
Overview
The program allows you to explore any number of areas such as African/American/ Africana Studies, Latino/a Studies, LGBT/Queer Studies, Transnational Feminist Studies with an emphasis on the intersection of these areas.
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Only major of its kind in New England that
integrates race, class, & gender
Requirements
Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate a sophisticated critical consciousness concerning the complexity and diversity of relationships between and among racial, cultural and ethnic groups within the U.S and globally.
- Students will develop written and verbal analytical skills to examine and critique political, social and cultural institutions.
- Students will demonstrate new abilities to identify and to challenge racism, homophobia, ethnocentrism, sexism and other oppressive practices.
- Students will be able to identify various historical conditions and workings of oppression and methodologies of resistance to these forms of oppression.
- Students will demonstrate the capacity to look beyond their own gender, racial, economic and cultural background to develop global perspectives.
- Students will develop a course of action to address inequality and injustice in context of their personal lives, in the community and globally.
- Students will apply all these skills to become critical citizens and participate in community outreach and activism.
