Formally institutionalized in the American academy in the last half of the twentieth century, Africana Studies is a vibrant and dynamic discipline that creates new knowledge about the world and human existence through the critical and comprehensive study of the peoples, cultures, and ideas of Africa and the African diaspora. Students in this degree program explore and examine key intellectual figures, ideas, themes in the discipline, central disciplinary questions and debates, prominent theoretical and methodological frameworks used by scholars in the discipline, and forms of interdisciplinary scholarship that form and inform the production and reproduction of knowledge. The goal of the program is to provide students at Winston-Salem State University with a broad and deep understanding of histories, cultures, and ideas of Africans and persons of African descent across space and time while advancing novel forms of interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes to the formation of new theories and methods for understanding the world and human experience.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate broad and deep understanding of histories, cultures, and ideas of Africans and persons of African descent across space and time
- Demonstrate interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes to the formation of new theories and methods for understanding the world and human experience
- Demonstrate knowledge of key intellectual figures, ideas, themes, central disciplinary questions and debates, prominent theoretical and methodological frameworks used by scholars in the discipline
Foundation Courses (3 SH)
AAS 1301 - Introduction to Africana Studies
Breadth Courses (6 SH required)
AAS 2308 - African World Cultures or
HIS 3341 - African American His to 1865 or
HIS 3342 - African American His since 1865 or
HIS 3345 - Mod African American Urban His
AAS 2310 - Research Methods in African and African American Studies
Depth Courses (18 SH)
Arts and Media
ART 2306 - African-American Art
AAS 2313 - From Back Stage to Center Stage: Black Female Playwrights in America
MUS 3339 - Afro-American Music
PED 2116 - African Dance
Culture and Identity
HIS 3332 - Cultural Dimensions of the African American Experience in the Caribbean
HUM 2310 - African-American Culture
AAS 2311 - Masculinity, Resistance and African-American Cultural Texts
AAS 2312 - Afrocentric Wisdom and Values
AAS 2315 - Language, Literacy and Liberation in Africa
IDS 4371 - The American South in Popular Culture
REL 3316 - Religion & Ethics
SPH 2345 - Great African-American Speeches of the 20th and 21st Centuries
History and Theory
AAS 2303 - African Political Thought
AAS 3306 - Negritude and Afrocentricity
EDU 3343 - Cultural Diversity
HIS 3352 - The African Presence in Mexico
HIS 3353 - The African Presence in the Americas T
HIS 4355 - African Experience in America
HIS 4356 - African American History Seminar
POS 4356 - Black Political Thought
SOC 3344 - Sex, Gender & Feminist Thought
SOC 4364 - Race and Culture
Literature and Language
ENG 1315 - Black Speculative Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries
ENG 3309 - The Post-Colonial Novel
ENG 3311 - Studies in African-American Literature
ENG 3344 - The African-American Novel
ENG 3349 - The Vernacular in African-American Literature and Culture
ENG 3381 - Black Writers in American Literature
ENG 4344 - African-American Cultural Texts: 1965 to the Present
ENG 4328 - African-American Women Writers
FLS 3311 - Yoruba Culture and Civilization in the Americas
POR 2305 - Literature of Brazil and the Portuguese-Speaking World
POR 3311 - Literature of Brazil and Portuguese-Speaking Africa in Translation
POR 3312 - Cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking World
SPA 4338 - Masterpieces of Afro-Hispanic Literature
SWA 1311 - Elementary Swahili I
SWA 1312 - Elementary Swahili II
Politics and Society
AAS 2302 - Politics of Africa
AAS 4302 - Race and Economics in the USA
EDU 2334 - Education, Culture, and Society
GEO 3311 - Urban Geography
JUS 3382 - Class, Race, Gender & Justice
POS 3315 - The Politics of South Africa
POS 3331 - Civil Rights
POS 3371 - Urban Politics
SOC 4311 - Sociology of the African American
Science and Technology
BIO 1303 - Scientific Ethics
BIO 1305 - Human Heredity, Genetics and Society
HED 2306 - Understanding Health Disparities in the U.S.
HIS 3351 - History of Science
MAT 4304 - History of Mathematics
PSY 3309 - Cross-Cultural Psychology
PSY 3312 - Intro to Black Psychology
Capstone
AAS 4324 - Senior Seminar in African and African American Studies
Minor in Africana Studies - 6 courses
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