Student Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation, Africana Studies majors should be able to demonstrate:
- Explain and apply Africana Studies concepts and African-centered interpretive frameworks to analyze African peoples’ experiences across time and place.
- Analyze Africana issues across at least two geographic contexts using interdisciplinary methods and evidence.
- Evaluate arguments about Africana issues by identifying claims, assumptions, evidence quality, and ethical implications.
- Produce clear, well-supported writing and deliver effective oral presentations appropriate to academic and public audiences.
- Design and conduct research using credible sources, appropriate methods, and disciplinary citation practices.
- Connect Africana Studies learning to careers, graduate study, and responsible community engagement, demonstrating cultural competence.
These goals, which are a shared understanding and commitment of the faculty, are communicated to the students in class instruction, advisement, departmental forums and literature, through faculty presentations in the media and faculty professional and community activities which students participate in and/or attend.
