Chair, Associate Professor KENDA B. MUTONGI
Advisory Committee: Professors: E. D. BROWN, EPPEL, SINGHAM*, D. L. SMITH***. Associate Professors: ALI***, MUTONGI. Assistant Professors: BURTON, LONG, PIEPRZAK, ROBOLIN. Visiting Associate Professor: HONDERICH§. Visiting Artist in Residence in Africana Studies and Music: BRYANT**. Sterling Brown Professor: MARABLE. Mellon Fellow in Africana Studies and English: WINGARD.
Candidates for a concentration in "Africana Studies: African Americans, Africans and the Diaspora" complete five courses. The two core courses are: AFR 200 as an introductory course (generally team-taught); and AFR 400, the senior seminar with special topics or themes emphasized each year. An honors thesis is also an option for students wishing to conduct advanced research and study. Additional courses may be taken with affiliated faculty and visiting professors associated with the program. We encourage students to take at least one course in a program/department other than Africana Studies and consider an experiential learning winter study session; however, the majority of your courses should be selected from among those offered by core faculty.
The honors thesis, taken in addition to the five courses with permission of the chair/mentoring faculty, consists of one or two semesters of work and a winter study.
Courses offered by the program:
AFR 200 Introduction to Africana Studies
AFR 400 Senior Seminar
AFR 491 Senior Honors Thesis
AFR 492 Senior Honors Thesis
Electives:
Art
ArtH 205 Picturing Race: From Early Modern Europe to Now
American Studies
English/American Studies 220 Introduction to African-American Writing
English/American Studies 345 Black Arts
English/American Studies 372 African-American Literary Thought and Culture
Economics
Economics 204/Environmental Studies 234 Economic Development in Poor Countries
English
English 236 Witnessing: Slavery and Its Aftermath
English 250 Revolutionary African Literature
English 251 Defining the African Diaspora
English 252 South African and American Intersections
English 348 Imagining Africa: The Politics of Representation
English 364 Women Writing Africa
History
History 164 Slavery in the American South
History 202 Early-African History Through the Era of the Slave Trade
History 203 Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1800
History 242 Latin America From Conquest to Independence
History 249 The Caribbean From Slavery to Independence
History 281 African-American History, 1619-1865
History 304 South Africa and Apartheid
History 308 Gender and Society in Modern Africa
History 331 The French and Haitian Revolutions
History 342 Creating Nations and Nationalism in Latin America
History 346 History of Modern Brazil
History 364 History of the Old South
History 365 History of the New South
History 370 Studies in American Social Change
History/Women's and Gender Studies 383 The History of Black Women in America: From Slavery to the Present
History 443 Slavery, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
History 456 Civil War and Reconstruction
History 483T African Political Thought
Music
Music 122 African-American Music
Music 125 Music Cultures of the World
Music 130 History of Jazz
Music 140 Introduction to the Music of Duke Ellington
Music 141 Introduction to the Music of John Coltrane
Music 209 Music in History III: Music of the Twentieth Century
Music 212 Jazz Theory and Improvisation I
Music 213 Jazz Theory and Improvisation II
Music 220 Rhythm and Jazz in America, Brazil and Cuba
Political Science
Political Science 213 Theory and Practice of Civil Rights Protest
Political Science 239 Political Thinking About Race: Resurrecting the Political in Contemporary Texts on the Black Experience
Political Science 302 Race, Culture, and Incarceration
Political Science 318 The Voting Rights Act and the Voting Movements
Political Science 323T The Origins of Totalitarianism
Political Science 331T Non-Profit Organization and Community Change
Psychology
Psychology 341 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Theatre
Theatre 241 Performing Race: From Shakespeare to Spike Lee
HONORS PROGRAM IN AFRICANA STUDIES
A candidate for honors in Africana Studies must maintain at least a B+ average in the concentration and be admitted to candidacy by the program faculty. In addition to the five courses normally required for the concentration, an honors candidate will enroll in either AFR 491 or 492 plus a Winter Study in his or her senior year, in order to complete a substantial written thesis or an equivalent project in the performing or studio arts. A student wishing to become a candidate for honors in Africana Studies should secure a faculty sponsor and inform the program chair in writing before spring registration of her/his junior year.
An honors project should demonstrate creativity, depth, and intellectual rigor. A candidate for honors is encouraged to pursue non-traditional projects, such as presentations in the performing arts, visual arts, or creative writing, as well as more conventional research projects. The advisor will evaluate the honors project, and the program faculty will then decide whether to confer honors.
STUDY ABROAD
The curricular impact on potential majors of studying abroad in the junior year would be positive if students chose to study in countries that reflect the Africana diaspora.