Master of Arts in Africana Studies

SUNY Stony Brook University

The Department of Africana Studies (AFS) in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) offers a course of interdisciplinary studies leading to a Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies. The purpose of the Graduate Certificate (GC) is threefold: to fill a need for academic inquiry at the graduate level spanning the experiences, history and perspectives of individuals of African heritage (United States, Caribbean/Latin America, Africa) to broaden the scope of academic offerings at the graduate level within the SUNY system and at Stony Brook University (SBU) specifically and to enhance professional development in a range of careers and professions where knowledge and increased understanding of Black communities past and present is important. Included among these areas are education, law, management, medicine, public health, public service, social welfare, museum curatorship, cinema and media studies. AFS has also been approved by the state of New York to offer the M.A. degree in Africana Studies.

College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Africana Studies