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African and Black American Studies MinorM Acad Dean's Admin
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This is an interdisciplinary major under the authority of the vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean. The program is administered by the African and Black Studies program coordinator.
In the African and Black American studies (ABAS) minor, students explore the histories, arts, cultures, and literatures of people of African descent in the United States, Africa, and throughout the African diaspora. This minor enables students of all racial and ethnic identities to study issues pertinent to Africa and the African diaspora while integrating their understanding of those issues into the broader context of world histories and cultures.
The ABAS minor offers an interdisciplinary and inter-divisional curriculum that invites students to explore a variety of intellectual approaches and to make methodological and thematic connections and comparisons among multiple fields.
Program Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the African and Black American Studies minor, students will be able to:
*Identify, define and analyze a range of Black or African models of thought, being, experience across the United States, Africa, and/or the African Diaspora.
*Describe and analyze the manifestations and consequences of racism and colonialism in the past and present, which have shaped the lives of people, regardless of racial, ethnic, and national background.
*Use theories of Black subjectivity to illuminate experiences in the world.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Minor Requirements
Courses for the minor may not be taken S/N unless offered S/N only. No grades below C- are allowed.
A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in the minor to graduate. The GPA includes all, and only, University of Minnesota coursework. Grades of "F" are included in GPA calculation until they are replaced.
Minor Requirements
Students must take a minimum of 20 credits in at least two different disciplines. Students can take a maximum of 8 credits at the 1xxx level.
Black or African Models of Thought, Being, and Experience
Students take a minimum of 4 credits in courses teaching them to identify, define and analyze a range of Black or African models of thought, being, and experience, across the United States, Africa, and/or the African Diaspora.
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
FREN 1311 - Sub-Saharan Francophone Cinema
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 1112 - Introduction to African History to 1880
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 1823 - The American 1960s
[IC]
(2.0 cr)
·
HIST 1824 - Black Morris
[IC]
(4.0 cr)
·
MUS 1043 - American Jazz Styles
[FA]
(4.0 cr)
Manifestations and Consequences of Racism and Colonialism
Students take a minimum of 4 credits in courses asking them to describe and analyze the manifestations and consequences of racism and colonialism in the past and present, which have shaped the lives of people, regardless of racial, ethnic, and national backgrounds.
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
ENGL 2041 - Introduction to African American Literature
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3004 - Francophone Studies: Civilization and Composition: Colonialism and Francophone Worlds
[HIST]
(2.0 cr)
·
HIST 1113 - Introduction to African History since 1880
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 1822 - Age of Atlantic Revolutions
[IC]
(2.0 cr)
·
HIST 2312 - History of South Africa to 1976
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2313 - History of South Africa since 1910
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2608 - History of Cuba: From Colony to Revolutionary State
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 2609 - History of Brazil: From Sugar to Sugar Cars
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3356 - Civil Rights Era, 1954-1974
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
POL 2234 - Race, Class and Power: Social Movements in U.S. Politics
[HDIV]
(2.0 cr)
·
POL 2235 - Race, Class and Power: Interest Groups in U.S. Politics
[HDIV]
(2.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3685 - Seminar: Slavery and Abolition in Cuban Literature and Culture
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
Theories of Black Subjectivity
Students take a minimum of 4 credits in courses challenging them to use theories of Black subjectivity to illuminate experiences in the world.
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
ENGL 3331 - African American Literature
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3332 - African American Women Writers
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3522 - Harlem Renaissance
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3603 - Francophone Studies: Witches, Wilderness, and Words in African Folktales
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3605 - Francophone Studies: Maghrebian Cinema
(4.0 cr)
·
FREN 3606 - Francophone Studies: Sub-Saharan Francophone Cinema
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3021 - Gender and Sexuality in African History
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3304 - Race, Class, and Gender in American History
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
MUS 3305 - West African Styles in African American Music
[FA]
(2.0 cr)
·
PSY 3542 - Multicultural Psychology
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SPAN 3687 - Seminar: Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
Electives
Students will complete additional elective credits in courses with some African or Black American content to reach 20 credits, as a minimum, in the minor. Elective courses can be selected from the courses listed above in the core requirements (exclusive of those used to meet the requirements) or the following:
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
·
ENGL 1403W - Sports Literature and Writing
[ART/P]
(4.0 cr)
·
GWSS 1101 - Introduction to Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 1111 - Introduction to World History
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 1301 - Introduction to U.S. History
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
MUS 1049 - Introduction to American Popular Music
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
Take 0 - 12 credit(s) from the following:
·
ARTH 2107 - Global Modernisms: Modern Art in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Beyond
[FA]
(2.0-4.0 cr)
·
ARTH 3221 - Global Contemporary Art, 1945 to the Present
[FA]
(4.0 cr)
·
ARTH 3231 - History of Photography
[FA]
(4.0 cr)
·
ED 2221 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3063 {Inactive}
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3175 - Social Justice Biofiction
[HUM]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 3301 - U.S. Multicultural Literature
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ENGL 4017 - Research Seminar: Tricksters-Conjurers in American Indian and African American Literature
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3355 - United States in Transition, 1877-1920
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3358 - Civil War and Reconstruction
[HIST]
(4.0 cr)
·
HIST 3614 - Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
MUS 2406 - Jazz Style and Repertoire
[FA]
(2.0 cr)
·
SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
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