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2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog

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2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Black Studies Minor

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Black Studies Affiliates

Devon Lynch, Director, Black Studies Program
Anupama Arora, English
Tammi Arford, Crime and Justice Studies
Brian Broadrose, Crime and Justice Studies
Anna Dempsey, Art History
Shari Evans, English
John Fobanjong, Political Science
Anna Klobucka, Portuguese and Women’s & Gender Studies
Erin Krafft, Crime and Justice Studies
Lisa Maya Knauer Sociology and Anthropology
Eric Larson, Crime & Justice Studies
Vanessa Lovelace, Crime & Justice Studies
Toniqua Mikell, Crime & Justice Studies
Morgan J. Peters, English
Isabel F Rodrigues, Sociology and Anthropology
Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Crime & Justice Studies
Mark Santow, History
Bridget Teboh, History
Heather Turcotte, Crime & Justice Studies
Timothy Walker, History
Tryon Woods, Crime & Justice Studies

Selected Faculty in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Visual and Performing Arts also participate in offering courses.

Black Studies is a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the society, culture and history of Africans and people of African descent. Drawing on the expertise of scholars of the African and African-American experience in the fields of sociology, literature, the visual and performing arts, history, political science, education, economics and anthropology, the minor has the following goals:

To emphasize the African and African-American contribution to world development
To broaden and deepen students’ understanding of Africa, the African diaspora and the American identity
To provide students of African descent with an opportunity to pursue a program of study directly relevant to their own lives and expose as many students as possible to African and African-American studies.

A minor must be completed at the time of the degree and will be so noted on the student’s transcript. A student cannot be readmitted to the University to complete only a minor.

Requirements

Each student who minors in Black Studies is required to complete BLS 101, Introduction to Black Studies and BLS 480, Seminar in Black Studies which provides a capstone experience. In addition, four elective courses must be selected, at least one course must be taken from two of the four content areas.

Aesthetic

MUS 125 - Jazz: Listener’s Guide Credits: 3
BLS 200 - Studies in Literature Credits: 3 / ENL 200
MUS 342 - African-American Music History I Credits: 3
MUS 343 - African-American Music History II Credits: 3
BLS 473 - Music in World Cultures Credits: 3 / MUS 473

Humanistic

BLS 214 - African American Literature Credits: 3 / ENL 214
BLS 226 - Multicultural Am Lit Credits: 3 / ENL 226
BLS 246 - Women Writers Credits: 3 / ENL 246
BLS 328 - Survey of African American Literature I Credits: 3 / ENL 328
BLS 329 - Survey of African American Literature II Credits: 3 / ENL 329
BLS 377 - Special Topics in Film and Video Credits: 3 / ENL 377
BLS 190 - African Civilization Credits: 3 / HST 190
BLS 205 - African-American History I Credits: 3 / HST 205
BLS 206 - African American History II Credits: 3 / HST 206
BLS 290 - Modern Africa Credits: 3 / HST 290
BLS 314 - History of Urban America Credits: 3 / HST 314
BLS 346 - The Color Line in Modern America Credits: 3 / HST 346
BLS 348 - The American Dream: Inequality and Opportunity in the Modern US Credits: 3 / HST 348
BLS 367 - African Political Systems Credits: 3 / HST 367
BLS 391 - Topics African History Credits: 3 / HST 391
BLS 490 - Spec Topics in Black Studies Credits: 3.00 / HST 403 Seminar in World History (acceptable replacement for BLS 480)
BLS 210 - Special Topics In Philosophy Credits: 3 / PHL 200

Creative

BLS 271 - Oral Interpretation of Literature I Credits: 3 / ENL 271
BLS 272 - Oral Interpretation of Literature II Credits: 3 / ENL 272
BLS 376 - Digital Filmmaking I Credits: 3 / ENL 376
BLS 385 - Topics in Multicultural Literature Credits: 3 / ENL 385

Social

BLS 258 - A History of Criminology Credits: 3 / CJS 258
BLS 315 - Social Control Credits: 3 / CJS 314
BLS 324 - Gender, Crime and In-Justice Credits: 3 / CJS 324
BLS 339 - Racism, Crime and Justice Credits: 3 / CJS 339
BLS 345 - Environments of Justice Credits: 3 / CJS 345
BLS 363 - Race, Colonization and Inequality: the American Indian Story Credits: 3 / CJS 363
BLS 368 - The Politics of Policing Credits: 3 / CJS 368
BLS 374 - Transformative Justice Credits: 3 / CJS 374
BLS 380 - Abolitionism Credits: 3 / CJS 380
BLS 490 - Spec Topics in Black Studies Credits: 3.00 / CJS 400 Contemporary Topics in Justice (Acceptable replacement for BLS 480)
BLS 239 - African American Politics Credits: 3
/ PSC 239
BLS 242 - Ethnic Politics Credits: 3 / PSC 242
BLS 367 - African Political Systems Credits: 3 / PSC 367
BLS 373 - Cape Verdean Politics & Society Credits: 3 / PSC 373
BLS 375 - Haitian Politics and Society Credits: 3 / PSC 375
BLS 416 - Seminar: Civil Rights in America Credits: 3 / PSC 416
PSC 450 - Seminar in Comparative Politics Credits: 3 / BLS 490
BLS 310 - Social Movements Credits: 3 / SOA 310
BLS 331 - Race and Ethnicity Credits: 3 / SOA 331
BLS 337 - Comparative Ethnic Relations Credits: 3 / SOA 337
BLS 347 - Empire and Colonialism in the Afro-Atlantic Credits: 3 / SOA 347
BLS 364 - Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Media Credits: 3 / SOA 364
BLS 366 - Religion and Music of the African Diaspora Credits: 3
/ SOA 366
BLS 384 - Gender, Race, and Justice in the Americas Credits: 3 / SOA 384

Total credits: 18

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