Departments, Schools, Colleges

AFRICANA STUDIES PROGRAM (AFAS)

Contact Information:

Africana Studies Program The University of Arizona Learning Services Building, 223 1512 East First Street PO Box 210105 Tucson, AZ 85721-0105

Phone: (520) 621-5665 Fax: (520) 621-9768 Email: sheltonr@u.arizona.edu Web: Program Homepage

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• AFAS Course Descriptions
• Faculty Members

Degrees, Majors, Minors and Options:

Undergraduate Minor

• Africana Studies Minor

About the Program:

The Africana Studies Program is in the College of Humanities.

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 to:

1. explore past and present cultural, social, political, and economic links between Africa and African descent populations in the Americas, and 
2. 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. offering 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.

The Africana Studies Program  does not currently offer a baccalaureate degree, however one is planned for the near future.  The program director can assist students who are interested in Africana Studies and are pursuing the Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) major.

For more information contact the program office listed above.