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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Africana Studies Certificate

Program Policy Document:

Please see the Program Policy Document for more information.

Program Requirements

The Graduate Certificate program is a 12-credit program with 6 credits of required coursework, and 6 credits of electives, and a Graduate Certificate Integration Statement (at 1200-4000 words) indicating how the student integrates Africana Studies into one’s other graduate field or one’s profession. The results of this statement also will be presented publicly in the department.

AFRA 600 - Foundations in Africana Studies Credit(s): 3
AFRA 601 - Africana Research Methods Credit(s): 3

Restricted Electives

Two elective classes: one each in two of the four pillars of Africana Studies

Pan Africanism

One of the following:

AFRA 643 - Africa Under Colonial Rule Credit(s): 3
SOCI 661 - Racial Stratification Credit(s): 3

Public Humanities and Social Justice

One of the following:

AFRA 650 - Black Community Studies Credit(s): 3-6
AFRA 651 - Becoming a Public Scholar Activist Credit(s): 3

Blackness, Gender and Sexuality

One of the following:

AFRA 628 - Modern African American History Credit(s): 3
AFRA 630 - Expressive Cultures in the African Diaspora Credit(s): 3
AFRA 634 - Interventions in Black Gender History Credit(s): 3

Visual and Material Culture

One of the following courses:

AFRA 630 - Expressive Cultures in the African Diaspora Credit(s): 3
AFRA 642 - The Black Portrait Credit(s): 3
AFRA 645 - Black Bodies on Display: Race in Museums Credit(s): 3
AFRA 647 - Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive Credit(s): 3

Credits to Total a Minimum of 12

Last Revised 2021-2022 Academic Year