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Civil Rights Regulations Statement
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Bachelor of Arts Degree
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- AMST - American Studies
- ARAB - Arabic
- ARTH - Art History
- ARTS - Studio Art
- ASN - Asian Studies
- BICH - Biochemistry
- BIO - Biology
- BLST - Black Studies
- BOSP - Barack Obama Scholars Program
- CHEM - Chemistry
- CHIN - Chinese Studies
- COGS - Cognitive Science
- CWP - College Writing Program
- COMP - Computer Science
- CORE - Core Program
- CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
- CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
- DWA - Diplomacy & World Affairs
- ECON - Economics
- EDUC - Education
- ENGL - English
- FREN - French
- FYS - First Year Seminars
- GEO - Geology
- GERM - German
- GRK - Greek
- GWSS - Gender Women and Sexuality Studies
- HIST - History
- INT - Internships
- JAPN - Japanese Studies
- KINE - Kinesiology
- LANG - Language
- 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
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2026-2027 Catalog > Course Descriptions > BLST - Black Studies

BLST - Black Studies

BLST 101 Introduction to Black Studies
BLST 142 Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality
BLST 180 Introduction to African History: Africa and the Making of the Modern World
BLST 195 Topics in Black Studies
BLST 197 Independent Study
BLST 201 Black Protest Rhetorics
BLST 207 African American History: Black Americans and the Making of the Nation
BLST 208 The Great Migration and the Transformation of American Culture
BLST 210 African American History II: Black American Culture and Politics, 1865-1965
BLST 212 Fueling the Green Energy Revolution: The New Scramble for Africa
BLST 218 Black Ecological Thought
BLST 224 James Baldwin in Conversation
BLST 230 Black Britain
BLST 240 Black Women Write Social Justice
BLST 247 The Black Athlete: Race and Sports in American History
BLST 256 Race Women: African American Women's Protest Culture
BLST 263 Du Boisian Social Theory and Analysis
BLST 268 Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History
BLST 293 Directed Research
BLST 295 Topics in Black Studies
BLST 297 Independent Study
BLST 315 Black Feminist Movements
BLST 318 Waywardness, Fugitivity, and the Anarchism of Blackness
BLST 329 Black Queer Thought
BLST 343 Black Ecology Collaboratory
BLST 346 19th Century African American Literature
BLST 360 Toni Morrison and U.S. Imaginative Production
BLST 367 Beyond the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Law in American History
BLST 376 Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory
BLST 377 Afrofuturism
BLST 381 Racial Capitalism: Reading Cedric Robinson
BLST 388 Africa and the Cold War
BLST 393 Junior Directed Research
BLST 395 Special Topics in Black Studies
BLST 397 Independent Study
BLST 490 Black Studies Senior Seminar
BLST 493 Senior Comps Directed Research
BLST 497 Independent Study
BLST 499 Honors Independent Study

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