Undergraduate major and minor. Major specialization is in Political Economy or Culture and Society.

Studies include: African-American literature, philosophy, and religious thought; African-American history and politics, particularly urban and constitutional history as well as slavery and its economic context; economic problems of Black business; black workers, technology, and society; social justice and injustice; social change; Black/White cooperation and conflict; urban violence; the Black social and cultural tradition; the African-American concept of self, particularly in relation to the Media; Black personality development; psychological effects of racism; church and school in African-American life; Black and White women in the U.S.; sex, marriage, and extended families; African societies and cultures; African international relations and economic relations; South Africa; Black Brazilian society; and social science methodological studies.

Basic. Research level collections in several subjects related to these interdisciplinary studies. See Related Subject Collections below.

        The following LC classification range descriptions represent areas of concentration for Africology:

        BL (Religion): African

        DT (Africa): General; Antiquities. Social life and customs; History; Egypt. Sudan; North Africa; Central Africa; East Africa; West Africa. West Coast; Southern Africa.

        E (America. United States): African-Americans.

        HC (Economic History and Conditions): Africa.

        JQ (Political institutions and Public Administration: Asia. Africa. Australia): Africa.

        LA (History of Education): Africa.

        PJ (Oriental Languages and Literatures): selectively collected: Ethiopian languages.

        PL (Languages and Literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania): African languages and literatures.

Mainly English. Some African languages.