Overview

Key features

Hamilton College’s Africana Studies faculty and students represent a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, bringing to the classroom a diversity of experiences, perspectives, and disciplinary strengths. Students often spend a summer conducting research with a professor; some have earned fellowships to continue their academic work abroad after graduation.

Students Will Learn To:

Apply at least two disciplinary lenses of analysis that focus on a specific aspect of the life experiences of people of African descent (for example in written/digital assignments, performative or oral presentations)
Explain, verbally and/or in writing, the interrelationships among people from sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, or other parts of the African diaspora in two or more of the following areas: linguistic, intellectual, political, economic, or cultural
Define and provide examples of colonization, decolonization, Black liberation/power movements and their legacies
Explain, verbally and/or in writing, the concept of intersectionality via specific connections with race, ethnicity, class, and gender
Explain the goals of one or more current social justice initiatives involving people of African descent in the United States and globally

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Blackness Across Diaspora
Representation, Culture, and Power
Black Voices in Song
History of Jazz to the 1950s
Diversity Reconsidered
Afrofuturism and Other Dark Matters
Politics of Africa

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-27 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-05 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New York City, United States

Disciplines

African studies View 257 other Bachelors in African 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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Other requirements

General requirements

To apply for admission, candidates must submit one of the following applications:

The Common Application or
The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success (via Scoir)

Eligible students may also apply through their QuestBridge National College Match application.

Other requirements:

academic record and potential (rigor, transcript and test scores)

interviews (optional, but encouraged), essays, recommendation letters, as well as other supplemental materials submitted with your application
Hamilton does not have a specific score requirement for these English-proficiency exams

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

71970 USD / year

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Out-of-State

71970 USD / year

≈ 71970 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

71970 USD / year

≈ 71970 USD / year

Living costs

New York City

United States

1819 - 3968 USD / month

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Programme Structure

Key information

Duration

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

Prepare for Your English Test

Credits

Delivered

Campus Location

Disciplines

What students do after studying

Academic requirements

English requirements

Prepare for Your English Test

Other requirements

General requirements

Tuition Fees

International Applies to you

Domestic

Living costs

New York City

Funding

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Scholarships Information

Available Scholarships

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