Facing Immigration II

Lab II Spring 2019:
Monday and Wednesday 10:45am – 12:00pm, RBHL 171

Why is immigration controversial?

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How do labels shape the debate?

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What’s the purpose of borders, walls, and boundaries?

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Does immigration = innovation? 

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How does migration define your identity? 

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This lab course will seek ways to respond to these difficult, transdisciplinary questions on migration and movement.

Together, students and faculty will engage with current and historical immigration and refugee movement at the local, national, and global level. The course trains students with a variety of methodological tools that will be applied as teams of students and faculty explore resolutions

or approaches to these complex situations. Through engaging in research exercises that probe, interrogate, explore, and design collaborative group projects, the course will share their outcomes and the course experience beyond the classroom.

Course Learning Outcomes

  • Identify contemporary issues in immigration/refugee movement.
  • Compare different understandings of migration, immigration, and global movement.
  • Determine the appropriate research methods for addressing and understanding these issues.
  • Design a collaborative research project that investigates immigration, global migration, and/or refugee encounters.

View final impact outcomes from this course HERE.

Enrollment Information

Spring 2019: Monday and Wednesday, 10:45am-12:00pm

 Ross Blakely Hall, Room 171, Session C

Humanities Lab Anthropology
HUL 494 and 598 ASB 494
History School of International Letters and Cultures
HST 494 SLC 494
Women and Gender Studies
WST 494

Instructional Team

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Faculty: Christy Spackman

Food Policy
School for the Future of Innovation in Society

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Faculty: Grisha Coleman

Performance and Experiential Media
School of Arts, Media and Engineering
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Librarian: Janice Hermer

Assistant Liaison Librarian
Humanities Division

Instructional Team