Africana Studies Graduate Certificate

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Graduate Certificate Type

Add-On

Admissions Standards/Procedures

• Prospective candidates for the certificate must apply directly online through the Office of Graduate Admissions and must meet the general requirements for admission to the Graduate School.
• Candidates may take up to 6 credit hours of certificate classes before making formal application to the program.

Academic Standards

• Once admitted to the certificate, they must maintain a graduate GPA of at least 3.00

Credit Hours Required

A minimum of 12 graduate credit hours is required

Required Courses

• Candidates must complete 12 graduate credit hours of coursework, selected in consultation with a program advisor, who must approve all courses for individual students prior to the courses being taken (with the exception of the 6 credit hours which may be accepted from candidates upon admission).
  • Courses must be taken for graduate credit and chosen from at least two different departments.
• Students may choose from the following courses:

• AFST 421 - Comparative Studies in African and African-American Societies
• AFST 450 - Issues and Topics in African-American Studies
• AFST 510 - Special Topics
• ENGL 443 - Topics in Black Literature
• ENGL 552 - Readings in Black American Literature
• ENGL 560 - Readings in 20th-Century Literature
• FREN 573 - French and Francophone Literature and Culture II
• GEOG 541 - Topics in Urban/Economic Geography
• GEOG 663 - Seminar in Geography of the American South
• HIST 517 - Classic and Contemporary Readings in African-American History
• HIST 543 - Topics in 20th-Century United States
• HIST 561 - Topics in Latin American History
• HIST 563 - Topics in African History
• PORT 430 - Contemporary Brazilian Studies
• PORT 432 - Topics in the Literature and Culture of the Portuguese-speaking World
• SOCI 452 - Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
• SPAN 484 - Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Hispanic Literature
• SPAN 586 - Studies in Literary Genres and Latin American and Caribbean Literatures
• SPAN 587 - Cultural Constructions of Race and Gender in the Hispanic World
• Topics and independent study courses where appropriate, and courses in the Department of Public Health in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, may be applied to the Africana Studies certificate with the permission of the certificate coordinator.
• Six of the 12 graduate credit hours may count towards both the student’s major and the certificate. All 12 graduate credit hours must be completed within a five-year period.

Non-Course Requirements

To receive the certificate, students must:

• complete the Graduate Certificate Course Verification Form and
• through MyUTK, apply to graduate from the certificate program.