Most affordable Masters program in African Studies Boston, Massachusetts

To be the preeminent global hub where mastery in performance and academic excellence intersect to reflect the brilliance, resilience and hope of Black creative expression.

Our curriculum focuses on and contextualizes the history and social, artistic, cultural, and historical contributions of the global African diaspora at the intersection of arts and culture.

The Department of African and African American Studies offers a graduate degree in African and African American Studies. The program offers rigorous interdisciplinary training in the humanities and the social sciences, with a focus in a disciplinary field, leading to the PhD.

In their first year, students are advised by the director of graduate studies (DGS), who serves as their mentor until they choose an advisor, generally before the beginning of their second year. After consulting with the DGS, a student may change advisors. Students are encouraged to discuss their interests outside of the primary field with faculty from other departments. This process enables students to develop relationships with various faculty members from whom the student will ultimately select a dissertation committee.

Students must take a combination of fourteen courses of which seven must be courses in a primary field.

The department does not admit candidates for a terminal Master of Arts (AM) degree, but students who have met all the course requirements for the degree may petition to be awarded an AM in African and African American Studies.

Rabat, Morocco The Rabat Language Liberal Arts Program provides students the opportunity to study Arabic language and Islamic and North African culture in Rabat, the cosmopolitan capital city of Morocco. Along with an intensive study of Arabic language, students explore the history, politics, and religion of Morocco and this ever-changing region of the world through coursework, stays, and excursions.

Zanzibar, Tanzania A summer program in Zanzibar focuses on the unique cultures and identities of the island, a crossroads of African, Persian, Indian, and European cultures for nearly two millennia. Students take one course on political and cultural history as well as one Swahili language course.

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.

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