When you enroll at Susquehanna, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. The following is an excerpt from the complete course catalog. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, consult with their advisor(s) and the Academic Planning Tool.

Learning Goals

• Demonstrate the ability to analyze the cultural, historical, political, and social aspects of the African Diaspora.
• Possess the critical vocabulary and concepts with which to describe and interpret the lived experience of people of the African Diaspora.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the interdisciplinary character of the field.

Double-counting restriction for interdisciplinary minors

Only 4 semester hours of this minor may be double-counted toward the student’s major.

Minor in Africana Studies

This is an interdisciplinary minor. The Africana Studies minor completes, with a grade of C- or better, AFRC-101 Introduction to Africana Studies and at least 16 semester hours in the following courses or other courses approved by the program coordinator. Students consult with a minor advisor to select courses and are expected to take a balance of upper- and lower-level courses. At least three of these courses must be at the 200-level or higher.

AFRC-101 Introduction to Africana Studies

AFRC-260 The Choreopoem

ENGL-245 Studies in Comparative Literatures of the Americas (Multicultural/Non-Western)

ENGL-250 World Literature (when offered as African Literature)

HIST-115 African-American History

HIST-171 African Civilization

HIST-172 Early Modern Africa

HIST-180 Latin American Colonization and Resistance

HIST-181 Revolution and Identity in Latin America

HIST-314 The Long Civil Rights Movement

HIST-390 Topics in History (when offered as Violence, Terror and Race)

MUSC-102 A Study of Jazz

PHIL-150 Race, Class and Ethics

PHIL-212/WGST-200 Feminist Philosophy

PHIL-214 Black Existentialism

PHIL-255 Plato’s Republic and HBO’s “The Wire”

PHIL-305 Topics in Philosophy (when offered as Philosophy of Race or Race and Reality)

POLI-320 African Politics

POLI-314 Diversity in American Politics

POLI-324 Issues in Comparative Politics (when offered as Comparative Democratization)

PSYC-350 Psychology, Culture, and Ethnicity

SOCI-202 Black Feminism I

SOCI-210 Caribbean Culture and Society

SOCI-316 Social Justice

SOCI-413/ANTH-413 Critical Race Theory

THEA-254 Race and Identity on the American Stage

Students are also encouraged to fulfill their Global Opportunities requirement by spending time immersed in cultures of the African continent and diaspora, for example GO Short or Long programs in South Africa, the Caribbean or New Orleans.