Breadth courses multiply points of application of specialized knowledge and expertise which students gain from African American Studies, allowing them access to different methodological and theoretical modes of treating topics and interrogating course material across disciplines, and varied platforms for building their capacity for critical and recursive intellectual engagement. A course will meet the breadth criteria if the syllabus or conversation with the instructor indicates that (1) topics show a distinct relationship to African American studies; (2) topics allow application of methods and theories from AFAM studies; and (3) the course expands lenses and extends contexts on topics instructive to African American experiences. Courses that currently count toward the breadth elective are:

AFAM/ENVP 301 Environmental Racism

AFAM 304 Capital and Captivity: African Americans and the U.S. Economy

AFAM 320 Race, Power, and Privilege

ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica

COMM 321 Film Criticism

COMM 322 Television Culture

COMM 373 Critical Cultural Theory

CONN 213 City and Society

CONN 301 Crisis, Reform, Revolution? Living in Dangerous Times

CONN 325 The Experience of Prejudice

ECON 218 American Economic History

ECON 241 Regional and Urban Economics

EDUC 419 American Schools Inside and Out

ENGL 362 Native American Literature

ENGL 364 Asian American Literature

ENGL 365 Gender and Sexualities

FREN 381 African Women Writers

GQS 201 Introduction to Gender, Queer, and Feminist Studies

HIST 280 Colonial Latin America

HIST 281 Modern Latin America

HIST 360 Frontiers of Native America

HIST 381 Film and History: Latin America

HIST 382 Comparative Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America

HIST 383 Borderlands: La Frontera: The U.S.-Mexico Border

HIST 384 Transnational Latin America

HIST 391 Nelson Mandela and 20th Century South Africa

HIST 392 Gender in Colonial Africa

HIST 393 Missions and Christianity in Africa

LAS 100 Introduction to Latin American Studies

LAS 387 Art and Revolution in Latin America

LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies

LTS 300 Latina/o Literatures

MUS 222 Music of the World's Peoples

MUS 322 Dance in World Cultures

MUS 493 Special Topics in Historical Musicology (Only when the topic is "Black Music Scholarship")

PG 311 Politics of Detention: Criminal Justice, Immigration, and the War on Terror

PG 315 Law and Society

PG 316 Civil Liberties

PG 344 American Political Thought

PSYC 225 Social Psychology

PSYC 265 Cross-Cultural Psychology

PSYC 373 Perceiving Self and Other

REL 265 What is Justice?

REL 302 Ethics and the Other

SOAN 230 Indigenous Peoples: Alternative Political Economies

SOAN 275 Border Crossings: Transnational Migration and Diaspora Studies

SOAN 305 Heritage Languages and Language Policies

SPAN 222 Introduction to Latin American Cultures

SPAN 311 Literature of the Americas

SPAN 316 Latin American Film

SPAN 321 Migration Narratives

SPAN 412 Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

SPAN 415 Bitter Flavors of the Americas: Sugar, Coffee & Bananas only if significant African American Studies content

THTR 250 World Theatre I: African Diaspora

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