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Have you ever seen the curriculum for this "McDegree?"
African American Studies Educational Goals General Competencies Critical analysis: Ability to use the African-centered perspective to interpret and analyze and critique ideas, texts, social, historical and cultural phenomena. Disciplinary knowledge: Understand the history of Black Studies, the social-political and academic arena in which it developed, its major contributors, and how Black Studies’ distinctive treatment of subject matter has been affected by its historical evolution
I. Critical Analysis •Define African philosophy. •Discuss the interconnections (or lack of) between African philosophy and African-American philosophy. •Define African centeredness and explain its transformation of the Black Studies discipline. •Apply the dentition of African philosophy to the cultural, social, economic, political, and spiritual Black global issues. •Describe/define the role of the Black intellectual. •Discuss the differences between the role of the mainstream Black intellectual and the African centered intellectual. •Discuss the uses of the anthropological, political, social, and economic uses of the concept of race. •Define and discuss the affective approach to knowledge. •Discuss bow the concept of race has affected the development of African and diasporan literature. •How do we defend the validity of an Afrocentric theory of Black personality? Outline a method of research analysis for scholarly investigation of a topic in the Black Studies social science/behavioral curriculum. •Outline the processes involved in conducting a specific study using ethnographic methods.
IV. Understanding Human and Cultural Diversity •Ability to work as consultants for Black Studies issues and to assist high-school teachers and administrators in developing Black Studies curricula. •Ability to use quantitative data to improve quality of secondary education, •Assist grassroots community organizations in understanding the psychological, sociological, economical, and health issues that relate to spouse and drug abuse in the Black community. •Lead dialogue inside and outside the academy on recent "Whiteness Studies.