2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog [In Progress]
Africana Studies Minor
Requirements
Students seeking a minor in Africana Studies are required to complete a minimum of 20 credit hours.
Core Courses (10+ credits)
All minors will be required to complete three core courses for a total of nine credit hours in addition to the practicum (1 to 6 credits):
- AAA 200 - Understanding Africa (3 credits)
- AAA 201 - Introduction to African American Studies (3 credits)
- AAA 302 - African Diaspora (3 credits)
- AAA 490 - Practicum: Career-Service in Community Building (1 to 6 credits)
Elective Courses (5+ credits)
PLUS a minimum of two electives (5+ credits) from the following:
- AAA 231 - Early African American Literature (3 credits)
- AAA 232 - Modern African American Literature (3 credits)
- AAA 300 - U.S. - Africa Relations (3 credits)
- AAA 319 - African Politics (3 credits)
- AAA 333 - Study Abroad - African/African American Studies (1 to 6 credits)
- AAA 337 - Contemporary Black Literature (3 credits)
- AAA 340 - African American Culture and Social Thought (3 credits)
- AAA 343 - Black Feminist Thought (3 credits)
- AAA 352 - Black Women's Culture and Communities (3 credits)
- AAA 357/HST 357 - The Black Athlete in History (3 credits)
- AAA 380 - Special Topics in African/African American Studies (1 to 3 credits)
- AAA 399 - Independent Readings (1 to 3 credits)
- AAA 499 - Independent Study and Research (1 to 4 credits)
- ARA 202 - Intermediate Arabic II: Language and Culture (4 credits)
- FRE 202 - Intermediate French II: Language and Culture (4 credits)
- GPY 327 - Place, Race and Ethnicity (3 credits)
- GPY 351 - Geography of Africa (3 credits)
- INT 320 - Voices of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (3 credits)
- HST 314 - African American History (3 credits)
- HST 316 - U.S. Civil Rights Movement History (3 credits)
- HST 335 - Africa Before 1870 (3 credits)
- HST 336 - Africa After 1870 (3 credits)
- HST 372 - From Slavery to Freedom (3 credits)
- SOC 313 - Race and Ethnicity (3 credits)
- SOC 333 - Sociology of the Civil Rights Movement (3 credits)