African-American Studies Program

Welcome

John Chavis, 1763-1838. Chavis studied at Washington Academy (now Washington and Lee University) from 1795 to 1799.

African-American Studies is an interdisciplinary program that enables students to examine black culture through a variety of disciplines including literature, history, sociology, politics, critical race theory, art and music.  This program began during the fall term of 2005.  The only courses that we offer each year are AfAM 130, An Introduction to African-American Studies, and the capstone course which is a supervised independent study project.  Most of the other courses are taught in alternating years.

For more information, please contact Associate Professor Ted DeLaney of the history department.  delaneyt@wlu.edu

To view the syllabus for the Autumn 2006 course, "Introduction to African-American Studies," click here. 

View the 2005 Contemporary Culture Student Web Projects.

View the 2006 Contemporary Culture Student Web Projects.

These projects will be presented by students at the 2007 Science, Society, and the Arts Undergraduate Research Conference at W&L.

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