Bachelors in African Studies

Providing students with the opportunity to gain skills in cross-cultural understanding, the adjunct major in African Studies challenges students by drawing on innovative scholarship across departments and schools while offering a sustained engagement with the African past, present, and future. The adjunct major is structured to serve two broad aims. First, students are exposed to the geographical and disciplinary breadth of African Studies. To that end, all students are required to take a minimum number of 200-level core courses in African history, anthropology, literature, and/or politics, and seven elective courses distributed among an array of disciplines. Second, students are required to engage in an in-depth research practicum experience, the product of which they will develop in a capstone senior research seminar.