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Contact Information
Lindley Hall #300
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
Tel: 740-593-4546
Fax: 740-593-0671
E-mail: African American Studies

Curriculum
The department's interdisciplinary curriculum is built on three pillars:

1. The Humanities
2. The Social Sciences
3. Research and Service.

Students will have opportunities to conduct field research and provide service to the nation through the department's Research and Service Institute. The institute research focus is in four areas:

• Rural America, particularly the Ohio River Valley
• The African Diaspora in the Americas.
• Constitutional law and social justice.
• The sociology of entertainment.

Current Curricular Emphases
Students who major in African American Studies have two options-a major in the social sciences or a major in the humanities. Students who major in the social sciences can also participate in new specializations.

• Pre-law, emphasizing constitutional law and social justice;
• Public policy, emphasizing lobbying, communication planning and social change
• African American social and family life.

Students who opt for a major in the humanities will also participate in new specializations.

• Africana cinema and visual aesthetics;
• Twentieth century history of the African diaspora in the Americas; and
• The literature of the African diaspora in the Americas.