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Aug 27, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
African American and African Diaspora Studies (BA)
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The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in African American and African Diaspora Studies is offered under the auspices of the Interdisciplinary Studies unit of the College of Liberal Arts. Students may major or minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies. The program 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 the Afro-American experience today. The program is built around a core of courses that systematically document critical aspects of the Afro-American experience from its antecedents in antiquity to the prominent issues of the present day. Engaging both past and contemporary aspects of this experience provides students access to materials and events that have historically not been given adequate treatment, and allows students to contextualize current issues relating to Afro-Americans in an academically critical way. The program is also designed to effectively prepare students who desire to continue on to graduate work in Afro-American Studies.
Please see the UNLV College of Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Degrees web page at www.unlv.edu/interdisciplinary/ for information about department programs, faculty and facilities. Degree worksheets and 4/5 year plan for the major are available at www.unlv.edu/degree/ba-afro-american-studies.
Learning Outcomes
- Through interdisciplinary study, develop and display university level critical thinking, research, and writing skills, especially as it pertains to Africa, African America, and the larger African Diaspora.
- Identify and explain key political, cultural, and historical moments, forces, and agents that have shaped Africa, African America, and the larger African Diaspora.
- Identify and explain major literary and/or artistic movements, their impacts, goals, and prominent figures that have shaped Africa, African America, and the larger African Diaspora.
- Develop broad knowledge about global and local Black thought at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and other identity markers.
- Apply the methods and analytical approaches of the humanities, social sciences, and/or the arts to the study of Africa, African America, and the larger African Diaspora.
- Identify and relate historical and contemporary issues, major debates, and key conversations in and about communities throughout Africa, African America, and the larger African Diaspora.
- Understand the historical and cultural importance of activism, especially in relationship to the creation of the field of study.
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African American and African Diaspora Studies (BA) Degree Requirements - Total: 120 Credits
General Education Requirements - Credits: 38-41
First-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
English Composition - Credits: 6
Second-Year Seminar - Credits: 3
Constitutions - Credits: 4-6
Distribution Requirement - Credits:19-20
Please see Distribution Requirements for more information.
- Humanities and Fine Arts: 9 Credits
- Two courses 3 credits each from two different humanities areas - 6 credits
- One course in fine arts- 3 credits
- Social Science
- Automatically satisfied by Major requirements
- Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking: 10-11 credits
- Two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must have a lab.
- Analytical Thinking 3 credit course
Multicultural and International
See note 1
Multicultural, one 3 credit course required
International, one 3 credit course required
These courses may overlap with general education and major requirements. A single course may not meet the multicultural and international requirements simultaneously. For the list of approved multicultural and international courses, go to: www.unlv.edu/provost/multicultural-requirements.
Major Requirements - BA in African American and African Diaspora Studies - Credits: 33
See notes 2-4
AAS Electives - Credits: 21
Select seven courses from the list
Other African-American Studies Requirements - 18 Credits
- Social Science - Credits: 9
- Fine Arts - Credits: 3
- Foreign Language/Foreign Culture - Credits: 6
General Electives - Credits: 28-31
Notes
- UNLV’s multicultural requirement is met by African-American and African Diaspora Studies majors through any of the following required courses: , , or .
- Not more than two of the following courses may count toward the major in African-American and African Diaspora Studies: , , or .
- Use of the following courses for major credit requires permission of the Director of the African-American and African Diaspora Studies Program: , , , , or .
- At least 18 credits of the required 42 upper-division credit hours (300-400 level) must be in the major.
- AAS 330 and AAS 433 are Milestone Experience courses for African American and African Diaspora Studies B.A.
- IDS 495A is a Culminating Experience course for African American and African Diaspora Studies B.A.
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