Columbia University

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.A.- African American Studies

Format: Campus

Program Description:

This is full-time M.A. program provides graduate-level training in African-American studies to scholars, teachers, and professionals for whom intensive scholarly engagement serves their career or professional needs. Designed to provide students with a thorough grounding in the literature and research of African American studies, the program enables students to produce critical analysis and research about the complex and historically specific experiences of Africans in the Americas. Students are also expected to demonstrate how those experiences have contributed to, and been shaped by, political, cultural, and economic forces both nationally and globally.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No

Classification: Doctoral/Research Universities - Extensive

Institution Sector: Private not-for-profit

Locale: Large City

Size & Settings: 20,000 and above