THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

AT RUTGERS-CAMDEN

As revised January 2008

 

For more detailed information contact Dr. Wayne Glasker, Director of the African American Studies Program, at 355 Armitage Hall or at Glasker@camden.rutgers.edu.

 

THE MINOR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

 

A minor in African American Studies requires 18 credits. Six of the 18 credits (two courses) may come from courses at the 200 level. Twelve of the 18 credits (four courses) must come from courses at the 300 or 400 level.

 

THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE APPROVED TWO-HUNDRED LEVEL COURSES

 

352:250           African American Literature I

352:251           African American Literature II

512:203           African American History I

512:204           African American History II

516:241           Pre-Colonial Africa

516:242           Africa Since 1800

730:216           Africana Philosophy

830:203           Psychology of Minority Groups

840:216           African American or Africana Religion

 

THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE APPROVED THREE AND FOUR HUNDRED LEVEL COURSES

 

014:300           The Slave Narratives

014:301           Era of the Harlem Renaissance (crosslisted as 512:380)

014:381           Special Topics in African American Studies (fall semester or summer I)

014:382           Special Topics in African American Studies (spring semester or summer II)

070:356           Peoples and Cultures of Africa (Anthropology)

202:337           The Poor, Minorities and Justice

352:350           Black Writing in its Social Context

352:451           Major Black Writers

512:338           America in the 1960s

512:340           The Civil Rights Movement

512:342           America Since the 1970s

790:335           Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

910:452           Groups at Risk (Social Work)

920:316           Race and Ethnicity (Sociology)

920:430           African American Culture (Sociology)

                        Special Topics in Sociology, such as Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois

                        or African Americans and Native Americans

 

Special Topics courses in various departments may also be taken for credit toward the African American Studies minor with the approval of the director.

 

 

STUDENTS MAY USE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING

 

512:230           Education in America OR

964:301           Contemporary Issues in Elementary Education OR

964:302           Contemporary Issues in Secondary Education