Overview

The major and minor, which feature courses in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, enables students to apply, critique, and reimagine the methodologies and insights of many disciplines to their understanding of the cultural, historical, political, and social development of people of African descent. The curriculum enables students to better understand the social structures and cultural traditions created by Africans in the diaspora and to better understand Western conceptualizations of race, the relationship between issues of race and identity, and the histories and influences of people of African descent.

Students who graduate the African American Studies program of Wesleyan University go on to pursue advanced degrees and careers in fields such as law, medicine, literature, education, business, public policy, African American studies, and the sciences.

The intellectual work of the African American Studies Department is enriched further by the programming of the Center for African American Studies. The center’s offerings deepen classroom and campus wide conversations about contemporary and historic matters relating to African American Studies and to the African diaspora.

Student Learning Goals

Our students are trained in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and critical approaches to the study of the experience of people of African descent in the Atlantic world, especially in the United States and the Caribbean. The major in African American Studies features an array of courses in the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts.

Students who major in African American Studies

will develop sophisticated critical reading, writing, and research skills and will apply these in their studies of the histories and influences of people of African descent.

will demonstrate their familiarity with the foundational ideas, theories, and methodological approaches of African American Studies.

will develop and apply analytical skills that are rooted in the discipline of African American Studies and that are informed by interdisciplinary approaches to research.

will use their enhanced analytical skills to demonstrate their understanding, assessments, and critiques of Western conceptualizations of race, issues of race ,and identity, African American intellectual traditions, cultural production, and political histories.

will apply, critique, and reimagine the methodologies and insights of many disciplines to their understanding of the cultural, historical, political, and social development of people of African descent.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Africana Studies: Black Radical Thought and Praxis

History of African American Art

Reading Toni Morrison: Blackness and the Literary Imagination

Marxism and Abolitionism

Technologies of the Self

Communicating Racial Justice

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

7.5

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Middletown, United States

Disciplines

American and Australasian studies African studies View 538 other Bachelors in American and Australasian studies in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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130

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100

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7.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

Completed Common Application or Coalition Application

Secondary School Report and official high school transcripts

Counselor Recommendation

Mid-year Grade Report

Two Teacher Evaluations

$55 Application Fee (non-refundable) or Fee Waiver

If you wish to submit your SAT or ACT as proof of English proficiency, you must submit all sections of the SAT or ACT.

A high degree of proficiency in English, as described below, must also be demonstrated.

A strong secondary school preparation in English, social science, science, mathematics, and a foreign language.

Candidates studying at schools outside the US who have taken national examinations for university admission (A levels, French Baccalaureate, ISC, International Baccalaureate, etc.) are expected to have achieved superior results.

Interviews are not required as part of the admissions process, but we encourage prospective students to arrange them if possible.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

72438 USD / year

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Out-of-State

72438 USD / year

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Domestic

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In-State

72438 USD / year

≈ 72438 USD / year

Living costs

Middletown

United States

1100 - 1600 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Student Learning Goals

Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

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Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

English requirements

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General requirements

Tuition Fees

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Living costs

Middletown

Funding

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