HIST 487 - American Refugees: The History of Forced Migration and Displaced Communities in the United States
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
Examines forced migrations to, and within, the United States as a result of targeted or indirect state policy and discrimination. Explores paths of movement, patterns of context and justification, and impact of policy on communities in the United States.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper-Division Arts or Humanities (Humanities); Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs); PH 130.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1) Analyze the global and historical complexity of the term “refugee”;
2) Read and interpret original historical documents to construct analytical narratives pertaining to the historical movement of peoples in the US;
3) Identify forced migrations in US history and analyze the context and narrative of the event, as a historical moment and potentially as part of a pattern in US history;
4) Collaborate with peers to track and digitally map paths and resettlements within the historic US;
5) Interpret the significance and application of this history for current crises of displaced peoples in the US;
6) Explore migration as an issue of social justice through the lens of the humanities.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
1. Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity.
2. Describe the challenges to achieving social justice.
3. Identify ways which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, and/or the world.
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