Africana Studies Student Learning Outcomes
The Africana Studies program at ΢ÃÜÆƽâ has adopted the following learning outcomes to enhance and support the intellectual and personal development of students pursuing this minor:
- Critical Thinking - Challenge students in developing broader, interdisciplinary, critical intellectual and better informed local and global perspectives to foster a broader historical and contemporary understanding of the lives and conditions of peoples of African descent across the globe
- Service Learning and Social Justice - Engage students in critically reflecting upon issues of social justice in Africa and/or African diasporic communities and promoting values of service, pluralism, tolerance, empathy and compassion within local communities and the world at large
- Intersectionality - Prepare students to evaluate critical ways in which notions of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, socio-economic class, sexual preference, geographic location, religion, and political affiliation intersect in shaping the historical and lived experience of and within communities across Africa and the African diaspora