Core Courses

• ALS 100  Intro to Africana- Latino Studies 3 s.h.
• ALS 395  Senior Seminar in ALS  3 s.h.                

 

PLUS Select 6 s.h. in each group for a total of 18 s.h.

Group 1:

• The Black Theater
• African Americans and Latinos in Film and T.V.
• Black American Literature
• Postcolonial Literature and Culture I & II
• Music of the Caribbean
• Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean
• Survey of Francophone Literature
• Hip Hop Culture
• Jazz
• Women, Race and Representation
• Modern Black Literature
• Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

        Group 2: & Family Studies

• Introduction to African History
• Peoples and Cultures of Africa
• People and Cultures of the Caribbean
• Modern Middle East and North Africa 
• Africa Since 1800 
• African American History I
• African American History II
• Colonial Latin America
• Modern Latin America
• Women in Africa and the Middle East 
• South Africa: Race & Resistance since 1800
• History of Slavery 
• Borderlands: U.S. Latino/a History
• American Families in Poverty

  Group 3:

• Dynamics of Racism 
• African Atlantic: Popular Culture of the Diaspora
• African Politics
• Latin American Politics
• Race, Gender, Class and Culture
• American Families in Poverty 
• Psychology of the Black Experience 
• Geography of Latin America/Caribbean
• Geography of Developing Regions
• Urban Geography
• Sociology of Ethnic Relations
• Women of Color in the U.S.