Africana Studies

What You’ll Study

Africana Studies is multicultural, interdisciplinary, and transnational in its orientation; its reach extends from Africa to North America, the Caribbean, South and Central America, Asia, and Europe.

The curriculum of the program focuses on:

  • The diversity and complexity of indigenous African cultures, histories, religions, and civilizations;
  • the impacts of slavery, colonialism, war, terrorism, genocide, racism, and imperialism;
  • the consequences of social inequalities in the form of race/ethnicity, class, and gender;
  • the disparities in health and education and environmental problems;
  • the issues of globalization and the fast changing world of science and technology;
  • training students for leadership and service;
  • the positive impacts of social and national/civil rights movements; and,
  • the importance of education, democracy, human rights, self-determination, multiculturalism, and sustainable development.

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Bushmen (san) rock painting of antelopes, South Africa. This image is from iStock and is ©. Do not download or use elsewhere.

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