The Department of Black Studies is distinguished by a faculty of extraordinarily, well-trained scholars, and a programmatic structure which is student-oriented. The faculty consists of a broad array of intellectual backgrounds that include but are not limited to: Africologists, Africanists, Artists, Filmakers, and African American Historians. A focal point of the Department of Black Studies is the facilitation and creation of a self-conscious body of capable and committed intellectuals, artists and activists.

The Black Studies graduate minor continues this tradition, and expands upon the programmatic thrust of the University’s strategic mission. The objectives of the minor are to augment humanity’s understands of itself, using the African experience as a paradigmatic example of human struggle and achievement. Key objectives of our minor are to foster the creation of a new social science and humanities that is more critical, more corrective, more holistic, more ethical and more inclusive, and facilitate a holistic approach to the study of “truth”, class, race, and gender contradictions, which constrain and distort that “truth”.

Graduate Minor Requirements

In addition to completing graduate master's requirements in an MA degree granting discipline at UNO, the Black Studies Graduate minor may be earned by completing 9 credit hours from the following:

BLST 8070 Advanced African American Historiography

BLST 8080 Special Topics in Black Studies

BLST 8096 Black Studies Oral History

BLST 8205 Black Nationalism and Pan Africanism

BLST 8266 Women of Color Writers

BLST 8506 Philosophy and Theology of Martin L. King Jr. and Malcolm X

BLST 8560 Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

BLST 8570 Seminar in Black Studies

BLST 8580 Seminar in Research and Writings of W.E.B. DuBois

BLST 8706 African Philosophy

BLST 8886 Seminar on Black Leadership in America

BLST 8955 Philosophy of Afro-Americans