UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
PAN AFRICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
October 1, 2011
Dear Friends,
Please draw the attention of your students and acquaintances to this notice. The Department of Pan African Studies at the University of Louisville is now accepting applications for its competitive graduate assistantship program for students interested in completing a Master of Arts degree in Pan African Studies. The assistantship provides full time tuition, a monthly stipend, and health care benefits and can be renewed for a second year. Assistants are required to work 20 hours a week in one of the Departments many academic institutes and community outreach programs.
Strongly encourage your students to applying for these assistantship positions. Pan African studies is a multi-disciplinary discipline therefore applicants with Bachelor's Degrees and/or minors in African, Africana, Black, Pan African, Afro-American, Ethnic and American Studies will be considered along with degrees in Anthropology, English, History, Liberal Arts, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, Art, with significant coursework and/or research in some aspect of Black/African Studies.
Our program offers many opportunities for scholarly development both inside and outside of the classroom, with faculty and programs at the university, in the community, as well as study abroad opportunities. The graduate assistant position not only comes with an excellent financial package, but opportunities for leading edge interdisciplinary learning for the 21st century. We are getting ready to launch our PhD program next academic year.
The application deadline to apply for the graduate assistantship is January 15. The minimum requirements are an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 and admission to the University of Louisville's Graduate School in Good Standing. Full admission requirements can be found at www.louisville.edu/panafricanstudies, or you can call to request an application at 502-852-5985.
Please distribute this information to those students and colleagues within your department and university whom you feel would be interested in this opportunity. For more information about the Pan African Studies Department at the University of Louisville, please visit our website at www.louisville.edu/panafrican, or contact me, the Graduate Director, at 502-852-3812.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Cordially,
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, PhD
Associate Professor of African History
Graduate Director
Department of Pan African Studies
Email: rc.njoku@louisville.edu
Phone: 502-8523812.
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