Learning Outcomes

The department expects undergraduate majors in the program to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes. These learning outcomes are used in evaluating students and the program’s undergraduate program. Students are expected to demonstrate:

1. an interdisciplinary understanding of scholarship related to the African diaspora and Africa, drawing on interdisciplinary course work.

2. the ability to identify and critically assess different disciplinary, methodological, and interpretive approaches to the study of African Americans, Africans, and/or people of the African diaspora.

3. an understanding of comparative approaches to race.

4. skills in disciplinary methods necessary for their study.

5. the ability to express their interpretive and analytical arguments in clear, effective prose.