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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
ALST 410 - Capstone: Intellectual and Community Empowerment
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

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of ALAC in the course offerings

ALST 204 - Performing Bolivian Music
ALST 250 - Representations of Africa
ALST 273 /
THEA 273 - Contemporary African American Drama
ALST 250 - Representations of Africa
ALST 331 - The Sexual Politics of Hip-Hop
ALST 340 - Art & Cult Contemp Jamaica/SG
ARTH 232 - Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art
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 344 - African American Literature II
ENGL 403 - Race before Race: the Literature of the Early Modern Transatlantic
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: Masculinity in Hispanic Cultures
LGBT 355 - Partners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
MUSI 161 - History of Jazz
MUSI 221 - World Music
SOCI 348 - Contested identities: Popular Culture in America
SPAN 354 - Latin American Literature: Colonialism, Mestizaje, and Independencies
SPAN 355 - The Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century
SPAN 459 - ’Nuns Having Fun’ in Colonial Latin America
SPAN 467 - Latin American Romanticism
SPAN 468 - Vision/Revision: Span Conquest
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
THEA 273 - Contemporary African American Drama
WGSS 279 - Black Feminist Thinkers
WGSS 302 - Special Topics: Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
WRIT 248 - Discourses of Race and Racism
WRIT 342 - Rhetoric in Black & White
WRIT 346 - Hip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
WRIT 348 - Discourses of Whiteness

Category B - Societies, Mobilities, Diasporas

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of ALSM in the course offerings

ALST 201 - Africa
ALST 202 - Introduction to African American Studies
ALST 203
/
CORE C163 - The Caribbean
ALST 220 - The Black Diaspora
ALST 225 /HIST 225 - Jamaica: From Colony to Independence (Study Group)
ALST 227
/
HIST 227 -Civil Rights & Civil Fights: The History of the Long Civil Rights Movement in the United States
ALST 230 - Introduction to Latin American Studies
ALST 237 - Ghana: History, Culture and Politics in West Africa
ALST 245
/
CORE C145 - Dirty South
ALST 281
/
HIST 281 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
ALST 282
/
HIST 106 - The Making of Modern Africa
ALST 284
/
HIST 284 - Decolonization in Africa
ALST 290 - Model African Union
ALST 312
/
WGSS 312 - Gender, Race and Punishment: Toward an Inclusive History of the American Carceral State
ALST 320 - African American Women’s History
ALST 321
/
SOCI 321 - Black Communities
ALST 341
/
WGSS 341 - Corridors of Black Girlhood
ALST 388
/
HIST 388 - The American South: From Reconstruction to the Present
ANTH 355 - Ancient Aztec Civilization
CORE C146 - Haiti
CORE C148 - Black Migrations
CORE C149 - Hispaniola (Haiti/Dom. Rep.)
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 and Creole Identities
CORE C193 - Brazil
CORE C195 - West Africa
CORE C199 - Bolivia
EDUC 205 - Race, White Supremacy, and Education
EDUC 245 - Educ-“New” Immigrants in US
EDUC 308 - Global Inequalities of Education
EDUC 315 - Pedagogies and Publics
HIST 209 - The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800
HIST 218 - The African American Struggle for Freedom and Democracy
HIST 229 - Latin American Migrations
HIST 359 - Resistance and Revolt in the Colonial Atantic World
HIST 318 - African American History: African Background to Emancipation
HIST 319 - African American Leadership and Social Movements
HIST 320 - New York City History
HIST 337 - Pirates in the Atlantic World, 1500s - 1730
HIST 379 - U.S. and Africa
HIST 381 - Pre-Colonial Africa
HIST 382 - Modern Africa
HIST 384 - Somalia: From Independence to Collapse
HIST 385 - Darfur in Historical Perspective
HIST 462 - Seminar on Problems in African History
HIST 475 - Seminar in African American History
POSC 216 - Comparative Politics: Latin America
POSC 331 - Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
POSC 354 - Capitalism, the State, and Development in Latin America
POSC 451 - Seminar: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
SOCI 228 - Immigration
SOCI 321 - Black Communities
SOCI 368 - Power, Politics, and Social Change

Category C - Human and Non-Human Ecologies

Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of ALHE in the course offerings

ALST 219
/
MUSE 219 - Healing Arts: The Idea of Africa in Medicine and Museums
ALST 242
/
LGBT 242 - Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean
ALST 244
/
RELG 217 - African American Religious Experience
ALST 334
/
GPEH 334 - Public Health in Africa
ALST 371 - Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa
ALST 358
/
ENST 358 - Ecosystems, Environmental Threats, and response in Trinidad and Tobago (Study Group)
ECON 238 - Economic Development
ENGL 365 - Fugitive Mobilities: Migration and Environmental Imagination in 20th-Century America
ENGL 431 - Ethnographic Fictions: Human Rights and Literature
ENST 232 - Environmental Justice
GEOG 310
/
PCON 310 - Geopolitics
GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
HIST 358 - Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas
LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
RELG 227 - Visual and Material Religion
RELG 219 - African Religious Traditions
RELG 235 - Religion, War, Peace, and Reconciliation
RELG 243 - History of Religion in America
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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