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African-New World Studies Graduate Certificate Program

General Information


The African-New World Studies Graduate Certificate Program seeks to provide graduate-level instruction in the diverse field of Africana Studies. Specifically, the African-New World Studies Certificate program seeks to:

1.     Provide an excellent university education, while both challenging and stimulating students/participants to contribute to the development of their communities;

2.     Generate new knowledge and research opportunities within the field of Africana Studies.

3.     Serve the university’s external community with special programming to meet educational needs;

4.     Foster greater understanding of the global nature of African peoples.

General Requirements

Required Course:

AFA 5002

African-New World Studies Theory and  Methods (Offered every fall semester)


The 15 remaining credit hours may be drawn from a variety of courses.  The following list represents examples of elective courses appropriate for the completion of the certificate program. Students should consult with advisors since new courses are frequently added, and special topic courses sometimes concern the African Diaspora.

AFA 6325

Pedagogy in the African Diaspora: Literacy, Culture, and Gender               

3

AFH 5905

Readings in African History

3

AFH 5935

Topics in African History

3

ANG 5397

Advanced African Diaspora Cultures

3

ANG 5396

Representations of Africa and Africans in Films

3

ANT 6319

The African Diaspora:  Anthropological Perspectives

3

CPO 6206

Seminar in African Politics

3

FRE 5508

La Francophonie

3

HAI 5235

Haitian Creole Seminar

3

INR 5255

Seminar in African Development

3

INR 6936

Seminar in Inter-American Politics

3

LIT 5359

African Diaspora Women Writers

3

LIT 5358

Black Literature and Literacy/Cultural Theory

3

MUH 5025

History of Popular Music in the United States

3

MUH 5067

Music of the Caribbean

3

REL 5122

African-American Religion

3

REL 5372

African Spirituality

3

REL 5384

Rasta, Vodou, Santeria

3

REL 5488

Theology and Liberation Movements

3

SPW 6368

19th Century Spanish-Caribbean

3

SYD 6705

Comparative Analysis of  Ethnicity and Race

3

SYP 6734

Seminar: Ethnic Minority Aging in U.S.

3

WOH 5237

The African Diaspora Since the End Of the Slave Trade

3

WOH 5236

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the African Diaspora, 1441-1807

3