该计划旨在提高学生对现代非洲的了解。作为国际社会的重要组成部分，非洲值得重点研究和持续研究。该计划提供了有针对性的定向努力，以发展学生对非洲人民，地理，机构，艺术，习俗，语言，传统，资源，政治和政治的认识和赞赏。社会结构。该程序的设计和结构将对学生在专业和学术上都有用。该计划提供了不同的选择：特别强调国际关系，对非洲生活的某个方面（例如艺术，历史或社会）的兴趣，或对一般知识的好奇心。
The program is intended to improve students understanding of modern Africa. As a significant part of the world community, Africa merits focused and sustained study. This program provides a cohesive, directed effort to develop students knowledge and appreciation for Africa's peoples, geography, institutions, arts, customs, languages, traditions, resources, politics, and social structures. The program is designed and structured in a way that will be useful to the student, both professionally and academically. The program provides different options: a specific emphasis in international relations, interests in a particular aspect of African life such as art, history, or society, or general intellectual curiosity. The CSU International Programs provide opportunities for students at Sacramento State to study and live in Africa. This constitutes a valuable adjunct to African Studies on the campus. Students are strongly urged to take at least one year of a language used in Africa other than English. Course selection for each student is worked out with an advisor from the African Studies faculty in conjunction with the Director of Pan African Studies.