AFRICAN/AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

 

AFRICAN/AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES MAJOR :

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Requirements:

At least 36 hours, at least 21 of which must be upper-division courses.

Required Core Courses for the major (27 hours)

Introduction (3 hours):

ENGL 1330 Introduction to African/African-American Studies

Literature (9 hours):

ENGL 4380 African African-American Literature
ENGL 4382   Race in American Literature (this course is currently awaiting approval)
ENGL 4381 Major African/African-American Writers (this course is currently awaiting approval)

 History (9 hours):

HIST 3353 African-American History, 1619-1868
HIST 3354 African-American History, 1868-present
HIST 4388 African History

Cultural/Critical Race Studies (6 hours):

Two of the following:

PHIL 2360 Gender, Race, and Class Issues
PHIL 3340 African American Philosophy
WRTG 4325 Sociolinguistics

Electives (9 hours, to be chosen from the following courses):

ART 3307 The Arts of Africa
ENGL 4304  Studies in English and American Literature:  The Harlem Renaissance
WLAN 2325 Issues of Cultural Identity in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
HIST 4391 Topics in History:  African-American Autobiography
HIST 4391 Topics in History:  The Civil Rights Movement
MUS 4301 Jazz:  The History
PHIL 2360  Gender, Race, and Class Issues
PHIL 3340 African-American Philosophy
RELG 3345 African-American Religious Thought
SOC 3310 Minority Relations
SOC 4351 Family Structure
WRTG 4325 Sociolinguistics