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Why Afro-American Studies?
The Department of Afro-American Studies at UWM prepares students for career opportunities in business, government, teaching, administration, the professions and social services. The major in Afro-American Studies provides students with a foundation for advanced studies in such fields as economics, politics, sociology, history, English, anthropology, communications and professions such as law, business and management, and public administration.

Afro-American Studies and You!
Afro-American Studies is the inquiry into the life histories and prospects of black people, especially those who live in the United States and Canada, Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Its purpose is to educate students to describe, explain, evaluate, and predict actions, events and phenomena that structure the life experiences and possibilities of blacks in the several societies in which they live. Afro-American Studies is thus relevant to you, impinging upon your interests and purposes regardless of your race, sex, ethnicity, nationality or religion, given the inter-dependency of the societies of today's world.

The Afro-American Studies Major
The major is designed to give the student the optimum flexibility within a framework of carefully crafted requirements. Given the fact that we now live in what has been called the "technitronic age", every college graduate should possess basic skills necessitated by this age. Accordingly, every graduate in Afro-American Studies will take at least one course each in logic and statistics (6 credits). It is also important that majors have a sense of the foundations of Afro-American Studies, regardless of their areas of concentration. They are thus required to take one course in the Political Economy of Afro-America and one on the Culture and Society of Afro-America (6 credits). The student may then elect to concentrate on Option A-The Political Economy of Afro-America or Option B-The Culture and Society of Afro-America. In either case 24 credits (15 credits must be taken at or above the 300 level) are required to complete the major. If one elects Option A, 6 of the 24 credits may be taken from Option B; if Option B is selected, 6 of the 24 credits may be taken from Option A.