The Africana Studies Program is committed to student success. We provide our students with a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum that allows you to critically explore, analyze and interpret the experience of African Americans in particular, and other people of African descent in general.
Our mission is to prepare broadly educated, technologically proficient and highly productive citizens to obtain a meaningful career, to enjoy enriched lives and to make contributions to a culturally diverse society.
Improve your cultural sensitivity and your cultural intelligence.
Get an understanding of the African American experience in the United States and throughout the African Diaspora.
Our graduates have a great record of finding employment soon after graduation.
You’ll take courses with interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. You’ll study the history, culture, social-economics and political realities of these communities. More specifically, you’ll gain insights about international connections relevant to these groups. You’ll also do research and community-based study to boost what you learn in the classroom.
Learn to differentiate between the concepts of racism, prejudice, and discrimination; and, understand how lives are situated in or impacted by these concepts.
The Africana Studies curriculum prepares students for a wide variety of occupational possibilities:
Management and Industry
Communication and Media
Education
Government/Politics
Non-Profit/Advocacy
Apply for all scholarships using the general EWU Scholarship Application. To apply for other EWU and non-EWU scholarships, please visit the EWU Financial Aid website.
The deadline for scholarship applications is February 1st each year and must be postmarked by this date. Any faxed or late applications will not be accepted.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Africana Studies Program Front Desk at 509.359.2205 or africanastudies@ewu.edu.
The Africana Studies Program at EWU is committed to student success. As such, Africana Studies provides students with a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum that allows students to critically explore, analyze and interpret the experience of African Americans in particular, and other people of African descent in general. The minor in Africana Studies helps to prepare EWU students to be broadly educated, articulate, critical thinkers ready to pursue meaningful careers as engaged citizens in a culturally diverse world. The Africana Studies program seeks to:
