Overview

Key facts:

The Department of Afro-American Studies' Undergraduate Program exists as part of the Social Science Division in the College of Arts & Sciences. As part of the revolutionary movement of the Civil Rights Era in the United States, the program is grounded in the need to advance the interests of the African World including Afro-America, Africa, and the Afro-Caribbean. In this regard, the concerns of the the department are local, national and international. The department is one among only a handful of institutions that can boast faculty trained specifically in the field of Africana Studies. The Afro American Studies programme is offered at the Howard University.
The current academic curriculum offers a core of 33 credit hours for student majors. This interdisciplinary curriculum provides a sound, structured and efficiently broad academic program reflecting a range of coursework along four identified focal tracks that examine the historical, political, cultural, and socio-economic modalities of African Americans with significant relational foci on Africans in the Caribbean, Latin America and the African continent. This lays a foundation that equips students with the necessary intellectual capital and methodological orientation to contribute to the solutions of local, state, national and global problems.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Afro-American Studies
Commerical Exploitation of the Third World
Programs for Black Economic Development
Seminar on Teaching Black Studies
Political Economy

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-18 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Washington, D. C., United States

Disciplines

American and Australasian 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.

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General requirements

Application for Admission

Non-refundable $45 application fee

Official high school transcript

One letter of recommendation from a high school counselor

One letter of recommendation from a high school teacher

Tuition Fees

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37996 USD / year

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37996 USD / year

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37996 USD / year

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Living costs

Washington, D. C.

United States

1705 - 2975 USD / month

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