Program Learning Outcomes

Facilitates student analysis and knowledge of the conceptual approaches and tools of inquiry best suited to explore, explain, describe, and advance the lived experience(s) of Africana peoples;

Conduct critical, scientific research on issues of relevance to Africana peoples;

Creatively and critically evaluate issues that Africana-identified people experience in unique and common ways;

Apply, analyze, and encourage teachers’, students’ and alumni sharing of Africana Studies’ curricular outcomes, knowledge and research with community stakeholders, organizations as well as actively engage in service learning projects;

Synthesize a core curriculum concerning how people of African descent have demonstrated resilience: consciously shaping and reshaping their environments over time and in the present, while meeting challenges, achieving goals, and resisting oppression;

Demonstrate and evaluate specialized learning and competencies necessary in professions in which they will encounter people of African descent;

Analyze the diversities of Black experiences as a window to fully comprehend the American experience, and thus, the human experience.