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AMST - American Studies
ARAB - Arabic
ARTH - Art History
ARTS - Studio Art
BICH - Biochemistry
BIO - Biology
BLST - Black Studies
BOSP - Barack Obama Scholars Program
CHEM - Chemistry
CHIN - Chinese Studies
COGS - Cognitive Science
COMP - Computer Science
CORE - Core Program
CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSP - Cultural Studies Program
CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
DWA - Diplomacy & World Affairs
EASN - East Asian Studies
ECON - Economics
EDUC - Education
ENGL - English
FREN - French
GEO - Geology
GERM - German
GRK - Greek
HIST - History
INT - Internships
JAPN - Japanese Studies
KINE - Kinesiology
LATN - Latin
LING - Linguistics
LLAS - Latino/a and Latin American Studies
MAC - Media Arts and Culture
MATH - Mathematics
MUSA - Music Applied Study
MUSC - Music
PHAC - Physical Activities
PHIL - Philosophy
PHYS - Physics
POLS - Politics
PSYC - Psychology
PUBH - Public Health
RELS - Religious Studies
RUSN - Russian
SOC - Sociology
SPAN - Spanish
THEA - Theater
UEP - Urban & Environmental Policy
WRD - Writing & Rhetoric
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Course Descriptions
> BLST - Black Studies
BLST - Black Studies
BLST 101
Introduction to Black Studies
BLST 104
Music of Africa and the Middle East
BLST 105
Topics in American Music
BLST 111
Topics in Jazz History
BLST 197
Independent Study
BLST 201
Black Protest Rhetorics
BLST 207
African American History
BLST 215
Educating African America
BLST 233
African Political Thought
BLST 234
Southern African Politics
BLST 242
The Great Migration
BLST 245
African American Religious Traditions
BLST 252
African-American Film: 1967-Present
BLST 255
Afro-Pessimism and Its Kin
BLST 256
Race Women: African American Women's Protest Culture
BLST 258
Theoretical Accounts of Racism
BLST 259
Race and Religion
BLST 268
Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History
BLST 277
Women and Community Health
BLST 295
Topics in Black Studies
BLST 297
Independent Study
BLST 302
Spirit Possession
BLST 309
Slavery in the Antebellum South
BLST 312
Race, Rights, and Revolution in the Atlantic World
BLST 320
Critical Race Theory in Education
BLST 346
Beautiful Democracy: 19th Century African American Literature
BLST 352
Black Political Thought
BLST 355
Critical Fanonism
BLST 375
Chattel Slavery and Its Afterlives
BLST 376
Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory
BLST 377
Afrofuturism
BLST 395
Special Topics in Black Studies
BLST 397
Independent Study
BLST 490
Black Studies Senior Seminar
BLST 497
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