2018-2019 Academic Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Africana Studies Minor


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Director:  Roberta Meek, Lecturer, Media and Communication
Assistant Professor:  Kucik, Sanchez
 

The Africana Studies minor is an interdisciplinary study of the history, culture, and socio-economic experience of people of African descent living on the African continent and in Black Atlantic societies, including the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Africana Studies is a scholarly field, which interrogates the role of race and particularly blackness in the structuring of society, identity, culture, power, and history.  It chronicles the development and contributions of the African Diaspora, the ongoing manifestations of racial subjugation and the resistance against that subjugation via activist, artistic, and scholarly activities.  Africana Studies differs from “traditional” academic disciplines in that its practitioners consciously and unapologetically pursue prescriptions toward racial justice and the undoing of systemic inequity (e.g., political and representational).  The research methods of the field are necessarily interdisciplinary and intersectional (i.e., the simultaneity of race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.), and the knowledge produced is often comparative and global in scope.

Minor Requirements


The minor in Africana Studies consists of six courses.

Electives:


Students must complete two electives

One arts elective


One arts elective which must be satisfied by a course engaging African American or Africana arts (art, dance, film, music, or theatre designated in Capstone as Africana Studies).  Examples of existing courses that meet this requirement include the following:

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