非洲研究和非洲侨民利用广泛的学术追求，智力方法和文化传统，使我们的大学生和未成年人都能从非洲的历史，当代，本地和全球经验中获得广阔的视野。我们的学生在有关非洲经历如何影响我们所生活的世界各个方面的社会政治，文学，文化，心理和精神层面的对话中知识丰富，知识渊博。这涉及历史，政治和文化（包括非洲国家的其他方面），以影响世界各地非洲散居人口的影响力和生活，包括美国的黑人生活。我们的学生有很多机会可以在非洲，拉丁美洲或加勒比海地区出国学习，从而进一步扩大他们对全球化和社会正义问题的国际和多元文化认识。还提供促进体
Loyola's African Studies and the African Diaspora (AFR) program is an interdisciplinary course of study that replaced the Black World Studies Program in July, 2014.African Studies and the African Diaspora taps a wide range of academic pursuits, intellectual methods and cultural traditions to give our majors and minors a broad perspective of African experiencesboth historic, contemporary, local and global. Our students are informed and knowledgeable in dialogues concerning the socio-political, literary, cultural, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of how the African experience has influenced every aspect of the world we live in. This ranges from the history, politics and culture (among other aspects) of African countries, to the influence and lives of people in the African diaspora around the world, including black life in the United States. Numerous opportunities exist for our students to study abroad in Africa, Latin America, or the Caribbean, further enabling them to expand their international and multicultural awareness of issues relative to globalization and social justice. Internships or service-learning programs that foster experiential learning are also available. The Black World Studies program was inaugurated in 1971 as Loyola's first interdisciplinary program. It uniquely advanced the university's transformative educational mission for over four decades. As agents of social change, our students strive to apply their knowledge of the global black experience in ways that help make our world a home for all. In keeping with changes in the various disciplines that study the African and diaspora experience, in 2013 the program evolved into the new African Studies and the African Diaspora program.<br>Upon successful completion of the program, our students can recognize, identify, and appreciate the unique gifts and enriching contributions of African and African descended people, communities and countries in the areas of literature, politics, spirituality, morality, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. In service of humanity, our students are able to skillfully communicate their knowledge and values to peoples of all cultural backgrounds, nurturing within them a spirit of tolerance, accommodation, and respectful inclusion that grounds a more just, humane, and peaceful social order. Differences with regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, and religion are viewed and affirmed as valuable. Our students are able to reasonably discuss Africa as the cradle of humanity and civilization, locate African and African influenced culture in space and time from its earliest beginnings, and describe the varied ways in which African people's cultural identity and gifts have come to expression across global communities for centuries.<br>The program provides a unique and specialized preparation for careers in business, government, educational, non-profit, and medical fields, as well as graduate programs in the social sciences, the humanities, and professional schools.