Requires a minimum of 30 hours in the major.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Hours |
| Introduction to African American Studies | |
| Theories and Methods in African American Studies | |
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| African American Studies Atelier | |
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I. Arts, Aesthetics, and Expressive Culture
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| AAS 220 | African American Cultural Criticism | 3 |
| AAS 370 | Special Topics in Arts, Aesthetics, and Expressive Cultures in African American Studies | 3 |
| ART 294 | Black Art in the US and Great Britain since 1945 | 3 |
| COM 246 | Black Popular Culture | 3 |
| HMN 223 | African and Caribbean Literature | 3 |
| ENG 301 | Individual Authors (when topic is Toni Morrison) | 3 |
| ENG 302 | Ideas in Literature (when topic is Black is Beautiful: African American Poetics and Aesthetics 1919-2019) | 3 |
| ENG 356 | Literature of the Caribbean | 3 |
| ENG 381 | Studies in African-American Literature (when topic is appropriate) | 3 |
| ENG 387 | African-American Fiction (when topic is appropriate) | 3 |
| ENG 389 | African-American Poetry | 3 |
| REL 376 | Race, Religion, and Film | 3 |
| THE 376 | Multicultural American Drama | 3 |
II. Ethics, Politics, and Society
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| AAS 310 | Organic Leadership: Lessons from the Black Freedom Struggle | 3 |
| AAS 330 | Politics of Black Religion | 3 |
| AAS 340 | Ethics of Black Power | 3 |
| AAS 350 | Politics of Black Liberation | 3 |
| AAS 380 | Special Topics in Ethics, Politics, and Society in African American Studies | 3 |
| ANT 335 | Anthropology of Space and Place in the U.S. | 3,4 |
| SOC 364 | Power, Politics, and Protest | 3 |
| SOC 384 | Special Topics Seminar in Crime and Criminal Justice (when topic is appropriate) | 3 |
| POL 213 | Economic Inequality and American Politics | 3 |
| POL 223 | African American Politics | 3 |
| POL 226 | American Constitutional Law: Civil Rights and Liberties | 3 |
| REL 246 | Religion and Race | 3 |
| REL 338 | Religion, Ethics, and Politics | 3 |
| REL 374 | Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms | 3 |
| REL 375 | Race, Myth, and the American Imagination | 3 |
| WGS 364 | Women of Color, Feminisms, and the Politics of Resistance in the U.S. | 3 |
| WGS 383 | Race, Gender, and the Courts | 3 |
III. History, Culture, and Theory
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| AAS 110 | Introduction to Africana Philosophy | 3 |
| AAS 120 | Introduction to Black Women's Studies | 3 |
| AAS 205 | Black Cultural Studies | 3 |
| AAS 210 | African American Intellectual Traditions | 3 |
| AAS 300 | Black Feminist Theory | 3 |
| AAS 315 | African American Social and Political Thought | 3 |
| AAS 320 | Philosophy and Race | 3 |
| AAS 322 | Critical Theories of Race | 3 |
| AAS 324 | Race and the Modern World | 3 |
| AAS 355 | Africana Political Philosophy | 3 |
| AAS 387 | Black Radical Tradition | 3 |
| AAS 391 | Themes in Africana Philosophy | 3 |
| AAS 392 | Seminar in African American Studies | 3 |
| AAS 396 | Independent Study in African American Studies | 1-3 |
| AAS 397 | Directed Reading in African American Studies | 1-3 |
| ANT 111 | Understanding Culture Through Ethnography | 3 |
| ANT 325 | Roots of Racism: Race and Ethnic Diversity in the U.S. | 3 |
| ENG 387 | African-American Fiction (when topic is appropriate) | 3 |
| HMN 200 | Introduction to Humanities: Themes in Literature, Culture, and Film | 3 |
| HST 105 | Africa in World History | 3 |
| HST 110 | Atlantic World since 1500 | 3 |
| HST 266 | The History of the Slave South | 3 |
| HST 271 | African American History to 1870 | 3 |
| HST 272 | African American History since 1870 | 3 |
| HST 341 | Africans in the Atlantic World, 1750-1815 | 3 |
| HST 375 | Black Lives | 3 |
| HST 376 | Civil Rights and Black Consciousness Movements | 3 |
| HST 378 | Race, Memory, and Identity | 3 |
| REL 107 | Introduction to African Religions | 3 |
| REL 345 | The African-American Religious Experience | 3 |
| REL 373 | Special Topics in African-American Religious Traditions | 3 |
| REL 393 | Topics in Religions of Africa | 3 |
| SOC 359 | Race and Racism | 3 |
| WGS 322 | Feminist, Womanist, Murjerista Theologies: Constructive Perspectives on Christian Thought | 3 |
