Minors

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African American Studies Minor
The African American Studies minor consists of 18 semester units with courses emphasizing the humanities and social sciences. The interdepartmental structure of this minor will enable students, while pursuing degrees in specific disciplines, to interface more efficiently with African Americans and other persons of African racial and ethnic heritage.
African American Studies Minor Catalog/Requirements

Black Women's Studies Minor
The Department of African American Studies is committed to providing students with critical and multidimensional scholarship, teaching, and community service based on Black feminist ideologies and concepts. The Black Women’s Studies minor explores, examines, and engages the intellectual traditions connected to the cultural, historical, philosophical, and social perspectives of the lived experience at the nexus of Blackness and womanhood; topics covered within the minor are interdisciplinary in nature. The minor emphasizes the significance of understanding power and political structures of power through the intersections of race and womanhood. Students will acquire skills in critical thinking, cultivation of dialogue, research development, and contribution to social change based on Black feminist ideologies and concepts. The coursework in the minor focuses on integrating academic and experiential scholarship, teaching, and learning.
Black Womens' Studies Minor Catalog/Requirements

Comparative U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations Minor
The Comparative U.S. Race and Ethnic Relations (CRER) Minor, offered by the Department of African American Studies, is a multi- and interdisciplinary program that examines the historical, cultural, and social formations of power and inequality in the United States. In addition to its emphasis on the comparative histories and experiential knowledge of marginalized racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., including but not limited to Native Americans, Black and African Americans, Latinxs, and Asian Pacific Islander Desi/Americans, this program employs a complex intersectional lens to address issues of social justice, discrimination, settler colonialism, immigration, and racialization.
CRER Minor Catalog/Requirements