Black/Africana Studies Certificate Program

Black/AFRICANA STUDIES certificate program

The Black/Africana Studies Certificate of Achievement is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study a precise scope of the history, culture, aesthetics, and social justice traditions of Black people – in and outside of the United States. Major themes highlighted in the curriculum are social justice, cultural resistance, and artistic production.

This certificate program satisfies the ethnic studies course requirement for transfer to a CSU and UC. The goals and objectives of this program are to provide students with the opportunity to develop cultural competence and cross-cultural skills. This program will also prepare students for employment in multicultural environments and with underrepresented, diverse populations.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Required Courses  Units
AFRS 100 Introduction to Africana Studies 3
AFSR 108 Black Politics: Social and Racial Justice Movements  3
AFRS 112 African Cinema  3
AFRS 226 African American Literature  3
    or ENGL 226 African American Literature  (3) 
ENGL 100 Freshman Composition  3
    or ENGL 100S Enhanced Freshman Composition  (3) 

TOTAL UNITS NEEDED FOR THE CERTIFICATE: 16-16.5 UNITS