Courses

The African American and African Studies program offers courses on the societies and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora, including the Caribbean and Latin America. Courses offerings also cover subjects such as identity and community, black women writers, social thought, film, and race theory.

Majors and minors may also pursue independent work (295 and 395) exploring a particular topic in depth. They may apply courses in other departments, such as American studies, English, education, gender studies, history, and politics, toward the major or minor and may also take courses at other Five College institutions and apply them toward the major or minor with approval of the chair.

For first-year students, the program offers a writing-intensive seminar, 100s: American Dreams, American Dilemmas: Race, Democracy, and Human Capability in the Twenty-first Century, which reviews the struggles for racial, gender, and economic justice of twentieth-century America and considers the challenges that remain in education, housing, employment, and consumer markets in the U.S.

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