AAST 214 — AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE AND EXPRESSIONS
Learning Objectives & Matches
1. Systematically examining evidence to identify patterns and anomalies in Western attitudes towards African culture and religion;
Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
Study the economic, political, and cultural characteristics of a specific region's population.
Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.
Study and interpret religious laws, doctrines, or traditions.
Study archival collections of primary historical sources to help explain the origins and development of cultural patterns.
Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students and the community on topics such as ethics, logic, and contemporary religious thought.
Share information about religious issues by writing articles, giving speeches, or teaching.
Plan and direct research to characterize and compare the economic, demographic, health care, social, political, linguistic, and religious institutions of distinct cultural groups, communities, and organizations.
2. Applying Afrocentricity in order to make thoughtful sense of African life and worldview that stands in stark contrast to the Western world and Eurocentric standards and norms;
Develop and test theories concerning the origin and development of past cultures.
Present historical accounts in terms of individuals or social, ethnic, political, economic, or geographic groupings.
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as race and ethnic relations, gender studies, and cross-cultural perspectives.
Read incoming correspondence to ascertain nature of writers' concerns and to determine disposition of correspondence.
Research, survey, or assess sites of past societies and cultures in search of answers to specific research questions.
Conduct ethnographic field research.
Collect information and make judgments through observation, interviews, and review of documents.
Conduct surveys and evaluate findings to determine if systematic discrimination exists.
Write about and present research findings for a variety of specialized and general audiences.
Present historical accounts in terms of individuals or social, ethnic, political, economic, or geographic groupings.
3. Stating conclusions and critical assessments that logically follow such recorded evidence of Western bias, prejudice and ethnocentrism towards African way of life; and
Interview individuals to determine the nature of suspected violations and to obtain evidence of violations.
Assemble sets of assumptions, and explore the consequences of each set.
Formulate general rules that describe and predict the development and behavior of cultures and social institutions.
Conduct taped or filmed interviews or narratives.
Rule on exceptions, motions, and admissibility of evidence.
Rule on exceptions, motions, or admissibility of evidence.
Compile and present evidence for court actions.
Advise or consult with individuals and institutions regarding issues such as the historical authenticity of materials or the customs of a specific historical period.
Identify culturally specific beliefs and practices affecting health status and access to services for distinct populations and communities, in collaboration with medical and public health officials.
Develop factors such as themes, plots, characterizations, psychological analyses, historical environments, action, and dialogue to create material.