African Diaspora Studies | Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity

M. Nicole Horsley
Assistant Professor and Coordinator

The African Diaspora Studies minor covers a broad range of issues, from the historically constructed and contested nature of individual identities to issues of cultural and historical representation, social justice, and struggles for racial redress. While the primary focus of the minor is on the experiences of African-Americans, its overall objective is to encourage, allow, and facilitate a study of the self in relation to the other. Where possible, courses rely on historical and comparative methodologies, a combination of epistemological/theoretical concerns with an analysis of “real-life” problems, and a critical approach to the processes of knowledge construction, all of which allow students to develop a contextual understanding of the issues they are studying.

Minors are required to take six courses (18 credit hours), two from Conceptual Frameworks and one each from the following four categories:

Comparative and International
Culture and History
Policy and Praxis
Power and Liberation

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The Minor in African Diaspora Studies Spring 2020 courses are in bold

Conceptual Framework Courses (6 credits required in this category)

CSCR

10600

Introduction to African Diaspora

CSCR

CSCR

12300

14500

Introduction to Culture, Race & Ethnicity Concepts

Politics of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Culture - (cross-listed with POLT 14500)

Policy & Praxis (choose one 3 credit course in this category)

CSCR	24200	Miscegenation and Racial Binaries
CSCR	30501	Practicum in Social Change: Urban Mentorship Initiative
CSCR	32400	Critical Race Theories in the United States
CSCR	35200	Punishment, Prisons & Democracy
CSCR	38000	Applied Research in Culture, Race and Ethnicity
EDUC	29900	Black Feminist Alchemy: Theory into Practice
POLT	40200	SEM: Social and Racial Justice
POLT	37000	Race, Class, and Geographies of Housing
CMST	36000	Race and Public Policy
SOCI	20300	Juvenile Delinquency/Youth Incarceration and Justice
SOCI	33703	Discipline and Punishment in Public Schools

Culture & History (choose one 3 credit course in this category)

CSCR	21100	American Gangster
CSCR	25000	Hip-Hop Cultures
CSCR	25600	Politics of Whiteness
CSCR	26100	Watching Race in American Media
CMST	42500	Rhetoric of Religion
ENGL	22000	Black Women Writers
ENGL	22100	Survey of African American Literature
ENGL	46900	Seminar in African-American Literature: The Legacy of Toni Morrison
HIST	22700	Early Islam
HIST	39202	Revolution & Counter Revolutions
HIST	24600	After the American Civil War: Race, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation
HIST	37000	Slavery & the Old South
JAZZ	16100	Survey of Jazz History
MUNM	10308	West African Drumming and Dance Ensemble
MUNM	22300	African American Popular Music
MUNM	25600	Women in Popular Music: From Bessie Smith to MTV

Power & Liberation (choose one 3 credit course in this category)

CSCR	29005	ST: Moving Towards a Black (Fem(me)) Queer Politic
CSCR	35100	Race & Sexual Politics
CSCR	29000	Black Sexualities
CSCR	43300	Education, Oppression, and Liberation
CSCR	45001	ST: Exploring Black Sexualities
ENGL	18200	The Power of Injustice & the Injustice of Power: Life at the Margins in American Literature
HLTH	21200	Inequalities in Health
HLTH	21300	Multicultural Perspectives on Health & Healing
SPMM	40700	Sport in the Civil Rights Movement
SOCI	43701	Special Topics in Inequality: Women of Color

Comparative & International (choose one 3 credit course in this category)

CSCR	20100	Black Cinema: Exploring the Black Image through Film
CSCR	43500	Black Radical Traditions
ANTH	24100	Continuity and Change in African Cultures and Societies
ARTH	27000	African Art and Architecture
POLT	12900	Explorations in Global & Comparative Studies
POLT	33200	Africa Through Film
SOCI	20700	Race and Ethnicity
SOCI	34500	21st Century Conversations on Race