AAS Senior Comprehensive Statement

This section should narrate the student’s scholarly development in the Department. (For example, the student might ponder some of the following questions: What led you to choose AAS as your concentration? What courses have made the most impact on your thinking and why? Are there any courses not on offer that you wish had been?) This essay is meant to encourage self-reflection, and it may be written as a meditative first-person narrative. It is also meant to help faculty reflect on what works well and where we can improve course offerings, course design, advising, and the overall coherence and rigor of the AAS concentration. This essay is meant to encourage self-reflection, and it may be written as a meditative first-person narrative. It is also meant to help faculty reflect on what works well and where we can improve course offerings, course design, advising, and the overall coherence and rigor of the AAS concentration.

This section should describe any work beyond the classroom that reflects the student’s commitment to the intellectual, political, and artistic traditions in African American Studies. This might include activism, organizing, or creative work, for example. The Department will give this section special attention in our deliberations for the Badi Foster Distinguished Senior Prize in African American Studies.

Please list all completed departmental courses, as well as the title and advisers’ names for the JP and the senior thesis.

As you know, some AAS courses can serve to fill more than one sub-field or requirement. Because of this, we need to confirm which courses you want to fulfill each requirement for the honors calculation. Transfer course grades will not be included in your honors calculation.