2023-24
Black Study Department
Catalog pages 166-168
Subject abbreviation: BLKS College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, M.F.A, Chair Department Office, Arts 106
Professors
Dylan Rodriguez, Ph.D. João H. Costa Vargas, Ph.D.
Associate Professors
Imani Kai Johnson, Ph.D. Vorris Nunley, Ph.D. Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, M.F.A
Assistant Professors
Elyse Ambrose, Ph.D. Anthony Jerry, Ph.D. Desireé Melonas, Ph.D.
Courses
- BLKS 001: Introduction to Black Study 1: Black People Domestically and Globally Now (4 units)
- BLKS 002: Introduction to Black Study 2: Imagined and Embodied Futures (4 units)
- BLKS 003: Introduction to Black Study 3: Black Ways of Knowing, Doing, and (b)eing Otherwise (4 units)
- BLKS 019: Black Religion in the United States (4 units)
- BLKS 101: Critical Theories of Gender, Race, and Blackness (4 units)
- BLKS 111: Troublesome Possibilities: Reality, Black Aliveness, and Becoming (4 units)
- BLKS 112: The Medicine Sessions: Futurist Cypher Technologies (4 units)
- BLKS 115: Black Religion and its Anti Icons (4 units)
- BLKS 118: Black Political Thought (4 units)
- BLKS 121: The Body & the Flesh in Black Thought (4 units)
- BLKS 123: Reclaiming the Dark: Black Life Is Speculative Fiction (4 units)
- BLKS 131: Blackness in the Social Sciences (4 units)
- BLKS 132: Black Diaspora(s) (4 units)
- BLKS 142: Blackness and Carcerality (4 units)
- BLKS 144: Artist Healers: Trans Indigenous Medicine and Art Intersections (4 units)
- BLKS 145: Black Language in Schools and Society (4 units)
- BLKS 151: Afrological Improvisation (4 units)
- BLKS 191A: Seminar in Black Study Research Methods 1: Gateways to Inquiry (4 units)
- BLKS 191B: Seminar in Black Study Research Methods 2: Practicing Inquiry (4 units)
- BLKS 193A: Black Study Senior Capstone 1 (4 units)
- BLKS 193B: Black Study Senior Capstone 2 (4 units)
- BLKS 195: Black Study Inland Empire Community Initiative (4 units)
- BLKS 196: Directed Research Or Creative Activity in Black Study (4 units)