Black Studies Minor
Housed in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Department, the Black Studies minor offers students grounding in the intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, and critical theories of the black diaspora, all while engaging a range of methodologies from across disciplines. Attention to the significance of social justice is a hallmark of the minor. Supported by faculty expertise in Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific, students can explore the globally multi-sited nature of black freedom struggles, both past and present, and examine blackness through a comparative lens.
Through careful advising, students can pursue a set of electives, tailored to their interests, enabling broad or deep exploration of specific histories, geographic regions, and thematic concerns. With a foundation in CRES 68, Approaches to Black Studies (substitutable with CRES 10, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction), students will undertake an additional 25 credits—or five upper-division elective courses—drawn from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences divisions. Students can select these five electives from a list of pre-approved courses, with no more than three from any one program or department. Courses not appearing on the approved list can be petitioned for credit.
Course Requirements
Lower-Division Courses
One lower-division core course:
CRES 68 | Approaches to Black Studies | 5 |
Students may substitute CRES 10, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: An Introduction, for the lower-division core course requirement.
Upper-Division Courses
Five upper-division courses, with no more than three from any one program or department:
Division of Humanities
CRES 188B | Topics in Black Studies | 5 |
FMST 102 | Feminist Critical Race Studies | 5 |
FMST 115 | Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Migration Across the Americas | 5 |
FMST 124 | Technology, Science, and Race Across the Americas | 5 |
FMST 125 | Race, Sex, and Technology | 5 |
FMST 139 | African American Women's History | 5 |
FMST 145 | Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S | 5 |
HIS 109A | Race, Gender, and Power in the Antebellum South | 5 |
HIS 110A | Colonial America, 1500-1750 | 5 |
HIS 110D | The Civil War Era | 5 |
HIS 110H | Greater Reconstruction: Race, Empire, and Citizenship in the Post-Civil War United States | 5 |
HIS 111 | Popular Conceptions of Race in U.S. History, 1600-Present | 5 |
HIS 116 | Slavery Across the Americas | 5 |
HIS 116A | Unchained Memory: Slavery and the Politics of the Past | 5 |
HIS 120 | W.E.B. Du Bois | 5 |
HIS 121A | African American History to 1877 | 5 |
HIS 121B | African American History: 1877 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 122A | Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1900-1945 | 5 |
HIS 122B | Jazz and United States Cultural History, 1945 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 137A | Africa to 1800 | 5 |
HIS 137B | Africa from 1800 to the Present | 5 |
HIS 158C
/ANTH 179
| Slavery in the Atlantic World: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives | 5 |
HIS 177A | Slaves, Soldiers, and Scientists: History of the Tropics | 5 |
LIT 121N | RAGE: Race and Performance | 5 |
LIT 135A | Topics in African Literature | 5 |
LIT 146D | Nineteenth-Century American Fiction | 5 |
LIT 147A | Twain, Slavery, and the Literary Imagination | 5 |
LIT 161A | African American Literature | 5 |
LIT 161B | African American Women Writers | 5 |
LIT 190O | Studies in Slavery, Race, and Nation in the Americas | 5 |
Division of Social Sciences
ANTH 110Q
/CRES 110Q/FMST 110Q
| Queer Sexuality in Black Popular Culture | 5 |
ANTH 130A | Anthropology of Africa. | 5 |
ANTH 130F
/CRES 130
| Blackness In Motion: Anthology of the African Diasporas | 5 |
ANTH 130L | Ethnographies of Latin America | 5 |
ANTH 159 | Race and Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 194L | Archaeology of the African Diaspora | 5 |
ANTH 196J | Imagining America | 5 |
EDUC 160 | Issues in Educational Reform | 5 |
EDUC 164 | Urban Education | 5 |
EDUC 181 | Race, Class, and Culture in Education | 5 |
LALS 150 | Afro-Latinos/as: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions | 5 |
LALS 171 | Brazil in Black and White | 5 |
SOCY 128I
/LGST 128I
| Race and Law | 5 |
SOCY 133 | Currents in African American Cultural Politics | 5 |
SOCY 180 | Social Movements of the 1960s | 5 |
Division of Arts
FILM 165B | Race on Screen | 5 |
HAVC 110 | Visual Cultures of West Africa | 5 |
HAVC 111 | Visual Cultures of Central Africa | 5 |
HAVC 115 | Gender in African Visual Culture | 5 |
HAVC 116 | African Architecture | 5 |
HAVC 117 | Contemporary Art of Africa | 5 |
HAVC 118 | Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora | 5 |
HAVC 140C | Race and American Visual Arts | 5 |
MUSC 180B | Studies in World Musics: Africa and the Americas | 5 |
THEA 100B | Black Theater USA | 5 |
THEA 100W | Black/African Diasporic World Theater | 5 |
THEA 151A | Studies in Performance: African American Theater Arts Troupe | 5 |
THEA 167 | Africanist Aesthetics: Live Dialogues in the Americas and Africa | 5 |