African Curriculum Project Records

Collection

Identifier: 35/11

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection contains administrative files, correspondence papers, syllabus materials, working papers, and bibliographies used to develop the African Curriculum Project. Also included is correspondence (1966-1967) around the newly formed Committee on Undergraduate and High School Education in African Studies (CUHSEA) of the African Studies Association (ASA), which Edward Soja was a member of. Soja also corresponded with Ward Morehouse, Director of the Center for International Programs and Services of the New York State Education Department, Foreign Area Materials Center, who was overseeing a similar U.S. Office of Education sponsored project, Strengthening Bibliographical Resources for Undergraduate Libraries on “Neglected” Foreign Areas : a three-year cooperative project involving college librarians and scholars in foreign area studies. The collection also includes issues of and manuscripts for African Urban Notes, which Soja was an editor for in 1967.

Dates

1965-1969

Creator

Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Program of African Studies. African Curriculum Project (Organization)
Paden, John N. (Person)
Soja, Edward W. (Person)
Carter, Gwendolen Margaret, 1906-1991 (Person)
United States. Office of Education (Organization)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Program of African Studies (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is stored off-site and requires two business days advance notice for retrieval. Please contact the McCormick Library at specialcollections@northwestern.edu or 847-491-3635 for more information or to schedule an appointment to view the collection.

Extent

17.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The African Curriculum Project was carried out by Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies (PAS) at the request of and by contract with the U.S. Office of Education (Project No. 6-2863, Contract No. OEC-3-7-062863-1661). Collection contains administrative files, correspondence papers, syllabus materials, working papers, and bibliographies used to develop the African Curriculum Project.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into: administrative files; correspondence (a single alphabetical sequence by correspondent or topic); papers by contributors (arranged alphabetically by author); syllabus materials; syllabi from other institutions (arranged alphabetically by institution); background materials (arranged alphabetically by source, followed by a separate sequence arranged alphabetically by format); working papers (numbered papers, followed by three folders for individual authors); syllabus stencils; African Urban Notes; conferences and special projects (arranged alphabetically); bibliographies.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred to the University Archives from the NU Library Africana Department on November 9, 1983 (Accession #83-155).

Related Materials

Additional materials related to this project may be found in the Program of African Studies Records, and the papers of the Program’s then director, Gwendolen M. Carter.