Black and Africana Studies Classes

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

Intersession 2026 (online)

ENGL 111 Diversity, Pluralism, & Power in American Literature: Race & Representation in Text & Media

ENGL 114: Sustainability & Literature: African Folklore for the Earth

HIST 267: Women and US Social Movements

Spring 2026

AMST 200 Race, Prisons and Policing

ANTH 105 Introduction to Biological Anthropology

BLKS 200 Introduction to Black Studies

BLKS/WGST 388 Black Masculinities

BLKS 490 Research Seminar

ENGL 111 Diversity, Pluralism, & Power in American Literature: N.K. Jemisin, Justice, and Love

ENGL 112 World Cultures & Values in Literature: Caribbean Narratives

ENGL 337 African-American Literature

ENGL 346: African Literature (online)

GEOG 123 The Developing World

GEOG 363 Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa

HIST 266 Civil Rights Movement in America

HIST 267: Women and US Social Movements

HIST 284 Studies in Global History: Madagascar

HIST 407 Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World

HIST 430 Advanced Studies in American History: History of Black Television

HIST 430 Advanced Studies in American History: Civil Rights Youth & Social Justice

HIST 505 Readings in African History: Religion in Africa (Graduate Class)

HUMN 222 Black Humanities

PASC 105 Performance as Social Change I

SOCL 230 Race & Ethnicity

SOCL 302 Sociological Research

WRTG 105 The 1619 Project (recommended gen ed course in Black & Africana Studies but it does not count for the major/minor)

Summer 2026 - Study Abroad 

Senegal - ENGL 308/FREN 312/HIST 284/HIST 480, 1026

Ghana - BIOL 468: Biology and Global Health, SUST 388: Urban Sustainability in Ghana, 806