非裔美国人研究文学学士学位

非裔美国人研究专业帮助学生对非裔美国人产生的知识，文化和社会组织形式以及支持和限制这项工作的社会条件达成批判性理解。该专业使用跨学科的方法以及从传统学科中汲取的方法，使学生接触非裔美国人赖以生存和塑造现代世界的思想，机构，运动和实践。非裔美国人研究课程可提升其学生的关键才能，文化能力和历史敏感性，从而使他们有能力在研究生院，专业学校和工作场所取得成功。
This major helps students achieve a critical understanding of the forms of knowledge, culture, and social organization that African-Americans have produced, and of the social conditions that have supported and constrained this work. Using interdisciplinary approaches as well as methods drawn from the traditional disciplines, the major exposes students to the ideas, institutions, movements, and practices that African-American peoples have used to survive and shape the modern world. The African American Studies curriculum promotes the critical faculties, cultural competencies, and historical sensibilities of its students, and thereby equips them for success in graduate school, professional school, and the workplace.<br><br>African American Studies is an intellectual field of inquiry that examines the history of people of African descent from the colonial period through the present, how systems of racial inequality are produced through state policy, traditional western scholarly disciplines, and popular discourse, and the social, political and cultural movements that black people have developed to identify and resist the unequal material and political conditions that shape black social life in the African Diaspora. The undergraduate major and minor provide a strong foundation in the key theoretical concepts in the discipline, the historical formation of African American Studies as an interdisciplinary field of study, and prepares students to apply what they have learned in the classroom, in independent research and in internships with social justice/service organizations.