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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
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
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 111
Topics in Jazz History
BLST 116
African American Music: From Slavery to the Present
BLST 142
Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality
BLST 193
Directed Research
BLST 195
Topics in Black Studies
BLST 197
Independent Study
BLST 201
Black Protest Rhetorics
BLST 207
African American History I: Black Americans and the Making of the Nation
BLST 208
African American History II: The Great Migration and the Transformation of American Culture
BLST 215
Educating African America
BLST 218
Black Ecological Thought
BLST 233
African Political Thought
BLST 234
Southern African Politics
BLST 240
Black Women Write Social Justice
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
Black Magic
BLST 263
Du Boisian Social Theory and Analysis
BLST 268
Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History
BLST 277
Women and Community Health
BLST 293
Directed Research
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 315
Black Feminist Movements
BLST 318
Waywardness, Fugitivity, and the Anarchism of Blackness
BLST 319
Toni Morrison
BLST 320
Critical Race Theory in Education
BLST 343
Black Ecology Collaboratory
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 393
Directed Research
BLST 395
Special Topics in Black Studies
BLST 397
Independent Study
BLST 490
Black Studies Senior Seminar
BLST 497
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