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[DRAFT] Course Catalog 2026-2027 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Africana Studies Minor
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Note(s) on Requirements
- AAST 101 and the three required specialization courses must be taken at Oberlin.
- Students are required to take at least one full course (or the equivalent) in each of the department’s three region fields (African, African American, and Caribbean).
- Students are required to take at least one full course (or the equivalent) in three of the department’s five specialization fields (education, fine arts, history, literature, and politics).
- Courses may simultaneously fulfill the region requirement and the specialization requirement.
Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor
The Africana studies department will accept up to the equivalent of one full course of transfer credit to count toward the Africana studies minor requirements. Two types of approval are needed. (1) Approval from the Office of the Registrar that the transfer course meets Oberlin’s transfer-of-credit eligibility standards and (2) approval from the department/program chair that the course(s) may count to the minor. Current students taking post-matriculation credit must secure this approval before registering for course(s). Students who enter Oberlin as transfer students will have their pre-matriculation credit evaluated by the Office of the Registrar for elective credit, and they can later seek approval from the department/program for applying coursework to minor requirements. Advanced Placement and/or International Baccalaureate Credit
Transferred credit for AAST XXX counts toward the minor as XYZ REQUIREMENT. Detailed Minor Requirements
Africana Studies Minor Course Lists
Caribbean Region Courses
Return to the top of the list of region courses. - AAST 122 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Indigenous to 1898
- AAST 123 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: 1898-1986
- AAST 126 - Archives ReImagined
- AAST 144 - History of African and Caribbean Dance ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 144
- AAST 161 - Capoeira Angola I ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 161
- AAST 229 - Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean
- AAST 241 - Rhythms of Resistance: Carnival, Dance, and the Fight for Social Justice ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 241
- AAST 262 - Capoeira Angola II ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 262
- AAST 347 - Culture, History, and Identity: Caribbean Literature and the Politics of Survival
- AAST 357 - Empire and Resistance in the Caribbean
- DANC 144 - History of African and Caribbean Dance ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 144
- DANC 161 - Capoeira Angola I ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 161
- DANC 241 - Rhythms of Resistance: Carnival, Dance, and the Fight for Social Justice ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 241
Specialization Courses
Return to the summary of requirements. Notes: - Students are required to take at least one full course (or the equivalent) in three of the department’s five specialization fields (education, fine arts, history, literature, and politics).
- The three required specialization courses must be taken at Oberlin.
- Courses may simultaneously fulfill the region requirement and the specialization requirement.
Fine Arts Courses
Return to the top of the list of specialization courses. - AAST 144 - History of African and Caribbean Dance ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 144
- AAST 161 - Capoeira Angola I ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 161
- AAST 171 - Introduction to African American Music I ⇒ cross-listed with JAZZ 290, MUSY 290
- AAST 172 - Introduction to African American Music II ⇒ cross-listed with JAZZ 291, MUSY 291
- AAST 173 - Introduction to Sequential Illustration: Serial Comic Strips ⇒ cross-listed with ARST 173
- AAST 190 - West African Dance Forms I ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 190
- AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms II ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 191
- AAST 199 - Dance Forms of the African Diaspora ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 199
- AAST 199H - Dance Forms of the African Diaspora ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 199H
- AAST 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 224
- AAST 225 - Social Justice in Dance ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 225
- AAST 241 - Rhythms of Resistance: Carnival, Dance, and the Fight for Social Justice ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 241
- AAST 261 - Framing Blackness: African Americans and Film in The United States, 1915 to the Present
- AAST 262 - Capoeira Angola II ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 262
- AAST 264 - African American Drama ⇒ cross-listed with THEA 264
- AAST 273 - Intermediate Trust the Process: The Art of the Study in Formal and Conceptual Design ⇒ cross-listed with ARST 273
- AAST 278 - Workshop: Playwrighting and Performance in the Time of the Black Lives Matter Movement ⇒ cross-listed with THEA 278
- AAST 284 - Somatics: AfriCognoSomatics ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 284
- AAST 286 - Intro to Africana Aesthetics and Aesthesis ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 286
- AAST 288F - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 288F
- AAST 288H - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 288H
- AAST 292 - Choreographic Practices for Black Dance, Social Dance, Street Dance, TV, and Social Media ⇒ cross-listed with DANC 292
- AAST 348 - The Evolution of Black Queer Performance and Storytelling: 1920’s-Now
- AAST 376 - Shakespeare and the Black Aesthetic ⇒ cross-listed with THEA 376
- AAST 382 - Seminar: James Baldwin
- APST 753 - Practicum in Djembe Orchestra Applications
- ARST 172 - Introduction to Narrative Art Seminar
- ARST 173 - Introduction to Sequential Illustration: Serial Comic Strips ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 173
- ARST 174 - Intro Aesthetics of Hip Hop: Graffiti from Boxcar to Basel
- ARST 273 - Intermediate Trust the Process: The Art of the Study in Formal and Conceptual Design ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 273
- DANC 144 - History of African and Caribbean Dance ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 144
- DANC 161 - Capoeira Angola I ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 161
- DANC 241 - Rhythms of Resistance: Carnival, Dance, and the Fight for Social Justice ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 241
- DANC 284 - Somatics: AfriCognoSomatics ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 284
- DANC 286 - Intro to Africana Aesthetics and Aesthesis ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 286
- DANC 288F - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 288F
- DANC 288H - Africana Dance: Talawa Technique ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 288H
- DANC 292 - Choreographic Practices for Black Dance, Social Dance, Street Dance, TV, and Social Media ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 292
- JAZZ 290 - Introduction to African American Music I ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 171, MUSY 290
- JAZZ 291 - Introduction to African American Music II ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 172, MUSY 291
- MUSY 290 - Introduction to African American Music I ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 171, JAZZ 290
- MUSY 291 - Introduction to African American Music II ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 172, JAZZ 291
- THEA 264 - African American Drama ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 264
- THEA 278 - Workshop: Playwrighting and Performance in the Time of the Black Lives Matter Movement ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 278
- THEA 309 - Theater of the Millennium
- THEA 376 - Shakespeare and the Black Aesthetic ⇒ cross-listed with AAST 376
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