African and Black American Studies Minor

This is an interdisciplinary major under the authority of the vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean. The program is administered by the African and Black Studies program coordinator.

In the African and Black American studies (ABAS) minor, students explore the histories, arts, cultures, and literatures of people of African descent in the United States, Africa, and throughout the African diaspora. This minor enables students of all racial and ethnic identities to study issues pertinent to Africa and the African diaspora while integrating their understanding of those issues into the broader context of world histories and cultures.

The ABAS minor offers an interdisciplinary and inter-divisional curriculum that invites students to explore a variety of intellectual approaches and to make methodological and thematic connections and comparisons among multiple fields.

Upon completion of the African and Black American Studies minor, students will be able to:
*Identify, define, and analyze a range of Black or African models of thought, being, experience across the United States, Africa, and/or the African Diaspora.
*Describe and analyze the manifestations and consequences of racism and colonialism in the past and present, which have shaped the lives of people, regardless of racial, ethnic, and national background.
*Use theories of Black subjectivity to illuminate experiences in the world.