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2023-2024 University Catalog

Africana and Latin American Studies Major

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Major Requirements

The requirements for the ALST major are as follows:

Three Required Courses

ALST 199 - Entangled Intimacies: Introduction to Africana and Latin American Studies
ALST 381 - Theories and Intellectual Traditions
UNST 410 - Seminar: Area, Regional, and Global Study
ALST majors should complete ALST 199 and ALST 381 prior to taking a capstone seminar.

Six Electives

Two courses should be taken from each of the three categories listed below. These should be chosen in consultation with the student’s coordinator and advisor.

Category A - Arts, Cultures, Representations

ALST 204 - Performing Bolivian Music
ALST 273 /
THEA 273 - Contemporary African American Drama
ALST 331 - The Sexual Politics of Hip-Hop
ALST 340 - Art and Culture in Contemporary Jamaica (Study Group)
ALST 367 - Jamaica in the Literary Imagination (Study Group)
CORE C158 - Puerto Rico
ENGL 207 - New Immigrant Voices
ENGL 240 - Latinx Literature
ENGL 333 - African/Diaspora Women’s Narrative
ENGL 334 - African American Literature
ENGL 337 - African Literature
ENGL 433 - Caribbean Literature
FREN 354 - Introduction to Literature in French: The Francophone World
FREN 453 - Contemporary Literature in French
FREN 455 - Francophone Voices from North Africa
LGBT 227 - Machismo & the Latin Lover
LGBT 355 - Partners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
MUSI 161 - History of Jazz (H&A)
MUSI 221 - World Music (H&A)
SPAN 354 - Latin American Literature: Illusion, Fantasy, Romanticism
SPAN 355 - The Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century
SPAN 361 - Advanced Composition and Stylistics
SPAN 467 - Latin American Romanticism
SPAN 468 - Visions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
SPAN 477 - Women Writing in Latin America
SPAN 478 - Literature of the Caribbean
SPAN 481 - Major Hispanic Authors
SPAN 482 - Major Hispanic Authors
SPAN 483 - Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises
SPAN 485 - Latin American Novels Before the Boom (1910-1950)
SPAN 486 - Latin American Dictatorship Theater
SPAN 487 - Postdictatorial Transatlantic Theater
SPAN 488 - Latin American Women Dramatists
WMST 205 - Queer Latina Visualities: Art, Theory, and Resistance
WMST 279 - Black Feminist Thinkers
WMST 302 - Special Topics: Women’s Lives in Text and Context
WRIT 248 - Discourses of Race and Racism
WRIT 342 - Rhetoric in Black and White: Communication and Culture in Conflict
WRIT 346 - Hip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
WRIT 348 - Discourses of Whiteness

Category B - Societies, Mobilities, Diasporas

ALST 201 /CORE 189C - Africa
ALST 202 - Introduction to African American Studies
ALST 203
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CORE C163 - The Caribbean
ALST 220 - The Black Diaspora: Africans at Home and Abroad
ALST 230 - Introduction to Latin American Studies
ALST 237 - Ghana: History, Culture and Politics in West Africa
ALST 245
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CORE C145 - Dirty South
ALST 281
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HIST 281 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (AF)
ALST 282
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HIST 106 - The Making of Modern Africa (AF)
ALST 284
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HIST 284 - Decolonization in Africa (AF)
ALST 290 - Model African Union
ALST 321
/
SOCI 321 - Black Communities
ALST 330 /SOCI 330 - Race and Crime
ANTH 371 - Gender and Society in Africa
CORE C149 - Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic)
CORE C160 - Latin America
CORE C169 - Rwanda
CORE C170 - Islamic North Africa
CORE C171 - Mexico
CORE C172 - California
CORE C173 - Ethiopia
CORE C177 - Peru
CORE C180 - Francophone & Creole Identities
CORE C193 - Brazil
CORE C195 - West Africa
CORE C199 - Bolivia
EDUC 205 - Race, White Supremacy, and Education
EDUC 245 - Globalization’s Children: The Education of the “New” Immigrants in the United States
EDUC 308 - Global Inequalities of Education
EDUC 315 - Pedagogies and Publics
HIST 103 - American History to 1877 (US)
HIST 104 - The United States since 1877 (US)
HIST 209 - The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 (LAC)
HIST 218 - The African American Struggle for Freedom and Democracy (US)
HIST 229 - Latin American Migrations (LAC)
HIST 231 - Resistance and Revolt in Latin America (LAC)
HIST 318 - African American History: African Background to Emancipation (US)
HIST 319 - African American Leadership and Social Movements (US)
HIST 320 - New York City History (US)
HIST 379 - U.S. and Africa (AF)
HIST 380 - Emancipation, Forced Labor, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (AF)
HIST 381 - Pre-Colonial Africa (AF)
HIST 382 - Modern Africa (AF)
HIST 384 - Somalia: From Independence to Collapse (AF)
HIST 385 - Darfur in Historical Perspective (AF)
HIST 475 - Seminar in African American History (US)
POSC 216 - Comparative Politics: Latin America (CO)
POSC 331 - Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
SOCI 228 - Immigration

Category C - Human and Non-Human Ecologies

ALST 242
/
LGBT 242 - Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean
ALST 309
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GEOG 309 - Latin America: Critical Landscapes of Development
ALST 351 - Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa
ECON 238 - Economic Development
ENGL 365 - Fugitive Mobilities: Migration and Environmental Imagination in 20th-Century America
ENGL 431 - Ethnographic Fictions: Travel Writing, Bearing Witness, and Human Rights
ENST 232 - Environmental Justice
GEOG 310
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PCON 310 - Geopolitics
GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
HIST 358 - Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas (TR)
LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
RELG 248 - Christianity, Islam, and Political Change in Africa
RELG 333 - Theorizing Black Religion
SOCI 305 - Urban Sociology
SOCI 312 - Social Inequality

Honors and High Honors

Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Africana and Latin American Studies program page.

Africana and Latin American Studies

For more information about the program, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Africana and Latin American Studies program catalog page.

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