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Aug 21, 2024
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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.
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