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Black Studies Minor

Faculty Coordinator:
Mathew Forstater Contact Information, 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
 AS 334/5502     Introduction to
                   African-American Studies      3

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

One of the following:
 HIST 394        African-American History
                   Before 1877                   3
 HIST 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
  SOC 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
 ENGL 410        Black Women Writers             3
 SOC 310R        Families and the Life Course    3
 SOC 313R        Sociology of Women              3
 SOC 322         Race and Ethnic Relations       3
 Additional courses with significant
   black studies content with approval
   of faculty coordinator                        3
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