To reiterate: what the proposed new minor does is to incorporate new Art History, English, French, and Nutrition courses (and one new History course) that reflect either new faculty to the University or new interests on the part of existing faculty. Moreover, the proposed new minor allows students more flexibility in choosing their courses and removes the past emphasis on particular departments or faculty (reflecting the way things were when the minor was started in the early 1990s; things have changed markedly since then). Our proposed new minor now looks very similar to African Studies minors and concentrations at most other universities.

Proposed New Requirements for the minor in African Studies

The minor requires eighteen credit hours drawn from the courses below. Students must take six of the following courses selected from at least four different departments. In addition, in consultation with the program director, students may count toward the minor courses taken during the UD winter session programs in Ghana and South Africa.

ANTH 333 Peoples of Africa

ANTH/ARTH 457 Survey of African Art

ARTH 204 Art, Power and Architecture in Africa

ARTH 206 Introduction to Art and Architecture in Africa

ARTH 420 Seminar in African Art

BAMS/HIST 331 History of the Caribbean I

BAMS/HIST 332 History of the Caribbean II

ENGL 382 The African Novel

FREN 455 African Francophone Literature and Cinema

FREN 457 The Francophone World

FREN 458 Aspects of Francophone Literature

FREN 459 Negritude, Antillanite, Creolite?: Identity and Identities in Francophone Caribbean Literature

HIST/BAMS 134 History of Africa

HIST 330 Peasants and Revolution in Africa

HIST 394 Africa Since 1960

HIST 395 Pan Africanism

HIST 397 History of South Africa

HIST/WOMS 439 Women and Revolution in Africa

HIST 440 Seminar in Africa Under Colonial Rule

HIST 475 The End of the French Empire

NTDT 452 Issues in International Nutrition

POSC 433 African Politics

POSC/BAMS 439 Southern African Politics

Substitutions for the above courses may be made with permission of the program director. Independent studies and special problems courses may also count toward the minor with the director’s approval.

The African Studies Minor as now on the books (p. 89 of the course catalogue).

Eighteen credit hours as follows:

Six credits in Anthropology

ANTH 333 Peoples of Africa

ANTH 370 Culture of Food Production and Economic Development (no longer exists)

ANTH 457/657 Survey of African Art

Six credits in History

HIST/BAMS 134 History of Africa

HIST 330 Peasants and Revolution in Africa

HIST 394 Africa Since 1960

HIST 395 Pan Africanism

HIST 397 History of South Africa

HIST/WOMS 439 Women and Revolution in Africa

HIST 440 Seminar in Africa Under Colonial Rule

Three credits from Black American Studies

BAMS/HIST 331 History of the Caribbean I

HIST 332 History of the Caribbean II

Three credits from Political Science

POSC 433 African Political Systems

POSC/BAMS 439 Southern African Politics