Artist: Roware Bearden
Course of Study (36 hours)
Requirements for the multi-disciplinary African/ African American Studies major at UCA consist of at least 36 hours, at least 21 of which must be upper-division courses.
Introduction (3 hours):
AFAM 1330* Introduction to African/African-American Studies
Literature (9 hours):
ENGL 4380 African/ African-American Literature
ENGL 4382 Race in American Literature
ENGL 4381 Major African/African-American Writers
History (9 hours):
HIST 3353 African-American History, 1619-1868
HIST 3354 African-American History, 1868-present
HIST 4388 African History
Cultural/Critical Race Studies (6 hours, 2 of the following courses):
PHIL 2360* Gender, Race, and Class Issues
PHIL 3340 African American Philosophy
LING 3324 Sociolinguistics
Electives (9 hours, to be chosen from the following courses):
ART 3307 The Arts of Africa
ENGL 4304 Studies in English and American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance
ENGL 4362 Southern Literature and Folklore
WLAN 2315 Africa
WLAN 2325 Issues of Cultural Identity in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean
HIST 4391 Topics in History: Special Topics in African American History
HIST 4359 The Civil Rights Movement
HIST 4355 Arkansas History
MUS 4301 Jazz: The History
PHIL 2360 Gender, Race, and Class Issues
PHIL 3340 African-American Philosophy
RELG 3345 African-American Religious Thought
SOC 3310 Minority Relations
SOC 4351 Family Diversity
LING 3324 Sociolinguistics
*indicates that these courses fulfill a General Education Requirement at UCA