Africana Studies
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Minor Requirements — 18 Credits
Africana Studies Core Courses (12 Credits)
Foundations of Africana Studies - 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
| AFS 100 | Introduction to Africana Studies | 3 |
| AFS 101 | Development of Black Identity (3) | 3 |
| AFS 240 | Dynamics of Racism | 3 |
"Rethinking" Africa - 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
Survey of African American History - 3 Credits
Choose one of the following:
| AFS 201 | African American History I | 3 |
| AFS 202 | African American History II | 3 |
Africana Studies Upper Division Electives (6 Credits)
Choose two of the following courses (one course must be an AFS prefix):
| AFS 303 | Blacks in the American West | 3 |
| AFS 310 | African Americans and U.S. Education | 3 |
| AFS 340 | The Black Family | 3 |
| AFS 360 | Routes of Black Music (3) | 3 |
| AFS 386 | Political Economy of Modern Africa (3) | 3 |
| AFS 395 | Aspects of the African-American Experience | 3 |
| AFS 396 | African and African American World Views | 3 |
| AFS 399 | Community Study Project | 1-4 |
| AFS 404 | History of Blacks in Film | 3 |
| AFS 415 | Black Psychology | 3 |
| AFS 420 | African American Leadership and Politics | 3 |
| AFS 422 | Directed Studies | 1-4 |
| AFS 450 | African American History 1896-2016: From Homer Plessy to Barack Obama | 3 |
| AFS 456 | The Black Church and Religious Traditions (3) | 3 |
| ANT 313 | Anthropology of Globalization | 3 |
| ANT 331 | Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems | 3 |
| ART 482 | Arts of Indigenous People | 3 |
| CRJ 475 | Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Class in Criminal Justice | 3 |
| ECON 344 | International Economics | 3 |
| ECON 360 | Economics of Growth and Development | 3 |
| ECON 362 | Economic History of the United States | 3 |
| ECON 365 | Urban and Housing Economics | 3 |
| ENG 374 | American Diaspora and Globalization | 3 |
| GEOG 326 | Africa | 3 |
| GEOG 333 | South America | 3 |
| GNDR 300 | History of Feminism | 3 |
| GNDR 414 | Masculinities | 3 |
| HIST 301 | Colonial Africa | 3 |
| HIST 312 | History of Brazil | 3 |
| HIST 314 | History of Latin America to 1855 | 3 |
| HIST 315 | History of Latin America: 1855 to the Present | 3 |
| HIST 316 | History of Caribbean and Central America | 3 |
| HIST 318 | Modern Africa | 3 |
| HIST 319 | Revolutionary South Africa | 3 |
| PSCI 316 | Latin American Politics | 3 |
| PSCI 318 | The Politics of the Developing States | 3 |
| SOC 388 | Global Immigration | 3 |
| SOC 414 | Masculinities | 3 |
| SPAN 321 | Spanish Civilization and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 331 | Latin American Civilization and Culture | 3 |
| SPAN 341 | Mexican and Mexican American Civilization and Culture | 3 |
Notes: AFS 395, Aspects of the African American Experience, is a variable subtitle course that students may take more than once under different subtitles.
AFS 399 and AFS 422, when taken by minors, must always be taken for three semester credits.