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 |
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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 |
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Complete one AFCS course at any level if not already taken for above. | 4 |
GPA Requirement
2.000 GPA required in the minor