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Africana StudiesDepartment Chairperson: Cunningham, GeorgeLocation: 3105 James Hall Phone: 718-951-5597 Fax: 718-951-4707 
The Africana Studies Department offers a multidisciplinary curriculum devoted to the study of blacks in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The wide range of courses focuses on the histories, cultures, politics, and societies of Africa and its diaspora. In addition to its own distinguished core faculty, the department draws on the expertise of its affiliates in the Departments of Political Science, English, and Modern Languages and Literatures, as well as the Conservatory of Music. The multidisciplinary nature of Africana studies exposes students to the theoretical approaches and basic content of many of the traditional liberal arts disciplines, including history, literature, and sociology. Students have many options. The department offers a bachelor of arts degree in Africana studies and a bachelor of arts degree in adolescence education for social studies teachers. The department also offers minors in three areas: African American studies; African studies; and the literature of the African diaspora. Each minor requires the completion of 15 credits of courses given by the Department of Africana Studies and other Brooklyn College departments. The department also offers a 6-credit study-abroad seminar during the summer, which provides an in-depth experience in a selected country of the African diaspora in cooperation with a host institution in that country. Summer seminars have taken place in Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Our graduates are well equipped for the twenty-first century workplace or for graduate study at universities and professional schools that seek broad intellectual preparation.
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