Courses & Curriculum
Core Courses
- AAF 201 - Introduction to African American Studies
- AAF 202 - Introduction to the Culture of the Diaspora
History and Politics 6-9 units
- AAF 290/WMS351A - African American Women: Service, Community, and Self
- AAF 380 - Civil Rights Movement
- AAF 300G - Blacks in Providence in the 20th Century
- AAF 300M - Social Movements in the Diaspora
- AAF 372 - Afro-Americans and the Legal System
- AAF 415 - Dynamics of Social Change in the Caribbean
- AAF/HIS 150 - Introduction to African American History
- AAF 300A/HIS393M - Contemporary African-American Political Thought
- AAF 300B/HIS393L - Black Urban History
- AAF 300C/HIS 393E - History of Black Women Artists
- AAF 300D - Nonviolence: Theories & Strategies of Organization and Mobilization
- AAF 300I/HIS393I - Black Women in the US: Colonial Times to the Present
- AAF 300K - Comparative Political Development in Africa
- AAF/HIS 366 - Black Political Thought, Civil Rights/Black Power Age
- AAF 300W/HIS393Q - African-American Reconstruction to the Present
- AAF 300Z/HIS 393Z - Black Popular Culture in the Urban Terrain
- AAF/HIS 359 - History of Slavery in America
- AAF/HIS 388 - History of Sub-Saharan Africa
- AAF/PSC 408 - African Governments and Politics
- AAF/PSC 410 - Issues in African Development
- AAF/PSC 466 - Urban Problems
Arts and Humanities 6-9 units
- AAF/ARH 330 - African-American Artist in Context I
- AAF/ARH 331 - African-American Artist in Context II
- AAF/ENG247 - Introduction to Literature of the Diaspora
- AAF/ENG 248 - Afro-American Literature: 1900-Present
- AAF 352 - Afro-American Images in Film
- AAF/ENG 360 - African Folk Life
- AAF/ENG 362 - African-American Literature Genres
- AAF/ENG 363 - Afro-American Fiction
- AAF/ENG 364 - Contemporary African Literature
- AAF/ENG 474 - Literature of the African Diaspora
Social and Behavioral Science 6-9 units
- AAF 300P- Conditions of Community Service
- AAF/COM 310A - Race and Media
- AAF/COM 333 - Oral Performance of African-American Literature
- AAF/COM 350 - African-American Oral Tradition
- AAF/COM 461 - Race, Politics, and Media
- AAF/PSY 399 - Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
- AAF 390 Directed Study or Research - (Permission of director by override only)
- AAF 498 - Senior Seminar
Additional courses that may be taken but are not cross-listed include:
- SOC 240 - Minority and Majority Relations
- SOC 318 - Social Movements and Social Change
- SOC 240 - Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC 336 - Social Inequality
- SOC 428 - Institutional Racism
- PSY 479I - Contemporary Problems/Seminar in Non-Violence
