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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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UNST 410Ìý-ÌýSeminar: Area, Regional, and Global Study
ÌýALST 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
- ALST 204Ìý-ÌýPerforming Bolivian Music
- ALST 273/THEA 273Ìý-ÌýContemporary African American Drama ÌýÌý
- ALST 331Ìý-ÌýThe Sexual Politics of Hip-Hop
- ALST 340Ìý-ÌýArt and Culture in Contemporary Jamaica (Study Group)
- ALST 367Ìý-ÌýJamaica in the Literary Imagination (Study Group)
- 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 433Ìý-ÌýCaribbean Literature
- 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 & the Latin Lover
- LGBT 355Ìý-ÌýPartners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
- MUSI 161Ìý-ÌýHistory of Jazz (H&A)
- MUSI 221Ìý-ÌýWorld Music (H&A)
- SPAN 354Ìý-ÌýLatin American Literature: Illusion, Fantasy, Romanticism
- SPAN 355Ìý-ÌýThe Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century
- SPAN 361Ìý-ÌýAdvanced Composition and Stylistics
- SPAN 467Ìý-ÌýLatin American Romanticism
- SPAN 468Ìý-ÌýVisions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
- SPAN 477Ìý-ÌýWomen Writing in Latin America
- 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
- WMST 205Ìý-ÌýQueer Latina Visualities: Art, Theory, and Resistance
- WMST 279Ìý-ÌýBlack Feminist Thinkers
- WMST 302Ìý-ÌýSpecial Topics: Women's Lives in Text and Context
- WRIT 248Ìý-ÌýDiscourses of Race and Racism
- WRIT 342Ìý-ÌýRhetoric in Black and White: Communication and Culture in Conflict
- WRIT 346Ìý-ÌýHip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
- WRIT 348Ìý-ÌýDiscourses of Whiteness
Category B - Societies, Mobilities, Diasporas
- ALST 201/CORE 189CÌý-ÌýAfrica Ìý
- ALST 202Ìý-ÌýIntroduction to African American Studies
- ALST 203/CORE C163Ìý-ÌýThe Caribbean Ìý
- ALST 220Ìý-ÌýThe Black Diaspora: Africans at Home and Abroad
- 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 (AF) Ìý
- ALST 282/HIST 106Ìý-ÌýThe Making of Modern Africa (AF) Ìý
- ALST 284/HIST 284Ìý-ÌýDecolonization in Africa (AF) ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
- ALST 290Ìý-ÌýModel African Union
- ALST 321/SOCI 321Ìý-ÌýBlack Communities Ìý
- ALST 330/SOCI 330Ìý-ÌýRace and Crime ÌýÌýÌý
- ANTH 371Ìý-ÌýGender and Society in Africa
- CORE C149Ìý-ÌýHispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic)
- 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 & Creole Identities
- CORE C193Ìý-ÌýBrazil
- CORE C195Ìý-ÌýWest Africa
- CORE C199Ìý-ÌýBolivia
- EDUC 205Ìý-ÌýRace, White Supremacy, and Education
- EDUC 245Ìý-ÌýGlobalization's Children: The Education of the "New" Immigrants in the United States
- EDUC 308Ìý-ÌýGlobal Inequalities of Education
- EDUC 315Ìý-ÌýPedagogies and Publics
- HIST 103Ìý-ÌýAmerican History to 1877 (US)
- HIST 104Ìý-ÌýThe United States since 1877 (US)
- HIST 209Ìý-ÌýThe Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 (LAC)
- HIST 218Ìý-ÌýThe African American Struggle for Freedom and Democracy (US)
- HIST 229Ìý-ÌýLatin American Migrations (LAC)
- HIST 231Ìý-ÌýResistance and Revolt in Latin America (LAC)
- HIST 318Ìý-ÌýAfrican American History: African Background to Emancipation (US)
- HIST 319Ìý-ÌýAfrican American Leadership and Social Movements (US)
- HIST 320Ìý-ÌýNew York City History (US)
- HIST 379Ìý-ÌýU.S. and Africa (AF)
- HIST 380Ìý-ÌýEmancipation, Forced Labor, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (AF)
- HIST 381Ìý-ÌýPre-Colonial Africa (AF)
- HIST 382Ìý-ÌýModern Africa (AF)
- HIST 384Ìý-ÌýSomalia: From Independence to Collapse (AF)
- HIST 385Ìý-ÌýDarfur in Historical Perspective (AF)
- HIST 475Ìý-ÌýSeminar in African American History (US)
- POSC 216Ìý-ÌýComparative Politics: Latin America (CO)
- POSC 331Ìý-ÌýPolitics in Sub-Saharan Africa
- SOCI 212Ìý-ÌýPower, Racism, and Privilege
- SOCI 228Ìý-ÌýImmigration
Category C - Human and Non-Human Ecologies
- ALST 242/LGBT 242Ìý-ÌýReligions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean Ìý
- ALST 309/GEOG 309Ìý-ÌýLatin America: Critical Landscapes of Development ÌýÌýÌý
- ALST 351Ìý-ÌýMedicine, Health and Healing in Africa
- ECON 238Ìý-ÌýEconomic Development
- ENGL 365Ìý-ÌýFugitive Mobilities: Migration and Environmental Imagination in 20th-Century America
- ENGL 431Ìý-ÌýEthnographic Fictions: Travel Writing, Bearing Witness, and Human Rights
- 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 (TR)
- LGBT 310Ìý-ÌýImagining Queer Caribbean Futures
- 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.