Africana Studies

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The Graduate Certificate (post-baccalaureate) in Africana Studies requires 18 credit hours of graduate level coursework and independent study. Within these 18 credit hours, nine credit hours must be taken outside the student's primary discipline, including Africana Studies graduate level courses cross-listed in Anthropology, Communication Studies, History, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Theater, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Three credit hours of independent graduate readings are also required. The student must be currently enrolled in a graduate degree program at SIUC or an individual holding a bachelor's degree and admitted to the Graduate School (non-declared major).