Minor Requirements

The Black Studies minor is a five-course, 20-unit program consisting of one required core class (BLST 110); one elective from each interdisciplinary cluster (expressive forms, historical perspectives, and politics and theory (three courses /12 units); and one additional elective chosen from the approved Black Studies courses.

Coursework

Note: No more than three courses from one department can be counted toward the minor.

Required Core Course

BLST 110

Introduction to Black Studies

4 units

Black Expressive Forms

One course from this category.

BLST 240/AMST 240	African American Women Writers	4 units
BLST 252/MAC 252	African-American Film: 1967–Present	4 units
BLST 325/AMST 325	Toni Morrison and African-American Self-Fashioning	4 units
AMST 346/ENGL 346	Beautiful Democracy: 19th Century African American Literature	4 units
CTSJ 280	Rastafari	4 units
ENGL 142	Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality	4 units
ENGL 377	Literature and Other Arts	4 units
MUSC 104	Music of Africa and the Middle East	4 units
MUSC 111	Topics in Jazz History	4 units
RELS 245/BLST 245	African American Religious Traditions	4 units

Historical Perspectives

One course from this category.

BLST 242/AMST 242	The Great Migration	4 units
BLST 252/MAC 252	African-American Film: 1967–Present	4 units
BLST 268/AMST 268	Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History	4 units
BLST 376/AMST 376	Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory	4 units
AMST 310	The American South	4 units
HIST 213	19th Century Black Activism for Abolition and Equality	4 units
HIST 309	Slavery in the Antebellum South	4 units
HIST 312	Race, Rights, and Revolution in the Atlantic World	4 units

Politics and Theory

One course from this category.

BLST 258/POLS 258	Theoretical Accounts of Racism	4 units
BLST 352/POLS 352	Black Political Thought	4 units
BLST 355/POLS 355	Critical Fanonism	4 units
AMST 295	Topics in American Studies	4 units
AMST 296/DWA 287	Transnational Liberation: Black Radical Thought in the Middle East and North Africa	4 units
CTSJ 386	Critical Blackness	4 units
DWA 233/BLST 233	African Politics	4 units
DWA 234/BLST 234	South African Politics	4 units
POLS 258/BLST 258	Theoretical Accounts of Racism	4 units
POLS 347	Race and Law	4 units

Additional Electives

One course either from this category or the above categories.

CTSJ 255	Women of Color	4 units
CTSJ 261	Race, Gender, Class, and the Media	4 units
CTSJ 286	Whiteness	4 units
CTSJ 335	Queer of Color Critique	4 units
DWA 335	Junior Seminar: Theories of Revolution from Africa and the African Diaspora	4 units
EDUC 215	Educating African America	4 units
EDUC 320	Critical Race Theory in Education	4 units
ENGL 341	Race, Law, and Literature	4 units
HIST 277	Women and Community Health	4 units
PHIL 353	Health and Social Justice	4 units
POLS 206	Race and American Politics	4 units
SOC 250	Race and Ethnicity in American Society	4 units