Global African Studies Minor

Olúfémi Táíwò, PhD, Director

Objectives

The global African studies minor is designed to educate students about the African World, globally conceived. On one hand, it takes the African American experience as the anchor. On the other, it enables students to acquire knowledge of the African World outside the United States, including the rest of the “New World” from Canada to Chile and all points in-between, as well as Africa, and wherever else in the world the African presence is to be found.

For further information, please contact the director or check the website at seattleu.edu/artsci/GASP.

Requirements

In order to earn a minor in global African studies, students must complete 35 credits with a grade point average of 2.00, including:

Required Course:

GAST 401 - Global African Studies Colloquium

Choose 15 credits from the following:

(see departmental listings for non-GAST course descriptions )

ENGL 120 - Introduction to Literature (only sections identified as meeting global African studies minor requirements)
GAST 200 - Introduction to Global African Studies
GAST 480 - Interdisciplinary
GAST 481 - Interdisciplinary
GAST 482 - Interdisciplinary
GAST 483 - Interdisciplinary
HIST 121 - Studies in Modern Civilization (only sections identified as meeting global African studies minor requirements)*
PHIL 220 - Philosophy of the Human Person (only sections identified as meeting global African studies minor requirements)
Core Social Science II course, from any of the following disciplines: ANTH, PLSC, SOCL; 200-level (see course offerings ) (only sections identified as meeting global African studies minor requirements)
Core Interdisciplinary course [480-483] identified as meeting global African studies colloquium requirements

NOTE:

*Students in the College of Arts and Sciences take HIST 120 for core; this course satisfies their additional college requirement in history.

Courses selected for the minor in Global African Studies may include those which fulfill university core or elective requirements and those taken to fulfill a major.

Choose 15 credits from the following:

One course must be in an African language, including French and Spanish.

(see departmental listings for non-GAST course descriptions )