Courses

Africana Studies is a vibrant department with interdisciplinary partnerships across the University. Our courses focus on race, politics, theology, education and history related to the Africana world. Learn more and enroll in courses on InsideND.

Recent Courses

• Introduction to Africana Studies
• African American Autobiography
• Food Movement Voices of Change
• Atlantic Slavery
• Black Political Thought
• The Black “Eye”: Narrative Fiction Writing
• Women of the Civil Rights Movement
• Youth Empowerment
• African American History
• Black Politics in Multiracial America
• Landscapes of Urban Education
• African Literature and the Moral Imagination

Students who are interested in the major or minor are strongly encouraged to take the Introduction to Africana Studies as soon as possible. We also have a number of courses that also fulfill university and college requirements and open to students from around the university.

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