AFIRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES



AFIRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES

COURSES AND OTHER EXPERIENCES THAT SUPPORT DEPARTMENTAL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (FORM 1)

|SLO#: |STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME LIST: |COURSES IN WHICH EACH SLO IS SUPPORTED BY |OTHER EXPERIENCES THAT REINFORCE EACH SLO: |

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|1. |Students will understand Institutional Racism as denial of Human Rights. |AAS 104 |Essay exam. |

|2. |Students will realize that African-American History is necessary corrective to the |AAS 113 |Essay exam. |

| |romance that passes for American History. | | |

|3. |Students will dispel myths about Pre-Colonial Africa and obtain true understanding of|AAS 203 |Essay examinations, scholarly discussions, theme|

| |early African culture, economic and political institutions. | |paper. |

|4. |Students should be able to evaluate the impact of the forces of Animism, Islam, and |AAS 204 |Essay exam question that elicits this response |

| |Christianity in contemporary African politics and society. | |to this item. |

|5. |Students will be familiarized with the multitude of social, economic and political |AAS 214 |Essay examinations, scholarly discussions, theme|

| |factors that have transformed the Caribbean region for the last five hundred years | |paper. |

|6. |Students should be able to identify the major African-American writers from the |AAS 235 |An essay question that elicits the correct |

| |plantation period to the present and evaluate the salient socio-cultural forces | |response to this item. |

| |that inform the African-American literary tradition. | | |

|7. |Students will demonstrate understanding of the causes of the causes of |AAS 204, AAS 307 |An essay examination question that elicits the |

| |underdevelopment of contemporary African societies, and recommend plausible | |correct response to this item. |

| |strategies for African people’s development. | | |

|8. |Students will attain firm understanding of the socialization process and the |AAS 314 |Essay examinations, scholarly discussions, theme|

| |social relationship within the black family. | |paper. |

|9. |Students should be able to identify the major impacts of the forces of culture, |AAS 315 |An essay examination that elicits the correct |

| |slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African people in Africa, the | |response to this item. |

| |Caribbean region and the Western World. | | |

|10. |Students will demonstrate knowledge of the factors that make the second objective |AAS 360 |Essay exam. |

| |of the African Revolution-development-difficult to achieve. | | |

|SLO#1: Students in AAS courses should be able to analyze the major cultural differences between African, Caribbean, Latin American, and African-American cultures. |

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|SLO#2: Our students should be able to identify the major impacts of the forces of culture, slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African people in Africa, the Caribbean region and the |

|Western world. |

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|SLO#3: Our students should be able to identify and discuss the major writers, personalities, and authorities in the field of African and Afro-American |

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|SLO#4: Our students should be able to identify the major African-American writers from the plantation period to the present and evaluate the salient |

|socio-cultural forces that inform the African-American literary canon. |

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|SLO#5: Our students should be able to evaluate the impact of the forces of Animism , Islam, and Christianity in contemporary African politics and |

|society. |

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|SLO#6: Our students should be able to write well-organized term papers that conform to formal writing styles and techniques. |

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|SLO#7: Our students should be able to conduct library research that substantiates their familiarity with books, journals, and magazines (and other |

|publications) relevant to the discipline of African and Afro-American studies: |

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|SLO#8: Our students will demonstrate understanding of the causes of underdevelopment on contemporary African societies, and recommend plausible |

|strategies for development. |

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|SLO#9: Our students should be able to demonstrate understanding of the major socio-economic factors influencing contemporary Black women and Black families |

|in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean region. |

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|SLO#10: Our students should be able to demonstrate understanding of the plantation tradition, the Civil War, the Reconstruction period, origins of the |

|Civil Rights Movement, and the impact of the major Black organizations on African American life. |

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