Academic Program Proposal

Date Proposal Activated	Institution and Proposal	Degree Awarded	Academic Program Name	Objection Deadline	MHEC Final Action	Final Decision Date
	Johns Hopkins University Proposal	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)	Critical Diaspora Studies	6/20/2024	Recommended	6/27/2024
Critical Diaspora Studies Program Description
The Johns Hopkins University is delighted to call for the creation of a new undergraduate major, a Bachelor of Arts in Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS) to satisfy the urgent need for a comparative, synthetic, and applied academic program that moves beyond identarian modes of knowledge production, particularly in the wake of immense social and racial tensions. The CDS major will enable students to study the connections, <br>solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—such as Asian-American, African diaspora, Indigenous, and Latinx studies—that are too often considered separately from one another but are in fact connected through entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The CDS major will provide unique, interdisciplinary opportunities for students to explore topics related to <br>indigenous and diasporic communities and their migration by prioritizing comparative, synthetic, structural, global, and activist modes of analysis.