Clark Atlanta University, the historically Black educational institution in Georgia, has received permission from the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to begin offering a Ph.D. program in humanities. The university hopes to enroll the first students in the new doctoral program in the spring 2015 semester.
Since 1982, Clark Atlanta University has offered a doctor of arts degree in humanities with concentrations in African-American studies, Africana women’s studies, English, history and Romance languages. A total of eight three-credit courses (four required and four electives) with a focus on research and scholarship has been added to the department’s doctoral curriculum to satisfy the Ph.D. requirement.
First I am a PROUD Clark Atlanta Alum (GO MIGHTY PANTHERS). To the point: The university is changing from a D.A. to a Ph.D. because grads were having trouble getting hired with a D.A. In any event, another milestone for a school that offered Blacks the opportunity to get advanced degrees when other schools would not.