SBS 339 - Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity

This course will investigate race and ethnicity and how people acquire and retain their identity. Why do people leave their homes to start new lives in new places? Why do they want to face new or grave challenges? Pilgrims, Jews, Huguenots, and Irish in the past, and Somali and Syrians, today, are but a few peoples who have done so. Through historical and contemporary readings and films, oral histories and personal interviews, the course examines the challenges immigrants face, as they attempt to assimilate within the U.S. while trying to maintain their native languages, traditions, cultures and communities.

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Credits: 3

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Course Type: Social & Behavioral Sciences