AAAD Requirements | Drake University

Requirements for the Minor in African American /African Diaspora Studies (ADS)
Department for the Study of Culture and Society

The minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies is designed to provide students with the critical tools required, and to expose them to the historical knowledge and current research necessary for an informed understanding of continental Africa and African American experience today. The minor will be built around a core of courses that systematically document critical aspects of the African American experience from its antecedents in antiquity to the critical aspects of present day. It will provide students with an interdisciplinary study of the historical and contemporary lived experiences of African descendants in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, as well as continental African nations and its peoples. The minor is also designed to effectively prepare students who desire to continue on to graduate work in African American/African Diaspora Studies.

Students must complete 21 credits from the following:

One Core course (3): This course is a required course for the minor

ADS 072*/WLC 150

Introduction to African Diaspora Studies (3)

Two Foundation courses (6 credits): Complete 6 credit hours from the following courses

HIST 15*	African American History to 1867 (3)
HIST 15*	African American History since 1867 (3)
ENG 065	Introduction to African American Literature (3)
SCSS 167	Sociology of the African American Experience (3)
HIST 060	Africa in World History (3)
SCSS 156	Representing Race: Life History Research (3)

*=special topics numbers; permanent numbers will be created

Electives (9 credit hours): Complete 9 credit hours from the following.

Note: Elective Courses should represent a mix of History and Philosophy; Race and Ethnicity, and Social, Cultural and Political Issues. These courses focus on Africans and African American culture and experience and on the analysis of race as a social construct that permeates in historical texts, laws and government policies. List of possible courses could change.

History and Philosophy

REL 120	Black Christianity & Prophetic Politics (3)
HIST 112	Civil War and Reconstruction (3)
HIST 161	Africa, Africans and Atlantic Slavery (3)
HIST 175	Slavery and Emancipation in the American Past and Present (3)
HIST 115	From Contact to Removal: American Indian History 1492-1840 (3)
HIST 078	Greenwich Village and Harlem (3)
REL *	African Philosophy (3)
HIST*	African American History (3)
HIST 140	Africa’s colonial moment (3)

Race and Ethnicity

ENG 158	South African Literature (3)
SCSR 114	Rhetorics of Race (3)
SCSS 156	Representing Race: Life History Research (3)
REL 118	Race, Religion and Civic Culture (3)
ENG 165	Postcolonial Literature (3)
ENG 164	Latino/a Literature (3)

Social, Cultural and Political Issues

HIST 194	African American History as Public History
HIST 15	Post-WWII Civil Rights Movements
SCSA/WGS 145/Honors 138	Global Reproductive Politics (3)
SCSS 76	Inequality and Public Health (3)
HIST 067	Sustainable Development in Africa/Cross listed in Business and Honors (3)
SCSA 150*	African Diaspora
SCSS 167	Sociology of the African American Experience