African and African American Studies is a body of knowledge that records, describes, and analyzes the experience of Black people in all parts of the world, but especially in America, the Caribbean and Africa. African and African American Studies appraises the past, examines the present, and seeks to shape the future. The African and African American Studies Department offers an interdisciplinary major leading to a B.A. degree. The courses are grouped...
The African-American Studies Program covers the general area of the Black experience in Africa, America and the West Indies from a historical, socio-political, cultural, and economic perspective.
The Program has the following objectives: 1. To give students a clearer insight into the wealth of data surrounding the Black Experience which has, heretofore, been subjected to misinterpretation, misunderstanding and, in many instances, total neglect.
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The Black Studies Program invites students to investigate the Black experience as it manifests itself in Africa, North America, the Caribbean, Latin America and in other parts of the African diaspora.
While the program's primary focus is the study of the Black experience in North America, fundamental to this enterprise is a recognition of the triangular relationship between Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as the United States.
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The African and Black Diaspora Studies interdisciplinary program provides its students with a systematic, integrated course of study of Africa and the Black Diaspora. Students will have an opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in African and Black Diaspora Studies with a concentration in Africa, Black America, or Afro-Caribbean and Latin America. African and Black Diaspora....
A discipline that examines and critiques the experience of Africans and peoples of African descent, Black Studies emerged on college campuses in the midst of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s and has been a central force in reshaping higher learning in the United States. Representing a strong and continuous intellectual presence in the academy, Black Studies challenges all students to explore issues of identity and subject formation,...
Africana studies is the transdisciplinary study of the diverse experiences of African people worldwide, focused especially but not exclusively on African American, African and Caribbean affairs and culture. Using the tools of the social sciences and humanities, Africana studies examines the structure, organization, problems and perspectives of Blacks in Africa and the African Diaspora, past and present. Africana studies is Dickinson's newest major,...
American Studies is the interdisciplinary study of American cultures past and present. Combining methods of inquiry from history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies, students learn how to analyze a variety of cultural texts ranging from mass media to photography to popular music to sports. The Dickinson program is distinguised by its strong field work orientation, which exposes students to the history and...
The African/African-American studies major is designed to enable students to demonstrate a deep understanding of African and African-American experience, culture, societies, life, history and philosophies. Students must also be able to grasp, analyze and synthesize the various applicable texts used or recommended by disciplines that are included in the major.
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African American Studies was born in a context of broader social change. Thus, it ought not be surprising that many of the courses in the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) reflect a concern with issues of social justice nor that our intellectual stance is often one of critique. Irrespective of the content students study with us, we want them to understand the dominant intellectual paradigms in their fields and to be able to...
African and African American Studies (AAAS) courses are for students interested in an interdisciplinary understanding of history, culture and society from the perspectives of Africans and African Americans (in North America and the Caribbean). The program critically examines African and Diaspora experiences, institutions and perspectives with particular focus on the ways in which class and constructions of gender and race have shaped the lives of...
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