Department of Sociology
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and African American and African Diaspora Studies
Students on Summer 2020, Fall 2020, or Spring 2021 requirements SOCAAADBA
The Interdepartmental Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and African American and African Diaspora Studies allows students to study society and human social interaction as organized in systems of social relationships, organizations, and institutions with focus on African Americans and the African Diaspora. Students how pursue this major will acquire strategies and critical thinking skills to work with diverse populations in a variety of career fields.
Requirements
The major requires at least 40 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Sociology Courses.
- Introductory Course. One (1) course:
- SOC-S 100 Introduction to Sociology
- SOC-S 210 Economic Sociology
- SOC-S 215 Social Change
- SOC-S 230 Society and the Individual
SOC-S 100 Introduction to Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the concepts and methods of sociology with an emphasis on understanding of contemporary American society.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 210 Economic Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the sociological study of economic action. Provides an overview of the sociological perspective of the economy on all levels--from the actions of individuals in economic situations, to organizational behavior, to the dynamics of markets and global capitalism.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 215 Social Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to theoretical and empirical studies of social change. Explores issues such as modernization; rationalization; demographic, economic, and religious causes of change; and reform and revolution.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 230 Society and the Individual
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Personality and its development; relationship to culture and communication and to social settings; deviant types.
- Repeatability
- Credit not given for both SOC-H 230 and SOC-S 230.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
- Charts, Graphs, and Tables. One (1) course:
- SOC-S 110 Charts, Graphs, and Tables
SOC-S 110 Charts, Graphs, and Tables
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Develops students' skills as consumers and producers of charts, graphs, and tables. Students learn to use data to depict social trends; assess political programs; and test social science theories. Students learn how to find, read, interpret, and evaluate graphical information, and how to present results in engaging formats.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
- Social Inequality. One (1) course:
- SOC-S 217 Social Inequality
SOC-S 217 Social Inequality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Why are income, wealth, and status distributed unequally? Is social inequality good for society? Explores the economic basis of social class, education, and culture; social mobility; social inequality in comparative and historical perspective.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
- Race and Ethnic Relations. One (1) course:
- SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Relations between racial and ethnic minority and majority groups; psychological, cultural, and structural theories of prejudice and discrimination; comparative analysis of diverse systems of intergroup relations.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
- Advanced Electives. Nine (9) credit hours:
- SOC-S 302 Organizations in Society
- SOC-S 305 Population
- SOC-S 308 Global Society
- SOC-S 309 The Community
- SOC-S 311 Politics and Society
- SOC-S 312 Education and Society
- SOC-S 313 Religion and Society
- SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- SOC-S 316 Sociology of Families
- SOC-S 317 Social Stratification
- SOC-S 319 Science, Technology, and Society
- SOC-S 320 Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control
- SOC-S 321 Sexual Diversity
- SOC-S 324 Sociology of Mental Illness
- SOC-S 325 Criminology
- SOC-S 326 Law and Society
- SOC-S 329 Women and Deviance
- SOC-S 338 Sociology of Gender
- SOC-S 339 The Sociology of Media
- SOC-S 340 Social Theory
- SOC-S 342 Asian American Communities and Identities
- SOC-S 344 Sociology of Childhood
- SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology
- SOC-S 358 Social Inequalities in Health and Health Care
- SOC-S 360 Topics in Social Policy
- SOC-S 365 Health and Society: Sociology for Health Professionals
- SOC-S 370 Research Methods in Sociology
- SOC-S 371 Statistics in Sociology
- SOC-S 377 Digital Society
- SOC-S 410 Topics in Social Organization
- SOC-S 413 Gender and Society
- SOC-S 419 Social Movements and Collective Action
- SOC-S 422 Constructing Sexuality
- SOC-S 431 Topics in Social Psychology
- SOC-S 450 Topics in Methods and Measurement
- SOC-S 493 Professional Strategies for Sociology Majors
- SOC-S 498 Honors Thesis Seminar I
- SOC-S 499 Honors Thesis Seminar II
- SOC-X 373 Internship in Professional Practice
- SOC-X 477 Field Experience in Sociology
- SOC-X 490 Individual Readings in Sociology
- SOC-X 498 Sociological Research I
- SOC-X 499 Sociological Research II
SOC-S 302 Organizations in Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of the internal structure of firms and other complex organizations, and their power in society. Considers how organizations are shaped by the state, suppliers, competitors, and clients; investigates how organizational structure shapes attitudes of managers and workers. Other topics include technology and organizational culture, organizational birth, death, and adaptation processes.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 305 Population
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Population composition, fertility, mortality, natural increase, migration; historical growth and change of populations; population theories and policies; techniques in manipulation and use of population data; and the spatial organization of populations.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 308 Global Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Multinational corporations, new information technologies, and international trade have made the world increasingly interdependent. This course considers how business, technology, disease, war, and other phenomena must be seen in a global context as affecting national sovereignty, economic development, and inequality in resources and power between countries.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 309 The Community
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological definitions of community; theories of community and community organization; social, political, and economic factors that contribute to community organization and disorganization; alternative models of community development and planning.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 311 Politics and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interrelations of politics and society, with emphasis on formation of political power, its structure, and its change in different types of social systems and cultural-historical settings.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 312 Education and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The role of educational institutions in modern industrialized societies, with emphasis on the functions of such institutions for the selection, socialization, and certification of individuals for adult social roles. Also covers recent educational reform movements and the implications of current social policies on education.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 313 Religion and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the functions and dysfunctions of religion generally, its economic and cultural patterns, religious group evolutions (cults, churches, sects, denominations), leadership deviance, and conversion/faith maintenance.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 315 Work in the New Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological perspective on work roles within such organizations as factory, office, school, government, and welfare agencies; career and occupational mobility in work life; formal and informal organizations within work organizations; labor and management conflict and cooperation; problems of modern industrial workers; and how work has changed over time.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 316 Sociology of Families
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of the diversity of family forms, norms and meanings over time and across social contexts. Considers the interrelationship between families and other social institutions; investigates family formation and processes of social reproduction within families as they are shaped by race, class, gender and sexual orientation; examines stability and change in families in response to shifting social and cultural contexts.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 317 Social Stratification
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Nature, functioning, and maintenance of systems of social stratification in local communities and societies. Correlates and consequences of social class position and vertical mobility.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 319 Science, Technology, and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Issues such as development and structure of the scientific community; normative structure of science; cooperation, competition, and communication among scientists; scientists\' productivity, careers, and rewards; development of scientific specialties; and relationship between science and society.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 320 Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of deviance in relation to formal and informal social processes. Emphasis on deviance and respectability as functions of social reactions, characteristics of rules, and power and conflict.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 321 Sexual Diversity
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological examination of diversity in several dimensions of human sexuality: sexual definitions, incidence of various behaviors, intensity of sexual response, sexual object choice, and other modes of sexual expression.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 324 Sociology of Mental Illness
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Social factors in mental illness: incidence and prevalence by social and cultural categories; variations in societal reaction; social organization of treatment institutions.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 325 Criminology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A study of the patterns of crime, strategies for control, and theories of crime causation.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 326 Law and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Social origins of social bases of legal decision-making, and social consequences of the application of law.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 329 Women and Deviance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Using theoretical models of women and deviance, this course examines gender norms and roles in crime, detective fiction, mental illness, alcoholism, drug addiction, lesbianism, rape, and abortion.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 338 Sociology of Gender
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological perspectives on gender in contemporary societies. Examination of norms regarding gender and how these norms influence and are influenced by individual behavior, group interaction, and social institutions. Topics to be discussed may include family, education, work, media, and other social institutions.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 339 The Sociology of Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The mass media (print, radio, and television) have come to play an increasingly important role in society. This course explores the effects of the mass media on public opinion, crime and violence, social integration, and values. Mass media messages and audiences will also be considered.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 340 Social Theory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Sociological theory, with focus on content, form, and historical development. Relationships between theories, data, and sociological explanation.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 342 Asian American Communities and Identities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course takes a sociological approach to examining the communities, cultures, and identities of Asians in the United States. It situates Asian American experiences within broader social and historical contexts in order to address questions about who is viewed as American and how Asian Americans establish and maintain their ethnic identities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 344 Sociology of Childhood
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of childhood as a structural form and children as social agents who contribute to societal reproduction and change. Considers the relation of childhood to other social institutions and children\'s contributions to society historically and cross-culturally. Examines how social policies in education, family, and work affect children\'s lives.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 346 Topics in Cross-Cultural Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of selected sociological issues with an emphasis on cross-cultural analysis. Specific topics announced each semester; examples include work, family, childhood, religion, and education.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 358 Social Inequalities in Health and Health Care
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the sociological aspects of health, illness, patienthood, medical professionals, and health care systems. What factors create inequalities in health and in medical treatment? Expands understanding of health and illness and of conventional medical and insurance practices, and explores ways to improve health care in America.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 360 Topics in Social Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specific topics announced each semester; examples include environmental affairs, urban problems, poverty, and population problems.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated four times for credit with a different topic.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 365 Health and Society: Sociology for Health Professionals
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Designed for all students, this course is particularly relevant for those planning a career in health care. Explores current events and social problems, such as the re-emergence of childhood infectious diseases. Uses these examples to discuss sociological topics on the new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 370 Research Methods in Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The logic of scientific work in sociology; theory construction; major research designs, including experiments, sample surveys, and ethnographic field studies. Methods of sampling; measurement of variables; and descriptive statistics. Commonly used rates and indices in social research; using software to produce graphical displays and descriptive statistics.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 371 Statistics in Sociology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces the logic of statistical inference. Students will learn how to use sample data to reach conclusions about a population of interest by calculating confidence intervals and significance tests. Estimating the effects of multiple independent variables using cross-tabulations and/or regression.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
SOC-S 377 Digital Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A social scientific exploration of digital society. Covers the rise of the Internet, how it changes social relationships, and how it influences our politics. Especially appropriate for social science or physical and information science students who wish to understand how social science ideas apply to the digital world.
SOC-S 410 Topics in Social Organization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Specific topics announced each semester, e.g., social stratification, formal organizations, urban social organization, education, religion, politics, demography, social power, social conflict, social change, comparative social systems.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 413 Gender and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major theories of gender inequality; historical and cross-cultural variations in systems of gender inequality; social economic, political, and cultural processes perpetuating gender inequality in U.S. society; interrelationships between racial, class, and sex inequality; strategies for social change.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 419 Social Movements and Collective Action
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Change-oriented social and political collective action and consequences for groups and societies. Resource mobilization, historical and comparative analysis of contemporary movements and collective action.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 422 Constructing Sexuality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A sociological examination of a variety of forms of human sexuality from the perspectives of social constructionism and politics of sexuality.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 431 Topics in Social Psychology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Specific topics announced each semester; e.g., socialization, personality development, small-group structures and processes, interpersonal relations, language and human behavior, attitude formation and change, collective behavior, public opinion.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated three times for credit with a different topic.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 450 Topics in Methods and Measurement
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topics may include logic of inquiry, model construction and formalization, research design, data collection, sampling, measurement, statistical analysis.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 493 Professional Strategies for Sociology Majors
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Documenting what has been learned, assembling a portfolio, writing a resume and letters of application; getting ready for graduate school or the labor market, using the World Wide Web.
SOC-S 498 Honors Thesis Seminar I
- Credits
- 1–12 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of honors thesis seminar instructor
- Description
- Research and preparation of senior honors thesis.
SOC-S 499 Honors Thesis Seminar II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- SOC-S 370 and SOC-S 498; and consent of director of undergraduate studies
- Description
- None
SOC-X 373 Internship in Professional Practice
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Two sociology courses, including one at 200-level or above; and consent of the director of undergraduate studies
- Notes
- Three credit hours to count in the major or minor
- Description
- Provides opportunities for students to receive credit for selected, career-related work in a cooperating institution, agency, or business. Research paper that relates work experience to materials learned in sociology courses is required. Evaluation by employer and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Sociology.
- Repeatability
- Limited to a total of 9 credit hours among the following courses: SOC-S 494, SOC-S 495, SOC-X 373, SOC-X 477, SOC-X 490, and SOC-Y 398.
SOC-X 477 Field Experience in Sociology
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor and prior arrangement
- Description
- Faculty-directed study of aspects of sociology based on field experience, in conjunction with directed readings and writing. Specifically, each intern is required to (1) keep a daily or weekly journal, which is given at regular intervals to the faculty sponsor; (2) give an oral report once the fieldwork is completed; and (3) depending on academic credit, write a journal or an analytic paper or both.
- Repeatability
- Limited to a total of 9 credit hours among the following courses: SOC-S 494, SOC-S 495, SOC-X 373, SOC-X 477, SOC-X 490, and SOC-Y 398.
SOC-X 490 Individual Readings in Sociology
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor and prior arrangement, usually in conjunction with honors work
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- Limited to a total of 9 credit hours among the following courses: SOC-S 494, SOC-S 495, SOC-X 373, SOC-X 477, SOC-X 490, and SOC-Y 398.
SOC-X 498 Sociological Research I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- SOC-S 370 and SOC-S 371; or consent of instructor.
- Description
- Participation in all aspects of a sociological research project, including conceptualization and design, data collection, analysis, and report writing.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of SOC-S 491 or SOC-X 498.
SOC-X 499 Sociological Research II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- SOC-S 491 or SOC-X 498; or consent of instructor
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of SOC-S 492 or SOC-X 499.
- Introductory Course. One (1) course:
- African American and African Diaspora Studies Courses.
- Introductory Course. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 150 Survey of the Culture of Black Americans
AAAD-A 150 Survey of the Culture of Black Americans
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- Required for the major
- Description
- Explores the culture of Blacks in America viewed from a broad interdisciplinary approach, employing resources from history, literature, folklore, religion, sociology, and political science.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- African American History. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- AAAD-A 356 African American History II
AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 355
- Description
- 1900 to the present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
- African American Literature. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 379 Early Black American Writing
- AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
AAAD-A 379 Early Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African American writing before World War II, with emphasis on critical reactions and analyses. Includes slave narratives, autobiographies, rhetoric, fiction, and poetry.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 379
- Description
- The black experience in America as it has been reflected since World War II in the works of outstanding African American writers: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- History, Culture, and Social Issues. Six (6) credit hours:
- AAAD-A 113 Atkins Living-Learning Center Foundational Course
- AAAD-A 154 History of Race in the Americas
- AAAD-A 156 Black Liberation Struggles against Jim Crow and Apartheid
- AAAD-A 203 Studying Blacks of the New World: African Americans and Africans in the African Diaspora
- AAAD-A 205 Black Electoral Politics
- AAAD-A 210 Black Women in the Diaspora
- AAAD-A 238 Communication in Black America
- AAAD-A 250 U.S. Contemporary Minorities
- AAAD-A 255 The Black Church in America
- AAAD-A 263 Contemporary Social Issues in the African American Community
- AAAD-A 264 History of Sports and the African American Experience
- AAAD-A 265 Modern Sports and the African American Experience
- AAAD-A 292 African American Folklore
- AAAD-A 304 Black Paris
- AAAD-A 350 Black Atlantic
- AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
- AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
- AAAD-A 363 Research on Contemporary African American Problems I
- AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- AAAD-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
- AAAD-A 391 Black Nationalism
- AAAD-A 398 Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- AAAD-A 399 Advanced Topics in Arts and Humanities for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- AAAD-A 425 The Black Family in Twentieth-Century Rural America, 1900-1970
- AAAD-A 427 Cross-Cultural Communication
- AAAD-A 447 Race, Crime, and Media
- AAAD-A 452 Historical Issues in Black Education
- AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
AAAD-A 113 Atkins Living-Learning Center Foundational Course
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- Must be an Atkins Living-Learning Center student.
- Description
- Examines the impact of African American history and culture on the nation as a whole and on the international community.
AAAD-A 154 History of Race in the Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of the development of racism and racial ideologies in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America from colonial times to the present. Emphasizes the interaction among cultural, political, and economic factors in shaping patterns of conflict and collaboration, domination and resistance.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 156 Black Liberation Struggles against Jim Crow and Apartheid
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A comparative perspective on American race relations, specifically the similarities and differences of the struggles against Jim Crow in America and against apartheid in South Africa. In both places, the late twentieth century witnessed a revolt against the legal and philosophical framework of white supremacy.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 203 Studying Blacks of the New World: African Americans and Africans in the African Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A comparative study of the cultural, historical, and socioeconomic life patterns of African Americans and Diaspora-based Africans in the United States.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 205 Black Electoral Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The course will explore black participation in the formal structures of American government and in the processes by which these structures are accessed. Black participation in local, state, and federal government arenas will be focused upon, and the political benefits to the black community of these involvements will be assessed.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 210 Black Women in the Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary examination of salient aspects of black women's history, identity, and experience, including policies, cultural assumptions, and knowledge systems that affect black women's lives. While the primary focus is North America, the lives of black women in other cultural settings within the African Diaspora are also examined.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 238 Communication in Black America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Communicative experiences of black Americans, including black dialect, language and ethnicity, interracial communication, recurring themes, spokespersons in black dialogue, and sociohistorical aspects of black language and communication.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 238 or CMCL-C 238.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 250 U.S. Contemporary Minorities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An interdisciplinary study of how members of four minority groups--Native Americans, Asian Americans, blacks, and Hispanics--combine their struggle for social justice with their desire to maintain their own concepts of identity.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 255 The Black Church in America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The church's role as a black social institution from slavery to the present, its religious attitudes as expressed in songs and sermons, and its political activities as exemplified in the minister-politician.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 263 Contemporary Social Issues in the African American Community
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A seminar, primarily designed for sophomores and juniors, directed toward critical analysis of selected topics germane to the future socioeconomic and political position of African Americans.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 264 History of Sports and the African American Experience
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the historical participation and contributions of African Americans in sport. Students study African American sports pioneers and the social conditions affecting their participation. Period studied includes pre-slavery to the civil rights era (1500 to 1960s).
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 265 Modern Sports and the African American Experience
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The impact of African American sports heroes, famous teams, and annual sporting events on the shaping of African American culture and the combating of American racism.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 292 African American Folklore
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African American culture in the United States viewed in terms of history (antebellum to present) and social change (rural to urban). Use of oral traditions and life histories to explore aspects of black culture and history.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 292, AAAD-A 392, or FOLK-F 354.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 304 Black Paris
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- The common and divergent experiences of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and African travelers to the "City of Light," from eighteenth-century New Orleans Creoles to twenty-first-century youth of African descent, as seen through literature, performance, film, and other arts. Issues of colonization, expatriation, immigration, exile, the Harlem Renaissance and "negritude," race and diaspora, transnationalism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 304 or CMLT-C 363.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
AAAD-A 350 Black Atlantic
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course is an interdisciplinary and comparative study of historical, cultural, and political issues related to Africa and the African Diaspora (the Americas and Europe). Emphasis will also be on team teaching using IUB faculty. Course will be of interest to students in all university departments and schools.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Comparative colloquium that explores the recent literature on racial connections between "the local" and "the global" in contemporary American experience. Through immersion in the new "transnational" critiques of the United States, students analyze texts that describe African, Asian, European, indigenous, and Latino sensibilities about culture, homelands, belonging, and exclusion.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines several aspects of the classical, indigenous, and modern political/social bondage.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 363 Research on Contemporary African American Problems I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A research seminar, primarily designed for juniors and seniors, directed toward critical analysis of selected topics germane to the future socioeconomic and political position of African Americans. Reading and discussion of relevant texts, studies, and articles. Includes theory construction, research design, and data collection.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Legal evolution of civil rights and analysis of specific relevant legal decisions that stimulated social change (the role of slavery, racial segregation, inequality of educational opportunity, and voting laws).
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the history, development, and manifestation of feminist consciousness among African American women. The course is particularly concerned with how black women's lived experience defines that consciousness, and the differing impact it has among various groups of black women, and in their larger social, political, and cultural communities.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the process, patterns, and paradoxes of the incorporation of individuals and groups identified and/or perceived as "immigrants" from a comparative-interdisciplinary perspective. Focuses on persons from "sending" countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia to the United States. Also examines developments in other labor-importing, postindustrial countries such as France and England in relation to the people who settle there.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 391 Black Nationalism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Consequences of the black diaspora in North America; shifting views of blacks toward their native continent; analysis of current geographic, economic, and political relationships.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 398 Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced study and analysis of selected issues and problems within the African American and African Diaspora experience utilizing interdisciplinary interpretation through analytical reasoning and philosophical discussions. Varied topics primarily in the areas of history, politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 399 Advanced Topics in Arts and Humanities for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced study and analysis of selected issues and problems within the African American and African Diaspora experience utilizing interdisciplinary interpretations through analytical reasoning and philosophical discussions. Varied topics primarily in the areas of dance, music, film, theatre and drama, and literature.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the fight for civil rights by protest organizations such as Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and Congress of Racial Equality; the emergence of black leaders such as King, Farmer, and Malcolm X; the challenge posed by Black Power advocates in the Black Panthers and Black Muslims; and the changes in American society made by the black revolution.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the historical roles, structures, the impact of black protest strategies, and the origins of black movements to assess their impact on communities in Africa and in the diaspora.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the influence of race, gender, and class from a perspective of power and culture. Use of interdisciplinary sources, including essays, fiction, art, and social science research to examine how different social groups vie for representation, self-definition, and power in different social and cultural settings.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Histories, theories, policies, and citizen, state, corporate, nonprofit sector models of transforming past and present societies divided by race, ethnicity, gender, class, caste, tribe, and religion through restorative and distributive justice movements and policies such as civil rights, affirmative action, reparations, and reconciliation tribunals.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 425 The Black Family in Twentieth-Century Rural America, 1900-1970
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the economic, social, cultural and political development of black families residing primarily in rural areas of southern US prior to 1970. Primary attention given to institutional development, race relations, population, and migration.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 427 Cross-Cultural Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey study of national, cultural, and cross-cultural persuasion in theory and practice.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 427 or CMCL-C 427.
AAAD-A 447 Race, Crime, and Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on crime reporting in America, addressing the question of whether or not the media distort the picture of crime. In particular, this course explores the mass media treatment of African Americans in the coverage of crime.
AAAD-A 452 Historical Issues in Black Education
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Education of black Americans and its relationship to the African American experience. Trends and patterns in the education of black Americans as they relate to the notions of education "for whom and for what."
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Contemporary racial problems in American society with regard to law and constitutional principles of basic freedoms and associated conflicts. Effects of societal norms and impact of racism.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
- Senior Seminar in AAADS. One (1) course:
- AAAD-A 493 Senior Seminar in African American and African Diaspora Studies
AAAD-A 493 Senior Seminar in African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- African American and African Diaspora Studies major; and senior standing
- Description
- Lecture/discussions on African American studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and scholarship. Students will develop individual or group projects that synthesize their experiences as majors by demonstrating the interrelated nature of the department's concentration areas.
- 300–499 Level AAAD Courses. 12 credit hours:
- AAAD-A 304 Black Paris
- AAAD-A 350 Black Atlantic
- AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
- AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
- AAAD-A 363 Research on Contemporary African American Problems I
- AAAD-A 379 Early Black American Writing
- AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- AAAD-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
- AAAD-A 391 Black Nationalism
- AAAD-A 398 Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- AAAD-A 399 Advanced Topics in Arts and Humanities for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- AAAD-A 425 The Black Family in Twentieth-Century Rural America, 1900-1970
- AAAD-A 427 Cross-Cultural Communication
- AAAD-A 447 Race, Crime, and Media
- AAAD-A 452 Historical Issues in Black Education
- AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- AAAD-A 493 Senior Seminar in African American and African Diaspora Studies
AAAD-A 304 Black Paris
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- The common and divergent experiences of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and African travelers to the "City of Light," from eighteenth-century New Orleans Creoles to twenty-first-century youth of African descent, as seen through literature, performance, film, and other arts. Issues of colonization, expatriation, immigration, exile, the Harlem Renaissance and "negritude," race and diaspora, transnationalism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 304 or CMLT-C 363.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
AAAD-A 350 Black Atlantic
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course is an interdisciplinary and comparative study of historical, cultural, and political issues related to Africa and the African Diaspora (the Americas and Europe). Emphasis will also be on team teaching using IUB faculty. Course will be of interest to students in all university departments and schools.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 354 Transnational Americas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Comparative colloquium that explores the recent literature on racial connections between "the local" and "the global" in contemporary American experience. Through immersion in the new "transnational" critiques of the United States, students analyze texts that describe African, Asian, European, indigenous, and Latino sensibilities about culture, homelands, belonging, and exclusion.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 355
- Description
- 1900 to the present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines several aspects of the classical, indigenous, and modern political/social bondage.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 363 Research on Contemporary African American Problems I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A research seminar, primarily designed for juniors and seniors, directed toward critical analysis of selected topics germane to the future socioeconomic and political position of African Americans. Reading and discussion of relevant texts, studies, and articles. Includes theory construction, research design, and data collection.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 379 Early Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African American writing before World War II, with emphasis on critical reactions and analyses. Includes slave narratives, autobiographies, rhetoric, fiction, and poetry.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 380 Contemporary Black American Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 379
- Description
- The black experience in America as it has been reflected since World War II in the works of outstanding African American writers: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 382 Black Community, Law, and Social Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Legal evolution of civil rights and analysis of specific relevant legal decisions that stimulated social change (the role of slavery, racial segregation, inequality of educational opportunity, and voting laws).
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 386 Black Feminist Perspectives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the history, development, and manifestation of feminist consciousness among African American women. The course is particularly concerned with how black women's lived experience defines that consciousness, and the differing impact it has among various groups of black women, and in their larger social, political, and cultural communities.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 387 Black Migration
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the process, patterns, and paradoxes of the incorporation of individuals and groups identified and/or perceived as "immigrants" from a comparative-interdisciplinary perspective. Focuses on persons from "sending" countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia to the United States. Also examines developments in other labor-importing, postindustrial countries such as France and England in relation to the people who settle there.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 391 Black Nationalism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Consequences of the black diaspora in North America; shifting views of blacks toward their native continent; analysis of current geographic, economic, and political relationships.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 398 Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced study and analysis of selected issues and problems within the African American and African Diaspora experience utilizing interdisciplinary interpretation through analytical reasoning and philosophical discussions. Varied topics primarily in the areas of history, politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 399 Advanced Topics in Arts and Humanities for African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Advanced study and analysis of selected issues and problems within the African American and African Diaspora experience utilizing interdisciplinary interpretations through analytical reasoning and philosophical discussions. Varied topics primarily in the areas of dance, music, film, theatre and drama, and literature.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
AAAD-A 405 Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1974
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the fight for civil rights by protest organizations such as Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and Congress of Racial Equality; the emergence of black leaders such as King, Farmer, and Malcolm X; the challenge posed by Black Power advocates in the Black Panthers and Black Muslims; and the changes in American society made by the black revolution.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the historical roles, structures, the impact of black protest strategies, and the origins of black movements to assess their impact on communities in Africa and in the diaspora.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the influence of race, gender, and class from a perspective of power and culture. Use of interdisciplinary sources, including essays, fiction, art, and social science research to examine how different social groups vie for representation, self-definition, and power in different social and cultural settings.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Histories, theories, policies, and citizen, state, corporate, nonprofit sector models of transforming past and present societies divided by race, ethnicity, gender, class, caste, tribe, and religion through restorative and distributive justice movements and policies such as civil rights, affirmative action, reparations, and reconciliation tribunals.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 425 The Black Family in Twentieth-Century Rural America, 1900-1970
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the economic, social, cultural and political development of black families residing primarily in rural areas of southern US prior to 1970. Primary attention given to institutional development, race relations, population, and migration.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 427 Cross-Cultural Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey study of national, cultural, and cross-cultural persuasion in theory and practice.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 427 or CMCL-C 427.
AAAD-A 447 Race, Crime, and Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on crime reporting in America, addressing the question of whether or not the media distort the picture of crime. In particular, this course explores the mass media treatment of African Americans in the coverage of crime.
AAAD-A 452 Historical Issues in Black Education
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Education of black Americans and its relationship to the African American experience. Trends and patterns in the education of black Americans as they relate to the notions of education "for whom and for what."
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Contemporary racial problems in American society with regard to law and constitutional principles of basic freedoms and associated conflicts. Effects of societal norms and impact of racism.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 493 Senior Seminar in African American and African Diaspora Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- African American and African Diaspora Studies major; and senior standing
- Description
- Lecture/discussions on African American studies as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry and scholarship. Students will develop individual or group projects that synthesize their experiences as majors by demonstrating the interrelated nature of the department's concentration areas.
- Introductory Course. One (1) course:
- Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Major GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Major Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- Major Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Major Residency. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College Breadth. At least 38 credit hours must be completed in courses from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines outside of the major area.
Major Area Courses
Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100-499 level with the
AAAD or SOCsubject area prefix--as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken--as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent--except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
The above courses cannot be applied toward the College Breadth requirement in the major.
Exclusions
The following courses cannot be applied toward major requirements or the College Breadth requirement:
- AAAD-A 141
- AAAD-A 142
Restrictions
The following restrictions apply to the minimum credit hours required in the major:
- No more than 9 combined credit hours of the following may count toward the major:
- SOC-S 494
- SOC-S 495
- SOC-X 373 Internship in Professional Practice
- SOC-X 477 Field Experience in Sociology
- SOC-X 490 Individual Readings in Sociology
- SOC-Y 398
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies and English (AAADENGBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies and History (AAADHISTBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies (AAADRELBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies and Sociology (AAADSOCBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in English and African American and African Diaspora Studies (ENGAAADBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in History and African American and African Diaspora Studies (HISTAAADBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies (RELAAADBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (SOCBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Sociology - TSAP version (SOCTSBA)
- Certificate in Social Research in Health and Medicine (SOCRHMACRT)
- Minor in African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADSMIN)
- Minor in Social Science and Medicine (SSMEDMIN)
- Minor in Sociology (SOCMIN)
- Minor in Sociology of Work and Business (SOCWKBSMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for major requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
- Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
- College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College GPA. A College grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required.
- CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
- CASE Foundations
- CASE Breadth of Inquiry
- CASE Culture Studies
- CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
- CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
- CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
- CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
- Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.
Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.