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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
They are but I really think if you're looking to take a college level class African American studies should be at the bottom since it's only going to be good for a few niche majors.

I really think schools are better off investing the resources on AP courses that are broadly applicable. So like something that can pass for your humanities in the 100-200 level.

So like speech, business math, or a writing course. African American history is more like a 300-400 level course specific to a certain major.

We literally dedicate a whole month to black history and from what I remember most of my social studies and history classes went all into these issues during that month. It's also again, heavily baked into all aspects of US history. There isn't a time where you can't not bring up how blacks were treated.
gpt
It's an elective. If you want to talk mostly useless courses, you can also take AP Latin. Whether or not you personally would find value in the subject matter is irrelevant.