Requirements for the Major (40 credits)

Note: Students are required to take one course that focuses on Africa and one that focuses on the African-American experience.

I. Interdisciplinary Core (12 credits)

Complete the following:

A. AFRC (8 credits)

• course - Introduction to Africana Studies

• course - Africana Studies Seminar

B. Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement (4 credits)

• course - Experiential Learning Seminar in Africana Studies

• course/course - Pan-African Choral Performance

• course - Internship Project

• course - Engendering Prison

• course - Theatre in The Community: The Newark Collaboration

Note: Study-abroad on-site courses and off-campus programs may be included with appropriate content and location.

II. Electives (28 credits)

Complete 28 credits, including at least 12 upper-level credits, selected from the following:

A. Social Sciences (8-20 credits)

Courses must be taken from at least two different subject areas.

• course/course - Trade and the Role of Swahili in East Africa

• course - Religions of Africa OR course - Cultural Diversity: Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics (when topic is appropriate)

• course - Society and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

• course - Selected Topics in Cultural Anthropology (when topic is appropriate)

• course - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender

• course - Constitutional Law and Civil Rights

• course - Race and Politics

• course - Social Psychology

• course - Sociology of Inequality

• course - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

• course - Urban Sociology

• course - Engendering Prison

• course - Sociology of Education

B. Humanities & Arts (8-20 credits)

Courses must be taken from at least two different subject areas.

• course - Religions of Africa OR course - Religions of Africa

• course/course - Pan-African Choral Performance

• course - Arts of Africa and The Diaspora

• course - The Art of Ancient Egypt: History and Modern Myth

• course - Protest in the North African Tradition: From Colonization to the Arab Spring

• course - The Caribbean Triangle

• course - Paris, Dakar, and Port-au-Prince (in English)

• course - African-American History: African Origins to 1877

• course - The Struggle for Equality: African-American History from 1860 to The Present

• course - Modern Sub-Saharan Africa

• course - Selected Topics in History

• course - The U.S. Civil War and Modern Civil Conflict

• course - African-American Intellectual and Social History

• course - The Humanities and Africa

• course - Music of the Whole Earth

• course - History of Jazz

• course - African American Music History

• course - Introduction to Islam

• course - Cultures in Contact and Conflict in the Hispanic World

• course - African Roots of the Americas

• course - Theatre in The Community: The Newark Collaboration

C. Additional General Electives (0-12 credits)

• course - Experiential Learning Seminar in Pan African Studies

• course/course - Pan-African Choral Performance

• course - Independent Study in Africana Studies

• course - Advanced Topics in Africana Studies

• course - Transnational Feminisms

D. Honors Thesis (0-8 credits)

• course - Specialized Honors I

• course - Specialized Honors II

Notes

Students should consult the list published each semester by the Africana Studies program for additional courses. Other CLA, Caspersen, and Theological School courses may be applied to the major if they are proposed to and approved by the Africana Studies Committee.

Students interested in pursuing graduate studies are encouraged to write an Honors Thesis.