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  Newark Undergraduate Catalog 2003-2005 Liberal Arts Colleges Academic Programs and Courses African-American and African Studies 014 Major and Minor Requirements  

Major and Minor Requirements

The African-American and African studies department offers an interdisciplinary major that focuses on the historical, socioeconomic, and cultural experiences of African Americans, and African people in the worldwide diaspora. Courses also are designed to integrate scholarship on gender, race, and class.

Thirty-nine credits are required for a major in the discipline, and 21 for a minor.

The senior seminars (21&62:014:411,412) are required courses for the major.

The following courses are required for both majors and minors:

   21&62:014:111,112  Introduction to African-American and African Studies

   21&62:014:305  Black Women in the United States

   21&62:014:306  Comparative Race Relations

   21&62:014:358  Black Writers of Africa and the Caribbean

   21&62:014:389  Psychology and Values of the African American

   21&62:014:396  The African-American Community

Fifteen additional credits in electives are required for completion of the major. The following electives are strongly recommended:

  21&62:014:220  Black Political Thought

  21&62:014:278  Black Subcultures of the U.S.A.

  21&62:014:302  Special Topics in Black Studies

  21&62:014:371  Internship


 
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