African and Puerto Rican-Latino Studies
Program Learning Outcomes for the African and Puerto Rican-Latino Studies program
- Describe how the department's interdisciplinary approach contributes to an understanding of "minoritized" communities as well as the relationship between knowledge and social responsibility.
- Identify the role of historical, cultural and social forces including slavery, colonialism, immigration, globalization and other facotrs, in shaping Africa, the Americas, the African Diaspora, and Latinx communities.
- Critically utilize and integrate theory, methods, data and analysis as a means of building knowledge through research, written assignments and community-based service learning.
- Demonstrate skills in critical thinking, oral communication, information technology, and media literacy.
- Advance human rights, racial and economic justice through an understaning of the role of public policy, social movements and indigenous resources in ameliorating inequality.