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Department of African and African American Studies
The Department of African and African American Studies is both an academic unit and a community comprised of students and faculty interested in the interdisciplinary study of Africa and its diaspora.
Strong emphasis is placed on preparing students for graduate and professional study, and careers in public or community work.
The comparative study of communities throughout the African diaspora is also an important component of the academic program. The department sponsors a wide range of cultural programs, lectures and community events.
Mission of the Department of African and African American Studies
The mission of the Department of African and African American Studies is to provide an intellectual space in which students learn to critically examine, analyze, interpret the experiences, traditions, and dynamics of people of African descent and in turn, formulate a better understanding of humanity in a globalized world.
The guiding philosophy of the Department of African and African Diaspora centered in that we strongly think that an understanding of the specific cultural and historical experiences of a people must guide our historical, cultural and political analysis and interpretation of that people's past and present, and must inform any feasible directives that are offered for their future.
What can African and African American Studies Offer You?
We are one of the oldest Departments of African and African American Studies in a private University, in the New York metropolitan area and one of the most admired for the quality of its faculty and graduates. We have prize-winning faculty who bring their nationally and internationally recognized expertise as scholars to bear on close work in the classroom with their students. We highly value an educative environment based on cooperation and community building.
A majority of our majors undertake fieldwork, internships, or community-based projects as part of their formal education. We help you think about ways in which your education experience can serve your future aspirations. We offer you diverse experiences and opportunities to advance your reading, research, and writing skills.
In addition to offering you a broad-based, multi-culturally and historically oriented understanding of people's of African descent, we encourage you to pursue topics of special interest to you. Students use the major to study some of the most pressing problems our interconnected world faces today.
Graduates of our Department do many things. They move on to graduate school in African and African American Studies, history, literature, ethnic studies, and other fields; to law school and careers in law and public service; into journalism; into work with community organizations, into teaching and administrative positions in public education.
Whatever your future career plans, the Department of African and African American Studies faculty will help you leave Fordham better prepared to be an effective, global citizen in an increasingly complex and challenging global environment.
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