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- Africana and Latin American Studies Major
This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2023-24.
Major Requirements
The requirements for the ALST major are as follows:
Three Required Courses
- ALST 199 - Entangled Intimacies: Introduction to Africana and Latin American Studies
- ALST 381 - Theories and Intellectual Traditions
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UNST 410 - Seminar: Area, Regional, and Global Study
ALST majors should complete ALST 199 and ALST 381 prior to taking a capstone seminar.
Six Electives
Two courses should be taken from each of the three categories listed below. These should be chosen in consultation with the student's coordinator and advisor.
Category A - Arts, Cultures, Representations
- ALST 204 - Performing Bolivian Music
- ALST 273/THEA 273 - Contemporary African American Drama
- ALST 331 - The Sexual Politics of Hip-Hop
- ALST 340 - Art and Culture in Contemporary Jamaica (Study Group)
- ALST 367 - Jamaica in the Literary Imagination (Study Group)
- CORE C158 - Puerto Rico
- ENGL 207 - New Immigrant Voices
- ENGL 240 - Latinx Literature
- ENGL 333 - African/Diaspora Women's Narrative
- ENGL 334 - African American Literature
- ENGL 337 - African Literature
- ENGL 433 - Caribbean Literature
- FREN 354 - Introduction to Literature in French: The Francophone World
- FREN 453 - Contemporary Literature in French
- FREN 455 - Francophone Voices from North Africa
- LGBT 227 - Machismo & the Latin Lover
- LGBT 355 - Partners and Crime: Queer Outlaws in Literature and Film
- MUSI 161 - History of Jazz (H&A)
- MUSI 221 - World Music (H&A)
- SPAN 354 - Latin American Literature: Illusion, Fantasy, Romanticism
- SPAN 355 - The Many Voices of Latin American Literature: from Modernismo to the 21st Century
- SPAN 361 - Advanced Composition and Stylistics
- SPAN 467 - Latin American Romanticism
- SPAN 468 - Visions and Re-visions of the Spanish Conquest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
- SPAN 477 - Women Writing in Latin America
- SPAN 478 - Literature of the Caribbean
- SPAN 481 - Major Hispanic Authors
- SPAN 482 - Major Hispanic Authors
- SPAN 483 - Spanish American Modernismo: Spleen, Femme Fatales, Artificial Paradises
- SPAN 485 - Latin American Novels Before the Boom (1910-1950)
- SPAN 486 - Latin American Dictatorship Theater
- SPAN 487 - Postdictatorial Transatlantic Theater
- SPAN 488 - Latin American Women Dramatists
- WMST 205 - Queer Latina Visualities: Art, Theory, and Resistance
- WMST 279 - Black Feminist Thinkers
- WMST 302 - Special Topics: Women's Lives in Text and Context
- WRIT 248 - Discourses of Race and Racism
- WRIT 342 - Rhetoric in Black and White: Communication and Culture in Conflict
- WRIT 346 - Hip Hop: Race, Sex, and the Struggle in Urban America
- WRIT 348 - Discourses of Whiteness
Category B - Societies, Mobilities, Diasporas
- ALST 201/CORE 189C - Africa
- ALST 202 - Introduction to African American Studies
- ALST 203/CORE C163 - The Caribbean
- ALST 220 - The Black Diaspora: Africans at Home and Abroad
- ALST 230 - Introduction to Latin American Studies
- ALST 237 - Ghana: History, Culture and Politics in West Africa
- ALST 245/CORE C145 - Dirty South
- ALST 281/HIST 281 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa (AF)
- ALST 282/HIST 106 - The Making of Modern Africa (AF)
- ALST 284/HIST 284 - Decolonization in Africa (AF)
- ALST 290 - Model African Union
- ALST 321/SOCI 321 - Black Communities
- ALST 330/SOCI 330 - Race and Crime
- ANTH 371 - Gender and Society in Africa
- CORE C149 - Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic)
- CORE C160 - Latin America
- CORE C169 - Rwanda
- CORE C170 - Islamic North Africa
- CORE C171 - Mexico
- CORE C172 - California
- CORE C173 - Ethiopia
- CORE C177 - Peru
- CORE C180 - Francophone & Creole Identities
- CORE C193 - Brazil
- CORE C195 - West Africa
- CORE C199 - Bolivia
- EDUC 205 - Race, White Supremacy, and Education
- EDUC 245 - Globalization's Children: The Education of the "New" Immigrants in the United States
- EDUC 308 - Global Inequalities of Education
- EDUC 315 - Pedagogies and Publics
- HIST 103 - American History to 1877 (US)
- HIST 104 - The United States since 1877 (US)
- HIST 209 - The Atlantic World, 1492 - 1800 (LAC)
- HIST 218 - The African American Struggle for Freedom and Democracy (US)
- HIST 229 - Latin American Migrations (LAC)
- HIST 231 - Resistance and Revolt in Latin America (LAC)
- HIST 318 - African American History: African Background to Emancipation (US)
- HIST 319 - African American Leadership and Social Movements (US)
- HIST 320 - New York City History (US)
- HIST 379 - U.S. and Africa (AF)
- HIST 380 - Emancipation, Forced Labor, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (AF)
- HIST 381 - Pre-Colonial Africa (AF)
- HIST 382 - Modern Africa (AF)
- HIST 384 - Somalia: From Independence to Collapse (AF)
- HIST 385 - Darfur in Historical Perspective (AF)
- HIST 475 - Seminar in African American History (US)
- POSC 216 - Comparative Politics: Latin America (CO)
- POSC 331 - Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
- SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
- SOCI 228 - Immigration
Category C - Human and Non-Human Ecologies
- ALST 242/LGBT 242 - Religions of Resistance: Gender, Sexuality and Performance in the Caribbean
- ALST 309/GEOG 309 - Latin America: Critical Landscapes of Development
- ALST 351 - Medicine, Health and Healing in Africa
- ECON 238 - Economic Development
- ENGL 365 - Fugitive Mobilities: Migration and Environmental Imagination in 20th-Century America
- ENGL 431 - Ethnographic Fictions: Travel Writing, Bearing Witness, and Human Rights
- ENST 232 - Environmental Justice
- GEOG 310/PCON 310 - Geopolitics
- GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
- HIST 358 - Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas (TR)
- LGBT 310 - Imagining Queer Caribbean Futures
- RELG 248 - Christianity, Islam, and Political Change in Africa
- RELG 333 - Theorizing Black Religion
- SOCI 305 - Urban Sociology
- SOCI 312 - Social Inequality
Honors and High Honors
Students interested in pursuing honors can find the additional requirements on the Africana and Latin American Studies program page.
Africana and Latin American Studies
For more information about the program, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Africana and Latin American Studies program catalog page.