Preapproved courses listed here may be taken for credit towards the Certificate without prior authorization if they are outside your home department. Other courses are eligible with approval by the Graduate Director. You may include disciplinary methodology courses as electives. All students are required to take the Graduate Seminar in Africana Studies, typically offered in Spring semester.
The required Graduate Seminar in Africana Studies offers an introduction to the modes of inquiry of the discipline, the practice of interdisciplinarity, and key issues within the field. The course also features several conversations with faculty specialists in Africana scholarship from a variety of disciplines. Students develop a research project related to their work in their major field utilizing the tools and scholarship of Africana Studies, and will also do one short post translating their scholarship into public discourse. Click here for a sample syllabus.
Fall 24: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| Anthropology | 16:070:547 | Globalization & Neoliberalism: Racial Capitalism | Tompkins |
| History | 16:510:554 | Readings in Af Am Hist 2 | Gill |
| History | 16:510:574 | Seminar in Af Am Hist 2 | Alexander |
Spring 24: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| English | 16:350:579 | 19th C Af Am Lit & Cult | Wallace |
| Geography | 16:450:610 | Black Geographies | Williams |
| History | 16:510:532 | Coloq Atlant & Afr Diasp | Fuentes |
| History | 16:510:553 | Readings in Af Am Hist | Alexander |
| History | 16:510:572 | Seminar in Af Am Hist | Dunbar |
| WGS | 16:988:561 | Black Fem Theory | Cooper |
Fall 2023: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| Africana Studies | 16:014:501 | Graduate Seminar in Africana Studies (required) | Butler |
| English | 16:350:589 | Race & Transnational Perf in Americas | Owens |
| Geography | 16:450:618 | Abolition Geographies | Pinto Ferreira |
| History | 16:510:532 | Colloq Atlantic African Diaspora/Modern Diasporas | Burrowes/Butler |
| History | 16:510:563 | Colloq AfAm: Politics of Black Labor & Leisure | Gill |
| History | 16:510:574 | Seminar in African American History | Murch |
Spring 2023: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| Africana Studies | 16:014:501 | Graduate Seminar in Africana Studies (required) | Butler |
| Social and Philosoph Found of Ed | 15:310:512 | Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Education | Clay |
| English | 16:350:589 | Studies in African-American Literature and Culture | Ibironke & Wallace |
| History | 16:510:554 | Readings in African American History | Murch |
| History | 16:510:573 | Seminar in African American History | Gill |
| French | 16:420:675 | Studies in Francophone Literature: Francophone Afrofuturism | Jean-Baptiste |
| Religion | 16:840:594 | Topics in the Study of Religion: Caribbean Religions | Surowitz-Israel |
| Sociology | 16:920:571 | Topics in Sociology: Inequality, Health, & Population | Mouzon |
| Professional Psychology | 18:820:575 | Diversity & Racial Identity | Kelly |
| Social Work | 19:910:527 | Politics, Policy & Racial Justice | N/A |
Fall 2022: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| History | 16:510:553 | Readings in African American History I | Dunbar |
| History | 16:510:574 | Seminar in African American History II | Murch |
| History | 16:510:541 | Colloquium in Global History: Pre-Modern Race and Slavery | Kelly & Seijas |
| History | 16:510:563 | Colloquium in African American History: Black Women's History | Gill |
| Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 16:988:561 | Black Feminist Theory | Cooper |
| Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 16:988:526 | Colloquium in WGSS: Black Queer Freedom Projects | Decena |
| English | 16:350:595 | Postcolonial Lit & Cult: Space, Place, and African Lit | Robolin |
| English | 16:350:605 | Black Feminist Poethics | Shockley |
Spring 2022: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| Africana Studies | 16:088:501 | Graduate Seminar in Africana Studies (required) | Butler |
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English Geography History |
16:350:588 16:450:606:05 16:510:563 |
Slavery and the Black Feminist Imagination Geog Sem: Abolition Geographies & Transformative Justice Colloq Afr Amer History |
Shockley Ferreira Burrowes |
Fall 2021: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| Philosophy | 16:730:582 | Identity Politics | Darby |
| English | 16:350:655 | Black Futures | Mathes |
| History | 16:510:532 | Colloq Atlantic & African Diaspora | Fuentes |
| History | 16:510:563 | Black Internationalism | Gill |
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Spring 2021: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| Africana Studies | 16:088:501 | Graduate Seminar in Africana Studies (required) | Butler |
| English | 16:350:589 | Race and Terror | Edwards |
| English | 16:350:655 | Early Af Am Lit: Forms, Genres, Politics | Jones |
| History | 16:510:554 | Readings in Af Am History II | Gill |
| History | 16:510:625:01 | Colloq Af/Afr Diaspora: Africa & the African Diaspora: Slavery to BLM | Brown |
Fall 2020: Preapproved Courses
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| English | 16:350:641 | Race, Writing, Sound | Owens |
| History | 16:510:563 | Colloq African American Hist | White |
| History | 16:510:53 | Readings African American Hist | Dunbar |
Additional Course Options: (upon petition and approval from Graduate Director)
| Subject | Course | Title | Instructor |
| History | 16:510:539 | Colloquium in Women’s and Gender History | Fuentes |
| Latino and Caribbean Studies | 16:195:610 | Comparative Literature in Dialogue | Maldonado-Torres |
