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Minor in African and African Diaspora Studies

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA

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Program
Award
Minor
Total credits (published)
72
Catalog edition
0344
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The Minor in African and African Diaspora Studies is designed for students interested in the contributions, cultures, and experiences of the peoples of African descent on the African continent and across the Diaspora. The goal of the minor program is to emphasize the importance of Africa and people of African descent in world's cultural, economic, and social developments, and to provide a balance between language, humanistic, historical, and contemporary study. Building on MIT's strengths in understanding science and technology, the minor provides students the opportunity to study interactions of people of African descent with contemporary technology sectors such as digital media, artificial intelligence, aerospace, genetics, and climate mitigation efforts. The minor includes study of economic and political systems as they reflect the African continent and areas of the African diaspora, and the histories, languages, and literatures of Africans and peoples of African descent elsewhere.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
166683
CourseShelf checklist
CK_166683_cc4e19bf
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Area I: Language 1

Choose 1 of the following · Select one of the following: · 4 items
  1. Select one of the following:
    Not resolved to a course
    24
  2. 21G.303& 21G.304
    French IIIand French IV
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 21G.703& 21G.704
    Spanish IIIand Spanish IV
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 21G.883& 21G.884
    Portuguese III Hybridand Portuguese IV Hybrid
    Not resolved to a course

Two subjects at any level in an indigenous African language, or other non-English official language of the region of study

0 items

    Select four subjects from at least two of the following areas 2

    0 items

      Area II: Humanities and the Arts

      0 items

        Select from among the following:

        18 items
        1. 21G.026[J]
          Global Africa: Creative Cultures
          Not resolved to a course
        2. 21G.028[J]
          African Migrations
          Not resolved to a course
        3. 21L.007
          World Literatures
          Not resolved to a course
        4. 21L.504[J]
          Race and Identity in American Literature
          Not resolved to a course
        5. 21M.030
          Introduction to Musics of the World
          Not resolved to a course
        6. 21M.226
          Jazz
          Not resolved to a course
        7. 21M.293
          Musics of Africa
          Not resolved to a course
        8. 21M.340
          Jazz Harmony and Arranging
          Not resolved to a course
        9. 21M.341
          Jazz Composition
          Not resolved to a course
        10. 21M.342
          Composing for Jazz Orchestra
          Not resolved to a course
        11. 21M.460
          MIT Senegalese Drum Ensemble
          Not resolved to a course
        12. 21W.742[J]
          Writing about Race
          Not resolved to a course
        13. 24.912[J]
          Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies
          Not resolved to a course
        14. WGS.130[J]
          Afrofuturism, Magical Realism, and Other Otherwise Worlds
          Not resolved to a course
        15. WGS.142[J]
          Narrative and Identity: Writing and Film by Contemporary Women of Color
          Not resolved to a course
        16. WGS.245[J]
          Identities and Intersections: Queer Literatures
          Not resolved to a course
        17. WGS.247[J]
          Race, Place, and Modernity in the Americas
          Not resolved to a course
        18. WGS.250[J]
          HIV/AIDS in American Culture
          Not resolved to a course

        Area III: Social Sciences

        0 items

          Select from among the following:

          12 items
          1. 11.135
            Violence, Human Rights, and Justice
            Not resolved to a course
          2. 11.143
            Research Methods in Global Health and Development
            Not resolved to a course
          3. 11.164[J]
            Human Rights at Home and Abroad
            Not resolved to a course
          4. 11.166
            Law, Social Movements, and Public Policy: Comparative and International Experience
            Not resolved to a course
          5. 17.269
            Race, Ethnicity, and American Politics
            Not resolved to a course
          6. 17.571
            Democracy, Development, and Climate Change in Africa
            Not resolved to a course
          7. 21G.025[J]
            Africa and the Politics of Knowledge
            Not resolved to a course
          8. 24.908
            Creole Languages and Caribbean Identities
            Not resolved to a course
          9. STS 053
            Multidisciplinary Interactive Learning Through Problem-Solving
            Not resolved to a course
          10. WGS.225[J]
            The Science of Race, Sex, and Gender
            Not resolved to a course
          11. WGS 228
            Psychology of Sex and Gender
            Not resolved to a course
          12. WGS 229
            Race, Culture, and Gender in the US and Beyond: A Psychological Perspective
            Not resolved to a course

          Area IV: Historical Studies

          0 items

            Select from among the following:

            14 items
            1. 21H.165
              A Survey of Modern African History
              Not resolved to a course
            2. 21H.229
              The Black Radical Tradition in America
              Not resolved to a course
            3. 21H.265
              Humanitarianism and Africa: A Critical History
              Not resolved to a course
            4. 21H.266
              South Africa and Apartheid
              Not resolved to a course
            5. 21H.267
              Resistance and Revolt in Atlantic Slavery
              Not resolved to a course
            6. 21H.268
              Urban History in Africa
              Not resolved to a course
            7. 21H.319
              Crime, Punishment, and Policing in America
              Not resolved to a course
            8. 21H.358[J]
              Colonialism in South Asia and Africa: Race, Gender, Resistance
              Not resolved to a course
            9. 21H.361
              Echoes of Slavery: Recovering the Histories of Enslaved People
              Not resolved to a course
            10. 21H.385[J]
              The Ghetto: From Venice to Harlem
              Not resolved to a course
            11. 24.912[J]
              Black Matters: Introduction to Black Studies
              Not resolved to a course
            12. STS 048
              African Americans in Science, Technology, and Medicine
              Not resolved to a course
            13. STS 088
              Introduction to Science, Technology, and Innovation in Africa
              Not resolved to a course
            14. WGS.220[J]
              Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa
              Not resolved to a course
            Source. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, catalog 0344 — https://catalog.mit.edu/interdisciplinary/undergraduate-programs/minors/minor-african-studies/. Captured page pages/0344.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.