Dr. Lamont King, Coordinator
Phone: (540) 568-4168
E-mail: kingld@jmu.edu
The minor in Africana studies broadens students' world perspectives by enhancing their acquaintance with and understanding of the peoples, issues of identities and institutions of Africa as well as the African Diaspora in the western hemisphere. The Africana program engages interdisciplinary approaches to understand and to encounter African and the African Diaspora in a global context. The interdisciplinary character of the program is further enhanced by the fact that courses taken to fulfill program requirements are drawn from several departments. From these course offerings, students will examine and engage with some of Africana studies major contributing disciplines, concepts, methods and topics including the development of new identities.
The minor program in Africana studies is open to all undergraduate students at JMU. Courses taken to complete the Africana studies minor can also be used to satisfy the students major, as well as General Education requirements.
The Africana studies minor requires:
Click here for the complete listing in the 2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalogue
***Important Correction to 2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalogue***
Option II is HIST/ANTH 436 Afro-Latin America