2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Africana Studies Minor


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This minor familiarizes students with the histories, thoughts, politics, literature, geography, socialization, economics, and cultures of Africans and African Americans. This knowledge is helpful for all students, but especially those who will work with culturally diverse communities or who seek further study.

Other courses not on the above list in which:


  1. a significant amount of material would fall under Africana Studies, or
  2. students engage in a major project related to Africana Studies.

Examples: Students studying or participating in plays by African American playwrights in theatre classes, students studying jazz, hip hop, or other music or dance with African roots in music or dance classes, students studying Afro-Germans in a Modern Germany class, or students studying African American farmers in an AGED course, etc.

The Department of History, Political Science, and Geography chair will decide if a course or project will qualify.

Total Hours - 15


Note:


*Up to 6 hours from the major can be double-counted.

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