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The Department of African-American Studies was founded in 1994. African-American Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of African people nationally and globally. It offers critical attention to the various dynamics of human reality, including race, that affect the lives of African people worldwide. As an interdisciplinary field of concentration, it provides critiques of knowledge presented in traditional disciplines and professions, scholarly and artistic accounts of realities of the lives of African-Americans, and perspectives on social change. The Department of African-American Studies provides students with the intellectual origins, concepts, research, tools and models of the discipline. It also stresses the importance of social responsibility. The Department offers B.A. and M.A. degrees in African-American Studies. Faculty and courses are drawn from the department itself and from other departments, schools, and institutes within the university.
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Charles E. Jones
Founding Chair
