Major
Add a 31 credit major in African and African Diaspora Studies and expand your perspective through interdisciplinary elective course options. The AADS major offers courses in collaboration with departments like Communications, History, Sociology, Philosophy, Music and more. Choose between two tracks to guide your studies and to supplement the Black Atlantic courses that have a global framework putting different geographical regions of the world in conversation with one another within the African Diaspora
Major Requirements:
- AADS majors can have a second major as long as the student stays in compliance with the University鈥檚 policies regarding second majors.
- In addition to taking AADS 1110 鈥淚ntroduction to African Diaspora Studies鈥 (3 credits) and AADS 6600 鈥淪enior Seminar鈥 (4 credits), students pursuing an AADS major need to take 8 additional elective courses, and only two of which can be a 1000-level course.
- AADS majors must take six of their eight elective courses in one track and their remaining two in the other.听
- Students鈥 elective courses may not fall exclusively in Social Science (Communication, History, Political Science, or Sociology) or Humanities (Art History, English, Music, Philosophy, Romance Languages and Literatures, or Theater) departments.
AADS Major Tracks and Black Atlantic Courses
The course listings provide available courses for both Intellectual Traditions and Production (ITCP) and Politics and Social Inquiry (PSI), as well as Black Atlantic courses. While both tracks are rooted in the interdisciplinary study of the African Diaspora, the Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Production track will be for those students most interested in pursuing careers and graduate studies typically associated with the humanities; while the Politics and Social Inquiry track will attract students with more social science curiosities.
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Sample Schedules
Students in the Intellectual Traditions and Cultural Production track examine Black intellectual traditions, expressive forms, and modes of cultural analysis and cultural criticism primarily (but not exclusively) based on textual analyses.
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听 AADS1110听 听听 | 听Introduction to African Diaspora Studies (3 credits)听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听听 |
听 AADS1114/ THEO2114听听 听 听 听 | 听Introduction to African and African Diaspora Religions听ITCP/BAC听(3 Credits)听 听 听 听 听 听听 |
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Course No. | Course Title |
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AADS1108 / ENGL2150 | 听Introduction to African and African Diaspora Literature听ITCP/BAC听(3 credits) 听 听听 |
听AADS2306 / MUSA2306 听 听听 | 听Music of Africa听ITCP/BAC听(3 credits)听 听 听 听 |
AADS3000 / THEO3000 | Black Church, Black Protest听PSI听(3 credits) |
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Course No. | Course Title |
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AADS3326 / ENGL3326听 听 | 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Blackness, Performance, and Freedom听ITCP听(3 credits) |
听 AADS4487 / HIST4487听 听 听 听 | 听 听 听 Black Radical Politics in the African Diaspora, 1900鈥1945听PSI/BAC听(3 credits)听 听 听 听 听听 |
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Course No. | Course Title |
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AADS4016 / ENGL4016 | Reporting Civil Rights听ITCP听(3 credits) |
听AADS2241 听听 | Black Feminisms 101: Harriet Tubman to Beyonc茅听ITCP听(3 credits)听 听 听 |
AADS6600 | Senior Seminar (4 credits) |