Requirements for the Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in American ethnic studies requires 18 hours. The student must take AES 151 (during the second or third year at Wake Forest) and AES 234.  At least one additional 3-hour course must be taken from the behavioral and social sciences, and one 3-hour course from the humanities. To meet the minor qualifications an additional two 3-hour courses must be taken from the list of elective courses.
AES 151                              3
AES 234                              3
AES (social science)           3
AES (humanities)                3
AES (2 additional courses) 6 Total   18

           

AES 151/WGS116 - Race & Ethnic Diversity in America

AES 234- Ethnicity and Immigration

 

Approved for AES Minor

AES 232 - The American Jewish Experience

AES 240- Asian American Legacy: Social History

AES 265-Culture and Religion in Contemporary Native America

AES 300- American Ethnic Literature and Film

AES/EDU 310 - Race, Class & Gender in a Colorblind Society

AES/ENG 357- Studies in Chicano Literature

AES/ENG 358- The Italian Experience in America

AES/ENG 387- African American Fiction

AES/ENG 389- African American Poetry

AES396- Independent Study

 

ELECTIVES FOR AMERICAN ETHNIC STUDIES

ANT 374- Prehistory of North America

ANT 377- Ancestors, Indians, Immigrants: A Southwest Cultural Tapestry

COM 330 - Communication and Conflict

COM 340- American Rhetorical Movements to 1900

COM 341 - American Rhetorical Movements since 1900

COM 350- Intercultural Communication

ECN 246 - Urban Economics

ECN 273- Economics for a Multicultural Future

EDU 305- Sociology of Education

ENG 377- American Jewish Literature

ENG 379- Literary Forms of the American Personal Narrative

ENG 381 - Studies in African American Literature

HMN 285- Culture & Religion in Contemporary Native America

HST 240- African American History

HST 351- Global Environmental History

HST 376- Civil Rights and Black Consciousness Movements

MUS 203- History of Jazz

MUS 207- American Music

POL 223 - Blacks in American Politics

PSY 357 - Cross-Cultural Psychology

PSY 364- Prejudice, Discrimination, Racism and Heterosexism

REL 103 - Introduction to the Christian Tradition (formerly religious life in the U.S.)

REL 345- African-American Religious Experience

SOC 348- Sociology of the Family

SOC 359- Race and Ethnic Relations

SOC 361- Sociology of the African-American Family

WGS 377- Special Topics: Ethnohistory of Native-American Women(In any semester in which this topic is tought)

 

All courses meet the core Cultural Diversity requirement.