Overview

The center’s work spans diverse academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and public health. While its sub-fields possess distinct and distinctive intellectual traditions, they offer exciting possibilities for comparative as well as integrative inquiry.

Key Features

Through research, coursework, and public programs, the centre seeks to promote fundamental examination and understanding of the commonalities and contrasts among the historical and contemporary experiences of Africans and African Americans, and of the place of African diasporas in both local and global contexts.

The Center for Africana Studies in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences from Johns Hopkins University strives to understand the movement of black peoples from their ancestral homelands to a variety of host lands, as well as expand upon black studies research to raise new inquiries into all aspects of African-American experiences, all the while building upon existing Krieger School strengths in the study of Africa.

Learning Goals

To develop critical learning skills that will enable participating undergraduates to synthesize and analyze any argument as well as to differentiate carefully between comparable arguments that arrive at different conclusions regarding a specific problem especially when non-European populations are involved
To place facts and arguments in a national, regional, or global context for more meaningful comparative examination thereby affording a better understanding of the history of specific peoples
To develop adequate oral and writing skills that will facilitate the clear communication of ideas about themes dealing with the history, culture, religion, and gender in African societies or societies of African descent around the globe
To permit the formulation and testing of hypotheses across several disciplines of the humanities and social sciences about groups and communities
To compare critically complex arguments especially pertaining to race, class, gender, and individual ability

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Epics and Empire: Postcolonial Perspectives on Vergil’s Aeneid

African Cities

Jim Crow in America

Middle Egyptian

Afrofuturism, Latinxfuturism, and Technoscientific Imaginaries

Magic/Medicine: Healing, Protection, and Transformation in African and Indian Ocean Worlds

Black Land & Food Sovereignty Praxis: An Environmental Justice Workshop

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-31 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-02 00:00:00

Language

English

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100

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Baltimore, United States

Disciplines

African studies View 258 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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120

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100

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Other requirements

General requirements

A completed application through Common Application or Coalition on Scoir will include your:

high school transcript,

activities list inclusive of family or work responsibilities,

list of academic achievements and honors,

personal essay (known as the personal statement),

parent or guardian information,

the Hopkins supplement, and optional standardized test scores.

Johns Hopkins University requires standardized testing. As part of our holistic review process, submitted scores will be taken into consideration within the context of your broader application.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

66670 USD / year

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Out-of-State

66670 USD / year

≈ 66670 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

66670 USD / year

≈ 66670 USD / year

Living costs

Baltimore

United States

1240 - 2100 USD / month

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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

International Applies to you

Domestic

Living costs

Baltimore

Funding

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