International students applying to Clark must submit their applications through the Common Application. Official transcripts covering the student’s prior three (full) years of education must be submitted by the student’s school. Two letters of recommendation are required, one from an academic teacher and one from a school counselor.
English Requirements
To apply to a School of Professional Studies Bachelor of Science degree program, please submit the following:
Completed online application
Personal essay
$75 non-refundable application fee (international students only)
Official high school transcript or equivalent (unless high school completion is noted on a college transcript)
In lieu of a high school transcript, transfer students can submit an official copy of their domestic college transcript in combination with our Attestation Form. This will waive the need for a high school transcript submission.)
English proficiency exam scores. Required for international applicants whose native language is not English: TOEFL 80 | IELTS 6.5 | PTE 51.
Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the life of people of African ancestry in Africa and the African Diaspora (especially the U.S. and Caribbean). In this vein, those who concentrate in Africana Studies approach topics, such as human rights, environmental degradation and renewal, democracy, revolution, and bioethics using a multidisciplinary lens. Our concentration prepares students with a cultural, political, social, and geographical awareness of the ways people of African descent in the diaspora and on the continent have lived, worked, played, and fought for self-definition. As Africa continues to be a point of economic interest, political conflict, and environmental activism, the study of the continent and those of African ancestry all over the globe remains central to understanding the modern world.
Because Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary concentration, its courses approach the lives of African people and those in the diaspora from a variety of perspectives and in different periods of time. Such interdisciplinarity is its strength, and students who take courses in Africana Studies will develop a deep understanding and appreciation for the culture, politics, art, and history of those of African ancestry living in Africa, North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Core Courses
Students must complete both a 100-level survey course in African American history and a 100-level survey course in African American literature.
HIST 112 - African American History to 1865
HIST 114 - African-American History, 1865-Present
Select 1 Literature course:
ENG 182 - African American Literature I
ENG 183 - African American Literature II
Elective Courses
Elective Courses carrying the Africana Studies attribute are offered through multiple departments and academic programs.*Always check the course grid for new Africana Studies courses each semester.
Elective courses offered within the previous 2 Academic Years include:
ARTH 156 - African Art and Architecture
ARTH 220 - Sub-Saharan African Art: Challenges of Evidence, Interpretation, Preservation & Ownership
CMLT 208 - Caribbean Women’s Fiction
EDUC 152 - Complexities of Urban Schooling
EDUC 254 - Education in Film: Media Representations of Race, Class, Gender & Schooling
GEOG 274 - Africa’s Development in Global Context
EDUC 255 - Ethnography at School
EDUC 281 - Critical Pedagogies
ENG 182 - African American Literature I
ENG 293 - Special Topics in African American Literature
FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film
FREN 164 - Haiti and the French Antilles
FREN 249 - The French-Speaking World In the 21st Century
HIST 044 - Picking up the Gun: A History of Violence in African American Social and Political Movements
HIST 116 - Pre-Colonial African History
HIST 206 - Africans in the Americas, 1500-1888
HIST 214 - The American Civil War
HIST 216 - Special Topics in US History
HIST 217 - Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, 1865-1877
HIST 220 - The Black Radical Tradition
HIST 222 - History of the American South
HIST 223 - The Civil Rights Movement
HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
HIST 239 - Special Topics Course in Global History
HIST 288 - Sem: Public History
HIST 293 - African American Social and Political Movements
ID 121 - Culture, Health, and Development: What Makes Us Sick?
ID 125 - Tales from the Far Side: Contemporary Dilemmas in Development
ID 223 - Educational Policy Issues in Developing Countries: Course Value
ID 257 - Sex and development: the intersection of sexuality, morality, and modernity
ID 265 - Global Issues in Education
ID 283 - Cultures in Exile
ID 291 - Refugees, Forced Migration, and Belonging
IDND 200 - Advanced Topics in Gender, Race, and Area Studies
MUSC 151 - Jazz History
PSCI 209 - Minority Political Behavior
PSYC 236 - Stigma and Health
SOC 160 - Global Cultures and Identities
SOC 252 - Race and American Society
SCRN 124 - History of International Cinema Since 1960
TA 133 - African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration
WGS 200 - Topics in Feminist Theory
Advanced Research Courses
Advanced Research Courses are 200-level courses which include a significant research component. *Courses from the Elective Course lists may fulfill the Advanced Research Course requirement with permission from the student’s adviser. Note that special topics or capstone courses in other departments may also carry an Africana Studies attribute when the topic is relevant to the concentration.
Suggested Advanced Research Courses include, but are not limited to:
ENG 293 - Special Topics in African American Literature
GEOG 274 - Africa’s Development in Global Context
HIST 216 - Special Topics in US History
HIST 235 - The Atlantic World
ID 265 - Global Issues in Education
SOC 252 - Race and American Society
