Learning Goals
To develop students' knowledge of African-American, African, and Caribbean cultural, social, political, and economic experiences.
To teach students the value of multidisciplinary scholarship; to equip students with intellectual and interpersonal skills that will enable them to function in a variety of professional careers.
To produce graduates who use scholarship in the service of social justice.
To employ critical and analytical skills with respect to Africa and its diaspora.
Africana Studies majors will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the interrelated experiences of African people in Africa, America, and in other parts of the African diaspora, including their history, philosophy, cultures, and contemporary issues; apply the research methodologies appropriate to Africana studies.