Oct 10, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Black and Africana Studies, B.A.


The Bachelor of Arts degree in Black and Africana Studies is designed for students who want to take an interdisciplinary approach to their education. Drawing from history, literature, the arts, the humanities, and social sciences, we explore the rich complexities of Africans and African diaspora peoples to promote equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Program Learning Outcomes


  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the rich complexities of social, political, economic, environmental, and cultural life among African and a variety of African diaspora peoples, past and present.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to identify and critically assess different disciplinary, methodological, and interpretive approaches to the study of Africans, African Americans, and other people of the African diaspora.
  3. Be able to analyze and compare different kinds of texts, artifacts, or artistic productions, such as historical documents, literary texts, films, museum exhibits, monuments, performances, visual art, electronic media, etc.
  4. Communicate ideas well in written and oral form, appropriate for an academic setting, including proper citation and revision skills.

 

General Education Requirements (30-40 Credits)


Prerequisite coursework may be required to satisfy certain General Education courses and will count as elective credit.

Total Credits Required to Complete Major: 36-41


Basic Requirements: (10-11 Credits)


Elective Requirements: (20-23 Credits)


Experiential Learning and Capstone Requirements: (6-7 Credits)


  • One experiential learning course (study abroad*, internship, directed study, integrative applied learning): 3-4 credits

  • BLKS 490 - Senior Capstone Seminar: 3 credits

*Check the Black and Africana Studies program finder for study abroad courses.

https://www.geneseo.edu/academic-program-finder/black-studies-major

Related Requirements:


  • Students must complete 18 credits at the 300 or 400 level. Students can apply upper-division methodology courses, electives, experiential learning, and the capstone to meet this requirement.

  • Minimum competency of C- for fulfillment of major requirements.

Department Writing Requirement


Successful completion of BLKS 490  fulfills the writing requirement.

Sample Course Map


For students who matriculated prior to Fall 2022: please select the bulletin year in which you entered the college (matriculated) at the top right of this page.

Curriculum Map  

 

Total Credit Hours: 120


Note: There is considerable flexibility in both the order and specific courses. This sample program has been chosen to provide a possible sequence that emphasizes general education classes that are particularly relevant to Black Studies and quickly introduces students to Black Studies classes in a variety of departments.

Note: Variation in the order of courses is possible, depending upon prerequisites. Consult course information in the bulletin or your academic advisor to customize your eight semester plan.  

KEY - Participation in a Global Society (PGS)


Attributes:

Sub Areas

Abbreviation Definition
DPP Diversity, Pluralism, Power
WCV World Cultures & Values
CGC Contemporary Global Challenges
CAI Creativity & Innovation
SST Sustainability

Learning Areas

Abbreviation Definition
ARTS Arts
HUMA Humanities
SOSC Social Science