University of Missouri - Kansas City : Black Studies Minor

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Black Studies Minor

Faculty Coordinator:: Mathew Forstater�, Associate Professor of Economics and Black Studies and Interim Coordinator, Black Studies (816)�235-5862

Black Studies is inherently interdisciplinary, and students who choose this minor will acquire a broad-based knowledge and understanding of the issues and research methodologies that have shaped scholarship in African-American studies.They will have the chance to learn specifics about the history, literature, artistic expression and cultural contexts of Africans and African Americans here in the United States, as well as in other parts of the world. They should also have an enhanced perspective of their major discipline after completing the minor. The addition of a minor is especially useful for students outside history or English studies who want to study African-American studies, but do not have that opportunity in their specific major.

Students earning a minor in Black Studies take at least 18 credit hours of coursework, a minimum of nine hours at the 300- or 400-level, and a minimum of nine hours must be earned at UMKC. The program of study is planned with a faculty coordinator.

Required Courses                                                Hours
 A&S 334/5502     Introduction to African-American Studies          3

One of the following:
 ENGLISH 331           African-American Literature Survey I         3
 ENGLISH 333           African-American Literatures Survey II       3

One of the following:
 HISTORY 394           African-American History Before 1877         3
 HISTORY 395           African-American History Since 1877          3

Electives
 ART 315/497H          Art of African, Oceanic
                        and New World Cultures                      3
 ART 300CD/497H        The African Diaspora in the Arts and Culture 3
 ART 300CF/497H        African/African-American
 ANTHRO 300CF/          Women and Creativity                        3
 SOCIOL 300CF
 ART 442               Art of Sub-Saharan Africa                    3
 ART 497H/5571         African Influences on New World Cultures     3
 ECON 314              Race, Class and Gender:
                        Theory, History and Policy                  3
 ECON 495D             Area Studies in Economics-Africa             3
 ENGLISH 410           Black Women Writers                          3
 SOCIOL 310R           Families and the Life Course                 3
 SOCIOL 313R           Sociology of Women                           3
 SOCIOL 322            Race and Ethnic Relations                    3

 Additional courses with significant Black Studies content
 with approval of faculty coordinator                               3