Basic Structure of the Program
- AAAS is an interdisciplinary program that draws on English, History,
Religion, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Literature, Music, Speech,
LALACS, Geography, and Environmental Sciences.
- AAAS offers a Major and three Minors
- Minors are 1) African Diaspora Studies, 2) African Studies, and 3) African
American Studies
- The Major requires studies in all three subcategories, and also requires
study in both the humanities and the social sciences.
- Courses are not sequenced and the numbering system of AAAS courses is not
sequential. 10s are survey courses, 20s and 30s courses are on Black America.
40s courses are on Africa. 60s courses are on the Diaspora.
- The intro courses for the discipline are:
- AAAS 10: Introduction to African American Studies (winter 2008)
- AAAS 11: Introduction to African Studies (not offered in 07-08)
- AAAS 16: History, Culture and Society: The Many Faces of Latin America
(winter 2008)
Fall courses for the interested first-year student
- AAAS 14: Pre-Colonial African History (=HIST 5.1)
- AAAS 31: Black Theater, USA (=THEA 22)
- AAAS 35: Modern Black American Literature (=ENGL 43)
- AAAS 39: History of Jazz (=MUS 9)
- AAAS 51: Masterpieces of Literatures from Africa (=COLT 51)
- AAAS 67: Colonial and Postcolonial Masculinities (=COL 67 and WGST
52.1)
Winter courses for the interested first-year student
- AAAS 10: Introduction to African American Studies
- AAAS 12: Black America to the Civil War (=HIST 16)
- AAAS 15: History of Africa since 1800 (=HIST 66)
- AAAS 16: The Many Faces of Latin America (=LACS 4)
- AAAS 17: Slave Resistance in the United States from the Colonial Era to the
Civil War (=HIST 39)
- AAAS 25: Constructing Black Womanhood (=SOCY 46, WGST 33)
- AAAS 45: Africa: Ecology and Development (=GEOG 40)
- AAAS 50: Colonialism, Development and the Environment in Asia and Africa
(=HIST 75, ENVS 45)
Spring courses for the interested First-Year Student
- AAAS 13: Black America Since the Civil War (=HIST 17)
- AAAS 38: Religion and Social Change: The Civil Rights Movement
(=REL 68)
- AAAS 44: Culture and Culture Change in Post Colonial Africa (=ANTH 36)
- AAAS 46: History of Modern South Africa (=HIST 67)
- AAAS 47: Politics and Political Economies in Africa (=GOVT 44)
Information for the first-year student who plans on pursuing studies in
AAAS
- Be flexible in what you want to take because AAAS is a small program and
course offering are often irregular.
- AAAS 10: Introduction to African America Studies, an introduction to the
field, is offered in Winter 2008.
- Students majoring in AAAS who want to go on a Foreign Study Program often
choose the Environmental Studies Program in Africa (offered annually in the
fall term), or the English Program in Trinidad (offered next in fall 2010). For
information and application, see the Off-Campus Programs Office, at 44 North
College St.
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