| Six (6) hours of the following
courses are required for the major: |
| AFAM 3880 |
African American Folklore |
| AFAM 4250 or AFAM 4850 |
African American Seminar
Depending on content, this course will count in the
most appropriate of the three divisions. You may instead
choose to take any of the 4000 level AFAM (or cross
listed) courses offered below. |
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| Area F Core History: |
| AFAM 2000 or AFAM 2000H (Honors) |
Introduction to African American Studies |
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Choose eighteen hours from one of the
following areas of concentration, and eighteen (18)
hours from the remaining two areas of concentration
(two courses from each concentration):
Division I: History and Culture
Division II: Behavioral and Social Inquiry
Division III: Languages, Literatures, and the Arts
See full course listing for each division below,
and course decriptions on
this page.
See sample courses of study on
this page.
Eighteen (18) hours must have specific focus on African
American content, to be chosen from courses marked
below with an asterisk (*).
Thirty-three (33) hours of courses selected from
the areas of concentration and general electives must
be upper division. |
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History and Culture (Division
I)
requires a 6 hour minimum and 18 hours to specialize: |
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| HIST 2052 |
Multiculturalism in Modern America |
| HIST 2111 |
American History to 1865 |
| HIST 2501 |
Introduction of African History to Sixteenth Century |
| HIST 3060 |
Colonial and Revolutionary America |
| HIST 3101 |
The Early African American Experience |
| HIST 3102 |
Modern African American Experience |
| HIST 3240 |
The Caribbean Area |
| HIST 3500 |
Seventeenth Through Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa |
| HIST 3511 |
East Africa to the Nineteenth Century |
| HIST 4200/6200 |
Studies in Latin American History |
| HIST 4500/6500 |
Studies in African or Middle Eastern History |
| HIST 4550/6550 |
Christianity and Colonialism in Africa |
| POLS 4050 |
African American Political Thought |
| POLS 4660 |
Southern Politics |
| *RELI (AFAM) 2005 |
African American Religions: An Introduction |
| *RELI (AFAM) 3000 |
The Bible in the Third World |
| *RELI (AFAM) 4201/6201 |
African American Religious History |
| *RELI (AFAM) 4202/6202 |
Southern Religious History |
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Behavioral and Social Inquiry (Division
II)
requires a 6 hour minimum and 18 hours to specialize: |
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| *AFAM (PSYC) 3150 |
Introduction to Black Psychology |
| *AFAM 4250 |
African American Seminar |
| ANTH 3100 |
Peoples of the World |
| ANTH 3270 |
New World Archaeology |
| ANTH 4710/6710-4710L/6710 |
Human Origins |
| *POLS 4560 |
African American Politics |
| POLS 4570 |
African American Social Change |
| PSYC (AFAM) 2150 |
Understanding Cultural Diversity |
| SOCI (AFAM) 2020 |
African American Society |
| *SOCI (AFAM) 3300 |
Global Perspectives on Racism and Sexism |
| SOCI (AFAM) 3310 |
Race and Culture |
| SOCI (AFAM) 4370 |
Seminar in Race and Ethnicity |
| *SPCM (AFAM) 2810 |
Communication in African American Communities |
| WMST 3110 |
Gender, Race, and Class |
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Languages, Literatures, and the
Arts (Division III)
requires a 6 hour minimum and 18 hours to specialize: |
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| *AFAM 3880 |
African American Folklore |
| *AFAM (DRAM) 4490/6490 |
African American Women in Cinema: Image and Aesthetics |
| CMLT 3150 |
Introduction to Modern African Literature |
| DRAM 4480/6480 |
History of African American Drama and Theatre |
| *ENGL (AFAM) 3230 |
Development of African American Literature |
| *ENGL (AFAM) 4620 |
African American Poetry |
| *ENGL (AFAM) 4630 |
African American Fiction |
| *ENGL (AFAM) 4880 |
Topics in African American Literature |
| MUSI 2780 |
Jazz Bands |
| *MUSI (AFAM) 2960 |
African American Percussive Music: From Africa to
the Americas |
| MUSI 4780/6780 |
Jazz Bands |
| *SPCM (AFAM) 4810 |
African American Rhetoric and Communication |
| SWAH 2010 |
Intermediate Swahili I |
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| Graduate Level Courses Offered: |
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| AFAM 8960 |
Directed Reading in African American Studies |
| ENGL 8720 |
Seminar in African American Literature |
