Bachelor's in Africana Studies

Williams College has a rich history and a strong commitment to providing a well-rounded, top-tier education. Williams College offers a wide range of undergraduate programs across various disciplines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The college is known for its rigorous academic standards and small class sizes, which facilitate close interactions between students and faculty. Williams places a strong emphasis on critical thinking, analytical skills, and intellectual curiosity, preparing graduates to excel in a diverse array of careers and fields. With a stunning rural campus surrounded by the Berkshire Mountains and a vibrant community of scholars, Williams College offers a truly immersive and intellectually stimulating environment for students seeking a liberal arts education of the highest quality.

At Williams College, Africana Studies is a thriving interdisciplinary academic major that critically and systematically examines the cultures, histories, and experiences of people of African descent globally, and that grounds students in their multiple ways of knowing. Through a wide variety of courses and programming in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, we take up the broader concerns of Africana Studies as a field, merge them with our dynamic faculty expertise and interests, and combine them with the educational needs of our diverse student population to encourage multi and interdisciplinary research, writing, and analysis. Even as intellectual rigor is a significant programmatic focus, we also recognize the importance of grounding intellectual engagement with activism and life experience, and we assist students in finding unique and compelling perspectives from which to pursue and to make their own contributions to the field of Africana Studies.