African Studies
African Studies
African Studies
Administrative Information
Undergraduate Adviser: Prof. Rhiannon Stephens, 602 Fayerweather; 854-4160; rs3169@columbia.edu
Program Office: Institute of African Studies, 201 Knox; 854-4633
Interdepartmental Committee on African Studies
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Hisham Aidi Taoufik Ben-Amor George Bond Zoë Crossland Souleymane Bachir Diagne Mamadou Diouf Abosede George Macartan Humphreys Brian Larkin |
Mahmood Mamdani Gregory Mann Hlonipha Mokoena Rosalind Morris Emmanuelle Saada Joseph Slaughter Marième Sy Rhiannon Stephens Zoë Strother
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The African studies program is designed to introduce students to the intensive study of Africa through methodological and theoretical training across disciplines. All students take common core courses, learn an African language, and study or conduct research in Africa. An introductory course develops a critical vocabulary for engagement with Africa and its intellectual history. Interdisciplinary work prepares students to engage with Africa's rich heterogeneity and trains them in the multiple disciplines that compose African Studies as an academic field of inquiry. Training in an African language and study or supervised research on the continent ensures that students develop their skills of analysis in a concrete fashion and on its own terms.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the program, students are expected to work especially closely with the undergraduate adviser in order to choose appropriate courses for their specialty that satisfy all of the requirements.
Undergraduate Requirements
Regulations for African Studies Majors and Concentrators
Declaring a Major or Concentration
Students cannot delcare a major or concentration in African studies on-line. Students should obtain a Major Declaration form from their advising dean and bring it to the program office for approval by the undergraduate adviser. The undergraduate adviser meets with students as necessary in order to establish and approve their individual programs of study.
Grading
Courses in which the grade of D has been received do not count toward the major or concentration requirements, nor do those taken Pass/D/Fail except for the first course taken toward the major or concentration.
For a Major in African Studies
The major requires 12 courses and a semester in Africa as follows:
- ANTH V2010 Major debates in the study of Africa
- Four semesters (2 years) of study of an African language: Arabic, Pulaar, Swahili, Wolof and Zulu are currently offered
- Four Africa-related courses from one of the following departments: anthropology, art history and archaeology, comparative literature and society, economics, English and comparative literature, French and romance philology, history, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies, music, political science or women's and gender studies
- Two Africa-related courses from a second of the above-listed departments
- One semester of study or supervised research in Africa: a current list of programs approved by the Office of Global Programs is available at http://www.ogp.columbia.edu/programs/africa/index.html
For a Concentration in African Studies
The concentration requires 7 courses as follows:
- ANTH V2010 Major debates in the study of Africa
- Three Africa-related courses from the departments listed for the major
- One Africa-related course from another of the departments listed for the major
- Two semesters (1 year) of study of an African language.
- One semester of study or research in Africa is strongly encouraged
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