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African and African American Studies (AAAS) About the Program African and African American Studies (AAAS) courses are for students interested in an interdisciplinary understanding of history, culture and society from the perspectives of Africans and African Americans (in North America and the Caribbean). The program critically examines African and Diaspora experiences, institutions and perspectives with particular focus on the ways in which class and constructions of gender and race have shaped the lives of black people. It draws on faculty and courses primarily from the departments of English, History, Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, Religion and Sociology/Anthropology. The scholarly interest of the faculty include slavery and evolution; Caribbean culture and society; Civil Rights history; the Black Power Movement; philosophy of race; postcolonial literature; critical race theory; W.E.B. DuBois; criminal justice and race; religions of the Diaspora; African American, Afro-Caribbean and African literatures and aesthetics; African American women's history and literature; the sociology of race and education; African American philosophy; and South and West African history. The program also allows for independent and off-campus study. While the program's main strengths are in history, literature, philosophy, and religion, students may combine AAAS with such disciplines as Psychology, Politics, Economics and Art, and with programs such as Women's Studies and Peace and Global Studies. From Earlham, AAAS graduates have gone on to law school, medical school and graduate school at such institutions as Columbia, Tufts, Northwestern, Ohio State, Northeastern, Rochester and Boston universities. |
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Earlham College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |