Black Study
Catalog pages 173-176
Subject abbreviation: BLKS College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Anthony Jerry, Ph.D., Chair Department of Black Study 1320c Watkins Hall blackstudy@ucr.edu
Distinguished Professors
Dylan Rodriguez, Ph.D. Professors
Sage Ni'Ja Whitson, M.F.A., M.F.A.W João H. Costa Vargas, Ph.D.
Associate Professors
El/yse Ambrose, Ph.D. Anthony Jerry, Ph.D. Imani Kai Johnson, Ph.D. Vorris Nunley, Ph.D. Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, M.F.A, M.F.A.W. Jaye Williams, M.F.A., PhD.
Assistant Professors
Desireé, Melonas, Ph.D. Stephanie Jones, Ph.D.
Major Requirements
The major requirements for the B.A. degree in Black Study are as follows:
- 1. Lower-division requirements (16 units)
- a) BLKS 001
- b) BLKS 002
- c) BLKS 003
- d) BLKS 004
- 2. Upper-division requirements (16 units)
Capstone)
- c) BLKS 195
- 3. Additional Courses (24 units) Students
must take at least six (6) courses from two of the streams below
- 1) STREAM ONE: Critical Study in Black
Lives BLKS 019/RLST 019, BLKS 101, BLKS 111, BLKS 115/RLST 115, BLKS 118/POSC 131, BLKS 142, BLKS 145/EDUC 145
- 2) STREAM TWO: Arts, Cultures, and
Imagination BLKS 024, BLKS 114, BLKS 121, BLKS 122, BLKS 123/SFSC 123, BLKS 124
- 3) STREAM THREE: Behavioral Sciences,
Social Sciences, and Pasts BLKS 118/POSC 131, BLKS 131, BLKS 132, BLKS 142
- 4) STREAM FOUR: Building Black
Minor Requirements
The major requirements for the minor in Black Study are as follows:
- 1. Students must take at least two (2) of the
following lower-division courses (8 units)
- a) BLKS 001
- b) BLKS 002
- c) BLKS 003
- d) BLKS 004
- 2. Upper-division requirements (8 units)
- b) BLKS 195
- 3. Additional Courses (12 units) Students
must take at least three (3) courses from two of the streams below
- 1) STREAM ONE: Critical Study in Black
Life and Lives BLKS 019/RLST 019, BLKS 101, BLKS 111, BLKS 115/RLST 115, BLKS 118, BLKS 142, BLKS 145/EDUC 145
- 2) STREAM TWO: Arts, Cultures, and
Imagination BLKS 024, BLKS 114, BLKS 121, BLKS 122, BLKS 123/SFSC 123, BLKS 124
- 3) STREAM THREE: Behavioral Sciences,
Social Sciences, and Past BLKS 118, BLKS 131, BLKS 132, BLKS 142
- 4) STREAM FOUR: Building Black
Courses
- BLKS 001: Introduction to Black Study 1: Black People Domestically and Globally Now (4 units)
- BLKS 001S: Introduction to Black Study 1: Black People Domestically and Globally Now (5 units)
- BLKS 002: Introduction to Black Study 2: Imagined and Embodied Futures (4 units)
- BLKS 002S: Introduction to Black Study 2: Imagined and Embodied Futures (5 units)
- BLKS 003: Introduction to Black Study 3: Black Ways of Knowing, Doing, and (b)eing Otherwise (4 units)
- BLKS 003S: Introduction to Black Study 3: Black Ways of Knowing, Doing, and (b)eing Otherwise (5 units)
- BLKS 004: Introduction to Black Study 4: Praxis, Imagination, and Innovation (4 units)
- BLKS 019: Black Religion in the United States (4 units)
- BLKS 024: Black Social Dance and Movement(s): 1 2 or (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 114: Black Healing Traditions (4 units)
- BLKS 115: Black Religion, Resistance, and Moral Imagination (4 units)
- BLKS 118: Black Political Thought (4 units)
- BLKS 120: Black Feminism and the Sacred (4 units)
- BLKS 121: The Body & the Flesh in Black Thought (4 units)
- BLKS 122: House Dance and Futurist Cypher Technologies (4 units)
- BLKS 123: Reclaiming the Dark: Black Life Is Speculative Fiction (4 units)
- BLKS 124: Black Social Dance and Movement(s): 2 2 or (4 units)
- BLKS 131: Blackness in the Social Sciences (4 units)
- BLKS 132: Black Diaspora(s) (4 units)
- BLKS 135: Incarcerated Black Radicalisms (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 155: Black Trans and Nonbinary World-Making (4 units)
- BLKS 156: Special Topics in Art & Activism (4 units)
- BLKS 191A: Black Study Transdisciplinary Research Methods 1: Gateways to Inquiry (4 units)
- BLKS 191B: Black Study Transdisciplinary 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)
- BLKS 200: Dark Matter and Black Time (4 units)
- BLKS 201: Four Page Letters and Four Letter Words (4 units)
- BLKS 202: Manuscript Lab (4 units)
- BLKS 203: Critical Topics in Art and Activism (4 units)
- BLKS 290: Directed Studies (1 to 6 units)
- BLKS 292: Concurrent Studies (1 to 4 units)
- BLKS 297: Directed Research in Black Study (1 to 12 units)
- BLKS 299: Thesis Or Dissertation Research (1 to 12 units)