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.

Required for the AES Minor

AES 151/WGS116 Race & Ethnic Diversity in America

AES 234 Ethnicity and Immigration or equivalent (COM 339 and others)

Approved for the 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 310/EDU 310/WGS 321 Race, Class and Gender in a Color-blind Society

AES 315/REL 352  First Peoples of North America

AES/SOC 358 The Italian Experience in America

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

AES 396 Independent Study

Electives for the AES Minor

ANT 374 Prehistory of North America

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

COM 330 Communication and Conflict

COM 338 African American Rhetoric

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 356 Literature of the Caribbean

ENG 357 Studies in Chicano Literature

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

HMN 359 Fathers and Daughters

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