Course Listing
Recommendations for prospective graduate students
Prospective graduate students in linguistics should develop reading fluency in one foreign language and competency in the linguistic structure of another.
*Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are not counted toward the requirement of no fewer than 18 credits in advanced courses for majors in this department.
The college has recently transitioned to a new course numbering system in preparation for the migration to the CUNYfirst platform. Old course numbers are provided in the parenthesis after the "/" symbol.
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Introductory courses
- Introduction to Contemporary Africa (AFST 1001 / AFRIC 0.12)
- Introduction to African American Studies (AFST 1020 / AFRIC 0.2)
- Introduction to Contemporary African American Culture (AFST 1025 / AFRIC 0.25)
- Introduction to Research Studies of African Americans (AFST 1030 / AFRIC 0.4)
- Introduction to the Caribbean (AFST 1040 / AFRIC 0.5)
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History & political science
- States, Kingdoms and Trade: Africa to 1800 (AFST 3101 / AFRIC 11.1)
- Contact, Contest and Independence: Africa Since 1800 (AFST 3102 / AFRIC 11.2)
- Africa in Antiquity (AFST 3105 / AFRIC 11.3)
- Southern Africa (AFST 3107 / AFRIC 11.5)
- The African Diaspora (AFST 3110 / AFRIC 12.1)
- Political Systems of Africa (AFST 3112 / AFRIC 12.4)
- African American History through 1865 (AFST 3120 / AFRIC 12.5)
- African American History from 1865 (AFST 3121 / AFRIC 12.6)
- The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (AFST 3125 / AFRIC 12.9)
- The Struggle for Liberation (AFST 3130 / AFRIC 14.3)
- The Black Diaspora in New York (AFST 3138 / AFRIC 13.5)
- Caribbean Societies in Perspective (AFST 3140 / AFRIC 17.3)
- Caribbean Political Systems (AFST 3145 / AFRIC 17.4)
- Haitian Heritage (AFST 3147 / AFRIC 17.5)
- Special Topics in History and Politics (AFST 3190 / AFRIC 19)
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Literature, culture, and the arts
- African Literature (AFST 3205 / AFRIC 24.8)
- African Religion and Culture in the New World (AFST 3210 / AFRIC 23.1)
- Performing Blackness (AFST 3215 / AFRIC 23.6)
- African American Literature to 1930 (AFST 3220 / AFRIC 24.1)
- Modern African American Literature (AFST 3221 / AFRIC 24.2)
- Black Theater (AFST 3225 / AFRIC 24.5)
- Reading Race (AFST 3228 / AFRIC 25.2)
- African American Folklore (AFST 3230 / AFRIC 23)
- African American Art (AFST 3233 / AFRIC 24.4)
- African American Music (AFST 3236 / AFRIC 24.3)
- History of Jazz (AFST 3237 / AFRIC 24.35)
- Caribbean Literature (AFST 3240 / AFRIC 29)
- Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory (AFST 3245 / AFRIC 28.5)
- Black Women's Fiction (AFST 3260 / AFRIC 27)
- (Re)presenting Black Men (AFST 3265 / AFRIC 25.7)
- Special Topics in Literature, Culture, and the Arts (AFST 3290 / AFRIC 28)
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Society and the economy
- The Black Family (AFST 3320 / AFRIC 44)
- The Black Urban Experience (AFST 3324 / AFRIC 41)
- Blacks and the Law (AFST 3330 / AFRIC 43)
- Blacks in the American Criminal Justice System (AFST 3331 / AFRIC 43.2)
- The Black Child and the Urban Education System (AFST 3335 / AFRIC 54)
- Black Entrepreneurship in America (AFST 3337 / AFRIC 33)
- Community Studies (AFST 3339 / AFRIC 44.3)
- Caribbean Communities in North America (AFST 3344 / AFRIC 44.5)
- The Black Woman in America (AFST 3360 / AFRIC 44.6)
- African Women and Feminism (AFST 3365 / AFRIC 44.9)
- Black Men in the United States (AFST 3367 / AFRIC 44.7)
- Special Topics in Society and the Economy (AFST 3390 / AFRIC 59)
- Internship in Africana Studies (AFST 4301 / AFRIC 55)
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Seminars
- Seminar in Humanities (AFST 4405 / AFRIC 70.1)
- Seminar in Social Sciences (AFST 4410 / AFRIC 71)
- Summer Seminar (AFST 4412 / AFRIC 73)
- Independent Research and Writing (AFST 5403W / AFRIC 79W)
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Honors course
- Independent Study (AFST 5404 / AFRIC 88)
