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Sep 27, 2024
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2024-2025 Binghamton University Academic Guide
Africana Studies, BA
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 Return to: Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
The Department of Africana Studies offers a multidisciplinary, integrative program designed to investigate, educate, promote, and value the contributions and experiences of Africans and African descended peoples worldwide. We offer a non-Eurocentric and nonracial approach to the investigations, interpretations, and understanding of the experiences of African peoples and the wider world’s social, political, and economic systems. Departmental courses are designed to broaden the scope and range of traditional disciplines. They offer a corrective to those disciplines in which the presence, roles, cultural contributions, and experiences of African peoples and their descendants have been omitted or neglected. The department attracts and welcomes students of all ethnic backgrounds. Both minority and non-minority students benefit from exposure to academic materials and perspectives not otherwise available to them.
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University General Education Requirements
All Binghamton University undergraduate students are required to fulfill this set of university-wide requirements to ensure that every graduate acquires the essential core of a SUNY university undergraduate education. Please refer to the General Education page for more information.
Harpur College Requirements
All students in Harpur College must fulfill additional requirements designated by Harpur College to complement and extend the general education requirements. Please refer to the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences page for more information.
Major Requirements
For the major, seven of the 11 required courses must be taken in the department from department faculty only. These courses should be at the 100-400 levels, reflecting academic growth, progressive competence, and a course distribution that reflects the African and African Diaspora focus of the department.
At least seven of the 11 Africana courses should be at the 300-400 levels, and follow the distribution requirements below. This rule applies to all of the requirements below.
A. Two generalist introductory courses chosen from the following:
B. One disciplinary introductory permanent course chosen from the following:
C. One special topics introductory course chosen from the following:
D. AFRICA; Select two topics courses chosen from the following:
Prerequisite: Students must have taken relevant 100- or 200-level Africana Studies courses.
E. AFRICA DIASPORA; Select two topics courses chosen from the following:
Prerequisite: Students must have taken relevant 100- or 200-level Africana Studies courses.
F. Advanced Level Courses
Additional Information About the Program
Students must earn a grade of C or above in courses fulfilling the major requirement. No courses fulfilling the major requirement may be taken Pass/Fail. Only one independent study course may be counted to fulfill the requirements for the major, and this must be by an Africana Studies faculty. Students must take seven of the 11 courses at Binghamton University for the major. Students may take cross-listed courses of non-Africana Studies faculty but only as electives. When appropriate, students can petition to have a different course count as fulfilling requirements for courses in Group A or B.
For more information on the Africana Studies BA program, please refer to the Africana Studies website. To apply to the Africana Studies BA program, please visit the University Admissions website.
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Return to: Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
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