{"id":8751,"date":"2026-07-07T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/?page_id=8751"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:45:54","slug":"african-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/african-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"African Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/289\/2026\/09\/black.jpeg); background-position: 50% 61%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        African Studies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"ba-program-information\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">BA Program Information <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We offer a Combined Honours Bachelor of Arts in African Studies.\u00a0 You can do your African Studies Honours degree combined with an Honours degree in any other BA program offered at Carleton.\u00a0You will need 20 credits for the degree, 7.0 credits of which will be designated for African Studies.\u00a0 In addition to taking two Introduction to Africa courses and a fourth year capstone seminar in African Studies, you will have a choice of courses in African history, African politics, anthropology of Africa, African cultural and diaspora studies as well as in international development and race and ethnic studies.\u00a0 In addition, we offer a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/undergraduate-studies\/ias-study-abroad-course\/\">study abroad course<\/a> taught by a Carleton faculty member in an African country every summer (May). Finally, you also are able to take a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/undergraduate-studies\/ias-placement-course\/\">placement course<\/a>\u00a0that enables you to carry out research and other academic activities at an organization (typically based in Ottawa) working in Africa, which is a superb opportunity to allow you to gain important hands-on experience.<br><br>For more information visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/undergraduate-studies\/ba-program\/\">BA Program Requirements page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/undergraduate-studies\/ba-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BA Program Page<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"graduate-studies\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduate Studies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"collaborative-masters-in-african-studies\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collaborative Master&#8217;s in African Studies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collaborative master\u2019s in African Studies provides students with access to the best concentrated expertise on African Studies in Canada which can only be found in the nation\u2019s capital. Ottawa provides students with access to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Government departments such as Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development and Export Development Canada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Non-government organizations working in fields such as international development, human rights, and the environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>African diplomatic representatives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Growing number of African-Canadian and diaspora community groups<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Africanist faculty at four universities (Carleton University, University of Ottawa, Saint Paul University, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec en Outaouais)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>National Archives of Canada and other rich holdings of archival materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"phd-program\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">PhD Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Collaborative PhD with a Specialization in African Studies is designed for graduates of Masters programs in the humanities and the social sciences who, through interdisciplinary dialogue, wish to enrich their training in a particular discipline or area of study by developing expertise in African Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Collaborative PhD is currently available with&nbsp;<strong>six participating units<\/strong>. More units will be added to the collaborative PhD in African Studies in the coming months. Amongst the units expected to join the Collaborative PhD in African Studies specialization are&nbsp; History, and The Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/graduate-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graduate Studies Page<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA Program Information We offer a Combined Honours Bachelor of Arts in African Studies.\u00a0 You can do your African Studies Honours degree combined with an Honours degree in any other BA program offered at Carleton.\u00a0You will need 20 credits for the degree, 7.0 credits of which will be designated for African Studies.\u00a0 In addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-8751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8751\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}