In developing their program, students should note that courses in italics have particularly high AFAM-related content and are highly recommended. Courses marked AFAMPERT complement the major but do not fulfill any requirements without special permission from the Program Director.

The AFAM concentration requires seven courses as follows:

I. Interdisciplinary Course (6 credits). Students must complete one interdisciplinary, six-credit course that specifically discusses African and African American Studies as a discipline.

• AFAM 100: Here, There, and Everywhere: African Diaspora Formations in and Beyond The Atlantic
• AFAM 113: Introduction to African/African American Studies
• AFAM 130: African American Social Movements
• AFAM 220: The Souls of Black Folks: African Diaspora Intellectual Thinkers & Questions of Black Identity and Belonging
• AFAM 230: The Black Middle Class

II. Survey Courses (18 credits). Each student must complete three six-credit survey courses that introdue the “state of the field” of African and African Diaspora studies within specific disciplines.

• ARTH 140: African Art and Culture
• ECON 100: Black and White in America: The Economics of Race.
• ENGL 117: African American Literature
• HIST 125: African American History I
• HIST 126: African American History II
• HIST 183: History of Early West Africa
• HIST 184: Colonial West Africa
  

III. Distribution Courses (18 credits). Each student must complete three six-credit distribution courses. Students must complete distribution courses from at least two curricular exploration groups, and at least two of the three distribution courses must be at the 300-level.

• Literary & Artistic Analysis
• • ENGL 238: African Literature in English
  • ENGL 243: Text and Film
  • ENGL 252: Caribbean Fiction
  • ENGL 258: Contemporary American Playwrights of Color
  • ENGL 350: The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts
  • FREN 235: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
  • FREN 245: Francophone Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
  • FREN 250-07: Film and Society in Mali
  • FREN 251-07: Negotiating the Past—The Challenges of Nation-Building in Mali
  • FREN 252-07: Literature and Society in Mali
  • FREN 308: France and the African Imagination
  • MUSC 130: History of Jazz
  • MUSC 131: The Blues From the Delta to Chicago
  • MUSC 132: The Golden Age of R&B
  • MUSC 245: Music of Africa  
  • MUSC 332: Motown
    

• Humanistic Inquiry
• • HIST 100: History and Memory in Africa, Nineteenth-Twenty-first Centuries
  • HIST 276: The African Diaspora in Latin America
  • HIST 280: African in the Arab World
  • HIST 281: War in Modern Africa
  • HIST 282: Masquerades in Africa
  • HIST 286: Africans in the Arab World: On Site and Revisited
  • HIST 322: Civil Rights and Black Power
  • HIST 381: History, Memory and the Atlantic World: Ghana and the United States
  • HIST 382: History, Memory, and the Atlantic World: On Site and Revisited
  • RELG 246: Religion and the Black Freedom Struggle
  • RELG 247: RAP and Religion: Rhymes about God and the Good
  • RELG 262: Islamic Africa
  • RELG 330: Radical Pacifism
    

• Social Inquiry
• • EDUC 225: Issues in Urban Education
  • ECON 247: Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution 
  • ENTS 264: Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Africa
  • ENTS 280: Tanzania Program: Research Projects on Conservation and Development
  • ENTS 284: Tanzania Program: Cultural Studies
  • ENTS 285: Wildlife Conservation and Livelihoods
  • POSC 207: Urban Politics in a Global Era
  • POSC 266: Urban Political Economy
  • POSC 306: How Race Matters in American Politics
  • POSC 366: Urban Political Economy
  • PSYC 384: Psychology of Prejudice
  • RELG 277: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
  • SOAN 256: Transformations in African Ethnography
  • SOAN 395: Ethnography of Reproduction

• Arts Practice
• • MUSC 183J: Ethnic Drumming Instruction
  • MUSC 192: Karimba
  • MUSC 192: African Drum Ensemble
  • MUSC 193: African Mbira Ensemble
  • MUSC 196: Jubilee Singers
  • MUSC 199: African Drum Class
  • DANC 301: Contemporary Styles and Techniques: African Dance

IV. Senior Seminar (6 credits)

The AFAM senior seminar can be fulfilled by a 300-level course with high AFAM content and in which a major term paper in AFAM is completed. This 300-level capstone should be completed in one of the two disciplines in which the student writes his or her comps.