Africana Studies Minor

Director: Adonijah L. Bakari
Adonijah.Bakari@mtsu.edu
615-898-5905

The Africana Studies Program offers an 18-hour undergraduate, interdisciplinary minor. The primary objective is to provide students an opportunity to examine the multidimensional, multicultural experiences of African Americans and their responses to the blending of an African heritage and American culture.

The person who completes the Africana Studies minor will have enlarged perspectives and increased skills and marketability for jobs in the fields of education, criminal justice, social work, governmental departments and agencies, and in the private sector.

Interdisciplinary Minors

Interdisciplinary minors require the student to complete a minimum of 15 to 21 hours from a list of specific courses. Unless otherwise noted, a student may take no more than 6 hours of courses from a single department until he or she surpasses the required minimum number of hours necessary for completing the minor. Exceptions to this rule may be found within the discussions of several of the minors. In most cases, a student is also limited to just 3 hours of credit toward the minor in the same department or discipline in which he or she is taking a major. Students must fulfill all departmental prerequisites for any course within an interdisciplinary minor. In some cases, advisors may approve course substitutions within these program requirements.

Required Courses (9 hours)

AST 2100 - Introduction to Africana Studies 3 credit hours
ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours (selected topics only - during registration search for courses using Attribute: Africana Studies)
HIST 4160 - Black Religious History 3 credit hours

Electives (9 hours)

ART 4870 - African Art 3 credit hours
ART 4880 - African American Art 3 credit hours
AST 4600 - Topics in Africana Studies 3 credit hours
AST 4990 - Independent Study in Africana Studies 3 credit hours
COMM 2560 - Intercultural Communication 3 credit hours
DANC 4200 - Women in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Dance 3 credit hours
(selected topics only - during registration search for courses using Attribute: Africana Studies)
EMC 4820 - Race, Gender, and Class in Media 3 credit hours
ENGL 3340 - African American Literature 3 credit hours
ENGL 3450 - Studies in Narrative 3 credit hours
(selected topics only - during registration search for courses using Attribute: Africana Studies)
ENGL 3735 - Black Women as Writers 3 credit hours
GEOG 3470 - Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours
GEOG 4500 - Geography of the Middle East and North Africa 3 credit hours
HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I 3 credit hours
HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II 3 credit hours
HIST 3030 - Topics in African American History 3 credit hours
HIST 3070 - Topics in World History 3 credit hours
(selected topics only - during registration search for courses using Attribute: Africana Studies)
HIST 3075 - History Abroad 3 to 6 credit hours
(selected topics only - during registration search for courses using Attribute: Africana Studies)
HIST 4425 - Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa 3 credit hours
HIST 4430 - Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours
HIST 4435 - African Slave Trade 3 credit hours
HIST 4440 - The Middle East 3 credit hours
HIST 4560 - Ancient Egypt 3 credit hours
HIST 4750 - African American Social and Intellectual History 3 credit hours
HIST 4755 - Race and Place: The Struggle for Fair Housing Since 1900 3 credit hours
JOUR 4820 - Race, Gender, and Class in Media 3 credit hours
MUHL 4530 - History of Jazz 3 credit hours
MUHL 4540 - History of Black Gospel Music 3 credit hours
PHIL 3500 - Philosophy, Race, and Society 3 credit hours
PS 3170 - Civil Rights Policy and Politics 3 credit hours
PS 3420 - African American Politics 3 credit hours
PS 4180 - Contemporary African Politics 3 credit hours
PSY 3250 - Perspectives on Black Psychology 3 credit hours
PSY 4720 - Cross-Cultural Psychology 3 credit hours
SOC 4240 - Race and Ethnic Relations 3 credit hours
SOC 4511 - Social Movements and Social Change 3 credit hours
SW 3200 - Cultural Diversity: Competency for Practice 3 credit hours