African-American Studies (AFAM)

Core Faculty:
Professors Conner, Novack
Associate Professors, DeLaney, Kamara, Morel
Assistant Professors Diette, Jennings

African-American Studies is an interdisciplinary program that spans several disciplines, including art, history, literature, politics, sociology, and music. Courses listed below meet the requirements of the African-American studies minor, but other courses across the curriculum that include an appropriate proportion of material on Africans or African-Americans may be substituted with the approval of the program’s advisory committee. In such cases, students may petition the committee to allow other relevant courses.

African-American Studies Courses

African-American Studies courses are as follows:

• AFAM 130 - Introduction to African-American Studies 
• AFAM 295 - Topics in African-American Studies 
• AFAM 403 - Directed Individual Study 
• ARTH 366: African-American Art Seminar 
• ECON 232 - African-American Human Capital Development: Challenges and Opportunities 
• ENGL 365: African-American Literature 
• HIST 259: The History of the African-American People to 1877 
• HIST 260: The History of the African-American People Since 1877 
• MUS 221: History of Jazz 
• POL 250: Black American Politics 
• POL 350 - Ralph Ellison and the American Dream 
• POL 360 - Lincoln’s Statesmanship 
• SOC 228: Race and Ethnic Relations 

Degrees/Majors/Minors

Interdisciplinary Minor

• •  African-American Studies minor

Courses

• •  AFAM 130 - Introduction to African-American Studies
• •  AFAM 295 - Topics in African-American Studies
• •  AFAM 403 - Directed Individual Study