The School of Liberal Arts: African and African Diaspora Studies
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University's Honors Program as well as to those who seek honors with the ADST
program.
Ten courses (minimum of 30 credits) are required for the major. The major
consists of the following:
I. ADST 200 Introduction to African and African Diaspora Studies
II. One of the following courses in history or culture:
ANTH 311 Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa
HISB 312 West African Culture and Society
HISB 313 Southern Africa
HISU 369 African-American History to 1865
III. Senior seminar
ADST 481 or ADST 482 Special Topics in African and African Diaspora Studies
IV. Seven additional elective courses
Students must ensure that at least three of the electives (nine credits) are at the
400 level or higher and no more than three electives (nine credits) are at the 100
or 200 levels. Furthermore, students must choose elective courses from both the
humanities as well as the social and behavioral sciences and must fulfill a
distribution component of at least two courses (six credits) in African studies and
two courses (six credits) in African Diaspora studies.
Six courses (minimum of 18 credits) are required for the minor which includes
African and African Diaspora Studies 200 plus five additional electives. Students
must ensure that at least three of the electives (nine credits) are at the 300 level or
above. Furthermore, students must choose elective courses from both the
humanities as well as the social and behavioral sciences and must fulfill a
distribution component of at least one course (three credits) in African Studies
and one course (three credits) in African Diaspora Studies.
ADST 200 Introduction to African and African Diaspora Studies (3)
Staff. This course serves as an introduction to the study of Africa and its Diaspora
and is intended to help students understand the complexities of interdisciplinary
approaches to area studies. Emphasis will be placed on the complementary nature
of such scholarship and a portion of the course is devoted to learning how the
"same" issue or thematic is treated in diverse ways depending on the disciplinary
perspective of the scholar.