AFAM at Virginia Commonwealth University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate AFAM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 38 AFAM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 35 more AFAM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on AFAM, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in AFAM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at AFAM 363

  1. ENGL 295Introduction to Creative Writing
  2. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature
  3. AFAM 363African Literature

• 3 courses deep, ending at AFAM 494

  1. AFAM 310Black Health Matters: Social Determinants of Health in the African American Community
  2. AFAM 394Service-learning in African American Health
  3. AFAM 494Internship in African American Health

• 2 courses deep, ending at AFAM 204

  1. INTL 200Introduction to African Societies
  2. AFAM 204Africa in Transition

• 2 courses deep, ending at AFAM 322

  1. PSYC 101Introduction to Psychology
  2. AFAM 322Personality and Behavior of the African American

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for AFAM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under AFAM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

AFAM does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the VCU campus feed.