Bachelor of Arts - African and Black Diaspora Studies
About Bachelor of Arts - African and Black Diaspora Studies
Program Description
The purpose of the Department of African & Black Diaspora Studies is to provide DePaul students with a systematic, interdisciplinary, and integrated course of study of Africa & the Black Diaspora, including African America, the Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin America.
African & Black Diaspora Studies (ABD) will also train students in comparative analysis of regions (e.g., peoples, religions, philosophies) through an incorporation of the study of history, power, identity, gender, and race. The Department’s offerings provide students with opportunities to learn about and develop expertise in the cultures, histories, and societies of people of African descent. African and Black Diaspora Studies prepares students to pursue professions and careers in a variety of areas. ABD students have gone on to careers in fields such as law/legal studies, social work, academia, teaching, community work/advocacy, publishing, communication and media, business, public policy, and more.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Explain the concept of diaspora as a global unifying concept by integrating attention to the diversity of groups that make up the Black Diaspora.
- Detect and differentiate the interactions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class.
- Identify and analyze multiple theories of Blackness: as a source of cultural identity, aesthetics, and/or as a basis of political, social, or national movements.
- Analyze and evaluate the ideological frameworks through which Black people have been defined and have defined themselves.
- Produce oral or written work based on primary and secondary sources that evaluate the contributions of African and Black people in the modern world.
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