Human Development, Sustainability, and Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora Minor

The minor offers students an opportunity to examine intellectual, public policy, and historical developments that have shaped the field of human development. Students enrolled in the minor systematically engage with contemporary debates pertaining to core themes underpinning the field of human development, including: food security; access to water, health, education; environmental dynamics; gender equality; sustainability (broadly defined to include building of democratic governance institutions and forms of inclusive citizenship); and human rights. In their exploration of these issues, students gain insights from anthropology, economics, environmental studies, geography, health, history, human rights, international development studies, political science, public policy, and urban and regional planning, among others. Overall, the minor provides a significant opportunity for students to explore contemporary national and global human development issues with a focus on experiences of people of African descent in Africa and the African Diaspora. The minor is open to all undergraduate students.

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:

take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

Course List
Code	Title	Hours
Core Requirements
AAAD 391	Human Development and Sustainability in Africa and the African Diaspora	3
AAAD 403	Human Rights: Theories and Practices in Africa	3
or AAAD 488	Human Rights and Democracy in African Diaspora Communities
AAAD/POLI 333	Race and Public Policy in the United States	3
or AAAD 491	Class, Race, and Inequality in America
Two other courses from the list below: ¹		6
AAAD 387	HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Diaspora
ANTH 320	Anthropology of Development
ECON 101	Introduction to Economics ^{H, F}
ENEC 325	Water Resource Management and Human Rights ^H
GEOG 268	Geography of Africa
HIST 340	Ethics and Business in Africa ^H
PLCY/ENEC 475	The Political Economy of Food ^H
PLCY 485	Poverty, Health, and Human Development in Low Income Countries
PLCY 570/HPM 571	Global Health and Human Rights
Total Hours		15

H	Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

FY-Launch class sections may be available. A FY-Launch section fulfills the same requirements as a standard section of that course, but also fulfills the FY-SEMINAR/FY-LAUNCH First-Year Foundations requirement. Students can search for FY-Launch sections in ConnectCarolina using the FY-LAUNCH attribute.