ABS 210 - Intro to the African American Odyssey: Socio-Economic and Political Forces Shaping Black Experience

• Articulate how African Americans have gained access to or have been denied citizenship based on analyses of social, cultural, economic and political processes, issues, and events
• Explain how social, psychological, and cultural experiences create value in African American communities.
• Analyze the relationship between the development of the African American experience and the community, citizenship, politics, and/or government
• Describe how historical, social, economic, and cultural developments have affected African American communities, including Slavery, Abolition, Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, WW I & II, The Great Migration, The Great Depression, Civil Rights movement, Black Power, the election of Barrack Obama and Black Lives Matter movement.
• Develop connections between concepts learned in course and topics that can be delivered to the local community. Apply what has been learned in class to address local pushback to active civil rights movements (for example, Black Lives Matter).
• Identify methods African Americans used historically to advocate for social justice at local, national, and international levels.
• Analyze ways equality and inequality are institutionalized in social, political, economic and organizational structures.
• Develop the ability to articulate issues and processes, pertaining to African Americans, that cross international boundaries.
• Determine credibility of information sources and understand elements that might temper this credibility.