State of Major Stutz

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Jaxon Stutz HIST 295 Professor Whitehead December 8, 2023 State of Major Given my tenure as a history major and about to graduate after this semester. I want to consider my concentration in the major to be African history. Aldrin has not only further pushed my passion for the subject but also provided life lessons that anyone can implement in their lives which in my opinion, is the most important tool history can do. Most specifically the Black Atlantic and Legacies of Empire courses, as the conversations that were spurred from those classes, will be some of the most prominent academic memories I will leave DePauw with these classes with a sincere understanding of America and the West face on a socio-economic and racial level with our past actions towards the continent and African Americans. Leaving me with a call to action that improvements to social and economic systems must begin to be made. Professor Magaya established this by looking at the stories of the underprivileged and victims through a Marxist approach. Even students who had no previous knowledge of these topics were left with the view that European and American interference on the Continent and in the United States slave systems led to the suffering of people around the world. This played a key part in my decision for my selection of my Seminar topic as I looked at the efforts America and Belgium took to disrupt the prosperity and legitimacy of a democratically elected leader for their own control over the Congo. At the conclusion of my paper called for America to recognize their past actions and to help safeguard that the Congo would never experience exploitation or interference

from foreign nations again. Professor Magaya was also able to help us establish a contemporary history of Health in Africa in his Health and Healing in Africa course. As we discussed, American and Western medical intervention with the PEPFAR plan. This taught the class that PEPFAR saw some success but was not as effective as it could have been as it followed the Top to Bottom approach of leadership method. However, as Professor Magaya would show us examples of methods of healing around the continent the Bottom to Top approach would prove more effective in PEPFARS initiatives. Giving the students in this class who all planned on either entering the medical world or in some capacity of leadership in the future the importance of understanding different power structures and how they could be effective in different situations. This is only a short reflection on what my coursework through the history department primarily under Professor Magaya, has shaped me, leaving me not only with a better understanding of how historical events but also shaping different aspects of my leadership qualities and morals on issues that affect all of us in one way or another. Which in no small way benefit my short-term and long-term plans within the real estate industry as I start as a broker next month and in my future ambitions of founding my own development group with the mission of finding equitable and moral solutions to the housing crisis in Indiana. Not only have Professor Magaya’s classes taught me this History today has taught me that as well. As this might be a requirement for history majors this class also serves as a prime example of why liberal arts education is still so important in modern America. Classes like this teach students how to actually think and question aspects of issues and topics that affect America today that other Universities fail to teach.

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