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AAAS Minor Course Requirements:
A total of 18 hours must be selected from courses
listed below:
• ANTH 425 - PEOPLES
OF AFRICA. (3, 0, 3). Overview of cultural diversity
in Africa from an historical perspective. Prereq:
Junior classification or permission of instructor,
and SOCI 100 or ANTH 201.
• CJUS 401. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN CRIMINAL
JUSTICE. (3, 0, 3 ea). Focus on selected
social, political, and legal issues currently
important in criminal justice.
• CMCN 470(G) - INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION.
(3, 0, 3). Survey of the theory and research
on cultural variants in the communication process;
deals with topics including language, culture
and co-culture, cultural variations in perception
and information processing, knowledge diffusion
and planned social change.
• ENGL 371 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ETHNIC
LITERATURE. (3, 0, 3). Variable content; e.g.
Jewish, Black, Native American. May be repeated
for credit. Prereq: "C" or better
in ENGL 102, ESOL 102, ENGL 115 or advanced
placement.*
• ENGL 433(G) - BLACK LITERATURE IN THE
U. S. (3, 0, 3). A chronological survey with
emphasis on modern writers. Sp.
• HIST 330 - MODERN AFRICAN NATIONS. (3,
0, 3). Examines individual African nations and
their development through an in-depth focus
on social, economic and political movements.
Content varies. Students are limited to a maximum
of six hours credit. Alternate subtitles will
appear on students' transcripts.
• HIST 355 - BLACK HISTORY. (3, 0, 3).
A survey of the black experience from the African
background to the present, with emphasis on
the creativity and innovativeness of Afro-Americans
in adjusting to and profoundly influencing American
life. Fa, Sp.
• HIST 366 - WOMEN IN HISTORY. (3, 0,
3). Explores the status and contributions of
women in different historical and cultural settings.
Content varies. Alternate subtitles will appear
on students' transcripts. *
• HIST 369 - CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL
HISTORY. (3, 0, 3). Content varies. Alternative
subtitles will appear on students' transcripts.
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 6
hours. Examines the historical orgins of constitutional
development and legal practices in various areas
of the world. *
• HIST 371 - TOPICS AND THEMES. (3, 0,
3). Content varies. Alternate subtitles will
appear on students' transcripts. Students are
limited to a maximum of six (6) hours credit.
*
• HIST 380 - THE MODERN AFRICAN-AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE. (3, 0, 3). The African-American
community in the U.S. since 1945. Includes the
Civil Rights Movement, the influence of the
third world experience, and the reemergence
of Pan-Africanism in America.
• HONR 385 - MODERN PROBLEMS IN THE HUMANITIES.
(3, 0, 3). Presents a thematic, in-depth discussion
of a modern problem in the arts and humanities.
Fa.*+
• HUMN 200 - IDEAS AND ISSUES. (3, 0,
3). Thematically organized, flexible content
course that offers an interdisciplinary study
of selected topics, such as Myth, War, the City,
the Family, Heroes, etc. Topics change every
two years. May be taken twice for a total of
six hours credit. *
• HUMN 300 - THEMES IN THE HUMANITIES.
(3, 0, 3). An interdisciplinary examination
of significant themes or concepts relevant to
the humanistic tradition, such as the impact
of computers in society, the Baroque era, Romanticism
in western culture. May be taken twice for a
total of six hours credit.*
• HUMN 400(G) - HUMANITIES COLLOQUIUM.
(3, 0, 3). An interdisciplinary study that examines
how human values have shaped a conception of
reality during a particular time segment, e.g.
Classicism in the Age of Pericles, Europe between
the Wars, Christianity and Classical Civilization,
The Renaissance in Northern Europe. Sp. *
• MUS 303 - MUSIC APPRECIATION: INTRO
TO JAZZ. (3, 0, 3). Open to all students. A
non-technical introduction to the history of
jazz with emphasis placed upon listening to
such noted innovators as Louis Armstrong, Bessie
Smith, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Lester
Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and John
Coltrane.
• MUS 362 - CREOLE AND BLACK MUSIC IN
LOUISIANA. (3, 0, 3). A history and analysis
of black music in Louisiana through jazz, blues
and zydeco. Majors and non-majors.
• POLS 390. SPECIAL TOPICS IN POLITICS.
(1-6, 0, 1-6). Variable content. Subtitles will
appear
on transcript.
• SOCI 310 - MINORITY GROUPS. (3, 0, 3).
A cross-cultural analysis of the social relationships
between majority and minority ethnic groups,
including women. Emphasis on cultural differences,
social policies, and theories of prejudice and
discrimination. Fa, Sp. Prereq: SOCI 100 or
permission of instructor.
• SOCI 494(G) - SEMINAR IN SOCIOLOGY.
(3, 0, 3). Fa, Sp. Prereq: Permission of instructor.
*
* When content is African and/or
African-American.
+ Honor courses are limited to students in the
Honors Program.
The following
courses may also be used to fulfill the minor.
However, the student who chooses these courses
must be highly proficient in French.
• FREN 311 - INTRODUCTION TO
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE. (3, 0, 3).
Prereq: FREN 202 or 203.
• FREN 421(G) - CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
OF THE CONTEMPORARY FRANCOPHONE WORLD. (3, 0,
3). Emphasis upon contemporary, everyday Canada,
Louisiana, and other areas of the French-speaking
world.
• FREN 425(G) - FRANCOPHONE ORAL LITERATURE.
(3, 0, 3). Includes France, Quebec, New Brunswick,
Missouri, the West Indies, Africa, and especially
Louisiana. Prereq: FREN
362.
• FREN 491(G) - TOPICS IN ANTILLES AND
FRENCH AFRICAN LITERATURE AND
CIVILIZATION. (3, 0, 3). Topics on varying literary
and cultural fields in Antilles and
African regions of French and Creole language.
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