This department offers instruction in a unified curriculum leading to the baccalaureate
degree in African-American Studies.
Subject matter includes education, sociology, economics, social anthropology, public
health, literature, art, psychology, and history all of which focus on African-American
community development.
The interdepartmental minor in African-American Studies consists of 18 semester units
with courses emphasizing the humanities and the social sciences.
The interdepartmental structure of this minor will enable students, while pursuing
degrees in specific disciplines, to interface more efficiently with African Americans
and other persons of African racial and ethnic heritage.