Overview & Requirements
The Department of African American Studies offers a campus-wide interdisciplinary minor. African American Studies' minor is premised on the following principles: Interdisciplinary, the centrality of Black women and gender, the use of the Global Africa/African Diaspora as a contextualizing framework and an emphasis on black agency or the self-activity of African peoples. A minimum grade point average of 2.33 is required for completion of courses taken in the program. The Department of African-American Studies must approve a student's minor course plan.