AFRICAN/AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

PURPOSE:

In a very real sense, American culture is multicultural.  Our food, our music, our ways of dressing, our literature, and our sciences reflect the ways in which various cultures have contributed to this rich mixture we call "America."  The African and African-American studies major aims to nurture in students an understanding of the diversity that makes for human culture, an understanding that will foster respect for difference.

 This program is housed in the English Department but comprises of courses taught across the UCA campus in history, literature, music, philosophy and religion, political science, sociology, and world languages.  Thus, it gives students and interdisciplinary understanding of the history and cultures of Africa, the effects of colonialism and slavery on those cultures and on the United States and the Caribbean nations, and the contributions of Africans to the culture of America.

For more information contact:
Dr. Isiah Lavender, Department of English
Irby 401  
450-5118
Lavender@uca.edu