The Department has also engaged in a scaffolding process that synthesizes the Student Learning Outcomes and draws from the Department’s mission. The following goals (numbered) and corresponding objectives (indicated by letter) have been developed.
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Grow and maintain a rigorous and scholarly interdisciplinary program that maintains its autonomy and specialized focus on research, study and engagement of Black people from a Black perspective.
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Develop a comprehensive curriculum that addresses: 1. Continental and diasporic Black people. 2. Black people and key intersections (race, class, gender, and sexuality), 3. Theory and practice and the relationship between the two.
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Forge key partnerships with related departments and programs, including Chicano/Latino Studies, Asian/Asian American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women, Genders and Sexualities Studies.
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Hire tenure line faculty, with a target faculty size of 10, to support and contribute to the sustainability of the Department.
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Embed PAS courses in all areas of the General Education curriculum.
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Prepare undergraduate students with adequate training to pursue advanced degrees in Pan-African Studies and related fields.
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Offer a graduate school pipeline group each Fall to cohort and prepare PAS seniors to apply to graduate programs.
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Provide conference attendance and participation opportunities for undergraduate students.
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Establish a cutting-edge Master’s degree program in Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA.
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Prepare students for professional careers in teaching, public service, international relations, social work, law, community development, and other fields.
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Designate at least two general education classes as “civic learning” courses.
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Offer a “fieldwork” capstone option.
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Develop a community-engagement plan that funnels students into internships and provides paid and unpaid community work that can translate into work opportunities following graduation.
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Formalize a partnership with Cal State Teach to matriculate students into teacher credential program and place them as classroom teachers, especially at schools in Black communities.
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Provide opportunities for our students to acquire an insightful understanding of the role and significant contributions to human society by African peoples.
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Offer at least four courses that have such a focus.
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Offer at least one community engagement opportunity per year that deepens such an understanding.
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Develop and implement at least four campus events and activities per year that engage students and community members around this goal.
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Provide students with basic understanding of the particular challenges faced by Black people historically and in the contemporary world.
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Offer at least four courses that have such a focus.
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Offer at least one community engagement opportunity per year that deepens such an understanding.
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Develop and implement at least four campus events and activities per year that engage students and community members around this goal.
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Provide a fundamental understanding of those economics, social and political forces which have shaped Black experiences.
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Offer at least four courses that have such a focus.
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Offer at least one community engagement opportunity per year that deepens such an understanding.
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Develop and implement at least four campus events and activities per year that engage students and community members around this goal.
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Introduce students to community-engaged pedagogical and epistemological approaches.
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Make experiential knowledge and learning central to the learning process for each PAS course.
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Offer community-engaged fieldwork as a capstone option.
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Introduce students who enroll in the Senior Thesis capstone to “action research” approach.
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Model community-engaged scholarship in faculty research and teaching.
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Create community-engagement opportunities in at least four PAS courses each academic year.
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