Undergraduate Bulletin
Spring 2025
Requirements for the Minor in Black Heritage Studies (BLH)
Completion of the Black Heritage Studies Minor requires a minimum of 18 credits, with at least 9 upper division credits.
Requirements for the Minor in Black Heritage Studies:
- KSW 111, KSW 112 Beginning Swahili I, II OR AFS 101, 102 Themes in the Black Experience I, II
- Four elective courses chosen from the list below. At least two courses must be AFS or AFH. Six credits of study abroad may count as elective credit.
- AFH 206 Great Books of the Black Experience
- AFH 329 / HUF 318 Pan-African Literature I
- AFH 330 Pan-African Literature II
- AFH 382 / EGL 382 / WST 382 Black Women's Literature
- AFH 391 Topics in Africana Studies
- AFH 423 Africana Literature in French
- AFS 221 / HIS 221 Introduction to Modern African History
- AFS 277 / HIS 277 The Modern Color Line
- AFS 365 / SOC 365 Introduction to African Society
- AFS 300 Blacks in the City
- AFS 375 Slavery
- AFH 379 / PHI 379 Philosophy of Race
- AFS 345 /WST 345 Culture and Gender: Women in Africa and the Caribbean
- AFS 337 / POL 337 The Politics of Africa
- AFS 346 /HIS 346 Political and Social History of Africa
- AFS 380 / ANT 380 Race and Ethnic
- AFS 340 Human Rights in Africa
- AFS 350 Black Women and Social Change
- AFS 373 Sexualities: African and Caribbean Perspectives
- AFS 381 AIDS, Race, and Gender in the Black Community ANT 250 African Cultures Today
- ANT 307 Prehistoric Archaeology of Africa (with emphasis on the Turkana Basin)
- ANT 355 Ancient African Civilizations
- SOC 365 Global Africa
- SOC 310 Racism and Ethnic Relations
- HIS 282: African American History Since 1877
- AFS/HIS 325: Civil Rights and Black Power
- HIS 339: Recent African American History
- HIS 366: Carceral Studies: Histories of Policing, Prisons, and Surveillance of Race
- HIS 374: Surveillance State: A History of U.S. Domestic Spying
