The African American Studies Major The Department of African-American Studies was founded in 1994. African-American Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of African people nationally and globally. It recognizes how issues and factors in addition to race affect the lives of African people worldwide. As an interdisciplinary field of concentration, it offers critiques of knowledge presented in traditional disciplines and professions, scholarly and artistic accounts of realities of the lives of African-American, and perspectives on social change. The Department of African-American Studies provides students with the intellectual origins, concepts, research, and models of disciplines, the knowledge and skills necessary for the study of group cultures, and a curriculum that contributes to the goals of multicultural education.
Alternatives are available to some core and major requirements.
Please see a degree program advisor for specific guidelines. Students majoring in African-American Studies are not required to take a minor. Students who wish to minor in African-American Studies should complete the following requirements. All students minoring in African-American Studies must take 15 hours of coursework. A list of courses that can be utilized for the minor is available from the department.