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Recognizing the need for an informed, comprehensive, and inclusive study of African peoples, the Center for Africana Studies
has continued to develop a curriculum that addresses the unique experiences and interconnections of African peoples on the
continent, in the Americas, and throughout the Diaspora. For thirty years the Center for Africana Studies has sought to
provide students with knowledge to understand and critically evaluate the human, cultural, social, and economic factors
that have helped to create and shape the African American and other African Diaspora experiences throughout the world.
This academic and intellectual mission has become even more significant with the emerging global economy and the increasing
social interdependence of nations in the 21st century. Thus, the Center seeks to explore the profound ways in which African
peoples have functioned on a global scale and how their experiences have resonated in numerous sites around the world
throughout history.
Each semester the Afro-American Studies Program offers over thirty courses focusing on the life, history, and culture of
African Diasporic peoples. The core of the Afro-American Studies curriculum and the vast majority of courses are taught
by the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences. Most courses comprising the curriculum originate in several departments
and programs including: Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, English, History, Folklore
and Folklife, Linguistics, Music, Political Science, Religious Studies, Romance Languages, Sociology, Urban Studies and
Women's Studies. Select courses are also offered through the Graduate Schools of Education, Nursing, and Social Work as
well as the Annenberg School for Communication and the Wharton School.
The success of the Center for Africana Studies has been largely
due to the exemplary teaching and scholarship of its faculty
members and to the dedication of its students. Their vision
and commitment to the discipline has made the University of
Pennsylvania's Center for Africana Studies a leader in African
American and African Diaspora study in this country.
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