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What are the career options in African American Studies?

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American female astronaut, graduated with a degree in African American Studies. You can do anything you desire with a degree in African American Studies. Your degree is comparable with a degree in history, sociology, philosophy, geography, anthropology, English and several other fields of study with an added multicultural component-which, in today's workforce, is a definite asset.

A degree in African American Studies will provide you with a clearer and more concise understanding of cultures you are bound to encounter in the workforce and in daily and public life.

Some of our alumni from African American Studies at Eastern have gone on to become chiropractors, professors, university administrators, public school educators, counselors, social workers, civil servants and some currently are graduate students at prestigious universities across the country. Eastern Illinois University conducts an annual Job Fair, where employers visit the campus in search of graduating students.