专业描述

Academics Graduate Study In 1993-94, African American Studies developed a unique graduate program in cooperation with a number of other departments and programs across the University. This program–The Combined PhD in African American Studies–grew out of the Master of Arts program that African and African American Studies had launched in 1978. The program became a department in July 2000 and now offers a Joint Doctoral Degree in African American Studies with another field or discipline. Learn more about the Graduate Program in African American Studies Undergraduate Major The African American Studies major examines, from numerous disciplinary perspectives, the experiences of people of African descent in Black Atlantic societies, including the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Courses explore the innovative, complex, and distinctively African American social structures and cultural traditions that Africans in the Diaspora have created.