Bachelor of Arts in Black Studies

The Department of Black Studies embraces Georgetown University's mission as it also seeks through its commitment to justice and the common good to engender 'serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs [in order to promote] intellectual, ethical, and spiritual understanding, particularly concerning African American and African Diaspora populations. By studying the intellectual, historical, cultural, economic, political, religious, literary, scientific and social ideas, institutions, movements and practices of black people across the globe, the department provides tools to theorize solutions to social issues rooted in longstanding and persistent racial divides. The department's interdisciplinary methodology encourages students to make connections and to think critically and creatively across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Black Studies curriculum promotes the faculty's cultural competencies, critical faculties, and historical sensibilities and equips students for educational and career success.

The Department of Black Studies offers a major in Black Studies. The major consists of courses that deeply and substantively examine Black culture, history and experience in the United States, study African culture, history, people, and politics as pretext and context to African American experience, and explore the Black Atlantic diaspora.