Learning Outcomes

The department expects undergraduates in DAAAS to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes, which will be used to evaluate students. Students are expected to:

1. Analyze African and African diasporic worlds using key theories and methods in Black Studies and related fields.

2. Evaluate how power, inequality, and identity shape Black life across historical and global contexts.

3. Deconstruct and produce art and culture as forms of knowledge through critical engagement with creative expression.

4. Examine how science, technology, and global systems are shaped by social and political forces.

5. Conduct original, community-engaged research with African and African diasporic communities.

6. Produce original creative work and communicate ideas across academic and public audiences.