Africana Studies (Minor)

Minor Requirements

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

Required Course (4 credits)

Complete one required course chosen from the following list.

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

Additional Courses (8 credits)

• Complete two additional courses in the Africana Studies program, courses with AST prefix (see the above list), or from the list below of approved elective courses.
• At least one of these elective courses must be at the advanced 300-level.

HIST 118	Latin American History	4
HIST 210	African American Experience	4
HIST 213	Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History	4
HIST 214	African Diaspora	4
HIST 217	Caribbean History	4
HIST 240	The Atlantic World 1500-1800	4
LTWR 230	Postcolonial Film	4
LTWR 235	Identity and Race in 19th Century American Literature	4
LTWR 327	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 242	Colonial & Postcolonial Politics of Africa	4
POLS 386	Prisons in Political Thought	4
RGS 101/WGSS 101	Identity and Power	4
RGS 102	Introduction to Migration Studies	4
RGS 355	Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies Capstone Project
SOCI 347	Antiracism and Social Justice	4

Africana Studies Courses (8 credits)

Complete two additional Africana Studies courses; each with an AST prefix and chosen from the list below.

AST 101	Introduction to Africana Studies	4
AST 170/LTWR 170	Introduction to 21st Century Global Literature	4
AST 176/LTWR 176	African American Fiction	4
AST 202	Introduction to Black Popular Culture	4
AST 210/WGSS 210	Black Women, Gender, and Feminism(s)	4
AST 232/SOCI 232/WGSS 232	Race, Gender & Health	4
AST 234/POLS 234	African American Political Thought in Theory, Novels, and Film	4
AST 241/LTWR 241/WGSS 241	Contemporary Black Women Writers	4
AST 249/SOCI 249	Inequalities	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	Hip Hop Pedagogy: Learning, Teaching, and Working through the Histories, Theories, and Practices of Hip Hop	4
AST 344/SOCI 344/WGSS 344	Poetry for the People: Black Queer Poets	4
AST 350	Independent Study	4
AST 355	Senior Thesis	4
AST 365/SOCI 365/WGSS 365	Intimate Family Violence: A Multicultural Perspective	4
AST 370	Internship	4
AST 375/HIST 354/WGSS 375	Behind the Veil: Simmons Black Oral History Project	4