艺术与科学学院（CAS）的非洲研究系（AFS）提供了跨学科研究计划，从而获得了非洲研究的文学硕士或研究生证书。我们的研究生课程面向想要对当代全球化世界有更深刻理解的任何人。非洲研究专业的硕士学位旨在加深对全球所有地区以及不同时期非洲裔人的经历的了解。这个独特的课程通过运用非洲的象征潜力和非洲的思想，存在方式和思考方式，作为增强人类理解和知识的棱镜，展示了与传统学科截然不同的方法和知识。这样一来，硕士和研究生证书（GC）可以满足研究生水平的学术探究和卓越水平的需求，涵盖非洲传统民族（美国，加勒比海/拉丁美洲
The Department of Africana Studies(AFS) in the College of Arts and Sciences(CAS) offers a program of interdisciplinary studies leading to a Master of Arts or a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies. Our graduate program is for anyone who wants to have a more profound understanding of the contemporary globalized world. The M.A. in Africana Studies is intended to develop an understanding of the experiences of people of African descent in all regions of the globe and across time. This unique program presents approaches and knowledges radically and fundamentally different from those encountered in traditional disciplines, by applying the symbolic potential of Africa and African ideas and ways of being and thinking as a prism for enhancing human understanding and knowledge. In so doing, the M.A. and Graduate Certificate(GC) meet the need for academic inquiry and excellence at the graduate level spanning the experiences, history and perspectives of African heritage peoples (United States, Caribbean/Latin America, Africa) and enhance professional development in a range of careers and professions where knowledge and increased understanding of Black communities past and present are important. Included among these areas are education, law, management, medicine, public health, public service, social welfare, museum curatorship, cinema studies and teaching.Our graduate programs also increases marketability in a range of traditional doctoral programs including Cultural Studies, English, History, Philosophy, Social Welfare, Sociology, and others.