To minor in African American Studies, a student must successfully complete:
One required course: Introduction to African American Studies (AFAM-101)
This introductory course, both intensive and extensive, provides an interdisciplinary overview of the important themes and topics central to the study of the experiences of African Americans in the United States. This course also provides the theoretical foundation for the further study of African American experience. Students will learn about the development of the discipline by exploring theoretical questions, methodological approaches, and major themes that have shaped the study of African American life and culture in the United States.
One course in History and Culture (HC)
One course in Literatures, Languages, and the Arts (LLA)
One course in Behavioral and Social Inquiry (BSI)
Two elective courses from approved offerings listed below, or ones approved by Program Director.
Please note that the list below is only a sample of the course offerings and is not exhaustive.
African American Studies
AFAM-140
Blacks and Jews in America
AFAM-201
Representations of Love and Marriage in African American Culture, 1970–Present
AFAM-206
Race and Racism in American Culture
AFAM-210
Black Power and Theology of Liberation
AFAM-215
Black Feminism
AFAM-225
Race, Policy, and Administration
Behavioral and Social Inquiry (BSI)
AFAM-225
Race, Policy, and Administration
ANTH-232
Peoples and Cultures of Africa
ANTH-245
Class and Culture in America
FREN-454
African Self-Perceptions
FREN-490
Language Education and Development in Franco-phone Africa
GOVT-240
Politics of Inequality
GOVT-245
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
GOVT-446
Politics of North Africa
GOVT-457
Philosophies of Liberation
INAF-395
African Political Economy
JUPS-260
Violence, Gender, and Human Rights
SOCI-124
Sociology of Hip Hop
SOCI-126
Sociology and Culture: Beyonce
SOCI-133
Race & Society & Cinema
SOCI-139
Race, Color, and Culture
SOCI-142
Black Death: Slavery to Michael Brown
SOCI-144
Race & Ethnic Relations
SOCI-146
Martin Luther King and American Society
SOCI-147
New Perspectives on Black Ghetto Poor
SOCI-148
Barack Obama and Race
SOCI-152
African & African-American Demography
SOCI-163
Education and Society
SOCI-193
Sociology of Criminal Justice
SOCI-209
The City, Urban Studies
SOCI-221
DC Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Inequality
SOCI-222
Gentrification, Justice, Cities
THEO-041
Struggle and Transcendence
THEO-122
The Church and the Poor
THEO-210
Black Power and Theology of Liberation
THEO-370
Philosophies of Liberation
PHIL-123
Ethics: Race and Morality
History and Culture (HC)
AFAM-206
Race and Racism in American Culture
ANTH-180
Urban Legends, Moral Panics
ANTH-240
African Cultural Modernities
ANTH-252
Global Race in Motion
ANTH-283
The African Diaspora
ANTH-305
Class, Culture, and Race
ANTH-392
African Feminism Re-Imagined
FREN-439
Tradition and Modernity in Francophone Africa
HIST-007
Intro to Early History—Atlantic World
HIST-111
History of Africa I
HIST-112
History of Africa II
HIST-180
Studies in US History until 1865
HIST-181
US since 1865
HIST-187
African American Food Culture
HIST-267
Modern North Africa
HIST-280
Sex Love and Race in American Culture
HIST-285
History of African American Women
HIST-286
Slavery in North America
HIST-288
African American History
HIST-289
Women in the Civil Rights Movement
HIST-291
The American South
HIST-293
Black History and Black Culture
HIST-295
Radical Traditions in US
HIST-299
The United States in the 1960s
HIST-315
Environmental History of Africa
HIST-382
Liberty and Anti-Slavery
HIST-387
Black Radicalism
HIST-388
Jazz and Civil Rights in American Society
HIST-394
Race, Philosophy, and History in African American Life
HIST-414
Resistance Movements in Colonial Africa
HIST-494
African American Great Migration
HIST-497
African American Life in Washington D.C
PHIL-175
Philosophy of Race
MUSC-116
Jazz History
MUSC-323
The Blues
Literature, Languages, and the Arts (LLA)
AFAM-206
Race and Racism in American Culture
AFAM-215
Black Feminism
ANTH-318
African Feminism Re-Imagined
ENGL-175
American Literature, 1900-Present
ENGL-195
The African Novel
ENGL-203
Black Women Writers
ENGL-214
Lists of the American West
ENGL-215
American Expatriate Writers
ENGL-221
African American Literature 1903-Present
ENGL-225
Black Women Writers
ENGL-227
African American Poetry
ENGL-234
Seminar: African Drama
ENGL-260
Poetry of the African Diaspora
ENGL-262
Question of Equality
ENGL-286
Class Fictions in Contemporary US
ENGL-399
20th Century Comparative Literature
ENGL-404
Reading Ralph Ellison
ENGL-405
Reading Toni Morrison
ENGL-613
Reading Race in American Literature
FREN-268
Black Playwrights
FREN-331
French Speaking Africa
FREN-338
North African Literature
FREN-375
African Play Production
FREN-440
Memory and Orality in the Literature of Francophone Africa