Requirements

Requirements for a Minor

The African-American studies minor is an interdisciplinary program requiring twenty-seven (27) credits drawn from a combination of disciplines – anthropology, economics, English, geography, history, music, political science, and sociology.

  1. African-American Core Courses
    12 credits required from the following:
    • AAS 141H/HSTA 141H Introduction to African American Studies
    • AAS 342H/HSTA 342H African American History to 1865
    • AAS 343H/HSTA 343H African American History Since 1865
    • AAS 345/HSTA 345 The Black Radical Tradition (includes capstone paper)
    6 credits required from the following:
    • AAS 195 Special Topics
    • AAS 208HSTR 208H Discovering Africa
    • AAS 260/NAS 260 African Americans and Native Americans
    • AAS 262/HSTA 262 Abolitionism: The First Civil Rights Movement
    • AAS 295 Special Topics
    • AAS 372 African American Identity
    • AAS 347/HSTA 347 African American Religious Experience
    • AAS 395 Special Topics
    • AAS 417/HSTA 417 Prayer and Civil Rights
    • AAS/HSTA 420 America Divided, 1848-1865
    • AAS 493 Omnibus
    • AAS 495 Special Topics
  2. Electives
    9 credits required from at least two of the following fields:
      History
    • HSTR 262H Islamic Civilization: The Classical Age
    • HSTA 330 Topics in 20th Century U.S. History
    • HSTA 344 African American Struggle for Equality
    • HSTA 361H The American South: From Slavery to Civil Rights
    • HSTA 382H History of American Law
    • HSTR 388H Africa to 1880
    • HSTR 409 History of Southern Africa
    • HSTR 439H Colonial and Independent Africa
    • HSTA 418 Women and Slavery
    • HSTA 419 Southern Women in Black and White
      Music
    • MUS 132L History of Jazz
      Sociology
    • SOCI 220S Race, Gender and Class
    • SOCI 325 Social Stratification
    • SOCI 443 Sociology of Poverty
      English
    • LIT 343 African-American Literature
    • LIT 420 Topics in Critical Theory: Race and Identity
      Anthropology
    • ANTH 102S Race and Minorities
    • ANTH 329S Social Change in Non-Western Societies
    • ANTH 330 Peoples of Africa
  3. Exit Interview
    All minors must meet with the AAS coordinator to discuss their experience and primary learning from the program prior to graduation.
  4. Honors Designation
    Students may elect to achieve an honors designation by writing a twenty-five-page research paper in which they develop an argument based on their class learning about a fundamental problem in the study of the African-American experience as part of a three-credit independent study.