African American Studies

The Department of African American Studies offers both an Undergraduate Concentration and an Undergraduate Certificate that expand and deepen a students understanding of race in the United States and in the world. Students who pursue and fulfill all requirements for the Concentration are awarded a Bachelors of Arts in African American Studies. Alternatively, the Certificate in African American Studies is equivalent to an academic ‘minor’ in African American Studies. Undergraduate students in both tracks select from the same course offerings. The Curriculum requirements in the Undergraduate Program in African American Studies reflects the complex interplay between political, economic, and cultural forces that shape our understanding of the historic achievements and struggles of African-descended people in this country and their relation to others around the world.  At Princeton, this means the Course of Study is directed in three distinct subfields; African American Culture and Life; Race and Public Policy; and Global Race and Ethnicity. In addition to offering Concentration and Certificate programs for its home students, the Department of African American Studies organizes a Junior Research Symposium, a Senior Thesis Colloquium program, an African American Studies Study Abroad program, as well as the array of courses, public events, and lecture series open to all students.

• Collaborative Learning Exchange: Creative Explorations of JusticeAACL
• Introduction to the Study of African American Cultural PracticesGRE and AACL
• The Fire This Time: Reading James BaldwinAACL
• Sisters' Voices: African Women WritersGRE
• Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery Across the Black AtlanticGRE and AACL
• African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance to the PresentAACL
• African American History to 1863AACL
• Topics in African American Religion: Black Religion and the Harlem RenaissanceAACL
• Policing Racial Order: The History of U.S. Police Power From Slave Patrols to DronesRPP
• Public Policy in the American Racial StateRPP
• Topics in African American Literature: Fictions of Black Urban LifeAACL
• Intersectional Activisms and Movements for Social JusticeRPP
• Intersectional Activisms and Movements For Social JusticeRPP
• Publishing Articles in Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies500-Level
• Publishing Articles in Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies500-Level
• Race and the American Musical from Minstrelsy to HamiltonAACL
• Art and the British Empire500-Level
• Citizenships Ancient and ModernGRE and AACL
• Crafting Freedom: Women and Liberation in the Americas (1960s to the present)GRE and AACL
• American Dance Experience & Africanist PracticesGRE and AACL
• Introduction to Hip-Hop DanceAACL
• Special Topics in Urban Dance: Improvisational Approaches to Hip-Hop PracticesAACL
• Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in AmericaRPP
• History of African American Political ThoughtRPP
• American PentecostalismGRE and AACL
• The American Jeremiad and Social Criticism in the United StatesAACL
• Topics in the Politics of Writing and Difference: Literature and Slavery in the Iberian AtlanticRPP and GRE
• Race and Public Policy

• The Common Application or the Universal College Application
• Princeton Supplement
• Transcript
• School Report
• Guidance Counselor Letter
• Two (2) Teacher Recommendations
• SAT with Essay or ACT with Writing
• Two (2) SAT Subject Tests (recommended, but not required)
• TOEFL, IELTS Academic or PTE Academic (nonnative speakers of English without 3 years of high school in English)

Scholarships

• Princeton Financial Aid