Africana Studies Major, BA

Program Description

Formally institutionalized in the American academy in the last half of the twentieth century, Africana Studies is a vibrant and dynamic discipline that creates new knowledge about the world and human existence through the critical and comprehensive study of the peoples, cultures, and ideas of Africa and the African diaspora.  Students in this degree program explore and examine key intellectual figures, ideas, themes in the discipline, central disciplinary questions and debates, prominent theoretical and methodological frameworks used by scholars in the discipline, and forms of interdisciplinary scholarship that form and inform the production and reproduction of knowledge.  The goal of the program is to provide students at Winston-Salem State University with a broad and deep understanding of histories, cultures, and ideas of Africans and persons of African descent across space and time while advancing novel forms of interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes to the formation of new theories and methods for understanding the world and human experience.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate broad and deep understanding of histories, cultures, and ideas of Africans and persons of African descent across space and time
• Demonstrate interdisciplinary scholarship that contributes to the formation of new theories and methods for understanding the world and human experience
• Demonstrate knowledge of key intellectual figures, ideas, themes, central disciplinary questions and debates, prominent theoretical and methodological frameworks used by scholars in the discipline

Course Requirements