Africana Studies

A minor in Africana Studies requires 18 hours.

Student Must take:

• ENGL 4260 - African American Literature
• HIST 4440 - African American History and Culture to 1865
• HIST 4450 - African American History and Culture Since 1865
• HIST 4580 - Africa to the Nineteenth Century

Plus 6 hours, selected from the following:

• ANTH 3130 - African-American Anthropology
• ANTH 3400 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
• ANTH 4550 - Race, Ethnicity and Identity
• ECON 3150 - Economics of Discrimination
• ENGL 4280 - Africana Literature, Media and Culture
• ENGL 4285 - Africana Theory and Criticism
• HIST 4451 - African American History During Segregation Era
• HIST 4455 - History of Black Women in America
• HIST 4830 - Rise and Fall of the Slave South
• HIST 4840 - Making of the Modern South
• LING 3010 - African American English
• MRTS 4520 - African-American Film
• MUET 3050 - Music of Africa
• MUET 3060 - African-American Music
• MUJS 3070 - History of Jazz
• PSCI 3106 - African-American Politics
• PSYC 4040 - Psychology of Race in the U.S.
• SOCI 4540 - Race and Ethnic Minorities

Other classes may be approved at the discretion of the advisor to the minor.

Course descriptions can be found in the UNT Catalog.

For more information, please contact the Africana Studies advisor, Dr. Christopher Todd (Christopher.Todd@unt.edu), History Department.