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Apr 03, 2026
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SOC 350 - Sociology of Immigration
Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4, 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.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2, all with C- (CR) or better, SOC 100.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
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.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- 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.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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