Black World Studies - B.A.

Major Requirements:

Thirty semester hours must be chosen from the black world studies courses listed below. A minimum of 15 hours in the major field must be completed at Dominican. Additional approved courses may be substituted for required black world studies courses or collateral courses with the written approval of the director of black world studies.

Black World Studies

Courses

• •  BWS 101 - Black World Studies and Multiculture
• •  BWS 103 - Black Nationalism and Afrocentricity
• •  BWS 106 - Hip-Hop, Multiculture, and Philosophy
• •  BWS 107 - Black Women in Society
• •  BWS 109 - Being Black in America: A Reflection
• •  BWS 110 - Introduction to Sociology
• •  BWS 180 - Pre-Colonial Africa
• •  BWS 200 - African and African-American Thought
• •  BWS 201 - Ghana: A Gateway to Africa
• •  BWS 202 - Ethics in World Politics: USA and Africa
• •  BWS 203 - Black Cultures in Africa, the USA, and the Caribbean
• •  BWS 205 - Race and Race Relations in the U.S.
• •  BWS 206 - West African Antecedents/Afro-Atlantic World
• •  BWS 207 - Introduction to American Studies
• •  BWS 209 - Being Black in America: A Philosophical Appraisal
• •  BWS 211 - Diasporas and Diversity
• •  BWS 212 - Caribbean Dialectology
• •  BWS 216 - American Political Thought
• •  BWS 217 - Caribbean History: Columbus to Castro
• •  BWS 220 - Writing in Africa and the African Diaspora
• •  BWS 221 - Literature of the African Diaspora
• •  BWS 222 - Black Women Writers
• •  BWS 223 - African-American Popular Culture
• •  BWS 225 - Critical Race Theory
• •  BWS 226 - A Cosmos of Color
• •  BWS 227 - History of Pan-Africanism
• •  BWS 228 - World Literature
• •  BWS 230 - African Women and Politics
• •  BWS 231 - Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Africa
• •  BWS 232 - Global Terrorism
• •  BWS 233 - West African Fiction
• •  BWS 234 - Apostles Acting Up: Gender, Race, Prison, and Power in the New Testament
• •  BWS 237 - Great Festivals and Holidays in the Black World
• •  BWS 238 - Global Inequality
• •  BWS 241 - African-Americans and the Media
• •  BWS 245 - Multicultural Psychology
• •  BWS 247 - Amazing Grace: Slavery and Redemption
• •  BWS 254 - The Black Madonna
• •  BWS 264 - Politics in Africa
• •  BWS 277 - African-American Religious Experience and Theology
• •  BWS 279 - Africa’s Culinary Legacy Across the World
• •  BWS 280 - Discrimination and Society
• •  BWS 281 - Colonial Africa
• •  BWS 282 - Multicultural Food Patterns
• •  BWS 285 - The Racial and Musical Legacy of Memphis and the Mississippi Delta
• •  BWS 287 - Contemporary Multiethnic US Literature
• •  BWS 288 - African Environmentalism
• •  BWS 289 - Introduction to French and Francophone Cinema: From Pictures to Pixels, 1890 to the Present
• •  BWS 290 - US Latino/a Literature
• •  BWS 293 - Explorting African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous Art
• •  BWS 297 - Postcolonial Literature
• •  BWS 298 - African-American Literature
• •  BWS 299 - Community-based Learning
• •  BWS 303 - Research Methods in Black World Studies
• •  BWS 304 - African-centered Pedagogy
• •  BWS 311 - Black Spirituality
• •  BWS 317 - Non-Western Political Thought
• •  BWS 318 - Intercultural Communications
• •  BWS 320 - From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Experience from 1619 to 1877
• •  BWS 321 - From Jim Crow to the White House: The African-American Experience Since 1877
• •  BWS 350 - Special Topics in Culture and Civilization
• •  BWS 366-367 - Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa
• •  BWS 372 - Law and Society
• •  BWS 380 - Contemporary Africa
• •  BWS 381 - Social Inequality
• •  BWS 385 - Critical Theoretical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity
• •  BWS 386 - Diversity, Language, and Culture
• •  BWS 390 - Atlantic Africa
• •  BWS 391 - Apartheid in South Africa
• •  BWS 401 - Topics in Black World Studies
• •  BWS 410 - Black World Seminar
• •  BWS 450 - Independent Study
• •  BWS 455 - Internship