Urbanization as social process in Africa, Asia, and Latin America studied comparatively. Primarily for students interested in concentrated study in specific area in cooperation with advisor. The Department of African American studies does not offer an academic program leading to a graduate degree. It does, however, offer several graduate courses that enable students to earn a minor concentration in the African world. The courses provide a broad interdisciplinary approach to the black experience and include the social sciences, communication, education, psychology, and the arts and humanities.
Several courses contribute to degree programs in African and Latin American studies.
Graduate students pursuing a degree in communication, education, international studies, health sciences, sociology, history, political science, or philosophy will find a minor emphasis in the Africa n world experience to be useful. Also examines alternative images. Materials are drawn from a variety of areas-literature, sciences, pseudosciences, media, and visual arts. Systematic review of problems of social change in developing areas from multidisciplinary point of view. Attention to problems of agrarian reforms, urbanization as social process, and regional disparities within framework of single nation state, among others.