New Graduate Certificate (Effective Fall 2009)

 

African and African Diaspora Studies Graduate Certificate Program

General Information

The African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Graduate Certificate seeks to provide graduate-level multidisciplinary instruction in the diverse fields of African and African Diaspora Studies. Specifically, the Certificate seeks to provide students with an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the global, economic, cultural, and historical experiences of people of African descent, both in Africa and in the Diaspora.

 

The Certificate complements students’ work in their major fields of study. Thanks to the diversity of areas of research interests of the core and affiliate AADS faculty, students may choose courses that will allow them to focus more specifically on either U.S. born African Americans, Continental Africans, or communities of the African diaspora internationally.  Students may also choose courses that will bring them to learn about all three or any other combination of these areas.

 

General Requirements (18 credits)

Required Course:

AFA 5005 African and African Diaspora Studies Theory

The 15 remaining credit hours may be drawn from courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences as listed below.  Note that students are expected to complete at least 6 credits from each list. Students should consult with advisors since new courses are frequently added, and special topic courses sometimes concern Africa and the African diaspora. Students may also select other courses not listed below with approval from the Graduate Director after submitting the appropriate syllabus.

 

List I:              The Humanities

Students must choose between 6 and 9 credits from the list below

AFA 5932        Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies           

AFA 5107        Teaching the African American Experience

AFA 5341        Health Issues in the African World

AFA 5600        National and Transnational Policy Analysis: The African Diaspora

AFH 5905        Readings in African History    

AFH 5935        Topics in African History

FRE 5508        La Francophonie         

HAI 5235        Haitian Creole Seminar           

LAH 5465       Peoples, Culture and Politics of Haiti  

LAS 6025        Seminar: The Humanities in Cuba        

LIN 6602         Language Contact       

LIT 5359         African Diaspora Women Writers        3

LIT 5358         Black Literature and Literacy/Cultural Theory

MUH 5025      History of Popular Music in the United States 

MUH 5067      Music of the Caribbean

REL 5122        African American Religion

REL 5372        African Spirituality     

REL 5384        Rasta, Vodou, Santeria

REL 5488        Theology and Liberation Movements

SPN 5536        Afro-Cuban Culture

SPN 5537        Special Topics in Afro-Hispanic Culture

SPW 5346       Poetry of Jorge Guillen           

SPW 5776       Black Literature in Latin America       

SPW 6368       19th Century Spanish-Caribbean Narrative      

WOH 5237      The African Diaspora Since the End Of the Slave Trade

WOH 5236      The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the African Diaspora, 1441-1807  

 

List II:            The Social Sciences Students must choose between 6 and 9 credits from the list below

ANG 6XXX      Sex, Race, and Power in Colonial Times         

ANG 6473       Diasporas, Migration, and Globalization          

ANG 5397       Advanced African Diaspora Cultures   

ANG 5396       Representations of Africa and Africans in Films          

ANT 6319       The African Diaspora:  Anthropological Perspectives 

CPO 5325        Politics of the Caribbean

CPO 6350        Seminar in Brazilian Politics   

CPO 6376        Seminar in Central American Politics  

CPO 6206        Seminar in African Politics

CYP 6766        The Psychology of Crosscultural Sensitization in a Multicultural Context

ECS 5406         Latin American Economies

ECS 6436         The Economics of Caribbean Migration          

ECS 7435         Economics of the Caribbean

INR 5087         Ethnicity and the Politics of Development     

INR 5255         Seminar in African Development        

INR 6936         Seminar in Inter-American Politics     

SYD 6705        Comparative Analysis of Ethnicity and Race  

SYP 6739        Seminar: Ethnic Minority Aging in U.S.