AFST 400: The W.E.B. DuBois Senior Seminar
Inspired by the American Studies Program’s Tocqueville Seminar, the AFST major involves a senior-year course offered in the Fall that delves deep into the work and life of one major scholar in the field (such as W.E.B. DuBois, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Sylvia Wynter, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, etc.). This senior seminar will serve as the main research capstone of the major, providing a foundational, historical analysis of the development of Black Studies, along with key theories of the field. It can also be fulfilled via thesis hours if the student finds an Africana Studies faculty advisor to serve as the director of the thesis, along with one other reader, who can be within or outside of Africana Studies. The faculty advisor will encourage and mentor the student through the process of preparing presentations for the A&S student symposium in the Spring. This seminar could be cross-listed from within our current curriculum.