Minor Requirements

The Black Studies minor is a five-course, 20-unit program consisting of one required core class (BLST 101); 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

Required Core Course

BLST 101

Introduction to Black Studies

4 units

Expressive Forms

One course from this category.

BLST 302/RELS 302	Spirit Possession	4 units
BLST 346/ENGL 346	Beautiful Democracy: 19th Century African American Literature	4 units
CTSJ 280	Rastafari	4 units
CTSJ 330	Ballroom. Renaissance. Pose. Werk.	4 units
ENGL 142	Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality	4 units
ENGL 377	Afrofuturism	4 units
MUSC 104/BLST 104	Music of Africa and the Middle East	4 units
MUSC 105/BLST 105	Topics in American Music	4 units
MUSC 111/BLST 111	Topics in Jazz History	4 units
RELS 245/BLST 245	African American Religious Traditions	4 units

Students may also apply CTSJ 295 to the expressive forms cluster if they have enrolled in the "Black Popular Culture // The Black Digital Age" section of the course.

Students may also apply THEA 201 to the expressive forms cluster if they have enrolled in "The Black Arts Movement" section of the course.

Historical Perspectives

One course from this category.

BLST 242/AMST 242	The Great Migration	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
HIST 207/BLST 207	African American History	4 units
HIST 213	19th Century Black Activism for Abolition and Equality	4 units
HIST 309	Slavery in the Antebellum South	4 units

Politics and Theory

One course from this category.

BLST 258/POLS 258	Theoretical Accounts of Racism	4 units
BLST 352	Black Political Thought	4 units
CTSJ 386	Blackness and Anti-Blackness	4 units
DWA 233/BLST 233	African Political Thought	4 units
DWA 234/BLST 234	Southern African Politics	4 units
PHIL 321	Philosophy of James Baldwin	4 units
POLS 258/BLST 258	Theoretical Accounts of Racism	4 units
POLS 347	Race and Law	4 units

Students may apply CTSJ 295 to the politics and theory cluster if they have enrolled in the "Blackness, Gender, & Sexuality" section of the course.

Students may also apply CTSJ 395 to the politics and theory cluster if they have enrolled in the "Chattel Slavery and Its Afterlives" section of the course.

Additional Electives

One course either from this category or the above categories.

CTSJ 255	Women of Color Feminisms	4 units
DWA 335	Junior Seminar: Theories of Revolution from Africa and the African Diaspora	4 units
EDUC 215/BLST 215	Educating African America	4 units
EDUC 320/BLST 320	Critical Race Theory in Education	4 units
ENGL 341	Race, Law, and Literature	4 units
HIST 277/BLST 277	Women and Community Health	4 units
POLS 206	Race and American Politics	4 units
SOC 250	Race and Ethnicity in American Society	4 units
RELS 244	Islamophobia	4 units