Overview

The mission of the Department of Africology and African American Studies (AAAS) at Eastern Michigan University is to provide robust and critical programs of study, research and service on the African world experience--including a particular focus on the life and culture of people of African descent in the Americas.

Learning outcomes

The Africology and African American Studies department pursues its mission by cultivating successive cadres of students imbued with community consciousness and equipped with intellectual tools for shaping the world of the present and the future, community engagement and pertinent careers. AAAS engages in its study of the African descent population in the United States, the African diaspora, and the African continent itself, using a broad array of interdisciplinary tools. It has touchstones in all branches of human endeavor. The multi-racial and multi-ethnic reality that is the United States and the world today has been shaped by the grand forces of human history, including science, technology, culture, entrepreneurship, environment, politics, literature, art, law, and education.
Together with the overarching themes of the human experience--ideas, power, structure, and sustainability—these forces predominate as items of study within the multi-subject curriculum of AAAS.All students graduating from EMU will enter a world in which these same forces and concerns will be all defining matters of politics, public policy, societal structure, health and well-being. Technology, long term capacity and STEM will be a part of the broad canvass upon which their lives will unfold. Interweaving themselves throughout every geo-political setting in the world will be the variables of race, ethnicity, class, religion, and gender--issues at the heart of the inquiry in AAAS. Ultimately, a graduate of Africology and African American Studies is equipped with knowledge, skills, and techniques necessary for effective functioning in a multicultural, multiracial, and technologically advanced society.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Foundational Issues in Africology and African American Studies
African Philosophical Thought and Aesthetics
Theory and Analytical Methods in Africology
Researching Black Communities
The African Political Economy
Contemporary African Womanhood

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-26 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-26 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-01-08 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-01 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

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Campus Location

Ypsilanti, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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20916 USD / year

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20916 USD / year

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12068 USD / year

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Living costs

Ypsilanti

United States

1000 - 1500 USD / month

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