{"id":5,"date":"2016-06-15T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berea.edu\/afr\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2021-02-08T02:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:40:22","slug":"about-the-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-103\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/Hieroglyph1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Group of people seated in semicircle\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/Hieroglyph1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/Hieroglyph1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/Hieroglyph1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/Hieroglyph1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>The Department of African and African American Studies (AFR) provides students with a scholarly understanding of the cultures, thought, politics, social life, and material structures that define Black experience. AFR&#8217;s interdisciplinary approach allows students to engage a spectrum of fields, including history, psychology, environmental science, gender studies, sociology, political science, economics, health, media, technology, and many forms of expressive culture.<\/p>\n<p>Through the advanced, dedicated study of the <a href=\"http:\/\/berea.smartcatalogiq.com\/en\/Current\/Catalog\/Departments-of-Study\/African-and-African-American-Studies\/African-and-African-American-Studies-B-A\">major<\/a> and the supplementary enrichment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/berea.smartcatalogiq.com\/en\/Current\/Catalog\/Departments-of-Study\/African-and-African-American-Studies\/African-and-African-American-Studies-Minor\">minor<\/a>, the African and African American Studies Department deepens students\u2019 <em>total<\/em> experience. We offer new ways to read, critique, and take action in the world using the perspectives of people throughout the African Diaspora.<\/p>\n<h2>The Classroom and Beyond<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/20150414_Dr.BeysClass_SS-16-1-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"Professor seated atop desk gestures\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/20150414_Dr.BeysClass_SS-16-1-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/20150414_Dr.BeysClass_SS-16-1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/20150414_Dr.BeysClass_SS-16-1-1536x1068.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/20150414_Dr.BeysClass_SS-16-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Our curriculum teaches students to clarify and critically utilize Black theoretical, material, and cultural interventions. AFR not only shows students how to analyze the conditions that have impacted Black experience, we also give students the opportunity to innovate practical, active responses to the structures and ideologies of racial subjugation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to our <a href=\"http:\/\/berea.smartcatalogiq.com\/en\/Current\/Catalog\/Course-Descriptions\/AFR-African-African-Amer-Studies\">catalog courses<\/a>, we offer a number of experimental &#8220;special topics&#8221; classes that deepen students&#8217; intellectual journey. Courses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Power Beyond Borders<\/li>\n<li>The Archaeology of Slavery and Emancipation<\/li>\n<li>Black Queer Theory<\/li>\n<li>African Traditional Religion<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;B-Side&#8221; of the Harlem Renaissance<\/li>\n<li>Food and Agriculture of Africa and African People<\/li>\n<li>Black Women and 21st Century Visual Culture<\/li>\n<li>Carceral States: Race and the Struggle Against the Prison Nation<\/li>\n<li>Traveling to Ghana: West African Music and Literature (<a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/cie\/bist-ghana-2018\/\">BIST<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Environmental Justice, and more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Opportunities and Internships<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/undertree.jpg\" alt=\"Underneath canopy of trees\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/undertree.jpg 900w, https:\/\/legacy.berea.edu\/afr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/01\/undertree-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Research<\/h4>\n<p>AFR majors have the opportunity to assist in faculty-led research projects as well as conduct their own research using a variety of student grants. Independent research and outstanding capstone projects are honored at the end of each year.<\/p>\n<h4>Internships<\/h4>\n<p>AFR students are also granted internships that match a wide range of intellectual and career interests \u2013 from history to political science to the arts.\u00a0 Students have interned at the Lexington Neighborhood Youth Council, the home of Carter G. Woodson (operated by the National Parks Service), and the Heir Property Information Project supporting African American family land retention.<\/p>\n<h4>Enrichment and Professional Development<\/h4>\n<p>AFR students also gain educational enrichment, professional development, and networking opportunities through conferences, learning excursions, study abroad, and other interactive experiences. Beyond exclusive encounters with speakers in AFR\u2019s <em>Hieroglyph <\/em>series, students also get one-on-one career guidance from African &amp; African American Studies graduates across multiple institutions. Other professional development and enrichment experiences have included trips to the Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration Symposium, the Carter G. Woodson Center\u2019s Civil Rights Tour, and participation in the Southwestern Black Leadership Conference.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Department of African and African American Studies (AFR) provides students with a scholarly understanding of the cultures, thought, politics, social life, and material structures that define Black experience. 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