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 5

Choose 15 credits from the following:

(see departmental listings for non-GAST course descriptions )

ENGL 120 - Introduction to Literature 5 (only sections identified as meeting global African studies minor requirements)
GAST 200 - Introduction to Global African Studies 5
GAST 480 - Interdisciplinary 5
GAST 481 - Interdisciplinary 5
GAST 482 - Interdisciplinary 5
GAST 483 - Interdisciplinary 5
HIST 121 - Studies in Modern Civilization 5 (only sections identified as meeting global African studies minor requirements)*
PHIL 220 - Philosophy of the Human Person 5 (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 )

ENGL 362 - African Literature 5
ENGL 382 - Modern African American Literature 5
ENGL 427 - African American Slave Narratives 5
ENGL 441 - International Women’s Writing 5
ENGL 474 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory 5
FREN courses in African language as approved by advisor
GAST 291 - Special Topics 5
GAST 292 - Special Topics 5
GAST 293 - Special Topics 5
GAST 301 - African History: Prehistory - 1500 5
GAST 303 - African History: 1800 - the Present 5
GAST 304 - African American History: the Beginning - 1877 5
GAST 305 - African American History: 1877 - 1954 5
GAST 402 - Slavery: Comparative Perspectives 5
GAST 403 - Blacks in the New World 5
GAST 404 - African Intellectual Heritage: Global Perspectives 5
GAST 405 - The Atlantic Slave Trade 5
GAST 406 - Islam in the Global African World 5
GAST 407 - Christianity in the Global African World 5
HIST 363 - African History: 1800 to the Present 5
HIST 366 - African American History: 1954-Present 5
HIST 375 - History of the Caribbean 5
PLSC 337 - Politics of Development 5
PLSC 338 - The Political Economy of Africa 5
SOCW 317 - Race and Ethnicity 5 or
SOCL 317 - Race and Ethnicity 5
SPAN courses in African language as approved by advisor
THRS 312 - African-American Religious Experience 5
Other courses as approved by program director