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Africana Studies (Interdisciplinary Minor)
Students explore the historical and contemporary aspects of Africa and its diaspora in the Africana Studies minor. Courses in the minor cover topics and regions such as the Atlantic world, the African American experience, Black Europe, and the Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students examine the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of the experiences of people of African descent throughout time and place.
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The minor in Africana Studies requires 15 credits including HIS 3400 African Civilizations and the African Diaspora and four of the following courses, representing at least three different disciplines.
Contact Information:
Dr. Jessica L. Harris
Assistant Professor, Department of History
[email protected]
- Degree Type
- Minor
- Area of Interest
- Humanities
- Associated Colleges or Schools
- Program Location
- Queens Campus
- Required Credit Hours
- 15
Required (3 credits):
HIS 3400 African Civilizations and the African Diaspora
Elective Courses (12 credits):
ANT 2440 Caribbean Cultures and Identities
ANT 2450 African Cultures
ART 1830 Racism in Film
ART 2745 Art of Africa
ENG 3300 Colonial American Literature
ENG 3330 African-American Literature to 1900
ENG 3470 20th-Century African-American Literature
ENG 3480 The Harlem Renaissance
ENG 3650 Caribbean Literature
ENG 3475 Black Women's Rhetorics
FRE 3820 French Afro-Caribbean Literature
GOV 2480 Municipal Government and Administration
GOV 2750 Politics of the Caribbean Area
GOV 3680 Government and Politics of Africa
HIS 2300 History of Africa
HIS 2301 Africa in the Colonial Period
HIS 2302 Contemporary Africa
HIS 2334 A History of the Atlantic World, 1492-1888
HIS 2450 History of the Modern Caribbean
HIS 3410 African Nationalism
HIS 3711 African-American History to 1900
HIS 3712 African-American History since 1900
MUS 1300 History of Jazz
PSY 2230 Psychology of the African-American Experience
SOC 1190 Sociology of Poverty in America
SOC 2450 Sociology of the Black Experience
For more information, contact Africana Studies Program Coordinator, Dr. Jessica L. Harris at [email protected].
Only academic programs approved by NYSED are eligible for federal and state aid: NYS Inventory of Registered Programs http://www.nysed.gov/heds/IRPSL1.html. Minors are not recognized by NYSED therefore associated courses are only eligible for federal or state aid consideration when required by a major or when also used to satisfy a core or general elective requirement.
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