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Welcome

The Department of African and Afro-American Studies offers opportunities to explore cultural expressions, economic issues, religious practices, social arrangements, intellectual developments and political trends among Africans and people of African descent.

The department is multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary in its approach to the broad range of issues and experiences that comprise this field. We offer courses in the humanities and social sciences using the methods of several disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, history, literature, politics and sociology. Specific courses focus on people and developments in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas.