Students in this ambitious program will examine the complexity of identity within the Black experience through lectures and film series, author-led discussions about their autobiographical processes, guest speakers and seminars.  They will acquire the necessary concepts, skills and habits, to create their own autobiographies based on the lessons they learned and wisdom they earned from the hills and valleys of their lives through knowledge development workshops, writing workshops and peer collaborations.  Students will also draw upon Ancient Egyptian and Classical African worldviews as conceptual lenses, engage in appreciative inquiry as a process and employ a griotic compositional framework.

All students will be evaluated on their participation in program activities, an mid-quarter asset–based autobiography, and a autobiographical presentation treatment in a medium of their own choosing during our Identity Fair at the end of the quarter.