Undergraduate Programs
Minors
Africana Studies
Minor in Africana Studies
The minor requires 15 credit hours in Africana Studies. All minors must take A140 Introduction to African and African Diaspora Studies. Additionally, they must take either A200 Research methods in African and African Diaspora Studies or A306 Globalization, Struggle and Empowerment in the African Diaspora. The remaining 9 credit hours may be selected from a list of Africana Studies program or Africana Studies related elective courses offered by various Liberal Arts departments. If students wish to do so, they can concentrate their 9 credits of coursework in one of three areas: Africa; Latin America & the Caribbean; or North America.
The minor in Africana Studies has four distinct, yet interrelated, objectives. First, Africana Studies offers instruction in a wide range of empirical research and scholarship related to the life and culture of peoples who comprise the African diaspora. Second, it provides an additional academic base of students who wish to pursue graduate or professional training in the arts and humanities, behavioral and social sciences, law, medicine, education, and public administration. Third, Africana Studies presents important information that will be useful to both students and the larger public about the necessity and tools for acquiring political and economic power for successful community development. Finally, it provides students with a crucial global perspective that will prepare them to live successfully in a multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural world.
Requirements The minor in Africana Studies requires 15 credit hours, distributed as follows:
Required Courses (9 cr.)
Elective Courses (6 cr.)
Students may select up to 6 credit hours from the following courses offered by the Africana Studies Program or SLA departments listed.
Department Electives
- ANTH E300 African American Culture
- NELC A131-A132 Beginning Arabic I and II
- ENG L370 Black American Writing
- ENG L406 Topics in African American Literature
- FOLK F394 Afro-American Folklore
- GEOG G424 Geography of Africa
- HIST E432 History of Africa II
- MUS M393 History of Jazz
- MUS M394 Black Music in America
- SOC R461 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SPAN S117-S118 Basic Spanish
- WOST W300 Black Women Writers