Minor Requirements: Africana and Black Studies
Africana and Black Studies Minor Requirements
The Undergraduate College: Traditional, On Campus
The Undergraduate College Africana and Black Studies program offers a minor that requires 18 credits (6 courses) available with the Major of your choice:
Minor Courses: 6 credits (2 courses). Courses can also apply toward Core Curriculum requirements.
Minor Elective Courses: 12 credits (4 courses). Two courses may be double counted between the Africana and Black Studies Minor and the Major.
Under certain conditions, a student may have a minor field designated on their Rosemont transcript. Candidates for the minor must select 21-24 credits above the introductory level in a discipline. These courses are chosen from the Academic Offerings section of the catalog for approved minors. A minimum grade point average of 2.00 in the minor is required. Discuss with your advisor.
Africana and Black Studies Minor Courses (18 Credits)
*Course can be applied toward more than one requirement.
AFR 0100: Introduction to Africana Studies*
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary filed of Africana Studies and the foundational conepts and institutional experiences upon which the filed is built. Intro to Africana Studies provides a basic understanding of the history of the field and how various American interest groups fought to establish and develop academic programs that focused on the study of Africa and its diaspora populations.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
*This course fulfills the Global Awareness, or Humanities requirement in the SGPS General Education program.
AFR 0175: Ancient African Civilizations: A Cultural Perspective
Prerequisite: None
Course description coming soon.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
Africana and Black Studies Minor Elective Courses (12 Credits)
Two courses may be double counted between the Africana and Black Studies Minor and the Major.
Choose 4 of the Following 13 Courses:
AFS 0300: Special Topics in Africana Studies
Prerequisite: None
This course in “special topics” addresses specific issues within Africana Studies and current events that are not currently explored in other existing courses within the discipline. The course subject matter or content may vary within specific sections across terms as indicated by that course’s title and description.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
ARH 0375: Art of Egypt and North Africa
Prerequisite: None
Course description coming soon
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
COM 0215: Intercultural Communication
Prerequisite: None
This course serves as an introduction to the field of intercultural communication. Students will develop an understanding of the intercultural communication process, learn to appreciate diverse ways of communicating in different cultures, and increase their understanding of cultural issues – both at home and abroad – that influence communication effectiveness.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
COM 0222: Black Femininities and Masculinities in the Media
Prerequisite: None
This course will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of “Blackness” in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
ENG 0232: Survey of African American Literature to 1900
Prerequisite: None
A study of the writers who have enriched and illuminated the American literary experience from the perspective of African American writers from its earliest inception to 1900. Poetry, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, short and long fiction, and the vernacular tradition in its myriad forms will be studied in conjunction with social, political, and religious movements of the time. Representative authors will include Olaudah Equiana, Phyllis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington among others.
Offered every other fall. (3 Credits)
ENG 0235: Survey of African American Literature 1900 to Present
Prerequisite: None
In this course, there will be an examination of significant texts by Africa American authors reflective of the major literary movements of Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and PostModernism. Poetry, prose, drama, literary and social criticism, speeches, autobiographies by varied authors such as Nella Larson, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, and Rita Dove, among others will be studied in conjunction with contemporary newspapers, journals, music, and other representations of popular culture.
Offered every other spring. (3 Credits)
ENG 0362: Blues and Jazz Literature
Prerequisite: None
This course will read, listen, reflect on blues and jazz, attending to lyrics, literature influenced by the music, context (such as history and performance), and criticism (of both the music and literature). Our primary focus will be on African American literature and culture.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
HIS 0221: African American History 1865 to Present
Prerequisite: None
This course explores African American history from 1865 to the present with particular emphasis on political, economic, and social forces. Particular attention will be paid to how African American history has been represented both in written histories and in literature, film, museums, and public history sites.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
PSC 0247 Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
Prerequisite: None
This course focuses on the role of race and ethnicity and the role it plays in American politics. We will cover race and ethnicity in America, and how it affects the nation’s political structure. Students will be able to critique various ways racism plays in the outcome of elections.
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
RST 200: Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Prerequisite: None
This course is a study of Catholicism through an examination of several key questions: What is the journey of faith? Who is God? Who is Jesus Christ? What is the meaning of the human person, salvation, the Church, the moral life, and Christian spirituality?
Offered fall/spring semester. (3 Credits)
SOC 0105: Cultural and General Anthropology
Prerequisite: None
An introduction to the areas of anthropology; archaeology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. Topics include methods of dating archaeological finds; origins of humankind; theories of culture; relationship between language and culture, modern societies and anthropological concepts.
Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)
SOC 0210: Social Stratification and Mobility
Prerequisite: SOC-0200 Social Theory: Classical or SOC-0205 Social Theory: Contemporary or Permission Of Instructor (POI).
A study of power relationships in society. Socio-economic status variables and everyday life. Ruling class, elite, and pluralistic theories. Social mobility patterns of religion-ethnic groups. Changes in American class structure due to globalization. U.S. social class impact on third world countries. “Rags to riches” and other belief patterns.
Offered spring semester. (3 Credits)
SOC 0370: Race and Ethnic Groups
Prerequisite: Sociology majors or Permission Of Instructor (POI).
Principles of acculturation-assimilation, prejudice-discrimination, and conflict-accommodation patterns. Exploration of social diversity (race, ethnicity, religious, age, gender, and nationality variables will be examined). Social justice movements (civil rights). Models for building social 528 harmony.
Offered every other year. (3 Credits)
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