Black Feminist Studies, Minor

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
AFCS 2325	Black Feminist Studies	4
WMNS 1103	Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	4

Electives 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete two of the following:		8
AFCS 1113	Black Popular Culture
AFCS 3900	Gender and Black World Literatures
ENGL 2455	American Women Writers
SOCL 4520	Race, Class, and Gender
WMNS 1225	Gender, Race, and Medicine
WMNS 2505	Digital Feminisms
WMNS 3100	Gender, Social Justice, and Transnational Activism

GPA Requirement

2.000 GPA required in the minor