Laney College's Associate in Arts in Social Justice Studies: African American Studies for Transfer program is designed to prepare students for a seamless transfer with junior status and priority admission to a California State University campus to a program or major in African American Studies or similar major for completion of a baccalaureate degree.

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to: • Evaluate and Research: Evaluate the development of the field of African American Studies, and utilize research methodologies and scholarship within the field to produce research papers. • Analysis: Effectively employ social science methodologies in the analysis of issues related to African American Studies. • Identify and describe the social, economic, and political forces that have shaped the historical and contemporary realities of people of African descent in the United States, Africa, as well as the African diaspora.

Program is geared in future careers in teaching, social work, public health, community organizing, as well as working in higher education or graduate school.