African Studies - Ohio University - Main Campus

African Studies from Ohio University - Main Campus is a Campus Master Area Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The African Studies Program at Ohio University is a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Africa. The African Studies Program provides students, scholars, and members of the broader community with opportunities to develop their understanding of this important world region. Facilities for research and language instruction, as well as formal degree studies , are available through the program. Students may earn a Master of Arts degree with a major in African Studies awarded by the Center for International Studies . The African Studies Program grew out of the excitement emanating from the decolonization of the continent in the mid-1960s and the awareness of the important role Africa could play in U.S. and world affairs. Today the multi-disciplinary nature of the program allows students to build a course of study reflecting Africa???s contemporary reality. Themes include the socioeconomic development of the continent in the context of Africa???s grand cultural and historical traditions, ecological sustainability, the African family, the health of Africa, and a broad array of the African arts. Students may also examine Africa as an excellent case-study of the process of social change in the modern world. The Institute for the African Child promotes and coordinates research and advocacy for the world???s most marginalized of population groups???the children and youth of the African continent. The Ohio University Board of Trustees established the Institute for the African Child in 1998. This new initiative is designed to expand the conversation among African Studies scholars, to include those in the professional fields of communication, education, health and human services, and medicine, to work together on issues that affect Africa???s children. Clearly there are no one-dimensional problems in the field of children and youth issues in Africa. Our intent is to provide a new cross-disciplinary venue for conferences, fellowships, and collaborative research that will lead to improvement in the living conditions of this important population. The establishment of the Institute for the African Child is also a new opportunity to raise awareness of the impact of the health-education-information nexus on minority children in Africa???s Diasporas. View more details on Ohio University - Main Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Area Studies courses.