Black Studies Minor

Requirements for a minor are satisfied by successfully completing a total of 18 semester hours of course work in Black Studies. (For course descriptions, please refer to the appropriate departments of the Suffolk University catalogue.)

Required core component - 6 semester hours
All students must take:
BLKST 100 Introduction to Black Studies

and one of the following:

HST 271 African American History 1619-1860
HST 272 African American History Since 1860

Designated course component - 12 semester hours
No more than two courses may be taken from any one department.

BLKST 263 Sabar: Music and Dance of Senegal
BLKST 300 The Art of Gold and Silver Smiths: Jewelry Making in Segal (Dakar Senegal)
BLKST 469 Research Seminar: African American Life in Slavery and Freedom - Reconstruction and the Freedman’s Bureau Papers
BLKST 510 The Senegalese-American Student Teaching Program (Dakar, Senegal)
ENG 357 Afro American Literature
ENG 358 Selected African American Authors
GOV 383 African Politics
HST 261 African History to 1800
HST 263 Race and Politics in South Africa
HST 271 African American History, 1619-1860
HST 272 African American History Since 1860
HST 330 The History and Culture of Senegal
HST 394 Slavery
HST 396 The African Diaspora

Related courses

Related courses are those that include the study of the Black experience as a significant part of the course though not the primary focus. Students may count one related course toward their minor requirements, with permission of the Director. Examples of related classes are:

GOV 348 Law, Race and Gender
GOV 467 Comparative Social Movements
HST 325 Exploration, Colonization and Imperialism
HST 395 Race and Ethnicity in American History
SOC 227 Race in American Society

See the Director of the Program, Robert Bellinger, to see if a class can count as a related class.