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Apr 12, 2025
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Undergraduate Calendar 2025-2026
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.
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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 courses toward the minor’s requirements, Course List A.
- 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.
Requirements
24 units total (of which no more than 6 units may be from Level I courses) 6 units
from - Course List A: Foundations in Africa and Black Diaspora Studies
18 units
from - Thematic Course Lists: Thematic Area 1, Thematic Area 2, Thematic Area 3, Thematic Area 4
Course List A: Foundations in Africa and Black Diaspora Studies
Thematic Area 1: Politics of Race and Societies
- ANTHROP 1AB3 - Introduction to Anthropology: Race, Religion, and Social Justice
- CMST 3RR3 - Race, Religion, and Media
- ENGLISH 3A03 - Critical Race Studies
- ENVSOCTY 1HB3 - Population, Cities and Development
- GENDRST 1A03 - Gender, Race, Culture, Power
- IARTS 1PA3 - Perspectives A: Arts in Society: Social Constructions of Class, Race and Gender
- PEACJUST 3RR3 - Race, Religion and Media
- PHILOS 3T03 - Philosophy and Race
- SCAR 3RC3 - Race, Religion, and Coloniality
- SOCIOL 2FF3 - The Sociology of ‘Race’ and Ethnicity
- SOCIOL 2JJ3 - Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
- SOCIOL 3RI3 - Racial Politics and Resistance
- SOCIOL 4A03 - Ethnic/Racial Tensions
- SOCWORK 4C03 - Critical Perspectives on Race, Racialization, Racism and Colonialism in Canadian Society
Thematic Area 2: Decolonization and Global Resistance
- ANTHROP 3HH3 - Think Globally, Act Locally: Globalization, Social Justice and Human Rights
- ARTSSCI 3GJ3 - Global Justice Inquiry
- ENGLISH 3GG3 - Theories of Decolonization and Resistance
- GENDRST 1AA3 - Gender, Feminism and Social Justice
- GENDRST 2AA3 - Feminist Thought
- GLOBALZN 1A03 - Global Citizenship
- GLOBALZN 3A03 - Think Globally, Act Locally: Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights
- HISTORY 2CS3 - The History of Slavery in the Americas
- HISTORY 2EN3 - The Post-Slavery Caribbean
- HISTORY 2G03 - Modern Latin America Since 1820
- 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
- INDIGST 2G03 - Indigenous Perspectives on Peace and Conflict
- PEACJUST 1A03 - Peace, Justice, Human Rights
- PEACJUST 2CS3 - Decolonization and Activism: Creating Social Change
- PEACJUST 2G03 - Beyond Borders: Race, Gender & Coloniality in Migration
- PHILOS 2LA3 - Latin American Philosophy
- SOCWORK 2BB3 - Anti-Oppressive Social Work
Thematic Area 3: Cultures and Identities
Thematic Area 4: Health, Science and Technology
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