page for this program

Introduction to Africana Studies

• AFCS 1101 — Introduction to African American and Africana Studies

Approaches to the Field

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • 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 one of the following:

• One of:
  • 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 Social Organization and Structures

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • AFCS 1261 — Global Caribbean
  • AFCS 2318 — New England Stories: Storytelling and the African American Experience
  • AFCS 2325 — Black Feminist 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

4 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete one AFCS course at any level if not already taken for above.

GPA requirements

• 2.000 GPA required in the minor

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under africana-studies-minor, and the official page is the authority.