Minors offered by ALS
Minor in Africana and Latino Studies
The department also offers an 18 s.h. minor that is compatible with many majors. For the minor students must take the core courses--ALS 100 & ALS 395-- and at least one course from 3 separate categories:
1) literature, philosophy, drama, music, popular culture;
2) history, anthropology, human ecology; and
3) other social sciences (e.g., politics. geography); interdisciplinary courses
Our multidisciplinary courses fill in the detail, the rich social context in which business, the government and social institutions function. Our Elementary Education Concentration (for Education majors) offers a 24 s.h. concentration in Africana and Latino Studies. The concentration satisfies the liberal arts requirement for New York State certification.
Requirements:
- Required Courses: choose two/6 s.h.
ALS 273 Race, Class, Gender & Culture 3 s.h.
SOCL 240 Urban Sociology 3 s.h.
SOCL 261 Sociology of Ethnic Relations 3 s.h.
GEOG 233 Urban Geography 3 s.h.
Total 6 s.h.
- Select 12 semester hours of approved courses:
A. Choose a minimum of one course/3 s.h.
ALS/ALIT 250 Black American Literature 3 s.h.
ALS/ALIT 286 African American Women Writers 3 s.h.
ALIT 303 Literature of Imprisonment 3 s.h.
ALS/ALIT 351 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance 3 s.h.
ALS/THTR 206 African American Theater 3 s.h.
ALS/MCOM 208 African Americans & Latinos in Film/t.v. 3 s.h.
ALS 278 The African Atlantic: Popular Culture 3 s.h.
ALS 279 Hip Hop Culture 3 s.h.
WMST 290 Women, Race & Representation 3 s.h.
B. Choose a minimum of two courses/6 s.h. (cannot count “A” selections twice)
ALS/Hist 264 African American History II 3 s.h.
ALS/Hist 288 Borderlands: Latino/a’s in the U.S. 3 s.h.
HIST 208 The City in American Culture 3 s.h.
HIST 283 New York City History 3 s.h.
HIST 284 American Ethnic History 3 s.h.
ANTH 209 Hispanic Communities in the US 3 s.h.
ALS/PSYC Dynamics of Racism 3 s.h.
ALS 266 Psychology of the Black Experience 3 s.h.
ALS 273 Race, Class, Gender & Culture 3 s.h.
ALS/FAMS 361 American Families in Poverty 3 s.h.
GEOG 233 Urban Geography 3 s.h.
GEOG 347 Urban Planning 3 s.h.
SOCL 240 Urban Sociology 3 s.h.
SOCL 258 Drugs and Society 3 s.h.
SOCL 261 Sociology of Ethnic Relations 3 s.h.
SOCL 277 Police and Society 3 s.h.
POLS 222 Governing New York 3 s.h.
WMST 269 Women of Color in U.S. 3 s.h.
III. Research or Field Experience (Choose one, minimum of 3 s.h.)
ALS 299/399 Independent Study 3 s.h.
ALS 395 Seminar 3 s.h.
ALS 397 Internship 3 – 9 s.h.
Total: 18-21 s.h.