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SOC 350 - Sociology of Immigration

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

1. Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. 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;
4. 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.