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Advanced Placement And International Baccalaureate Credit
Results of the TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo are required if English is not a student's first language. English proficiency waivers are considered on a case-by-case basis. Scores must be sent directly from the testing agency. Minimum TOEFL score is 80 (internet version), 550 (paper version), 213 (computer version); recommended minimum IELTS score is 6.5; recommend Duolingo score is 105 or higher. UNH's CEEB code for the TOEFL is: 3918.
The Africana and African American studies minor provides students with an interdisciplinary approach to central issues in African, African Diaspora, Caribbean and African American history, literature and culture. The minor permits students to concentrate in one of these areas or to combine courses from among the many offerings to create a distinctive program.
The Africana and African American studies minor encompasses the multidisciplinary and comparative study of African history and culture, and the study of the African Diaspora throughout the world, from Europe to Asia as well as to North and South America. The program recognizes the global and transnational dimensions of contemporary African Diasporic experiences in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin American nations. It thus offers a wide variety of courses that are taught across several disciplines in the University. Students are strongly encouraged to select courses reflecting the breadth of offerings in the minor across the University of New Hampshire's undergraduate curriculum.
The program presents strong offerings in Africana studies because an understanding of Africa is central to the study of the African Diaspora. The program also features many courses in African American Studies because many aspects of African American history and culture have been central to the development of the United States, highlighting both the nation's problems and its promise, and affecting virtually all areas of academic study through the years, from the humanities and social sciences to the physical sciences. Students are encouraged to take courses from a variety of departments and disciplines. The minor therefore is designed to serve the needs of all students, regardless of their ethnic or cultural background, complementing their work in their major fields of study while serving also as a focused corrective to traditionally marginalized approaches to Africana, African Diasporic, Caribbean and African American experiences.
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Introductory Course
Select from the following
ANTH 450, Introduction to Race, Culture, and Power
ANTH 500, Peoples and Cultures of the World (Only topic D: Sub-Saharan Africa)
ENGL 517, Black Creative Expression
ENGL 549, In the Groove: African American Music as Literature
GEOG 550, Sub-Saharan Africa: Environmental Politics and Development
HIST 444D, Slavery and Society in Pre-Colonial Africa
HIST 505, African American History
HIST 506, African American History
HIST 588, History of Modern Africa: 1870 to the Present
Pre-Approved Elective Courses
Select from the following
CLAS 550B, Identities and Difference in the Ancient World: Slaves and Masters
CLAS 551, Race, Ethnicity, Class & Classics
CMN 567, Gender, Race, and Class in the Media
EDUC 797, Special Topics in Education (Only topic: Teaching Race)
ENGL 440A, On Race in Culture and Society
or ENGL #441
ENGL 550, Introduction to the Literature and Culture of Race
ENGL 581, Reading the Postcolonial Experience
ENGL 681, Contemporary African Literature
ENGL 693, Special Topics in Literature (Only topic: African American Writers)
ENGL 774R, Modern & Contemporary British Literature: New Departures (Only topic: Black British Writing)
ENGL 778, Race and Gender in Film and Popular Culture
ENGL 787, English Major Seminar (Only topic: Slavery and Culture)
FREN 765, Rebellion and Upheaval in 18th-Century Literature and Culture
GEOG 402, World Regions: Asia and Africa
HIST 440A, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Racial Justice
HIST 440D, Honors/Citizens and Persons
HIST 587, History of Africa from the Earliest Times to 1870
HIST 611, Civil War Era
HIST 690, Seminar: Historical Expl (Only topic: Race in 20th Century America)
HDFS 757, Race, Class, Gender, and Families
MUSI 460, Jazz Band 1
MUSI #461, Vocal Jazz Ensemble 1
MUSI 463, Jazz Combo 1
MUSI 562, Jazz Piano 1
MUSI 563, Jazz Guitar 1
MUSI 762, Jazz Piano 1
MUSI 763, Jazz Guitar 1
PHIL 780, Special Topics (Only topic: Race, Gender and Social Justice)
PSYC 791, Special Topics (Only topic: Race, Power and Culture)
SOC 530, Race and Ethnic Relations
WS 401, Introduction to Women's Studies
WS 405, Gender, Power and Privilege
WS 444A, Race Matters
WS 505, Survey in Women's Studies
WS 798, Colloquium
One Upper-Level Course with Program Faculty 2
Select from the following
ANTH 680, Africana Religions: Mobility, Power, and Material Culture
ANTH 685, Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
ANTH 695, Globalization and Global Population Health
ENGL 650, I Hear America Singing: Studying American Literature and Culture
ENGL 787, English Major Seminar (Only topic: Black New England)
GEOG 685, Population and Development
HIST 600, Explorations (Only topic: Black and Indigenous NH)
HIST 797, Colloquium (Only topic: Slavery, War and Emancipation)
SOC 645, Class, Status and Power
SOC 745, Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality
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