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The Afro-American History course is a joint effort between the W.E.B Dubois American History study at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University which talks about race and racism that occurs in our societies. This course serves as a figurehead for the improvement of diversity education on campuses across the country. Contributing to a more informed and thoughtful national culture, this course involves readings which tells stories of confrontations which took place throughout history between American political principles and the practice of racial injustice. In this course the goal is to get students to achieve a greater understanding of how diversity relates to humanity, and learn to create productive and civil dialogue with others who may not share their background or opinions.

First, Some the career possibilities that are involved in African American studies is that you can become, lawyers and activists, they work as bankers and at public policy think tanks. Other African American Studies majors, start community centers and are teachers. It is considered a great compliment to majors in other schools at Umass Amherst, especially Isenberg, SBS, and public health. Famous people involved with major is, Vincent brown who is a famous professor for African American studies at Harvard university and author of many articles for example Slave Revolt In Jamaica was one. Also W.E.B Dubois who was the first African American to earn a PHD From Harvard University. He was a spokesperson for African Americans and “Du Bois published his landmark study — the first case study of an African-American community — The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899)”. Although even though they went and became professors with their major I would like to use it to become a banker because it is something I had always wanted to do, and I believe that majoring in this study if I had to would get me that job. Even though I believe that this would be a great major for me but one of my concerns is, how essay heavy may these classes be?, Another question that I have is how often do people in this major get hired as a banker? Or what place hires African American majors the most?

Second, the major I chose as my back up major was Animal science but it doesn’t lead down the same career path as my other major. So it is an unrelated study of interest. I am interested in this particular major though because I love taking care of animals, and one of my cousins used to talk about becoming a zookeeper in the future. I found out about this major the day I attended the majors fair. Some of the career possibilities that excite me about this major is possibly being able to become a zookeeper so that I can be around animals everyday and see new ones. Someone famous who had majored in animal science is Dr. Trevor Tomkins who is an animal nutrition researcher currently. Another famous person is Kathy Anderson, she is a horse specialist at the University of Nebraska. Even though they are researchers and specialists with horses I would rather see myself taking care of animals at a zoo in the future. One question I have is how many job openings are there for this major?

Although what I would want to major in right now is accounting, and I would want to take classes that involve that major as an accountant. Which would involve taking more math classes which I am willing to do. The type of career I would want to have is being an accountant at a bank. Although I really want to become a professional runner and become an olympian for the USA and be known for how fast I was. Something that would hold me back from achieving these goals is not having enough money to graduate in college and to continue on with training. This will set me far back and could possibly end up making me a failure in the future.