The combined major in Africana studies and English offers students the opportunity to integrate their studies of both disciplines and explore the historical, practical, and theoretical relationships between the two disciplines. In addition to considering the significant points of contention, students explore the ways in which insights from Africana studies can be brought to bear on the disciplinary issues and questions of English studies. Within the combined major, students may also choose to focus their studies on a range of topics related to literature, writing, narrative, and cultural production in the United States, the Americas, Europe, Africa, and across the global African Diaspora.
- Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality.
- Certain options within the program may be required at certain campuses or for certain program modalities. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
BA Language Requirements
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.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
Africana Studies Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to College | ||
| CLTR 1000 | Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies at Northeastern | 1 |
| Introduction to Africana Studies | ||
| AFCS 1101 | Introduction to African American and Africana Studies | 4 |
| Approaches to the Field | ||
| Complete three of the following. AFCS 4700 will also fulfill the capstone requirement of this program: | 12 | |
| 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 | ||
| Capstone | ||
| Special Topics in Race and the Law | ||
| Seminar in Black Leadership | ||
| Exploring Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Production | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| 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 Society and Social Movements | ||
| Complete two of the following: | 8 | |
| Global Caribbean | ||
| New England Stories: Storytelling and the African American Experience | ||
| Black Feminist Studies | ||
| Afro-Latin American Studies | ||
| African American History Before 1900 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Black Abolition Studies: Carcerality, Liberation, and Resistance | ||
| Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora | ||
| Afro-Asian Relations in the Americas | ||
| Community Health, Culture, and Development in Kenya | ||
English Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational Courses | ||
| ENGL 1400 | Introduction to Literary Studies | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | Introduction to Rhetoric | 4 |
| or ENGL 1410 | Introduction to Research on Writing | |
| ENGL 1700 | Global Literatures 1 | 4 |
| or ENGL 1701 | Global Literatures 2 | |
English Electives
Two of the courses chosen from the lists below must be at the 3000 or 4000 level.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Diversity | ||
| Complete one course from the following. You may reuse this course to fulfill an additional English requirement below: | 4 | |
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
| Literary Periods | ||
| Pre-1850 | ||
| Complete one course from the following: | 4 | |
| British Literature to 1800 | ||
| American Literature to 1865 | ||
| Introduction to Shakespeare | ||
| Early African-American Literature | ||
| The American Renaissance | ||
| Early Literatures | ||
| 17th- and 18th-Century Literatures | ||
| Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century British Literatures | ||
| Emerson and Thoreau | ||
| Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | ||
or JWSS 3678 | Bedrooms and Battlefields: Hebrew Bible and the Origins of Sex, Gender, and Ethnicity | |
| Topics in Shakespeare | ||
| Post-1850 | ||
| Complete one of the following courses: | 4 | |
| The Graphic Novel | ||
| Contemporary Poetry | ||
| Contemporary Fiction | ||
| The Modern Bestseller | ||
| Postcolonial Literature | ||
| Postcolonial Women Writers | ||
| American Women Writers | ||
| Asian-American Literature | ||
| Irish Literary Culture (Abroad) | ||
| 20th- and 21st-Century Literatures | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | ||
or JWSS 3685 | Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature | |
| 20th- and 21st-Century Major Figure | ||
| Theories and Methods | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Grammar: The Architecture of English | ||
| Introduction to Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Research on Writing | ||
| Reading and Writing in the Digital Age | ||
| Horror Fiction | ||
| Science Fiction | ||
| What Is Nature? | ||
| Boston in Literature | ||
| Literary Genres | ||
| Rhetoric of Law | ||
| The Practice and Theory of Teaching Writing | ||
| Opening the Archive | ||
| Film and Text (Abroad) | ||
| Narrative Medicine | ||
| Topics in Literary Criticism (reactivating for Fall 24) | ||
| Introduction to Language and Linguistics | ||
| Linguistic Analysis | ||
| Syntax | ||
| Semantics | ||
| History of English | ||
| Language and Gender | ||
| Topics in Linguistics | ||
| Major Seminar | ||
| ENGL 3710 | Major Seminar | 4 |
| Writing | ||
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Creative Writing | ||
| Style and Editing | ||
| Digital Writing | ||
| Writing and Community Engagement | ||
| Writing in Global Contexts | ||
| Writing to Heal | ||
| Writing for Social Media: Theory and Practice | ||
| Writing Boston | ||
| Creative Nonfiction | ||
| Poetry Workshop | ||
| Fiction Workshop | ||
| Writing Seminar | ||
| The Writer’s Marketplace | ||
| English Electives | ||
| Complete any two ENGL courses that have not already been used to fulfill another requirement. | 8 | |
Integrative Course
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
| Early African-American Literature | ||
or ENGL 2296 | Early African-American Literature | |
| African American Rhetorical Traditions | ||
or ENGL 3404 | African American Rhetorical Traditions | |
| Black Poetry and the Spoken Word | ||
or ENGL 3664 | Black Poetry and the Spoken Word | |
| Gender and Black World Literatures | ||
or ENGL 3900 | Gender and Black World Literatures | |
Capstone
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete one of the following. AFCS 4700 will also fulfill an Approaches to the Field course requirement of this program: | 4 | |
| Capstone | ||
| Capstone Seminar | ||
Africana Studies and English Combined-Major Credit Requirement
Complete 86 semester hours in the major.
Experiential Liberal Arts
All students in this College of Social Sciences and Humanities program are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.
Program Requirements
128 total semester hours required.
Sample Plan of Study: Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer 2/Fall
| Year 1 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| CLTR 1000 | 1 | ENGL 1400 | 4 | ENGL elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| ENGL 1160 | 4 | Language course | 4 | Language course | 4 | Elective | 4 |
| ENGW 1111 | 4 | AFCS 2619 | 4 | ||||
| AFCS 1101 | 4 | Integrative course | 4 | ||||
| AFCS 1225 | 4 | ||||||
| 17 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Year 2 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Integrative Course | 4 | ENGL diversity course | 4 | AFCS 1270 | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| Pre-1850 literature course | 4 | AFCS 2355 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
| AFCS 1113 | 4 | AFCS 4526 | 4 | ||||
| AFCS 1261 | 4 | Post-1850 literature course | 4 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 3 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
| Co-op | 0 | Advanced Writing in the Disciplines | 4 | ENGL writing course | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
| Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||||
| ENGL 3710 | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Year 4 | |||||||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
| Co-op | 0 | Capstone course | 4 | ||||
| ENGL theories and methods course | 4 | ||||||
| ENGL elective | 4 | ||||||
| Elective | 4 | ||||||
| 0 | 16 | ||||||
| Total Hours: 129 | |||||||