Graduate Programs: AFRICAN STUDIES

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Director of Graduate Studies: D. Crummey

Correspondence and Information: Director of the Center for African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 210 International Studies Building, 910 South Fifth Street, Champaign, IL 61820; (217) 333-6335

GRADUATE FACULTY

Professors: E. Accad, E. Bokamba, D. Crummey, R. Hay, D. Johnson, B. Kachru, A. Kagan, C. Kisseberth, A. Sofranko, C. Stewart, G. Yu

Associate Professors: S. Ambrose, T. Bassett, K. Cloud, A. Deck, A. Glaze, A. Gottlieb, V. Hoffman-Ladd, I. Kakoma, W. Martin, D. Prochaska, M. Saul

Assistant Professors: M. Bowen, D. Brewer, F. Cassimjee, K. Cuno, E. Kalipeni, T. Turino, M. West, A. Winter-Nelson

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

The Center for African Studies administers a two-year program of language and area courses leading to an interdisciplinary master of arts degree. The program provides both language and area training for three constituencies of students: those seeking to match area expertise with professional training; those proceeding to disciplinary-based doctoral work; and those for whom the degree would stand on its own. The center also administers graduate minors in African studies with various departments.

MASTER OF ARTS

A candidate must complete 8¹/2 units of graduate credit in area studies courses, drawn from at least three different units, and must study or demonstrate proficiency in a language indigenous to Africa to the advanced (third-year) level. One of the area courses must be African Studies 450, the center-originated interdisciplinary seminar.

MINOR FOR THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE

A doctoral candidate who elects African studies as a minor must secure approval from the center and must earn at least 4 units of graduate credit in approved courses in at least two departments. Courses are available in the following fields: agricultural economics, anthropology, art history, comparative literature, economics, education, French, geography, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology.

FINANCIAL AID

Each year the center is generally able to assist a limited number of graduate students in area studies through awards of Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships.

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