Africana and African American Studies
Certificate of Achievement
Program Details
Africana and African American Studies is an interdisciplinary field focused on specialized knowledge about the diverse and intersectional historical, contemporary, and cultural experiences related to African American and diasporic African communities. Drawing on the philosophical and intellectual foundations of African culture and people of African descent, students will develop critical thinking, research, socially engaged scholarship, and activist skills that can be applied toward various transformative justice and liberation movements of the community.
Africana and African American Studies Pathways
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Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes help you work towards your educational goals.
- effectively employ interdisciplinary methodologies in the analysis of issues stemming from structural and systemic oppression of African Americans;
- evaluate the development of the field of African American Studies;
- identify and describe the general history and diversity of African American people in the U.S. and the Diaspora; 4. examine solutions toward social change, equity, and justice.