Department website: https://www.cerritos.edu/black-africana-studies/default.htm

CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT

The Black/Africana Studies Certificate of Achievement is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study a precise scope of the history, culture, aesthetics, and social justice traditions of Black people – in and outside of the United States. Major themes highlighted in the curriculum are social justice, cultural resistance, and artistic production. 

Selected courses in this certificate program satisfy the ethnic studies course requirement for transfer to a CSU and UC. The goals and objectives of this program are to provide students with the opportunity to develop cultural competence and cross-cultural skills. This program will also prepare students for employment in multicultural environments and with underrepresented, ethnically-diverse populations.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a broad understanding of the history, culture, and social justice traditions of Black people in the United States and world
• Understand critical Afrocentric perspectives on classism, racism, and other forms of oppression
• Articulate key aspects of the Black aesthetic and Black artistic production
• Recognize significant historical and emerging Black social and racial justice movements and their transformative impact on society and the world

Program Requirements

Course List

Code Number	Course Title	Units
Required Courses
AFRS 100	Introduction to Black/Africana Studies	3.0
ENGL C1000	Academic Reading and Writing	4.0-4.5
or ENGL C1000E	Academic Reading and Writing
LIST A: Select one course from the following area (3 Units)		3.0
AFRS 103	The History of the Black World I: From Ancient Africa to 1888 (3)
AFRS 104	The History of the Black World II: From 1888 to the Present (3)
LIST B: Select two course from the following area (6 Units)		6.0
AFRS 101	Theories and Methods in Black/Africana Studies (3)
AFRS 106	Africana Political Thought (3)
AFRS 107	Black Womanist & Feminist Thought (3)
AFRS 108	Black Politics: Social and Racial Justice Movements (3)
AFRS 111	The Rhetoric of Black Resistance (3)
AFRS 113	Introduction to Ethnic Studies (3)
AFRS 215	Hip-Hop as Cultural Expression (3)
AFRS 220	African Gender Systems (3)
AFRS 222	African Spirituality (3)
AFRS 225	African American Ebonics (3)
AFRS 230	Black Characters in Japanese Anime and Manga (3)
Total Units		16-16.5