2014-2015 University Catalog archived
Africana Studies (AFCA)
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Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary program which offers a minor that spans several disciplines, including art, history, literature, music, politics, and sociology.
Program Head: Theodore C. DeLaney
Core Faculty
First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.
Niels-Hugo Blunch, PhD.—(2006)-2012
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., George Washington University
Marc C. Conner, Ph.D.—(1996)-2008
Jo. M and James M. Ballengee Professor of English
Ph.D., Princeton University
Theodore C. DeLaney, Ph.D.—(1995)-2001
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., College of William and Mary
J. Tyler Dickovick, Ph.D.—(2004)-2010
Associate Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Princeton University
Timothy M. Diette, Ph.D.—(2004)-2013
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Mohamed Kamara, Ph.D.—(2001)-2008
Associate Professor of Romance Languages
Ph.D., Tulane University
Lucas E. Morel, Ph.D.—(1999)-2009
Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
David Robert Novack, Ph.D.—(1976)-1988
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., New York University
Courses listed below meet the requirements of the Africana studies minor, but other courses across the curriculum that include an appropriate proportion of material on Africans or Africans in the Diaspora may be substituted with the approval of the program’s advisory committee. In such cases, students may petition the committee to allow other relevant courses.
Africana Studies Courses
Africana Studies courses are as follows:
Interdisciplinary Minor
AFCA 130 - Introduction to Africana Studies
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
This seminar, taught collaboratively in four discrete modules, introduces students to the issues, debates, and moments which have shaped and continue to shape the broad and complex field of Africana Studies and the multifaceted experiences and aspirations of peoples of African descent. Among other effects, students who take this class gain a broad appreciation of the historical and philosophical context necessary for understanding the specific identities and contributions to world cultures and civilizations of Africans, African Americans, and Africans in the greater Diaspora; and develop thinking, analytical, writing, and collaborative skills as students complete a major project with one or more of their classmates. Staff.
AFCA 295 - Seminar in Africana Studies
Credits: 3 credits in fall or winter, 4 in spring
Planned Offering: Spring 2015.
Prerequisite: Completion of FW requirement. Students in this course study a group of African-American, African, or Afro-Caribbean works related by theme, culture, topic, genre, historical period, or critical approach. In the Spring Term version, the course involves field trips, film screenings, service learning, and/or other special projects, as appropriate, in addition to 8-10 hours per week of class meetings. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Spring 2015 topic:
AFCA 295-01: From the Underground Railroad to Hip-Hop: Concepts of the Underground in Black Literature and Culture (4). This course is designed to explore the concept of the underground through various examples of underground literature, underground cultural and social movements as well as various films and music that configure the underground symbolically or literally with its main characters, settings, plots and themes. Whether it appears in literature, film, music, political movements, philosophy, or cultural theory, the underground signals one of the most complex formulations of human identity. The chronological range of this project extends roughly from the 19th century (slavery and the Underground Railroad) to the 21st century (including underground moments in black literature, film, and the underground constitutions of hip hop culture). The subject of the ‘underground’ is the consistent theme/thread throughout the course. (HU) J. Peterson. Spring 2015
AFCA 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit.
Prerequisites: AFCA 130, completion of six credits in Africa-focused and African Diaspora-focused courses, at least junior standing, and instructor consent.
This course facilitates individual reading, research, and writing in an area of Africana Studies not covered in-depth in other courses. May be repeated for degree credit and/or used for the capstone requirement in the minor in Africana Studies. Staff.
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