Contact Information:
Africana Studies Program
The University of Arizona
Learning Services Building, 223
1512 East First Street
PO Box 210105
Tucson, AZ 85721-0105
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Phone: (520) 621-5665
Fax: (520) 621-9768
Email: sheltonr@u.arizona.edu
Web:
 Program Homepage
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General Information:
AFAS Course Descriptions
Faculty Members
The Africana Studies Program is in the College
of Humanities.
Degrees, Majors, Minors and Options:
Baccalaureate Degree
The Africana Studies Program does not offer a baccalaureate degree. The
Africana Studies director can assist students who are interested in Africana
Studies and are pursuing the Interdisciplinary
Studies (IDS) major.
Undergraduate Minor -- minors link to Minor Requirements Reports.
Minors available within the department are:
About the Program:
The objectives of the Africana Studies Program are to
provide students with opportunities to learn about the African heritage in the
Americas. Its curriculum is designed 1) to explore past and present
cultural, social, political, and economic links between Africa and African
descent populations in the Americas, and 2) to provide a comparative
interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological examination of issues shaping
the lives of persons of African descent in the United States and other nations
of the Americas. The program seeks to accomplish these goals by 1) providing a
minor in Africana Studies which provides different perspectives from which to
examine issues to which students are exposed, and 2) identifying courses
offered in other departments and programs which focus on Africa or populations
of African descent in the Americas. Africana Studies courses are
intended to supplement disciplinary offerings as well as provide students with
perspectives from within and across disciplines which challenge and question
their established theories, methods, and conclusions.
For more information contact the program office listed
above.
