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Apr 24, 2024
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Undergraduate Calendar 2023-2024 [-ARCHIVED CALENDAR-]
Interdisciplinary Minor in Africa and Black Diaspora Studies
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The Interdisciplinary Minor in Africa and Black Diaspora Studies is made up of courses spanning across more than a dozen departments. A Minor in Africa and Black Diaspora Studies provides students with in-depth understanding of Black and African-diaspora peoples and societies around the world.
Students are required to complete a minimum of 24 units from the list below. No more than 6 units of Level 1 courses may be applied towards the completion of the Minor. Some of the courses below are cross-listed.
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Course List
- ABLD 3BA3 - Topics in Black, African and African Diaspora Studies
- ABLD 3CD3 - Topics in the Black Caribbean and its Diasporas
- ANTHROP 1AB3 - Introduction to Anthropology: Race, Religion, and Social Justice
- ANTHROP 2E03 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- ANTHROP 2HI3 - Medical Anthropology
- ANTHROP 3HI3
- ANTHROP 3ST3 - Anthropology of Postcolonial Science and Technology
- CSCT 3A03
- CMST 3JJ3 - The Rise of the Music Industry
- CMST 3PM3 - Public Memory, Media, and African Diaspora Studies
- CSCT 3R06 A/B
- CMST 3RR3 - Race, Religion and Media
- ENGLISH 3A03 - Critical Race Studies
- ENGLISH 3GG3 - Theories of Decolonization and Resistance
- ENGLISH 3EE3
- ENGLISH 3R06 A/B
- ENGLISH 3RR3
- ENGLISH 3V03 - Global Anglophone Literature and Film
- ENGLISH 4AA3
- ENGLISH 4WL3
- ENVSOCTY 3RA3 - Africa’s Human Geographies
- FRENCH 2AC3 - Introduction to Francophone Literatures and Cultures
- GENDRST 1A03 - Gender, Race, Culture, Power
- HTHSCI 3RH3 - Racism and Health
- HISTORY 2CS3 - The History of Slavery in the Americas
- HISTORY 2EN3 - The Post-Slavery Caribbean
- HISTORY 2J03 - Africa up to 1800
- HISTORY 2JJ3 - Africa since 1800
- HISTORY 3J03 - The United States in the 1960s
- HISTORY 3JR3 - Justice and Reparations in the Post-slavery World
- HISTORY 3N03 - Poverty, Privilege and Protest in Canadian History
- HISTORY 3W03 - Women in Canada and the U.S. to 1920
- HISTORY 4A06 A/B
- IARTS 1PA3 - Perspectives A: Arts in Society: Social Constructions of Class, Race and Gender
- LABRST 1C03
- LABRST 2J03
- LATAM 2A03 - Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies
- LATAM 3A03 - Critical Contemporary Issues in Latin American and Latinx Studies
- LINGUIST 2S03 - Language and Society
- LINGUIST 4R03 - Cross-Cultural Communication
- MUSIC 2A03 - Music of the World’s Cultures
- MUSIC 2II3 - Popular Music in North America and the United Kingdom: Post-World War II
- MUSIC 2U03 - Jazz
- PEACEST 4GG3
- PHILOS 3I03 - Philosophy and Feminism
- PHILOS 3T03 - Philosophy and Race
- POLSCI 3G03 - Ethnicity and Multiculturalism: Theory and Practice
- SOCWORK 4C03 - Critical Perspectives on Race, Racialization, Racism and Colonialism in Canadian Society
- SOCWORK 4U03 - Immigration, Settlement and Social Work
- SOCIOL 2FF3 - The Sociology of ‘Race’ and Ethnicity
- SOCIOL 3Z03 - Ethnic Relations
- SOCIOL 4A03 - Ethnic/Racial Tensions
- WOMENST 1A03
Notes
- Students who have previously completed INSPIRE 3EL3 where the topic was Topics in Black, African, and African Diaspora Studies, or Topics in the Black Caribbean and its Diasporas, may include these course toward the minor’s requirements.
- Student requests for course substitution can be completed by emailing abld@mcmaster.ca.
- Students should note that not all courses listed are available each year. Furthermore, it is the student’s responsibility to check carefully for prerequisites, co-requisites, and enrolment restrictions.
- Students are strongly encouraged to seek guidance from their academic advisor to ensure they are meeting all enrolment requirements, including Faculty-specific requirements for double counting courses required for a student’s major.
- All courses have enrolment capacities. The Faculties cannot guarantee enrolment in courses for minors even when prerequisites have been met.
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