This interdisciplinary minor offers students opportunities to critically engage with the histories and theories that sit at the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This minor will allow students to centralize the study of Black women from diverse disciplinary perspectives and provide students with opportunities to engage comparative and transnational Black feminist studies frameworks for analyzing gender, sexuality, and other concepts within the broader disciplines of Africana and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified.
Required Courses
Course List Code | Title | Hours |
AFCS 1101 | Introduction to African American and Africana Studies | 4 |
WMNS 1103 | Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 4 |
Electives
Course List Code | Title | Hours |
| 8 |
| Black Popular Culture | |
| Gender and Black World Literatures | |
| American Women Writers | |
| Race, Class, and Gender | |
| Gender, Race, and Medicine | |
| Digital Feminisms | |
| Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism | |