Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences · major
African and African Diaspora Studies requirements
Explore the reviewed African and African Diaspora Studies major at Boston College, organized by requirement and course.
Required core (two courses: AADS1110 Introduction to African Diaspora Studies and AADS6600 Senior Seminar)
Required for the program.
AADS electives numbered 2000 or above (at least six of the eight electives)
Choose from these approved options.
- AADS2455 Identity, Culture, and Conflict Resolution Practices in Africa
- AADS2465 Africa in International Politics
- AADS2500 Look to Africa: Rastafari Belief & Livity
- AADS2605 Hip Hop and Black Social Life
- AADS3310 Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance
- AADS3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- AADS4400 Racialized Medicine
- AADS2278 Introduction to Caribbean Art
- AADS2334 Hip Hop in American Culture
- AADS4466 Surveillance, Media and Contemporary Society
- AADS5532 A Place for Us: Geographies of the African Diaspora
- AADS5534 Authorship as Ownership: 18th-century Black Narratives
- AADS2182 Black Popular Culture
- AADS2204 Music and Social Justice
- AADS2265 Women in Blues
- AADS2400 Ifa: an Indigenous African Literary & Divinatory Tradition
- AADS2466 State Building and Conflict in Africa
- AADS2467 Politics of Development in Africa
- AADS2483 Introduction to African American Literature
- AADS2600 Blues, Hip Hop & Place: Black Life in the United States and Brazil
- AADS2800 From Slave Patrol to the War on Crime: Policing Blacks Across American History
- AADS3000 Black Church Black Protest
- AADS3400 Food Justice Across the African Diaspora
- AADS4485 History of Medicine and Public Health/Afr Am Diaspora
- AADS2255 Health Psychology: Foundations for a Culture of Health Equity
- AADS2331 Black Global Media: Making and Unmaking the News
- AADS2460 African Political Parties
- AADS3420 Philosophy of Race and Racism
- AADS3450 Fighting for Black Lives: Health and Social Movements
- AADS3901 The Great Migration Narrative: Black Storytelling in/across Time, Space, and Generations
- AADS4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- AADS4952 Readings and Research
- AADS4955 Senior Thesis Seminar
- AADS4960 Advanced Independent Research
AADS electives at the 1000 level (at most two of the eight electives)
Choose from these approved options.
- AADS1114 When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions
- AADS1137 Managing Diversity
- AADS1104 African American History I
- AADS1139 African World Perspectives
- AADS1155 Introduction to African-American Society
- AADS1230 The History of Spirituals and Gospel Music: Roots in West Africa
- AADS1770 Gospel Music Workshop
Cross-listed courses named in the catalog (count as AADS electives under either number)
Choose from these approved options.
- THEO2114 When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions
- ENGL3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- SOCY4400 Racialized Medicine
- SOCY1043 Introduction to African-American Society
- ARTH2250 Intro to African Arts and Visual Culture
- MUSA2306 Musics of Africa
- POLI2442 African Politics
- ENGL2470 Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- SOCY5597 Contemporary Race Theory
Source and limitations
Requirements sourced from Boston College University Catalog — African and African Diaspora Studies.
Applies to the Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year cohort.
53 courses across 4 requirement groups.
Requirement eligibility varies by school, cohort, and section. Confirm every degree requirement in EagleApps or with an advisor.