The Black/Africana Studies Certificate of Achievement is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study a precise scope of the history, culture, aesthetics, and social justice traditions of Black people – in and outside of the United States. Major themes highlighted in the curriculum are social justice, cultural resistance, and artistic production.

This certificate program satisfies the ethnic studies course requirement for transfer to a CSU and UC. The goals and objectives of this program are to provide students with the opportunity to develop cultural competence and cross-cultural skills. This program will also prepare students for employment in multicultural environments and with underrepresented, diverse populations.

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