African and African American Studies Minor

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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 4010 - Global African Studies Colloquium

Choose 15 credits:

Choose 15 credits approved by the director from modules I, II, and III of the university Core.

NOTE:

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 3630 - Modern African American Literature
ENGL 3730 - African Literature
ENGL 4520 - African American Slave Narratives
ENGL 4720 - Writing Resistance: Women in Non-Western Cultures
ENGL 4730 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory
FREN courses in African language as approved by advisor
GAST 2910 - Special Topics
GAST 3010 - African History: Prehistory - 1500
GAST 3030 - African History: 1800 - the Present
GAST 3040 - African American History: the Beginning - 1877
GAST 3050 - African American History: 1877 - 1954
GAST 4020 - Slavery: Comparative Perspectives
GAST 4030 - Blacks in the New World
GAST 4040 - African Intellectual Heritage: Global Perspectives
GAST 4050 - The Atlantic Slave Trade
GAST 4060 - Islam in the Global African World
GAST 4070 - Christianity in the Global African World
HIST 3630 - African History: 1800 to the Present
HIST 3750 - History of the Caribbean
PLSC 3370 - Politics of Development
PLSC 3380 - The Political Economy of Africa
SOCW 3170 - Race and Ethnicity or
SOCL 3320 - Race and Ethnicity
SPAN courses in African language as approved by advisor