Undergraduate Course Catalog 2006-2007

College of Liberal Arts

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The African American studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary approach to a central dimension of United States history, literature, and culture. Many aspects of African American history and culture have been central to the development of the United States, highlighting both the nation’s problems and its promise, and affecting virtually all areas of academic study through the years, from the humanities to the sciences. The minor therefore is designed to serve the needs of all students, regardless of their ethnic or cultural background, complementing their work in their major fields of study while serving also as a focused corrective to traditionally marginalized approaches to African American experience.

African American studies consists of five 4-credit courses, including an introductory course, a required history course, and three other approved offerings. Students must take at least one course at the 600 or 700 level. The required core courses provide students with a general understanding of the broad and diverse spectrum of African American history, literature, and culture. Electives enable students to develop that understanding by way of special topics courses in their major fields of study, including some that provide students with an opportunity to relate African American issues to African history and culture. Students must earn a C- or better in each course, and maintain a 2.00 grade-point average in courses taken for the minor. Electives may include a senior seminar.
Students interested in minoring in African American studies should contact the coordinator, Funso Afolayan, Department of History, 415 Horton Social Science Center, (603) 862-3026, e-mail fsa@unh.edu; or African American Studies office, 329 Huddleston Hall, (603) 862-3753; e-mail afam.minor@unh.edu.

Required Courses
ENGL 517/AMST 502, Introduction to African American Literature and Culture or
INCO 450, Introduction to Race, Culture, and Power
HIST 505 or 506, African American History

Elective Courses
Electives are approved for the minor and announced each semester in the Time and Room Schedule and on the African American Studies Web site, www.unh.edu/afamstudies. Although the minor is focused on African American Studies, this focus does not exclude the global context for African American Studies. Accordingly, courses in African, Caribbean, and other histories and cultures can count towards the minor. Often, too, courses that are only partly devoted to the concerns of African American Studies can count for the minor, if the instructor will allow the students to focus a significant amount of coursework to this field of study. Approval by both the minor coordinator and the course instructor is required for such courses.