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Required Capstone Course: 3 Credits

All BLS majors and minors must complete this capstone course.  It will be organized using three key components: (1) Academic coursework, (2) Fieldwork, and (3) Public Knowledge Research Projects.  The capstone course themes will be determined by the instructor, such as by offering specialized focus on (1) race, history, culture or, (2) racial and social justice, public policy, and human rights.  Upon completion students will have developed advanced skills in research methods, established fieldwork experience, and a public research project.

Seminar in Black and Latino Studies

3 credits

Required Core Elective Courses: 6 Credits

Majors must take two interdisciplinary Core Elective courses, which will establish experience with the foundational methods and themes that inform Black, Latino, and Latinx Studies.

Additional Elective Courses in the Major (21 credits)

The Elective Courses offered to support the major manifest the interdisciplinary practices that define Black, Latinx Studies, and AfroLatinx Studies.  They represent a distribution of courses that support well-rounded knowledge within Black, Caribbean, and Latinx areas of interest.

Black Studies (BLS) Elective Courses Offered by the Department of Black and Latino Studies

Contemporary Black Literatures 

Urban Economic Structure

3 credits

The Black Child and Adolescent in the United States

3 credits

The Black Family

3 credits

Black Revolution and Political Thinking in the U.S. *

3 credits

Mass Media and the Black America

3 credits

Civil Rights Legislation and Litigation

3 credits

Black Economic Development 1860-Present

3 credits

African Philosophy and Religion

3 credits

Women of Color *

3 credits

Race and Global Inequality *

3 credits

Special Topics in Black Studies

3 credits

Independent Study I

3 credits

Independent Study II

3 credits

Honors Thesis I in Black Studies **

3 credits

Honors Thesis I in Black Studies **

3 credits

Latino Studies (LTS) Elective Courses Offered By the Department of Black and Latino Studies

The Puerto Rican Community

3 credits

Puerto Rican Political and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century

3 credits

Politics and Power in Puerto Rico

3 credits

Economic History of Puerto Rico

3 credits

Religions in the Caribbean

3 credits

Puerto Rican Culture

3 credits

Dominican Heritage: From Pre-Columbian Times to Present

3 credits

Latinas:  A Social and Cultural Survey *

3 credits

Race and Global Inequality *

3 credits

Special Topics in Hispanic/Latino Studies

3 credits

Latino Communities in the U.S. *

3 credits

Debates in Latin American Social Theory

3 credits

Independent Study I

3 credits

Independent Study II

3 credits

Honors Thesis I in Black Studies **

3 credits

Honors Thesis I in Black Studies **

3 credits

NOTES:

* These courses satisfy the Core Elective requirement.

**The BLS/LTS 5000/5001 and BLS/LTS 6001H/6002H course sequences allow for independent study and advanced work. In these courses students will work on independent projects under mentorship and direction from a faculty advisor.  These projects may include experiential learning or social justice work with community organizations.  All projects in this course sequence will culminate in an advanced research project.

BLS and LTS Elective Courses Cross-Listed with Other Weissman Departments

The Changing Demographics of the City

Survey of African American Literature

3 credits

The Remaking of New York:  The Immigrant Experience

3 credits

Black Women Writers

3 credits

Genres of African Literature

Survey of Caribbean Literature in English

3 credits

African American History

3 credits

Survey of African History

3 credits

Women in African History

3 credits

History of the African Diaspora

3 credits

People and Culture of Haiti

3 credits

Theater of Color in the United States

3 credits

Migration in the Americas

3 credits

The Sixties in America

3 credits

The Civil Rights Movement

3 credits

Race and Ethnic Relations

3 credits

Central America:  A Regional Study

3 credits

Cuban Culture and Society

3 credits

The U.S. and Mexican Border

3 credits

Race, Class, and Gender in Brazil

3 credits

Latin American Jewish Women Writers

3 credits

Contemporary Latin American Fiction

3 credits

Latin American Literature in the U.S.

3 credits

Colonial Latin America

3 credits

History of US-Latin American Relations

3 credits

From Silver to Cocaine:  The Economic History of Latin America

3 credits