African American Studies Minor

Chair

Kishi Animashaun Ducre
200 Sims Hall
315-443-4302

Faculty

Omanii Abdullah, Joan Bryant, Horace Campbell, Linda Carty, David Kwame Dixon, Kishi Animashaun Ducre, Casarae Gibson, Janis A. Mayes, Herbert Ruffin, S.N. Sangmpam, Renate Simson, Kheli R. Willetts, James G. Williams

This interdisciplinary department offers the opportunity for study, research, and community involvement in African American Studies and enables students to explore cultural, literary, historical, socioeconomic and other issues affecting African Americans as well as links with continental Africa and Caribbean areas.

To complete a minor in African American Studies, students take 18 credits, of which 12 must be in courses numbered above 299. Six credits must be taken in the introductory prerequisites.

Introductory Prerequisites (6 credits)

Required

AAS 112 - Introduction to African American Studies in Social Sciences

And choose 3 credits from:

Minor Credits (3 courses above 299)

Students must choose three subfield specialization courses from the two tracks below:

Humanities Track

Social Sciences Track

AAS 300 - Selected Topics in African American Studies * or
AAS 400 - Selected Topics in African American Studies * or
AAS 500 - Selected Topics
AAS 305 - African Orature
AAS 306 - African American Politics
AAS 309 - Race, Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora
AAS 312 - Pan Africanism
AAS 325 - Africa to 1800
AAS 326 - Africa Since 1800
AAS 332 - African American History: Through the 19th Century
AAS 333 - African American History: After the 19th Century
AAS 341 - Politics of Africa
AAS 346 - Comparative Third World Politics
AAS 353 - Sociology of the African American Experience
AAS 364 - African International Relations
AAS 365 - International Political Economy of the Third World
AAS 367 - Protest Movements & African American Artists:19th & 20th Centuries
AAS 380 - International Course or
AAS 480 - International Course or
AAS 580 - International Course
AAS 390 - Independent Study or
AAS 490 - Independent Study or
AAS 590 - Independent Study
AAS 402 - Slavery and Abolition
AAS 410 - Seminar on Social Change
AAS 416 - Race, Crime and Punishment
AAS 427 - New York City: Black Women Domestic Workers or
WGS 627 - New York City: Black Women Domestic Workers
AAS 434 - Underground Railroad
AAS 445 - The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital, and Tourism or
WGS 645 - The Caribbean: Sex Workers, Transnational Capital and Tourism
AAS 470 - Experience Credit Internship in African American Studies
AAS 500 - Selected Topics
AAS 501 - African American Sociological Practice:1900-45
AAS 510 - Studies in African American History
AAS 525 - Research Methods in African American Studies
AAS 540 - Seminar:African American Studies

Note:

*These courses may be counted toward the minor requirement only when the content of the course is within the subfield specialization.