African Studies

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·          Criminal Justice Administration

·          Economics

·          History

·          Human Resources Management

·          Interdisciplinary Studies

·          International Business

·          Languages (African)

·          Law & Diversity

·          Marketing

·          Political Science

·          Public Administration

·          Public Personnel Management

·          Psychology

·          Sociology

APPLICATION FOR ADMISSIONS

The deadline for admissions for Certificate, Diploma shall be as follows:

1.       August 30 for Fall Quarter

2.       December 30 for Winter Quarter

3.       March 22 for Spring Quarter

4.       June 15 for Summer Quarter

All prospective students are required to take the following steps towards being registered for their respective programs of study:

1.       They must request from the Registrar an application for admission

2.       They must return to the Registrar the completed application form with a non-refundable application fee of U.S. $30, made payable to Africa Institute Seattle

3.       Submit to the Registrar, an official transcript from each and all schools, colleges and universities they had previously attended. No transcript will be accepted and designated as “Official Transcript” if they are not directly sent to the Registrar of AIS by the school, college and/or university they attended.

4.       All foreign students must submit TOEFL, except those students from Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, and United States. TOEFL results/scores must not inferior to 550 (213 for computer based TOEFL 

Please note that TOEFL has centers in almost all the countries of the world. Please check directly with TOEFL office for your registration and find out from their office test centers nearest to you by contacting them directly at: TOEFL/ETS Services, Post Office Box 6151, Princeton, NJ 08541-6151 USA.

AFRICA: A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE

Africa is the birthplace of humankind. At present, there are almost a billion people living in the continent of Africa. Considering its size, age and potential global significance and impact, Africa's human and natural resources remain largely unexplored and untapped.

African affairs are seldom mentioned in Western media except, in so far as, they report catastrophes, human and natural events taking place in the continent What little information there is on Africa, is represented in the nature of myths, fairy tales and distortions rather than facts. At present, there is a terrible deficiency in how Americans and African Americans are educated regarding the continent of Africa. This produces a less informed population, hence a population at a disadvantage.

In an increasingly global economy, we must deal with people from all over the world for the allocation of the world's scarce resources. It is therefore very essential that we do so effectively and efficiently, with fairness and integrity, with compassion and understanding of the people and their culture.

Issues about Africa really matter a lot, at least in a global economy, where most of the developed nations' raw materials come from the continent. Therefore, African history, politics, culture, economics, etc ought to be studied in a scientific manner. The misconceptions and presuppositions about Africa ought to be discarded. When replaced with objective and current information, this creates and promotes opportunities for growth, prosperity, and well being for both its people and its economy.

Africa is currently going through transition from traditional to modern society. Its people and economy are changing from agricultural to industrial. Western transnational corporations are increasingly doing business in Africa. Therefore, we must do everything possible to help people understand Africa and Africans in a realistic manner.

As Africa Institute is a driving force to promote and improve the awareness of Africa, African affairs, and Africans. It conducts scientific studies on Africa and shares its findings with those who will find such information useful and beneficial. Africa Institute builds goodwill between the people of Africa and the United States of America

African Institute is an educational, consulting and think-tank organization dedicated to studying and teaching about Africa, its people, and Africa's importance in the global economy. It teaches courses on African history, politics, economics, political economy, leadership and management, business, cultures and languages. The courses are college level and offered in two formats: those taken over a period of a quarter (eleven weeks) and those taken in one to three-day workshops.

The workshops offer continuing education credits. Africa Institute Seattle offers students opportunities to obtain  programs in African Studies, Arts and sciences, professional certificates, and diplomas in specific areas of African studies and in other liberal studies disciplines. Any of the offered courses may be taken for self-enrichment purposes. Please see the course listing for more information

The Institute's goal is to ascertain what is scientific psychology, but in the meantime, it explores western psychology and contrasts it with how Africans behave towards one another and their concepts of mental health and illness. Part of what Africa Institute Seattle does, is to provide professional services to the American public, the federal, States and Local Governments, International and local Business Communities, including not-for profit organizations and agencies.

CONSULTANCY FUNCTION

Africa Institute makes its instructors, who generally have doctorates in their fields of studies and possess a wealth of practical information, available for consultancy to businesses, governments, and community organizations. The instructors go into organizational settings, provide training (workshops), and where applicable, on-going consultancy, on subjects in their areas of expertise.

In an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world, we all have to deal with people from all over. Global economy is real. In the not too distant future, businesses will survive based on the extent that they effectively diversify; that is how efficiently they promote and sell their goods and services to meet the needs and demands of markets and persons from diverse backgrounds. Therefore, it helps to know how to market goods, services, and conduct business negotiations in Africa.

THINK TANK FUNCTION

Africa Institute performs studies on African issues, particularly, business and politics, and disseminates its findings in relevant publications. While the Institute's primary goal is scholastic, it also wants to disseminate scientific information about Africa to the public and business community. Transnational corporations doing business in Africa will particularly benefit from the Institute's writings and consultations. The world economy is increasingly interdependent, and requires all of us to understand other people's culture and history, to better enable us to understand and interact with one another, personally and professionally.  

PUBLICATIONS (AFRICA INSTITUTE JOURNAL

The Institute makes publications a key part of its functions and its flag ship monthly publication, Modernizing Africa, ought to be "a must read" for all those persons interested in African business, politics and society. This publication combines academic rigor with practical suggestions for a modernizing world. For example, how does the present ideology of privatization espoused by Western lending organizations (World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) affect Africa? Is that economic ideology necessarily good for a modernizing economy? Are these financial institutions consciously or unconsciously retarding the modernization process in Africa?

Are Western political structures and ideologies suitable for Africa? In America, for instance, the accepted political ideology is the liberal-conservative continuum. Are those necessarily functional in the African context, and if not what political spectrum of ideas should replace them?

China and Japan had to modify classical Western political and economic concepts and structures to suite their cultural contexts before they could modernize their societies. How should Africans engage in this modification processes?

The Institute's publications, be it books or journal articles, are designed to be of practical help to political leaders, business men and women rather than be mere academic or mental abstractions. 

At Africa Institute Seattle, a certificate, diploma granting institution does hereby inform the general public that, the Institute will officially open its doors to all prospective students who wish to take courses for self-enrichment, and/or pursue a course leading to the award of diplomas, certificates in its school of Arts and Sciences, to request for more information.

Africa Institute Seattle is both an on and off (online) campus college. As part of its motto, Africa Institute Seattle is providing high quality education to all its students. Africa Institute Seattle is a caring and educational institute that is passionate about research, teaching and learning with particular emphasis on African studies, and the studies dealing with developing nations. The Institute is committed, and has the willingness to challenge all students to be knowledgeable, ethical, and capable “global citizens.

Africa Institute Seattle is also committed to exhibiting high level of sensibility and understanding of today's diverse academic, social, economic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of the student population. Every one knows that at all American academic institutions, many students do, indeed come from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds –these are facts that Africa Institute Seattle will not overlook. Therefore, the students who will come to Africa Institute Seattle will benefit from the "real life" and globalize and multicultural experience that our instructors will bring to the classroom because many of them come from different backgrounds, having lived, studies, worked in Africa, Europe, and North America –thus, they will help our students helps to understand different viewpoints from a global perspective.

From the above, it is clear that the philosophy of Africa Institute Seattle will center around three cardinal principles:

·          To create societal awareness and impart in the students, knowledge of "real life", which deals with contemporary "global" issues, especially those that deal with issues of poverty, underdevelopment, HIV AIDS, trade, globalization, the environment, etc. all these and many more that affect disproportionately, the continent of Africa, and some countries in Latin America, Asia. Teaching and learning at Africa Institute Seattle, therefore will be approached from a global comparative perspectives

·          To impart in the students, leadership skills, and to help our students develop the spirit of teamwork. And finally, to develop in the students the understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, and a commitment to higher professional and ethical standards.

INCORPORATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING:

As a liberal arts and science academic institution, Africa Institute Seattle does believe that it has an obligation and responsibility to teach and assist the students at the Institute (college) as individuals and citizens, and not as “quotas” or numbers. Thus, AIS goal is simply to have students graduate with requisite breadth, depth and the application of technical “know-how” and the communication skills they need as future leaders of our “global village.” It is therefore Africa Institute Seattle’s belief that student’s familiarity with new techniques and technologies will assist them to advance in their various disciplines of studies.

Conclusively, teaching involves more than lecturing in the classroom. It includes other learning activities that enable every course to be interactive, which in the end makes learning to be fun and worthy experience for the students. To accomplish these tasks, we will require all our instructors, professors and adjunct faculty to participate in professional development, seminars, conferences that would then allow them to maintain currency and familiarity with course outcomes, institutional goals, Africa Institute Seattle (college) mission, and long-range plans for the General Education Program.

WHY CONTACT AFRICA INSTITUTE SEATTLE?

It pays to have a broadened horizon, and an objective understanding of other people's ways of life. Such understanding is particularly crucial in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected global economy, where the individual's survival depends on what happens in other parts of the world. Africa Institute enables people to acquire objective information on matters Africa.         

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