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
Required for the Minor
AES 151/WGS116 - Race & Ethnic Diversity in America
AES 234- Ethnicity and Immigration
Approved for AES Minor
AES 232 - The American Jewish Experience
AES 236/ DCe 236 - Multicultural Dance
AES 240- Asian American Legacy: Social History
AES 265/REL265-Culture and Religion in Contemporary Native America
AES 315/REL 352 - First Peoples of North America
AES/SOC 358- The Italian Experience in America
AES/EDU 310 - Race, Class & Gender in a Colorblind Society
AES 341/HIS – Africans in the Atlantic World 1750-1815
AES/ENG 357- Studies in Chicano Literature
AES 370 / COM 370 – Immigration Practices in the US and the European Union
AES/ENG 387- African American Fiction
AES/ENG 389- African American Poetry
AES 390 – Special Topics: Race, Class, Gender and Public Housing
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
REL 103 - Introduction to the Christian Tradition (formerly religious life in the U.S.)
REL 265 - Culture and Religion in Contemporary Native America
SOC 359- Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 361- Sociology of the African-American Family
All courses meet the core Cultural Diversity requirement.