The African American Studies Graduate Certificate is a 12-credit hour course of study designed for degree-seeking and non-degree-seeking graduate students.
The certificate provides current M.A. and Ph.D. students the opportunity to deepen their specialties in Black Studies research and methods. Graduate students in departments and programs across campus can build their expertise in the practice, theories, methods, and approaches to the study of African American life and African diasporic history, culture, and experience.
For non-degree seeking students, the certificate delivers the credentials needed to enhance professional opportunities. While pursuing the certificate, students gain valuable insights and experiences that bring issues of race, diversity and inclusion, social movements, social justice, and other topics into clearer focus.
Whatever reason you chose to pursue our certificate, you will have the opportunity to work with our nationally and internationally recognized faculty who share their passion for research in the classroom and throughout the Purdue intellectual community.
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