The Center for African American Studies is building on three decades of success in offering interdisciplinary teaching, scholarship, and cultural programming, to become the Center for African American and Ethnic Studies. With an enlarged scope that continues to include the Center's original mission of offering a minor that emphasizes studying people of African descent, the Center is proud to announce that its academic and programmatic focus will be expanded over the next few years to include the study of Chicano-a/Latino-a Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. Emphasis will continue to be on providing a scholarly, interdisciplinary minor that focuses on exploring the history, culture, and contemporary dimensions of America's four largest racial/ethnic groups.

The Center's global vision and the minor in African American and Ethnic Studies offers a broad and interdisciplinary range of courses that prepares students to examine and develop concepts and theories to build a greater understanding of the historical, cultural, socio-economic, and political experiences of people of color.

The Center draws on the faculty of the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences, and the professional schools in developing abroad and interdisciplinary range of courses and scholarly perspectives for its minor.

The minor emphasizes the study of history, literature and the arts, culture and society, and contemporary issues. The minor in African American and Ethnic Studies enhances employment opportunities in a culturally diverse workplace, and graduate school opportunities in professions such as business, education, government, law, journalism, marketing, teaching, and social work.

The Center's academic and cultural programs and activities are designed to enrich Adelphi and its neighboring communities. They are available to all students of the University regardless of their major, concentration, race, or ethnicity.

Contact Us
For additional information, please contact:

Center for African-American and Ethnic Studies Program
Alumnae Quad Annex 300
Adelphi University
P.O. Box 701
Garden City, NY 11530-0701

p - 516.877.4980
f  - 516.877.4579


This page last modified on 17 December 2007