NOTE: Requirements may differ according to date of enrollment.
Required: 21 credit hours from the following. Students declaring an African American Studies minor may use past courses retroactively after consultation with the coordinator.
Required Course (3 credit hours):
INDS/HIST 359 Introduction to Ethnicity and Race
Core Courses (9 credit hours):
INDS 106 Introduction to African American Studies
HIST 333 African American History to 1877
or
HIST 334 African American History since 1877
ENGL/INDS 240 Intro. to African American Literature and Culture
Electives (6 credit hours - two courses; one in each of two disciplines; must not include a course that has been used for core course credit):
AMST 210 American Popular and Mass Cultures (with approval of the coordinator)
ANTH 322 Anthropology of Africa
ANTH 324 Anthropology of the Caribbean
COMM 359 Special Topics in Media (with approval of coordinator)
COMM 451 Radio Documentaries (with approval of coordinator)
COMM 452 Video/Film Documentaries I (with approval of coordinator)
COMM 465 Intercultural Communication (with approval of coordinator)
DANC 231 African Caribbean Dance
EDU 305/313 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the Classroom and Field Experience
(with approval of coordinator)
ENGL 296 American Identities (under consideration by committee)
ENGL 299/ Special Topics (with approval of coordinator)
399/499
ENGL/WOST 340 Black Women Writers
ENGL 341 Harlem Renaissance
ENGL 342 African American Autobiography
ENGL 344 Contemporary Multicultural American Literature (under consideration
by committee)
HIST 272 African History to 1880
HIST 273 African History Since 1880
HIST 299/399 Special Topics (with approval of coordinator)
HIST 328 Civil War Era
HIST 333 African American History to 1877
HIST 334 African American History since 1877
HIST 336 African American Women's History
HIST 344 African American Social Thought
HIST 351 Defining America (with approval of coordinator)
HIST 372 Africa in the Nineteenth Century
HIST 387 Comparative Slave Societies
LANG 400 Special Topics (with approval of coordinator)
MUS 265 History of Jazz
MUS 267 African American Music
MUS 361 Jazz Improvisation (with approval of coordinator)
MUS 362 Jazz Theory (with approval of coordinator)
MUS 363 Jazz Pedagogy (with approval of coordinator)
POLI 329 Topics in American Politics
POLI 334 African Politics
POLI 371 Civil Rights and Liberties
SOC 201 Social Problems (with approval of coordinator)
SOC 316 Minority Groups (with approval of coordinator)
SOC 360 Criminal Justice System (with approval of coordinator)
SOC 366 Sociology of Corrections (with approval of coordinator)
WOST 377 Special Topics (with approval of coordinator)
Capstone Course (3 credit hours):
INDS 402 Independent Study: African American Topics
or
INDS 491 African American Studies Internship: African American Organization