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Minor in African American & Black Diaspora Studies

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Requirements

The minor requires a total of six 4-unit courses, completed with a grade of C or higher. Students are allowed to count two AA courses towards another concentration. Asterisk indicates Hub course. Additional course numbers listed for cross-listed courses.

Three required courses:

  • CAS AA 112/HI 112 Black Power in the Classroom: The History of Black Studies*
  • CAS AA 207/SO 207 A1 Sociology of Race and Ethnicity*
  • CAS AA 371/HI 298 African American History*

Three elective courses:

  • Three additional courses in African American Studies (AA) or approved electives such as those in the list below. Asterisk indicates Hub course. Additional course numbers listed for cross-listed courses.

Elective Courses

  • CAS AA 100 Topics in African American Studies
  • CAS AA 103/EN 129 Introduction to African American Literature*
  • CAS AA 113/HI 113 Introduction to Antiracism*
  • CAS AA 114/AH 114 Kongo to Cuba: Art, Exchange, and Self-Determination in Africa and Latin America*
  • CAS AA 132/EN 132 Write Back Soon: Blackness and the Prison*
  • CAS AA 200 Topics in African American Studies
  • CAS AA 210 American Minstrelsy
  • CAS AA 215/AH 215 Arts of Africa and Its Diaspora*
  • CAS AA 225 Topics in Religion and Music
  • CAS AA 234 African Americans in Global Perspective: Slavery and the Creation of Race*
  • CAS AA 270/EN 395/WS 270 Race, Sex, and Science Fiction*
  • CAS AA 294/RN 294 Religion and Black Popular Music
  • CAS AA 296/RN 296 Religion and Hip Hop*
  • CAS AA 297/HI 297/WS 297 African American Women’s History
  • CAS AA 300 Topics in African American Studies
  • CAS AA 303 African Americans and the Humanities
  • CAS AA 304/EN 370 Introduction to African American Women Writers*
  • CAS AA 305/EN 360 Toni Morrison’s American Times*
  • CAS AA 306E Experiencing Cuba: History, Culture, and Politics
  • CAS AA 308 Race and Politics*
  • CAS AA 309 African American History in Global and Comparative Perspective
  • CAS AA 310/HI 299 Civil Rights History*
  • CAS AA 311 African American Religious History
  • CAS AA 411 Race, Memory, and Diaspora in US Popular Music*
  • CAS AA 430 Black American Cinema*
  • CAS AA 313/PO 313 The Politics and Policy of HBO’s The Wire*
  • CAS AA 316 African Diaspora Arts in the Americas
  • CAS AA 319 Race and the Politics of Criminal Justice Policy*
  • CAS AA 335/SO 335/WS 335 Sociology of Race, Class & Gender*
  • CAS AA 350 Resistance, Revolution, and Slavery in African American Literature
  • CAS AA 363/EC 363 Race and the Development of the American Economy: A Global Perspective*
  • CAS AA 380/HI 360 European Dimensions of the Black Diaspora
  • CAS AA 382/HI 349/RN 382 History of Religion in Pre-Colonial Africa*
  • CAS AA 383 African Diaspora Religions
  • CAS AA 385 Atlantic History*
  • CAS AA 388/HI 361 Transnational Black Radicalism from the 19th Century to the Present*
  • CAS AA 390 Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
  • CAS AA 395/HI 352/IR 394 Power, Leadership, and Governance in Africa and the Caribbean
  • CAS AA 396/HI 353 Atlantic Africa and the Slave Trade
  • CAS AA 400 Topics in African American Studies
  • CAS AA 404/SO 404 Seminar: The Family
  • CAS AA 408/SO 408 Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations
  • CAS AA 416/RN 416 Religion, Race, and Climate Change
  • CAS AA 420/EN 371 African American and Asian American Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspective*
  • CAS AA 459 Reparations, Restitution, Restorative Justice for Slavery and Jim Crow Segregation: The Debate
  • CAS AA 477 Critical Studies: Black Diaspora Theory and Practice*
  • CAS AA 489/HI 489 The African Diaspora in the Americas
  • CAS AA 490/HI 490 Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space
  • CAS AA 493 Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
  • CAS AA 500 Topics in African American Studies
  • CAS AA 501 Topics in African American Literature
  • CAS AA 502 Topics in African American Literature
  • CAS AA 507/EN 377 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance*
  • CAS AA 514/HI 584 Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World*
  • CAS AA 517/PO 517 Urban Politics and Policy*
  • CAS AA 519 Inequality and American Politics*
  • CAS AA 523 Race, Ethnicity, and Childhood in US History*
  • CAS AA 538 Studies in West Indian Literature: Caribbean Poetry
  • CAS AA 571/AH 571 African American Art
  • CAS AA 580/HI 580 The History of Racial Thought
  • CAS AA 588/HI 588 Women, Power, and Culture in Africa
  • CAS AA 590/HI 590 The World and the West
  • CAS AA 591/EN 537 Black Thought: Literary and Cultural Criticism in the African Diaspora
  • CAS EC 325 The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination in the United States
  • CAS EN 483 Critical Studies in Literature and Ethnicity
  • CAS HI 339 A History of the Present: The United States since 1968
  • CAS HI 505 The American South in History, Literature, and Film
  • CAS IR 510 Comparative Immigration and Racial Politics
  • CAS PH 436 Gender, Race, and Science
  • CFA MH 403 Latinos Making Music in the United States*
  • CFA MH 431 Topics in World Music: Music & Social Protest
  • CFA MH 432 Jazz Music*
  • CFA MH 435 Music of Africa

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