• BMI - Black Male Initiative at CUNY. A new initiative intended to increase, encourage, and support the inclusion and educational success of under-represented groups in higher education, in particular black males. All programs and activities of the Black Male Initiative are open to all academically eligible students, faculty and staff, without regard to race, gender, national origin, or other characteristic.
  
  
• The Center for Diversity and Multicultural Studies is our most important partner. The Center promotes and supports a dynamic multicultural academic environment. Policy initiatives and curriculum and faculty development are promoted through the Multicultural Studies Council and the Multicultural Assembly. We share the space of the Center and benefit from its past and ongoing activities to promote diversity in the College’s curriculum. The Center is also one of our primary partners in developing public programs. The Director of the Center serves as a project PI.
  
  
• The Black Faculty and Staff Association has been in near continuous operation for four decades. It advocates and promotes the interest of faculty, staff and students of African Descent. During its pilot phase BFSA officially voted to “adopt” the program and provides faculty and staff mentors. The BFSA’s Executive Committee meets semi-annually with the College President and Provost and the E.R.I.S. project is always on its agenda. E.R.I.S. also participates in its two annual receptions that welcome new freshmen and celebrate graduating seniors.
  
  
• The Magner Center for Career Development and Internship assists Brooklyn College students and alumni to develop the skills necessary to attain their lifelong career goals. Through partnerships with employers and the college's academic faculty and staff, students are offered the knowledge, skills and experiences needed to thrive in today's globally interdependent world. Based on the continuing assessment of its programs and knowledge of an ever changing work place, the Magner Center develops new strategies and innovative practices to meet students' career goals. The Magner center arranges workshops for E.R.I.S. Scholars and offers them assistance in early career advising, resume writing, interview skills training, internships, and alumni mentoring.
  
  
• The Department of Africana Studies is one of the oldest in the United States. It offers a major and three minors (African Studies, African American Studies, and Literatures of the Black Diaspora) via a curriculum committed to in-depth study of Blacks in the United States, the Caribbean and Africa. It is a multidisciplinary department offering courses in the social sciences, education and the humanities in each of these three geographical areas. It introduced two new courses – “(Re)Presenting Black Men” and “Black Males in America” – to encourage student and faculty research and teaching in areas of interest to the program. Beginning in the 2007-2008 academic year, these courses will be regularly offered. The chairperson of the Department is a project PI.
  
  
• Graduate Center for Worker Education  the Graduate Center for Worker Education is CUNY's premier master's degree program in urban policy, administration and public health. The Center serves New York City's working professionals and trade unions as an academic institution that leads to career advancement and higher academic degrees. The Center houses the Labor Policy Instituteand the journal, Working USA. In its accessible location in Lower Manhattan, it host conferences and academic events.
  
  

Africana Studies

Department Office: 3105 James Hall
Telephone: (718) 951-5597

Chairperson: George P. Cunningham
Deputy Chairperson: Lynda Day
Professors: Cunningham, Latortue,Thomas;
Associate Professor: Day;
Assistant Professors: Cumberbatch, Green.

The Africana Studies Department offers a multidisciplinary curriculum devoted to the study of blacks in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The wide range of courses focuses on the histories, cultures, politics, and societies of Africa and its diaspora. In addition to its own core faculty, the department draws on the expertise of its affiliates in the Departments of Political Science, English, and Modern Languages and Literatures, as well as the Conservatory of Music. The multidisciplinary nature of Africana studies exposes students to the theoretical approaches and basic content of many of the traditional liberal arts disciplines,
including history, literature, and sociology. Students have many options. The department offers a bachelor of arts degree in Africana studies and a bachelor of arts degree in adolescence education for social studies
teachers. The department also offers minors in three areas: African American studies; African studies; and the literature of the African diaspora. Each minor requires the completion of 15 credits of courses given by the Department of Africana Studies and other Brooklyn College departments.

The department also offers a 6-credit study-abroad seminar during the summer, which provides an in-depth experience in a selected country of the African diaspora in cooperation with a host institution in that country. Summer seminars have taken place in Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Our graduates are well equipped for the twenty-first century workplace or for graduate study at universities and professional schools that seek broad intellectual preparation.

See Core curriculum

The Department of Africana Studies participates in the College’s core curriculum through the upper tier courses: Exploring Literature and Exploring Global Connections.