Welcome to the official website for the African-American Studies Minor at UC San Diego! The African-American Studies Minor was established at UCSD during Fall quarter in 2005.  Building on the successful Contemporary Black Arts minor, the new African-American Studies Minor focuses on the arts as well as the social sciences and the humanities. 

Led by faculty from the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, Literature, Music, Sociology, and Theatre and Dance, this interdisciplinary minor is designed to provide an understanding of the attitudes, circumstances, and experiences of African-Americans.  The minor offers a unique perspective as to how African-Americans helped shape American history and culture and continue to transform it today.

AASM is sponsored by Thurgood Marshall College at UCSD and current faculty director is the Provost of Marshall College, Allan Havis.  Although AASM is housed in and sponsored by Marshall College, the minor is offered campus wide and is open to all undergraduate students in good academic standing.
In addition to the academic component, the AASM program also plans and sponsors various events and activities on campus, including film screenings, discussion forums, guest speakers, and seminars.

If you would like to receive emails about AASM related events through our listserv email, please contact Jessica Heredia at jmheredia@ucsd.edu.