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Africa in the New World >
Africana Studies >
Departments, Programs,
and Research Centers
In the following section you will find descriptions
of departments and programs, with their degree
requirements and lists of their faculty. Descriptions
of courses can be found online at
http://go.tufts.edu/isis.
Detailed course descriptions can also be found
in handbooks issued by individual departments and
programs. These handbooks often describe courses
not listed in the online bulletin.
Courses numbered 1 through 99 are for
undergraduate credit only; those numbered 100
through 199 are for both undergraduate and
graduate credit; those numbered 200 through 299
are intended primarily for graduate credit, although
undergraduates may take these courses for credit
with the permission of the instructor and/or
department.
Africa in the New World
DIRECTOR:
Associate Professor Paula Aymer, Sociology
The Africa in the New World (ANW)
interdisciplinary minor encourages students to
explore Africa, the African diaspora in the
Americas, and global Africa through a range of
perspectives. Particular emphasis is given to three
intellectual currents: diaspora studies, identity
construction, and globalization.
REQUIREMENTS
To fulfill the ANW minor, students must choose
five courses from at least three departments or
programs of the university, bringing to bear the
knowledge and perspectives of various disciplines
on a single subject. In addition to the five courses,
a student is required to complete an appropriate
project, such as a thesis, an oral presentation, or a
performance, which integrates the knowledge and
methodologies of the disciplines involved and must
include a written analysis. The integrative project
will be given one-half or one course credit under
ANW 90, 91 or 95 designations and will receive a
letter grade. Students interested in a major
concentration may propose a major in
Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on African
Studies, African American Studies, or African
Diaspora Studies.
Courses cannot count for both the ANW
interdisciplinary minor and the African/African
American culture option.
Note: The Africa in the New World minor is no longer
available for students entering Tufts as of AY2012–
AY2013. As of AY14-AY15 it will no longer be offered
and is being replaced by the Africana studies major and
minor.
For more detailed information, please visit the
website http://ase.tufts.edu/anw/.
Africana Studies
DIRECTOR:
Professor H. Adlai Murdoch, French
Africana Studies Major
Africana Studies is an interdisciplinary field that
focuses on the study of the people of the African
continent and people of African descent in the
global African Diaspora. The Africana Studies
major exposes students to the historical, political,
social, economic, and cultural systems and institutions
that reveal the lived conditions and creativities
of Africana peoples within the countries of the
African continent and the African Diaspora.
Moreover, Africana Studies critically interrogates
the socio-historical contexts in which western
epistemologies developed, while examining the
important contributions to human labor, talents,
and natural resources made by African peoples to
the movement to modernity experienced and
claimed by Mediterranean and western states.
Africana Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach
to the philosophical foundations of knowledge
production and highlights the history of complex
interaction between the social and biological
sciences in providing justification for the oppression
of Africans and peoples of African descent. It also
provides a critical approach to major social and
cultural processes that are essential to an understanding
of contemporary globalization.
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