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Undergraduate Degree
African American and African Studies
Program:
African American and African Studies
Plan Code:
AFRAM_BA1
Program Level:
Undergraduate
Award Type:
Bachelor of Arts
College:
College of Arts and Letters
Department:
African American and African Studies
Excerpt from the official Academic Programs Catalog:
Listed below are the approved requirements for the program from the official Academic Programs Catalog.
Students must consult their advisors to learn which specific requirements apply to their degree programs.
College of Arts and Letters
Department of African American and African Studies
Undergraduate Programs
African American and African Studies
View this text within the context of the catalog.
The Bachelor of Arts degree in African American and African Studies offers students the opportunity to engage and explore the lives, worlds, and cultural practices of Black peoples. Students are encouraged to study and appreciate the complexity of Black communities as well as the particularities of Blackness as it is lived, imagined, and created. Students are also directed to the promise and possibilities of collaborative, interdisciplinary work and research.
Multiple elements define the course of study for the major, including interconnected, required courses exploring Black Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities Studies, as well as encouragement of diverse understandings and approaches to knowledge production with and about Black peoples. The degree program offers three concentrations: Communities in Action, Creative Expression, Culture and Performance, and Black Institutions, Sustainability, and Statecraft.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in African American and African Studies
The University requirements for bachelor's degrees as described in the Undergraduate Education section of the catalog; 120 credits, including general elective credits, are required for the Bachelor of Arts degree in African American and African Studies.
The University's Tier II writing requirement for the African American and African Studies major is met by completing African American and African Studies 495. That course is referenced in item 3. below.
The requirements of the College of Arts and Letters for the Bachelor of Arts degree.
The following requirements for the major:
a.
All of the following courses (12 credits):
AAAS
100
Pathways in AAAS
3
AAAS
200
Black Feminisms: Past, Present and Futures
3
AAAS
201
Black Sexualities Studies: Past, Present and Futures
3
AAAS
202
Black Genders Studies: Past, Present and Futures
3
b.
Complete 3 courses from one of the following concentrations (9 credits):
Communities in Action
AAAS
300
Communities in Action
3
AAAS
303
Black Girlhood Studies
3
AAAS
306
Black Language and Literacy
3
AAAS
401
Social Media and New Journalism
3
AAAS
404
Black Ecologies and Environmental Justice
3
Creative Expression, Culture, and Performance
AAAS
301
Creative Expression, Culture, and Performance
3
AAAS
304
Afrofuturism
3
AAAS
307
Creative Expression as Craft
3
AAAS
402
Producing Culture
3
AAAS
405
Black Entrepreneurship and Hustle
3
Black Institutions, Sustainability, and Statecraft
AAAS
302
Black Institutions, Sustainability, and Statecraft
3
AAAS
305
Black People and Land
3
AAAS
308
Black Spirituality and Religion
3
AAAS
403
Institutions and Oppression
3
AAAS
406
Pedagogies of Protests
3
c.
Complete 4 elective courses in 300-400 level AAAS courses as approved by the undergraduate advisor (12 credits).
d.
The following course (3 credits):
AAAS
495
Writing for Our Lives (W)
3
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