SOC 350 - Sociology of Immigration

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: Diversity
The political, cultural and social dynamics of immigration to the U.S. Topics include processes of settlement and incorporation; institutional responses to immigration; prejudice and discrimination against immigrants; immigration, social and personal identity; and intergenerational tensions.

Prerequisites: SOC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Identify the predominant waves of immigration to the United States and the sociological factors that shaped those waves.
Understand the theories that shape the sociological understanding of immigration.
Recognize the most influential immigration laws in the history of the United States and the impact those laws had on immigration itself.
Identify patterns of discrimination and oppression that immigrants often experience in the United States.
Understand how immigrant groups have adapted to life and culture in the United States.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.