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Major Requirements
The requirements for the ALST major are as follows:
Three Required Courses
- ALST 199Ìý-ÌýEntangled Intimacies: Introduction to Africana and Latin American Studies
- ALST 381Ìý-ÌýTheories and Intellectual Traditions
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ALST 410Ìý-ÌýCapstone: Intellectual and Community Empowerment
ALST majors should complete ALST 199Ìýand ALST 381Ìýprior to taking a capstone seminar.
Six Electives
Two courses should be taken from each of the three categories listed below. These should be chosen in consultation with the student's coordinator and advisor.Ìý
Category A - Arts, Cultures, Representations
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute ofÌýALAC in the course offerings
- ALST 204Ìý-ÌýPerforming Bolivian Music
- ALST 250 - Representations of AfricaÌý
- ALST 273/THEA 273Ìý-ÌýContemporary African American Drama ÌýÌý
- ALST 250Ìý-ÌýRepresentations of Africa
- ALST 331Ìý-ÌýThe Sexual Politics of Hip-Hop
- ALST 340Ìý-ÌýArt & Cult Contemp Jamaica/SG
- ARTH 232Ìý-ÌýLatin American Modern and Contemporary Art
- CORE C158Ìý-ÌýPuerto Rico
- ENGL 207Ìý-ÌýNew Immigrant Voices
- ENGL 240Ìý-ÌýLatinx Literature
- ENGL 333Ìý-ÌýAfrican/Diaspora Women's Narrative
- ENGL 334Ìý-ÌýAfrican American Literature
- ENGL 337Ìý-ÌýAfrican Literature
- ENGL 344Ìý-ÌýAfrican American Literature II
- ENGL 403Ìý-ÌýRace before Race: the Literature of the Early Modern Transatlantic
- FREN 354Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Literature in French: The Francophone World
- FREN 453Ìý-ÌýContemporary Literature in French
- FREN 455Ìý-ÌýFrancophone Voices from North Africa
- LGBT 227Ìý-ÌýMachismo: Masculinity in Hispanic Cultures
- LGBT 355Ìý-ÌýPartners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
- MUSI 161Ìý-ÌýHistory of Jazz
- MUSI 221Ìý-ÌýWorld Music
- SOCI 348Ìý-ÌýContested identities: Popular Culture in America
- SPAN 354Ìý-ÌýLatin American Literature: Colonialism, Mestizaje, and Independencies
- SPAN 355Ìý-ÌýThe Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century
- SPAN 459Ìý-Ìý'Nuns Having Fun' in Colonial Latin America
- SPAN 467Ìý-ÌýLatin American Romanticism
- SPAN 468Ìý-ÌýVision/Revision: Span Conquest
- SPAN 478Ìý-ÌýLiterature of the Caribbean
- SPAN 481Ìý-ÌýMajor Hispanic Authors
- SPAN 482Ìý-ÌýMajor Hispanic Authors
- SPAN 483Ìý-ÌýSpanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises
- SPAN 485Ìý-ÌýLatin American Novels Before the Boom (1910-1950)
- SPAN 486Ìý-ÌýLatin American Dictatorship Theater
- SPAN 487Ìý-ÌýPostdictatorial Transatlantic Theater
- SPAN 488Ìý-ÌýLatin American Women Dramatists
- THEA 273Ìý-ÌýContemporary African American Drama
- WGSS 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
- WGSS 302Ìý-ÌýSpecial Topics: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- WRIT 248Ìý-ÌýDiscourses of Race and Racism
- WRIT 342Ìý-ÌýRhetoric in Black & White
- WRIT 346Ìý-ÌýHip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
- WRIT 348Ìý-ÌýDiscourses of Whiteness
Category B - Societies, Mobilities, Diasporas
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute ofÌýALSM in the course offerings
- ALST 201 - AfricaÌý
- ALST 202Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to African American Studies
- ALST 203/CORE C163Ìý-ÌýThe Caribbean Ìý
- ALST 220Ìý-ÌýThe Black Diaspora
- ALST 225/HIST 225 - Jamaica: From Colony to Independence (Study Group)
- ALST 227/HIST 227 -Civil Rights & Civil Fights: The History of the Long Civil Rights Movement in the United States
- ALST 230Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to Latin American Studies
- ALST 237Ìý-ÌýGhana: History, Culture and Politics in West Africa
- ALST 245/CORE C145Ìý-ÌýDirty South Ìý
- ALST 281/HIST 281Ìý-ÌýSlavery and the Slave Trade in Africa Ìý
- ALST 282/HIST 106Ìý-ÌýThe Making of Modern Africa Ìý
- ALST 284/HIST 284Ìý-ÌýDecolonization in Africa ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
- ALST 290Ìý-ÌýModel African Union
- ALST 312/WGSS 312 - Gender, Race and Punishment: Toward an Inclusive History of the American Carceral State
- ALST 320 - African American Women's HistoryÌý
- ALST 321/SOCI 321 - Black Communities
- ALST 341/WGSS 341 - Corridors of Black Girlhood
- ALST 388/HIST 388 - The American South: From Reconstruction to the Present
- ANTH 355Ìý-ÌýAncient Aztec Civilization
- CORE C146Ìý-ÌýHaiti
- CORE C148Ìý-ÌýBlack Migrations
- CORE C149Ìý-ÌýHispaniola (Haiti/Dom. Rep.)
- CORE C160Ìý-ÌýLatin America
- CORE C169Ìý-ÌýRwanda
- CORE C170Ìý-ÌýIslamic North Africa
- CORE C171Ìý-ÌýMexico
- CORE C172Ìý-ÌýCalifornia
- CORE C173Ìý-ÌýEthiopia
- CORE C177Ìý-ÌýPeru
- CORE C180Ìý-ÌýFrancophone and Creole Identities
- CORE C193Ìý-ÌýBrazil
- CORE C195Ìý-ÌýWest Africa
- CORE C199Ìý-ÌýBolivia
- EDUC 205Ìý-ÌýRace, White Supremacy, and Education
- EDUC 245Ìý-ÌýEduc-"New" Immigrants in US
- EDUC 308Ìý-ÌýGlobal Inequalities of Education
- EDUC 315Ìý-ÌýPedagogies and Publics
- HIST 209Ìý-ÌýThe Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800
- HIST 218Ìý-ÌýThe African American Struggle for Freedom and Democracy
- HIST 229Ìý-ÌýLatin American Migrations
- HIST 359Ìý-ÌýResistance and Revolt in the Colonial Atantic World
- HIST 318Ìý-ÌýAfrican American History: African Background to Emancipation
- HIST 319Ìý-ÌýAfrican American Leadership and Social Movements
- HIST 320Ìý-ÌýNew York City History
- HIST 337Ìý-ÌýPirates in the Atlantic World, 1500s - 1730
- HIST 379Ìý-ÌýU.S. and Africa
- HIST 381Ìý-ÌýPre-Colonial Africa
- HIST 382Ìý-ÌýModern Africa
- HIST 384Ìý-ÌýSomalia: From Independence to Collapse
- HIST 385Ìý-ÌýDarfur in Historical Perspective
- HIST 462Ìý-ÌýSeminar on Problems in African History
- HIST 475Ìý-ÌýSeminar in African American History
- POSC 216Ìý-ÌýComparative Politics: Latin America
- POSC 331Ìý-ÌýPolitics in Sub-Saharan Africa
- POSC 354Ìý-ÌýCapitalism, the State, and Development in Latin America
- POSC 451Ìý-ÌýSeminar: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
- SOCI 212Ìý-ÌýPower, Racism, and Privilege
- SOCI 228Ìý-ÌýImmigration
- SOCI 321Ìý-ÌýBlack Communities
- SOCI 368Ìý-ÌýPower, Politics, and Social Change
Category C - Human and Non-Human Ecologies
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute ofÌýALHE in the course offerings
- ALST 219/MUSE 219 - Healing Arts: The Idea of Africa in Medicine and MuseumsÌý
- ALST 242/LGBT 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean Ìý
- ALST 244/RELG 217 - African American Religious Experience
- ALST 334/GPEH 334 - Public Health in AfricaÌý
- ALST 371Ìý-ÌýMedicine, Health and Healing in Africa
- ALST 358/ENST 358 - Ecosystems, Environmental Threats, and response in Trinidad and Tobago (Study Group)
- ECON 238Ìý-ÌýEconomic Development
- ENGL 365Ìý-ÌýFugitive Mobilities: Migration and Environmental Imagination in 20th-Century America
- ENGL 431Ìý-ÌýEthnographic Fictions: Human Rights and Literature
- ENST 232Ìý-ÌýEnvironmental Justice
- GEOG 310/PCON 310Ìý-ÌýGeopolitics ÌýÌý
- GEOG 321Ìý-ÌýTransnational Feminist Geography
- HIST 358Ìý-ÌýConquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas
- LGBT 310Ìý-ÌýImagining Queer Caribbean Futures
- RELG 227Ìý-ÌýVisual and Material Religion
- RELG 219Ìý-ÌýAfrican Religious Traditions
- RELG 235Ìý-ÌýReligion, War, Peace, and Reconciliation
- RELG 243Ìý-ÌýHistory of Religion in America
- RELG 248Ìý-ÌýChristianity, Islam, and Political Change in Africa
- RELG 333Ìý-ÌýTheorizing Black Religion
- SOCI 305Ìý-ÌýUrban Sociology
- SOCI 312Ìý-ÌýSocial Inequality
Honors and High Honors
Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Africana and Latin American StudiesÌýprogram page.
Africana and Latin American Studies
For more information about the program, including Faculty,Ìýtransfer credit, awards, etc.,Ìýplease visit theÌýAfricana and Latin American StudiesÌýprogram catalogÌýpage.