As a prospective international first-year student, you are required to submit all of the following materials in order to be considered for admission:
Completed UMass Boston online admission application
An official high school record, leaving certificate and/or graduation examination results or their notarized copies. All documents in foreign languages must be translated by a certified professional. Records must be sent directly from the institution to be considered official.
Academic recommendation letter (from a school-based counselor and/or teacher)
500-word essay
Test scores
All non-native speakers of English must demonstrate English language proficiency. Students can demonstrate proficiency by submitting the following exams:
TOEFL (79+)
IELTS (6.0+)
SAT (Evidence Based Reading & Writing (ERWS) component of 480+)
ACT (Reading and English component scores totaling 34)
Duolingo English Test (100+)
UMass Boston must receive your official test scores directly from the testing agency. You may request scores be sent to UMass Boston at the time you register for the test. If you have already taken the test, you may request official scores by contacting the College Board, ACT, TOEFL, IETLS or Duolingo directly.
The UMass Boston SAT/TOEFL and IELTS code is 3924 and the ACT code is 1925.
The field of Africana Studies documents and disseminates a specialized body of knowledge about Africa, the Caribbean and especially the United States. We focus on the experiences of the African Diasporas – the global dispersion of peoples of African descent – its history, literature, culture, society, and contributions worldwide. Students are prepared for careers relevant to the development of the African world community and to the rectification of global social ills created by individual and institutional racism. Students approach the field and subject matter from a rigorous curriculum rooted in the social and cultural history of Peoples of Africa and the Africa Diaspora, and designed to provide practical solutions to challenges facing them from both a local and global context.
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Courses
AFRSTY 100 - Introduction to African-American Literature
AFRSTY 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies
AFRSTY 102 - The History of African-American Education
AFRSTY 108 - African-American Social Movements
AFRSTY 110 - African-American History I
AFRSTY 111 - African-American History II
AFRSTY 115G - Black Consciousness
AFRSTY 150 - African Images in Literature
AFRSTY 220 - Free and Slave in the New World, 1492-1888
AFRSTY 225 - The Origins of Caribbean Civilizations
AFRSTY 230 - African-American Women’s History
AFRSTY 250 - The Civil Rights Movement
AFRSTY 260L - African-American Folklore
AFRSTY 270 - The African-American Image on Stage, Screen and Television
AFRSTY 292G - African Caribbean Literature
AFRSTY 301 - African-American Intellectual Thought
AFRSTY 302 - Martin and Malcolm X
AFRSTY 310 - Modern Caribbean Society
AFRSTY 320 - Problems in Urban Education
AFRSTY 335 - African-American nationalism before Garvey
AFRSTY 340 - Free African American in the Era of Slavery
AFRSTY 350L - Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity
AFRSTY 352L - Harlem Renaissance
AFRSTY 355L - Black Popular Culture
AFRSTY 410 - African-American Urban Politics
AFRSTY 420 - Race, Class, and Political Modernization
AFRSTY 430 - Race and the American Legal System
AFRSTY 440 - Post-Colonial Literature: Africa and the Caribbean
AFRSTY 478 - Independent Study
AFRSTY 479 - Independent Study
AFRSTY 480 - Topics in Africana Studies
AFRSTY 498 - Africana Studies Honors Seminar I
AFRSTY 499 - Africana Studies Honors Seminar II
AFRSTY 555 - African-American History II
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