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962 One Park Place South
404-413-5135
africana.gsu.edu

Jonathan Gayles, Chair
Lisa Shannon, Undergraduate Director

Africana Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of peoples of African descent nationally and globally. The field recognizes that the lived experiences of African and African descended peoples worldwide are impacted by a myriad of factors including cultural diversity, emerging technologies, and political economy.  As an interdisciplinary field of concentration, it offers, enhances, and critiques knowledge presented in the traditional disciplines and professions, scholarly and artistic accounts of the realities of the lives of peoples of African descent, and perspectives on social change. The Department of Africana Studies provides students with the intellectual origins, concepts, research, and models of the discipline; the knowledge and skills necessary for the study of group cultures; and a curriculum that contributes to the goals of Africana Studies and a culturally diverse education. Civic engagement, service learning, and a social justice orientation are fundamental aspects to the Africana Studies curriculum. Faculty and courses are drawn from the department itself and from other departments/schools/institutes in the university.

Interdisciplinary Programs

Social Justice, Undergraduate Certificate  

Programs

• Africana Studies, B.A.

• Africana Studies, Minor

Courses

• AAS 1141 - Introduction to African and African American History to 1865
• AAS 1142 - Introduction to African American History Since 1865
• AAS 2010 - Introduction to Africana Studies
• AAS 2140 - African American Literature
• AAS 3000 - African-American Family
• AAS 3010 - Narratives of Race, Gender and Sexuality: Quare Readings
• AAS 3020 - Themes in Afro-Latin American and -Latinx Studies
• AAS 3050 - Introduction to African-American Psychology
• AAS 3070 - African-Americans in the Criminal Justice System
• AAS 3120 - African Diaspora
• AAS 3124 - Diversity and Aging
• AAS 3212 - Race & Ethnic Relations
• AAS 3240 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
• AAS 3450 - History of African-Americans in Georgia
• AAS 3500 - Jazz History
• AAS 3670 - Social Justice in Sports
• AAS 3750 - Race and Racism
• AAS 3810 - History of African-American Music
• AAS 3880 - African-American Literature
• AAS 3960 - African-American Literature by Women
• AAS 3975 - Concepts and Theories in Africana Studies
• AAS 3980 - Research Methods in Africana Studies-CTW
• AAS 4000 - Issues in the African-American Community
• AAS 4010 - Civic Engagement in Africana Studies
• AAS 4030 - African-American Relationships
• AAS 4105 - Race & Health
• AAS 4110 - Black Women and Health
• AAS 4120 - African-American Political Thought
• AAS 4125 - Black Feminist Thought
• AAS 4140 - Black Women Politics
• AAS 4160 - African-American Politics
• AAS 4170 - Hip-Hop and Politics
• AAS 4180 - Politics of the Civil Rights Movement
• AAS 4200 - Critical Pedagogy and African American Education
• AAS 4230 - Religions of the African World
• AAS 4250 - African-American Religion
• AAS 4255 - Religion, Race, Nation
• AAS 4280 - African-American Anthropology
• AAS 4285 - Womanism and Social Change
• AAS 4330 - The Black Arts Movement
• AAS 4340 - The Africana Experience through the Documentary Lens
• AAS 4350 - Black Visual Representation
• AAS 4450 - Social Justice I: Framework
• AAS 4451 - Social Justice II: Praxis
• AAS 4480 - Afro-Latinx Culture
• AAS 4500 - International Human Rights: Reparations for African Descendants in the U.S.
• AAS 4550 - Black Activism
• AAS 4600 - Enslavement and Resistance in North America
• AAS 4620 - Enslavement and Resistance in the Americas
• AAS 4625 - Atlanta and Black Culture
• AAS 4640 - African-American People
• AAS 4650 - African-American Theatre
• AAS 4660 - African-American Women
• AAS 4771 - Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora
• AAS 4772 - Women in Africa
• AAS 4774 - Africana Rebellions
• AAS 4780 - African-American Lesbian and Gay Activism
• AAS 4870 - Honors Thesis I
• AAS 4880 - Honors Thesis II
• AAS 4890 - Caribbean Literature
• AAS 4900 - African-Americans in Film
• AAS 4950 - African-American Popular Culture
• AAS 4970 - Topics in Africana Studies
• AAS 4975 - Race, Class and Gender in Contemporary South Africa
• AAS 4980 - Seminar and Practicum in Africana Studies-CTW
• AAS 4995 - Directed Readings BIS-CTW
• AAS 4999 - Directed Readings

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