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

Introduction to Africana Studies
AFCS 1101Introduction to African American and Africana Studies4
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

Complete one AFCS course at any level if not already taken for above.4

GPA Requirement

2.000 GPA required in the minor