Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze race as a historical and contemporary social construct and its relationship to blackness, sexuality, class, and other identifications.
2. Assemble critical tools and theoretical concepts, and develop interdisciplinary methodological tools, in the area of black studies.
3. Describe major trends across various black liberation movements.
4. Explain theories and practices of anti-racism.
5. Compose, critique, and critically engage creative texts as sites of struggle.
6. Research and write independently; research and write collaboratively.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Introduce students to contemporary African and Indigenous writing and art production.
2. Read and respond to contemporary African and Indigenous writing and art production.
3. Illustrate spaces of solidarity and conversations that arise from reading these works together.
4. Understand and recognize the effects of colonialism and the work of resistance across continents.
5. Discuss strategies for thinking, writing and making connections towards liberation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key topics, questions, theories and methods in the field of Black Feminisms.
2. Understand the wide-ranging and intersectional impact of Black Feminist Thought and their own relationship to Black Feminisms.
3. Explain the role of power and context in shaping Black Feminist epistemologies and methodologies.
4. Develop critical thinking skills fostering their abilities to deeply analyze and evaluate Black Feminist Thought through varied disciplines and contexts.
5. Identify past and current praxis of Black Feminist activism and organizing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain key theoretical approaches and concepts in the field of Black Environmentalism and Ecologies.
2. Describe the relationship between race, colonialism, capitalism, and how it leads to the inequitable distributions of environmental harms and/or externalities on communities of colour.
3. Reflect on how the histories and lived experiences of black communities in the global south have been shaped by the processes of racism, colonialism, and uneven global development.
4. Compare how culture informs one's values and beliefs on issues of environmental injustice and anti-black racism prior to and after this course.
5. Communicate a key concept from the course (i.e., environmental racism) in plain language format to a nonacademic audience to practice transferrable skills beyond the class.
6. Demonstrate competency in, and a commitment to equity-related principles, e.g., anti-black racism by exploring their own relationships to power, and privilege within their personal and professional interactions.
7. Practice effective time management techniques to improve concentration and productivity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical understanding of how conditions of power shape Black Health.
2. Explain global Black health inequities and their social and commercial determinants.
3. Identify the importance of practices that promote cultural safety and Black health equity.
4. Identify opportunities to operationalize strategies to promote global Black Health.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically assess how conditions of power shape social determinants and health inequities.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of anti-Black racism and colonialism and their impact on health of African/Black populations from an intersectional perspective.
3. Identify opportunities to operationalize strategies to advance racial health equity.
4. Apply clear, critical, and creative knowledge translation skills.
5. Collaborate with peers and apply leadership and public speaking skills.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze theories and discourses of sex, gender, and reproductive justice that have emerged since the 20th century.
2. Recognize, acknowledge, and challenge structures of inequality including racism, capitalism, colonialism, (hetero)sexism, ableism, and other manifestations of power, in the production and dissemination of knowledge about reproductive health, reproductive rights and reproductive justice.
3. Apply an intersectional lens to explain how experiences in the field of reproduction are bound up with experiences of race, Indigeneity, ethnicity, class, age, and (dis)ability.
4. Explain the role of power and context in shaping knowledge about reproduction in terms of sex, gender, and other identity markers.
5. Identify strategies for activism and reproductive justice work with people of color individuals and communities.
6. Discuss how systems of privilege and oppression have created social hierarchies among different genders and sexualities as well as other axis of power.
7. Practice different modes of communication for exploring reproductive health and justice issues, including formal academic writing, creative writing, visual and oral communication, and other forms of creative work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key topics, questions, theories and methods in the field of Black Feminisms.
2. Understand the wide-ranging and intersectional impact of Black Feminist Thought and their own relationship to Black Feminisms.
3. Explain the role of power and context in shaping Black Feminist epistemologies and methodologies.
4. Develop critical thinking skills fostering their abilities to deeply analyze and evaluate Black Feminist Thought through varied disciplines and contexts.
5. Identify past and current praxis of Black Feminist activism and organizing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop literary-critical, visual-critical, intersectional, and political analytic skills.
2. Develop a understanding of disability studies as a field, and of critical disability studies as a field.
3. Develop skills in pacing critical reading in a reading-intensive course.
4. Use literary and visual texts to reflect on their own and others’ lives, times and situations, and on social justice and gender issues that call for attention.
5. Develop, present, and defend informed cultural critical perspectives of their own.
6. Develop their skills as "conversational partners" on difficult topics, learning to take into account differences and multiple perspectives.
7. Deploy critical models from critical disability studies, feminist studies, transgender studies, cultural studies, critical race studies, in their written and oral work.