The request to revise the African American Literature Minor

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MINOR IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

A minor in African-American Literature consists of 18 hours as follows:

Required courses - 9 hours

(Note: these courses must be taken before the elective courses)

• ENGL 2100 Writing About Literature
• ENGL 2301/AFRS 2301 Introduction to African- American Literature
• AFRS 2160 The African-American Experience Through Reconstruction

Elective courses – 9 hours

• ENGL 3050, 4050, 4090 Special Topics courses (only when concerning African-American literary figures or topics)
• ENGL 3157 Twentieth-Century Black American Literature: Prose
• ENGL/AFRS 3158 Gender and African-American Literature
• ENGL/AFRS 3159 African-American Poetry
• ENGL 4155 Pan-African Literature

Note: ENGL 1101 and 1102 (or 1103) are prerequisites for all courses in the minor except AFRS 2160.

Minor in Diverse Literatures and Cultural Studies

The Minor in Diverse Literatures and Cultural Studies provides students with an opportunity to study literatures and cultures in more contexts and forms of diversity.   Students explore the ways in which the academic study of diverse literatures and cultures is linked to other disciplines that focus on particular aspects of diversity.  Students may select from a wide range of courses in African American Literature and Culture, Africana Studies, American Indian Literature and Culture, Anthropology, Latino/Latina Literature and Culture, Women’s and Gender Studies, and History. 

A Minor in Diverse Literatures and Cultural Studies consists of 18 hours at the 2000 level and above.  Students must take ENGL 2100 (Writing About Literature), and they must select one course from the following:

• ENGL 2301 (Introduction to African American Literature)
• ENGL 3050 (Introduction to American Indian Literary Studies)
• ENGL 4104 (Multicultural Children’s Literature)
• ENGL 3050 (U.S. Latino/Latina Writers)

Students must take one additional course in Diverse Literatures and Cultural Studies offered by the English Department.

For the remaining 9 hours, students select courses pertaining to topics in Diverse Literatures and Cultural Studies from an approved distribution list (see below).   Other courses that do not appear on the list, especially topics courses and independent study courses, may be approved if they pertain to diversity-related topics. 

Listed below are elective courses that are approved for the minor.  The topics courses (2050/3050/4050) are approved with the permission of the undergraduate coordinator.

One course in African American Literature

• ENGL 3050-Early Black American Literature
• ENGL 3157-Twentieth-Century Black American Literature: Prose
• ENGL 3158-Gender in African American Literature
• ENGL 3159 –African American Poetry

One course in Gender and Sexuality

• ENGL4050-Modernism, Gender, and Sexuality
• ENGL 4002. Women and Literature.
• ENGL/AMST 4050, Multicultural Women Writers Imagining America
• WGST 2050, Women of the Middle East
• WGST 2050, Introduction to Lesbian & Gay Studies
• WGST 2120, African American Women
• WGST 4050, Queer Theory
• WGST 4120, Women's Studies International
• HIST 2151 US Women's History since 1877

One Additional Course in a Diversity Subject Area 

• ENGL 4111-Ancient World Literatures
• ENGL 4112-Modern World Literatures
• ENGL 3050 Linguistic Diversity in North America
• ENGL 3050-Jewish Identity and the Graphics Novel
• ENGL 3050-American Indian Fiction and Community
• ENGL 3050-American Indian Women’s Literature
• ENGL 4050-American Indian and Children’s Literature
• AMST 3000 Appalachian Literature & Culture
• ANTH 2112- North American Indians
• HIST 2000-Topics in US History: American Indian History 1400-Present
• HIST 2000 Topics in US History: Latino/a History
• HIST 2150 U.S. Women’s History to 1877
• HIST 2161-African American History Survey
• HIST 2162-African American History Survey
• AFRS 2105. Black Images in the Media in the US. (3) Crosslisted as COMM 2120.
• AFRS 2120.  African American Women. 
• AFRS 2160. The African American Experience through Civil War.
• AFRS 2161. The African American Experience:  Civil War
• AFRS 2215. Black Families in the United States
• AFRS 3101. Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in the US     
• AFRS 3158.  Gender and African-American Literature 
• AFRS 3179. African American Political Philosophy
• AFRS 3240. African Americans and the Legal Process
• AFRS 3280. Blacks in Urban America