MA/MS in African Studies is a master's degree in Humanities & Cultural Studies programme offered by Universiteit Leiden in Leiden, Netherlands. The programme runs for 1 year. It carries 60.0 credits (ECTS). Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is EUR 22,300 per year (EUR 2,694 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Master's Degree
Field:Humanities & Cultural Studies
Duration: 1 year
Credits: 60.0 (ECTS)
Language: English
Local tuition: EUR 2,694 / year
International tuition: EUR 22,300 / year
We have no an application deadline on record for this programme yet — see the official programme page.
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Leiden's African Studies master's pairs established scholarship with practice-based learning, and takes a genuinely multidisciplinary approach to studying Africa from political, economic, geographical, cultural, linguistic, literary, anthropological, and historical angles. Six cross-cutting themes organise the curriculum: world-viewing, caring, dwelling and moving, decolonising, developing, and framing Africa itself, giving students a coherent structure for connecting very different disciplinary perspectives. Students learn to critically analyse current events as they unfold, using a broad, comparative, and global lens, and are introduced to multi-modal and mixed research methods suited to studying a continent as varied as Africa. A central part of the programme is an embedded research project, roughly ten weeks long, carried out at a professional organisation in Africa such as a research institute, think tank, government agency, or non-governmental organisation, giving students direct, practical exposure to the kind of work the degree prepares them for.
