AAST

AAST/HIST 105H Interpreting the African Past 3

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course offers students a critical approach to interpreting the history of Africa. A fast-paced survey of African history, it affords students a grounding in the major themes of African history. The course focuses on the major economic, social, and political institutions of Africa, past and present, and explores how historical developments assist comprehension of present- day Africa.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Required of all history and secondary education social studies majors. Recommended prior to upper-division course work. Examines methods of historical research and primary and secondary source analysis, inclusive of internet usage. Explores historiography and historical writing. Introduces students to issues in the philosophy of history. HIST 104H or HIST 105H or HIST 126H or HIST 127H or HIST 205H

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

HIST 100H or HIST 101H or HIST 102H or HIST 103H or

Covers the design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry in social sciences.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

AAST 100S or permission of the instructor

AAST/POLS 316 Politics of Africa 3 AAST/SOC 323 Sociology of Minority Families 3 ). AAST 368 Internship 3

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course is intended to familiarize students with the struggles, advances, and setbacks of African peoples for state-building and socioeconomic development during the colonial and post-independence eras.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

AAST 100S or permission of the instructor

This course is an introduction to social research methods. The primary purpose of this course is to survey the major research designs and research techniques that are the core of contemporary approaches used to study social phenomena as well as the lives and experiences of African Americans. Ethical implications of social research and data analysis will also be covered. ons Prerequisites: General Education human behavior course

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Examination and explanation of minority families' lives in relationship to other societal institutions and historical developments. The course focuses on issues of minority families and places these issues in a sociological framework, e.g., stratification, poverty and gender.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

SOC 201S or permission of the instructor

The course examines African-American history from the African background through the Civil War. Emphasis is placed on an analysis of African-Americans' role in the political, economic, social and cultural life o the United States.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

AAST 100S or permission of the instructor

Individual practical experience in community-based organizations, public bureaucracies, administrative agencies and other organizations and firms. Student can gain exposure in the not-for-profit and profit sectors.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Permission of program director

This course surveys the political, social and cultural history of colonial and post-independent Africa. Major themes include colonization and resistance, anti-colonial movements, social and cultural transformations, urbanization and popular culture and post colonial challenges.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

AAST 100S or permission of the instructor

These courses are open to majors and non-majors. Ethnic studies majors may take these courses to satisfy requirements for the concentration. These courses will appear in the course schedule, and will be more fully described in information distributed to all academic advisors.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

AAST 100S or permission of the instructor

AAST/POLS 412 Politics of the Civil Rights Movement 3 AAST/SOC 426 Minority Group Relations 3 AAST/CRJS/SOC Diversity in Criminal Justice Organizations 3 452 AAST/PSYC 460 Psychology of African Americans 3

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

and Economic Development Approved 300-/400-level Social Science 3 Approved 300-/400-level Humanities 3 3 Elective course 3 3 Upper-Division General Education Course or Minor 3

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Examines the political activities which resulted in the passage of the nation' second Civil Rights policy, the 1960 and 1964 Civil Rights Acts, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. The course will analyze the underpinnings, leadership, and political strategies of the Civil Rights Movement.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Six hours in human behavior and junior standing

Social Thought (Grade of C or better required) Approved 300-/400-level Social Science 3 Approved 300-/400-level Humanities 3 Upper-Division General Education Course or Minor 3 dit Hours Spring

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

The study of the process of and responses to the oppression of racial, religious, ethnic, and national minorities in a variety of countries within a historical and comparative perspective. Special emphasis given to American minorities and especially African Americans.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

SOC 201S or permission of the instructor

This course will examine the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, crime, justice and the operation of the criminal justice system and will critically f assess controversial issues surrounding race, ethnicity, crime, and justice. Students will discuss contemporary social justice issues as they relate to race, ethnicity, crime, and justice. The theoretical frameworks that explain the intersection between race, ethnicity, crime and justice will be examined. The course will also investigate the broad range of policy issues and recommendations impacting communities of color and the administration of criminal and social justice.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

CRJS 215S or SOC 201S or permission of the instructor

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course examines the issues and perspectives related to the psychological evolution of African Americans in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on exploring the discipline of psychology from an Afrocentric focus. instructor

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

AAST 100S and junior standing or permission of the

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Approved 300-/400-level African Studies 3 15 Elective course 3 Elective course 1 Minor or Elective 3 Total Credit Hours 120 4 BA or BS to MBA (Master of Business 3 Administration) Linked Program 3 The linked BA/MBA or BS/MBA program is an early entry to the MBA 3 program of study. The early-entry program is designed for well qualified non-business undergraduate ODU students to start their MBA program prior to completing their undergraduate degree. Well qualified non- business undergraduate students may take MBA-level courses as early as three semesters prior to graduation and count up to 12 graduate credits toward their undergraduate degree. Students participating in the early- entry program must earn a minimum of 150 credit hours (120 discrete credit 16 hours for the undergraduate degree and 30 discrete credit hours for the graduate degree). Early-entry program students should carefully consider their undergraduate degree program requirements when planning their course of study. Students in the early-entry program work in close consultation with the MBA Program Office and should refer to information in the Strome College of Business section in the graduate catalog (http://catalog.odu.edu/

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

This course focuses on a variety of selected topics in African American Studies. These courses will appear in the course schedule, and will be more fully described in information distributed to all academic advisors.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Senior standing

Students are exposed to opportunities to conduct independent research and/ or study in areas focused on the political, social and cultural experiences of . people of African descent in the U.S. and the African Diaspora. Old Dominion University Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026 802

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Junior standing or permission of instructor

Students are exposed to opportunities to conduct independent research and/ or study in areas focused on the political, social and cultural experiences of people of African descent in the U.S. and the African Diaspora.

Subject

AAST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-graduate

Source

catalog.odu.edu

Prerequisite

Permission of instructor