Description
RHC 130 African Diaspora Seminar Three Credit Hours
This interdisciplinary seminar positioned within the University College Metacognitive Strengths theoretical framework surveys the African continent, its diasporas, as well as it explores intersectional connections of people of African descent globally. The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the historical, geopolitical, cultural, social, spiritual, and intellectual contours of Africa and its Diasporas. This culturally responsive curriculum provides students with foundational knowledge of Africana indigenous research methodologies, global Black philosophies, belief systems, social institutions, political movements, distinguished leaders, as well as an examination of the underpinnings of race-based systems that foster exclusionary practices, disparities, and inequities within African descendant communities worldwide. This seminar encoura