Request to revise course listings for the major and minor in Africana Studies (add new course: AFRS 3830)

Date: October 30, 2009
To: College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
From: Julie Putnam, Administrative Assistant to Faculty Governance
Approved On: October 6, 2009
Implementation Date: 2009

Note: Deletions are strikethroughs. Insertions are underlined.

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BACHELOR OF ARTS

The major in Africana Studies leading to a B.A. degree requires the completion of a minimum 30 credit hours in Africana Studies courses as follows:

• Fifteen credit hours in Africana Studies core courses: AFRS 1100, 3290, 4000, 4010, and one of the following: AFRS 2153, 2160, and 2161.
• The remaining fifteen credit hours must be in Africana Studies electives, including any of the following: 2050, 2105, 2120, 2153, 2160, 2161, 2206, 2215, 2221, 2301, 3050, 3150, 3158, 3190, 3200, 3210, 3218, 3220, 3240, 3260, 3265, 3270, 3278, 3280, 3290, 3692, 3830, 3895, 3990, 4000, 4050, 4101, 4105, 4410.

A minimum 2.0 grade point average is required in the 30 credit hours of Africana Studies.

AFRS 3830. Philosophy and Race. (3) Cross-listed as PHIL 3830. This course both examines the role of the concept of race in the Western philosophical canon, and uses current philosophical texts and methods to examine Western discourses of race and racism. Issues such as whiteness, double consciousness, the black/white binary, Latino identity and race, ethnicity, mixed-race identity, and the intersection of race with gender and class will also be examined. (Alternate year)