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African-American Studies Certificate

Post-secondary Certificate - African-American Studies

College of Humanities & Sciences

Degree Specific Credits: 15

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Catalog Year: 2021-22

Summary

Core Courses

6

Electives

9

Total Hours

15


Core Courses

Code

Title

Hours

Complete all of the following courses:

AAST 141H

Black: From Africa to Hip-Hop

3

HSTA 342H

African American History to 1865

3

or HSTA 343H

African American History Since 1865

Total Hours

6

Minimum Required Grade: C-


Electives

Code

Title

Hours

Complete 9 credits of the following courses:

9

AAST 208H

Africa: From Ancient Egypt to Apartheids Origin

AAST 225

Race, Inequality & Education

AAST 250

Human Rights and Mass Incarceration

AAST 260

African Americans and Native Americans

AAST 360

White Supremacy - History/Defeat

AAST 372

African-American Identity

AAST 375

Black Women: Race, Gender and Sexuality

ANTY 122S

Race and Minorities

FRCH 339

Survey of African Cinema

GPHY 243

Africa

HSTA 342H

African American History to 1865 (only if not completing the core requirement)

HSTA 343H

African American History Since 1865 (only if not completing the core requirement)

HSTA 344

African-American Struggle for Equality

HSTA 347

Voodoo, Muslim, Church: Black Religion

HSTA 361

The American South

HSTA 370H

Women in America: From the Colonial Era through the Civil War

HSTA 371H

Women in America: From the Civil War to the Present

HSTA 385

Families & Children in America

HSTA 417

Prayer & Civil Rights

LIT 343

African American Lit

SOCI 220S

Race, Gender & Class

SOCI 325

Social Stratification

SOCI 443

Sociology of Poverty

Minimum Required Grade: C-