学生学习目标

以下是各部门的学习目标 全校学生学习目标.

The 黑人研究 (BST) minor provides an intellectual framework for understanding global Black experiences both historically and contemporarily. 特别是未成年人 not only illuminates Black triumphs and travails in the United States, but those throughout the Diaspora, particularly in continental Africa and the Caribbean. 黑人研究 is significant nationally because its emergence — inextricably bound to the Black Power phase of a larger struggle for African American human rights — paved the way for subsequent liberatory fields, including Chicana/Chicano studies, gender studies, and indigenous nations studies, that also seek to center marginalized groups and challenge 权力和特权的结构.  除了审讯制度化 racism in the United States, this interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field of study examines intraracial issues of socioeconomic class, gender, sexuality and skin color via a constellation of courses in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and 社会科学.

1. Understand 黑人研究 comprehensively as a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field for studying agency and self-determination in global African communities

• • Study community building, cultural production, resistance to oppression, and both collective and individual achievement throughout the global African world. (Ia、Ib、 Ic, IIa, IIb)
  • Appreciate the importance of studying Africa as an incredibly complex and culturally diverse continent and African societies as dynamic, fluid, multidimensional, and sophisticated. (Ia、Ib、 Ic, IIa, IIb)
  • Appreciate the importance of studying Black experiences in the United States (including the demand for 黑人研究) while challenging African American exceptionalism. (Ia, Ib, Ic, IIa, IIb)
  • Learn how teaching scholars approach the field of 黑人研究 in the arts, humanities, 自然科学和社会科学. (Ia, Ic, IIa, IIe)
  • Begin to develop transdisciplinary approaches to 黑人研究 that emphasize ways of knowing that transcend traditional divisional and disciplinary boundaries. (Ic, IIa, IIb, IVa)

2. Cultivate the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as an understanding of multiple theoretical approaches and perspectives.

• • Appreciate different but not always mutually exclusive approaches to 黑人研究, including Africology, Afrocentricity, Afrofuturism, Afro-Pessimism, Black feminism, Black queer studies, Kawaida theory, Marxism, and womanism. (Ic, IIa, IIb, IIc, IIe)
  • Appreciate notion of 欧斯, which stresses the dynamic interplay between historical 当代的力量. (IIa, IVb, IVd)
  • Interrogate and explain historical and contemporary manifestations of structural violence against Black communities and individuals in continental Africa, the Americas, and Europe, including enslavement, colonialisms, institutional racism, and mass incarceration. IIb (Ic)
  • Analyze intraracial variables such as socioeconomic class, gender, ethnicity, religion, 以及黑人社区的性取向和肤色. (Ib, Ic, IIa, IIb, IVa)

3. Understand the multidimensional nature and various meanings of the transnational within 黑人研究的背景.

• • Study emigration and the experiences of immigrants in various contexts, including rural to urban, neighborhood to neighborhood, region to region, and nation to nation. IIb (Ia)
  • Study boundary-crossing as a geopolitical imperative for escaping violence and exercising 非正式的政治权力. (Ia、Ib、 Ic, IIa, IIb)
  • Study boundary-crossing as an intellectual imperative for engaging in cross-disciplinary 研究与教学. (Ic, IIa, IIb)

4. Experience high-impact learning in off-campus environments.

• • Engage in mutually reciprocal service-learning work such as internships with community 为社会正义服务的伙伴. (IId, IIe, IIIb, IIId)
  • Participate in off-campus opportunities such as study abroad, study at historically Black colleges and universities, and faculty-led travel seminars (domestic and abroad). (IId, IIe, IIIb, IIIc)

5. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in the 黑人研究 minor.

• • Foreground primary source-driven research that centers a range of Black perspectives 在讨论、课堂报告和书面作业中. (Ia、Ib、 Ic, IIa, IIb, IIe， IVa)
  • Effectively synthesize scholarship in 黑人研究, as well as analyze differences 在理论方法，口头和书面工作. 花絮(Ic)
  • Beginning with BST 101, produce research essays that embrace a Sankofic analytical approach to particular problems; this approach evidences the connective tissue intellectually 介于当代和历史事件或问题之间. (活动花絮,IIc)
  • Assess extent to which students also connect their lived experiences (irrespective of their racial or ethnic background) to other analyses in blogs, response papers, 以及权力与正义的公开演讲. (IIc, IIIa, IIIb)