2021-2022 Catalog

Minor Requirements

The Black Studies minor is a five-course, 20-unit program consisting of one required core class (BLST 101); one elective from each interdisciplinary cluster (expressive forms, historical perspectives, and politics and theory (three courses /12 units); and one additional elective chosen from the approved Black Studies courses.

Coursework

Required Core Course

BLST 101Introduction to Black Studies

4 units

Expressive Forms

One course from this category.

BLST 302/RELS 302Spirit Possession

4 units

BLST 346/ENGL 346Beautiful Democracy: 19th Century African American Literature

4 units

CTSJ 280Rastafari

4 units

CTSJ 330Ballroom. Renaissance. Pose. Werk.

4 units

ENGL 142Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality

4 units

ENGL 377Afrofuturism

4 units

MUSC 104/BLST 104Music of Africa and the Middle East

4 units

MUSC 105/BLST 105Topics in American Music

4 units

MUSC 111/BLST 111Topics in Jazz History

4 units

RELS 245/BLST 245African American Religious Traditions

4 units

Students may also apply CTSJ 295 to the expressive forms cluster if they have enrolled in the "Black Popular Culture // The Black Digital Age" section of the course.

Students may also apply THEA 201 to the expressive forms cluster if they have enrolled in "The Black Arts Movement" section of the course.

Historical Perspectives

One course from this category.

BLST 242/AMST 242The Great Migration

4 units

BLST 268/AMST 268Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History

4 units

BLST 376/AMST 376Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory

4 units

HIST 207/BLST 207African American History

4 units

HIST 21319th Century Black Activism for Abolition and Equality

4 units

HIST 309Slavery in the Antebellum South

4 units

Politics and Theory

One course from this category.

BLST 258/POLS 258Theoretical Accounts of Racism

4 units

BLST 352Black Political Thought

4 units

CTSJ 386Blackness and Anti-Blackness

4 units

DWA 233/BLST 233African Political Thought

4 units

DWA 234/BLST 234Southern African Politics

4 units

PHIL 321Philosophy of James Baldwin

4 units

POLS 258/BLST 258Theoretical Accounts of Racism

4 units

POLS 347Race and Law

4 units

Students may apply CTSJ 295 to the politics and theory cluster if they have enrolled in the "Blackness, Gender, & Sexuality" section of the course.

Students may also apply CTSJ 395 to the politics and theory cluster if they have enrolled in the "Chattel Slavery and Its Afterlives" section of the course.

Additional Electives

One course either from this category or the above categories.

CTSJ 255Women of Color Feminisms

4 units

DWA 335Junior Seminar: Theories of Revolution from Africa and the African Diaspora

4 units

EDUC 215/BLST 215Educating African America

4 units

EDUC 320/BLST 320Critical Race Theory in Education

4 units

ENGL 341Race, Law, and Literature

4 units

HIST 277/BLST 277Women and Community Health

4 units

POLS 206Race and American Politics

4 units

SOC 250Race and Ethnicity in American Society

4 units

RELS 244Islamophobia

4 units