AFST 1110 - Introduction to Africana Studies

1. Students will carry out critical analysis and engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies (natural, physical, social, cultural, economic, and political) and their implications for people’s lives and the earth’s sustainability
2. Students will explore issues/objects/works through collection and analysis of evidence that result in informed conclusions/judgments, understanding and analysis of critical literacy and ethics pertaining to the dynamics of diversity, equity, inclusion and social change
3. Students will examine habits of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts and events related to diversity, equity and inclusion before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion
4. Students will demonstrate the capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways
5. Students will prepare, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, foster understanding, or promote change in listener’s values, beliefs, or behaviors pertaining to the dynamics of diversity, equity, inclusion and social change
6. Students will develop and express ideas in writing and learning in many genres and styles using different writing technologies, mixing texts, data and images that relate to the dynamics of diversity, equity, inclusion and social change
7. Students will show the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situation
8. Students will demonstrate the ability to know a need for information or visual literacy and understanding of the dynamics of historic and contemporary inequality and how they shape individual and community power, biases, structural arrangements and social justice bias
9. Students will enact behaviors and efforts and interact with others on the team to enhance the quality and quantity of contributions made to team discussions
10. Students will design, evaluate and implement strategies to answer open-ended questions in multiple ways
11. Students will work to make a difference in the civic life of communities and develop the combination of knowledge, skills and values and motivation to make a difference
12. Students will develop their cognitive, affective and behavioral skills and characteristics to support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultures
13. Students will develop their ethical self-identity as they practice ethical decision making skills while learning how to describe and analyze positions on ethical issues
14. Students will engage in self-reflection regarding one’s own history and position in contemporary U.S. society as well as in a global context
15. Student learners will connect perspectives and integrate relevant experience and academic knowledge from multiple disciplines