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African and African American Studies (AAAS) at Dartmouth is a multi-disciplinary department of innovative scholarship, offering courses that integrate theoretical perspectives across disciplines. Students in AAAS explore the historical, social, political, and cultural constructions and transformations of Africa, the African Diaspora, and their global contexts. The Department was founded as a program in 1969.  

  • 2016 graduates in front of the Shabazz Center: (from left) Shanae Irving, Nana Adjeiwaa-Manu, Tramon McZeal, Chloe Jones, Kristina Williams, Tailour Garbutt, and Kasey Crockett.

  • AAAS major Tyler Akeem Anderson ('18) talks with Professor Keith Walker and AAAS Chair Michael Chaney after presenting his independent study research.

  • Students gather in the Paganucci Lounge for the 2016 AAAS Student Research Presentations event.

  • 2016 AAAS awards luncheon and celebration of graduating seniors on the Choate House lawn.

  • Choate House

    Choate House is home for the African and African American Studies program. It houses resources for AAAS students and faculty, such as the S. Jay Walker Memorial Reading Room and the Seminar Room.

Learning Outcomes for the AB in African and African American Studies

By graduation, students will be able to:

  1. Apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods of research, independent thinking, and critical analysis to a rigorous study of experiences throughout Africa and the African diaspora 

  2. Identify important features of a variety of cultures, past and present, across Africa and the African diaspora

  3. Explain the interrelationship between people from sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and/or other parts of the African diaspora in following areas: historical, intellectual, political, economic, cultural.

  4. Be able to describe the role of key concepts such as intersectionality, power, and difference via specific connections with race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and gender.

  5. Define and provide examples of colonization, decolonization, liberation or power movements and their legacies.

  6. Gain knowledge of emergent ideas and scholarship about the lives and conditions of people of African descent throughout the globe

  7. Demonstrate an awareness of current social justice initiatives involving people of African descent both in the United States and throughout the world.