Black and Africana Studies Classes

For information about the program please contact Susana Castillo-Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Welles 206B (castillos@geneseo.edu).

Summer 2025

ANTH 326 - Race, Racism and Antiracism in the Americas (Online 5/19–6/13)

BLKS 225 - Black Cinema (Online 5/19–6/13)

ENGL 111 - Race & Representation in Text & Media (Online 5/19–6/13)

HIST 163 - African American History to 1877 (Online 5/19–6/27)

HUMN 222 - Black Humanities (Online - Section 1: 5/19–6/13 & Section 2: 6/16–7/11)

Fall 2025

Basic Requirements

BLKS 200 - Introduction to Black Studies

Courses That Fulfill Requirement Of One Methodology Course

ENGL 203 - African Literary Criticism

ENGL 203 - Reading Transnationally

ENG 203 - Poetics

GEOG 286 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

HIST 301 - African Historiography

HIST 301 - Civil Rights Movement

HIST 302 - History of Natural Disasters

HIST 302 - US Women’s History

SOCL 302 - Sociomedical Research

Fall 2025 - Electives

Courses in English with Black Studies Focus

ENGL 111 - Literature, Medicine, and Racism

ENGL 318 - Black British Literature & Culture

ENGL 443 - African Sexuality in Literature & Film

Courses in History with Black Studies Focus

HIST 249 - Black Joy

HIST 263 - Civil War and Reconstruction Era from 1830-1890

HIST 266 - Civil Rights Movement in America

HIST 301 - Interpretations in History: Civil Rights Movement

HIST 301 - African Historiography

HIST 480 - Empire & Nature

Courses in an Interdisciplinary Program

PASC 105 - Performance as Social Change

WGST 310 - Race, Class, and Gender

Additional Elective Courses

ANTH 226 - Anthropology of Latin America & the Caribbean

GEOG123 - The Developing World

MUSC 217 - Jazz in America

SOCL 230 - Race and Ethnicity