African and African American Studies

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The Department of African & African American Studies offers undergraduate degrees that equip students with bodies of knowledge that emerge from studying the culture, history and social reality of African and African-American peoples, and of those of African descent across the diaspora. Mastering knowledge about these diasporic peoples will also produce a broad-based interdisciplinary learning experience in the social sciences and humanities, also tied to an intellectual, social and personal maturation process

To receive the Bachelor of Arts in African & African American Studies, you are required to successfully complete 10 AAAS courses, with 8 of these at the 200-level or above. You must also choose which concentration to focus your studies—either the Americas or Africa. Other requirements are:

• AAAS 102—Introduction to African American Studies
• AAAS 103—Introduction to African Studies
• 3 Courses in your concentration each must fulfill one of the following areas:
  • Arts, Literatures, and Performance
  • Civilizations
  • Social Sciences
• AAAS 499S—Senior Seminar
• 4 Additional AAAS Courses