Requirements
18 credits in minor courses, including:
| COURSE REQUIREMENTS | ||
| Course offerings for African Studies vary frequently and often include Special Topics, Topics In, and Honors College courses. Before registration each semester, a list of eligible courses is posted as a See Also list in the Schedule of Courses (Classic Version). Many of those courses will not show up immediately in students’ degree audits. The courses listed in this table are always eligible and should automatically be applied in degree audits. | ||
| Other relevant courses may be substituted with the approval of the director, including courses taken while studying abroad and courses deemed by the director to have at least 35 percent Africa-related content. | ||
| CORE COURSES. 2 courses/6 credits chosen from eligible courses, which regularly include: | 6 | |
| Topics in African Lit | ||
| Topics in African History | ||
| African Politics | ||
| Religion, Health, & Healing | ||
| ELECTIVES. 3 additional courses/9 credits chosen from eligible courses, which regularly include: | 9 | |
| African Forms | ||
| Global History since 1500 | ||
| Nigeria: Giant of Africa | ||
| History of Southern Africa | ||
| Comparative Slavery | ||
| Mystics, Mediums, Shamans | ||
| Sociology of African Societies | ||
| LEVEL REQUIREMENT | ||
| At least 9 credits must be at the 2000-level or above. | ||
| DISCIPLINARY REQUIREMENT | ||
| No more than 6 credits for the minor may be from any 1 academic discipline. | ||
Pre/Co-Requisites
Introductory and intermediate courses for various subject areas may be necessary to reach some of the courses that can be applied to the minor.
Other Information
In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), only one course may overlap between a major and a minor or between two minors.
Courses for the minor and/or its pre/co-requisites that are cross-listed in the catalog or schedule of courses under another course prefix may be taken under that other prefix and still count for these requirements.
With the approval of the chair/director, courses that applied to the minor in previous years but have since been deactivated may be applied to this year’s minor requirements if they are reactivated.
For a Bachelor of Arts degree, no more than 45 credits in courses with the same departmental prefix may be used toward completion of the 120 credits required for graduation. For a Bachelor of Science degree, the maximum is 50 credits.
At least half of the credits used to complete minor requirements must be taken at the University of Vermont.