Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified.
Students are welcome to contact africanastudies@northeastern.edu to discuss whether a course outside the curriculum listed below might be approved to fulfill program requirements.
Required Courses
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Africana Studies | ||
| AFCS 1101 | Introduction to African American and Africana Studies | 4 |
| Approaches to the Field | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Introduction to African-American History | ||
| Gender, Race, and Medicine | ||
| Introduction to Global Health | ||
| Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality | ||
| Black Feminist Studies | ||
| Issues in Race, Science, and Technology | ||
| Race, Crime, and Justice | ||
| Beyond the Binary: Race, Sex, and Science | ||
| Race, Inequality, and the Law | ||
| Special Topics in Race and the Law | ||
| Seminar in Black Leadership | ||
| Exploring Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Production | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Black Popular Culture | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Race and Religion in Film | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| African American Rhetorical Traditions | ||
| Black Poetry and the Spoken Word | ||
| Gender and Black World Literatures | ||
| Literature in Context | ||
| Understanding Social Organization and Structures | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Global Caribbean | ||
| New England Stories: Storytelling and the African American Experience | ||
| Black Feminist Studies | ||
| African American History Before 1900 | ||
| Race, Identity, Social Change, and Empowerment | ||
| Black Families and Incarceration | ||
| Africa and the World in Early Times | ||
| Possession, Sacrifice, and Divination in African Diasporic Religions | ||
| Swahili, Culture, and Politics in Kenya | ||
| Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora | ||
| Afro-Asian Relations in the Americas | ||
| Community Health, Culture, and Development in Kenya | ||
Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete one AFCS course at any level if not already taken for above. | 4 | |
GPA Requirement
2.000 GPA required in the minor