Minor - African American Studies
Minor - African American Studies
Course Requirements
The minor in African American studies consists of 18 semester hours, including AAS 201 and 202, 6 credit hours from a list of African and African American history courses, and 6 credit hours from a list of African and African American political and social institutions courses and culture courses.
African American Introductory Survey (6 hours)
- AAS 201. African American Experience I
- AAS 202. African American Experience II
African and African American History Courses (6 hours)
- AAS 170/Hst 170. Intro to African History
- AAS 310. Experiences of Black Mississippians
- AAS 325/Hst 414. African American History to 1865
- AAS 326/Hst 415. African American History Since 1865
- AAS 350. Topics in African American History
- AAS 362/G St 418/Hst 418. African American Women's History
- AAS 372/Hst 372. Decolonization in Africa
- AAS 376/Hst 376. History of West Africa to 1800
- AAS 377/Hst 377. History of West Africa since 1800
- AAS 378/HST 378. Africa Since Independence
- AAS 385/Hst 423. History of Mass Incarceration in the US
- AAS 390/Hst 374. Nationalism in Africa
- AAS 392/Hst 370. Modern Africa
- AAS 393/Hst 371. History of Southern Africa
- AAS 394/Hst 375. History of Islam
- AAS 412. Studies in Black Popular Culture
- AAS 423/HST 419/G St 423. Black Women's Enterprise & Activism
- AAS 438/Hst 422. The Rise and Fall of American Slavery
- AAS 440/Hst 420. History of African Americans in Sports
- AAS 442. The New Negro Era
- AAS 444/Thea 444. African Americans in Film and Television
- AAS 443/Hst 424. The Civil Rights Era
- AAS 501. African American Studies Seminar
- AAS 509. Historiography - African American History
African and African American Pol & Soc Institutions, Culture (6 hours)
- AAS 302. Judicial System & African Amer Community
- AAS 308/Pol 307. Const Law II: Civil Lib & Civil Rights
- AAS 315/Pol 323. Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
- AAS 316/Anth 315. The African Diaspora
- AAS 320/Pol 320. African American Politics
- AAS 328/G St 328/Soc 328. African American Feminist Thought
- AAS 330/Rel 330/Soc 330. Racism and Religion
- AAS 334/S St 334/Anth 334/Soc 334. Intro to Field Work Techniques
- AAS 337/Anth 337. Anthropology of Blues Culture
- AAS 341/Eng 361. African American Lit Survey to 1920
- AAS 342/Eng 362. African American Lit Survey Since 1920
- AAS 366/Eng 366. African American Science Fiction Lit
- AAS 351. Topics in AAS Pol & Social Institutions
- AAS 352. Topics in AAS Culture
- AAS 360. Topics in African Amer. Studies Abroad
- AAS 363/Eng 363. African American Genres
- AAS 364/Eng 364. Studies in African American Lit
- AAS 367/Eng 367. Blues Tradition in American Literature
- AAS 368/Clc 368. African American Lit and the Classics
- AAS 370/Pol 370. African American Legal Experience
- AAS 373/Eng 373. Studies in Comparative Black Lit
- AAS 375/Eng 375. Survey of African Literature
- AAS 374/Eng 374. Survey of Caribbean Literature
- AAS 386/AH 386. African and African American Arts
- AAS 388/AH 388. African Art
- AAS 391/Phil 391. Philosophy of Race
- AAS 395/AH 369. Survey of Black American Art
- AAS 412. Studies of Black Popular Culture
- AAS 413/Soc 413. Race and Ethnicity
- AAS 414/Soc 414/S St 314. Race, Place, and Space
- AAS 468/Eng 468. Major African American Writers
- AAS 469/Eng 469. Special Topics in African American Lit
- AAS 421. Readings in U.S. Black Feminism
- AAS 473/Eng 473. Prison & the Literary Imagination
- AAS 477/Rhet 477. Rhetorics of Race in the US South
- AAS 479/Eng 479. Special Topics in Comparative Black Lit
- AAS 481/Eng 481. Special Topics in Caribbean Literature
- AAS 483/Eng 483. Special Topics in African Literature
- AAS 493/Eng 493. Special Topics in Race and Ethnicity
- AAS 504. Research in African American Studies
- AAS 517/Mus 517. African American Musical Tradition
- AAS 518/Mus 518. History of Jazz
- AAS 593. African American Literature
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