BA Degrees & Majors


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Core Courses

AAAS 1000 (3 sch, F, S, DD)
Provides a broad overview of African and African American Studies, as well as useful perspectives and frameworks for studying African peoples in Africa and diaspora/Atlantic World communities.

AAAS 2500 (3 sch, WI, S)
Introduction to key theories and interdisciplinary research methods utilized to study the experiences, cultures and communities of people of African descent in the US and throughout the African Diaspora. (Prerequisite AAAS 1000)

AAAS 4000 (3 sch, S)
Declared majors and minors in AAAS, with senior status or consent of instructor. Capstone for undergraduates in African and African American Studies. (Prerequisite AAAS 1000, AAAS 2500)


Africa Concentration

  • AAAS 2000 – Study Abroad
  • ANTH 3003 – Cultures of Africa
  • ART 2906 – West and Central African Art
  • ARTH 3970 – African Art
  • ENGL 3280 – African Literature
  • FREN 2443 – Readings in the Francophone Cultures of Africa
  • GEOG 3050 – Africa
  • HIST 3810 – History of Africa
  • HIST 3820 – History of South Africa
  • HIST 3830 – Africa and Islam
  • POLS 3265 – African Political Systems
  • RELI 3694 – Religions of Africa

African American Concentration

  • ARTH 3975 – African American Art
  • DNCE 1013 – Jazz Dance I
  • DNCE 1023 – Jazz Dance II
  • ENGL 3260 – African American Literature
  • ENGL 4340 – Ethnic American Literature
  • HIST 3110 – History of African-Americans
  • HIST 5230 – Themes in African American History
  • HLTH 3020 – Understanding and Achieving Health Equity
  • JUST 3700 – Race, Gender and Special Populations in the Criminal Justice System
  • MUSC 2258 – History of Jazz Music
  • PHIL 2455 – Introduction to Africana Philosophy
  • POLS 3039 – Black Politics in America
  • PSYC 2777 – Ethnocultural Psychology
  • SOCI 1010 – Race, Gender, Class
  • SOCI 4345 – Racial and Cultural Minorities
  • SOCI 4347 – Social Inequality

African Diaspora Concentration

  • ANTH 2760 – Afro-Caribbean Language And Culture
  • LING 2760 – Afro-Caribbean Language and Culture
  • ANTH 3016 – Cultures of the Caribbean
  • ANTH 3115 – Caribbean Archaeology
  • ENGL 4380 – Studies in African American and African Diaspora Literatures
  • GEOG 3049 – Latin America
  • HIST 3710 – Introduction to Latin-American History: Colonial Period
  • HIST 3711 – Introduction to Latin-American History: Since 1808
  • HIST 5130 – Comparative History of New World Slavery and Race Relations