Africana Studies (Minor)

The Africana Studies minor consists of 5 courses (20 semester hours) of coursework. Students in the minor are required to complete the following program of study:

Minor Requirements

Africana Studies Courses

Complete TWO Additional Africana Studies Courses (8 credit hours) in the program each with an AST prefix (see list below).

AST 170/ LTWR 170	Introduction to 21st Century Global Literature	4
AST 176	African American Fiction	4
AST 210/WGSS 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
AST 232/SOCI 232/WGSS 232	Race, Gender & Health	4
AST 240	Black Intellectuals and Entrepreneurs	4
AST 245	Tweeting Into the Future: Race, Technology & Social Media	4
AST 249/SOCI 249	Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender in Comparative Settings	4
AST 274/ LTWR 274	Literature of the Jazz Age	4
AST 275/HIST 275	The Black Freedom Movement: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter	4
AST 307	Black History at the Movies	4
AST 313	The Black Struggle for Schooling in the The United States	4
AST 317	Toni Morrison Seminar	4
AST 350	Independent Study	4
AST 355	Senior Thesis	4
AST 365/SOCI 365/WGSS 365	Intimate Family Violence	4
AST 370	Internship	Variable
AST 375/AST 575	Behind the Veil: Simmons Oral History Project	4

 

Additional Courses

Complete TWO additional Courses (8 credit hours) in the Africana Studies program (AST prefix- see list above) or from the list of approved elective courses (see list below). At least one of the elective courses needs to be at the advanced 300-level.

COMM 268	Human Rights in South Africa	4
HIST 118	Topics in Latin American History	4
HIST 210	African American Experience	4
HIST 213	Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History	4
HIST 240	The Atlantic World 1500-1800	4
LTWR 170	Introduction to 21st Century Global Literature	4
LTWR 176	African American Fiction	4
LTWR 230	Postcolonial Film	4
LTWR 235	Identity and Race in 19th Century American Literature	4
LTWR 274/ AST 274	Literature of the Jazz Age	4
LTWR 317/ENGL 517/ AST 317	Toni Morrison Seminar	4
LTWR 327/LTWR 527	Psychoanalysis, Race and Sexuality	4
POLS 215	The Politics of Exclusion	4
POLS 226	State and Local Politics	4
POLS 228	The War on Drugs	3
POLS 234/AST 234	African American Political Thought in Theory, Novels, and Film	4
POLS 242	Colonial & Postcolonial Politics of Africa	4
RGS 101/RGS 101	Identity and Power	4
RGS 102	Introduction to Migration Studies	4
SOCI 232/AST 232/WGSS 232	Race, Gender & Health	4
SOCI 249	Inequalities	4
SOCI 300/SOCI 500	Special Topics: Race Theory	4
SOCI 347	Antiracism and Social Justice	4
SOCI 348	Re-envisioning the Third World	4
SOCI 365	Intimate Family Violence	4
WGSS 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4

 

Required Course

Complete ONE of the following courses (4 credit hours).

AST 101	Introduction to Africana Studies	4
	OR
AST 202	Introduction to Black Popular Culture	4