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HIS311 IMMIGRAT & ETHNICIT| 3 - Credit Hours

Subject Code

HIS

Course Number

311

Academic Level (Course Level)

Undergraduate

Course Title

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION

Course Description

Immigration and ethnicity from the colonial period to the present. World population movements, shifts in governmental immigration policy, the changing meaning of ethnicity and race, and its impact on the immigrant experience. How and why immigrants came, degree of assimilation and alienation, work and leisure experiences, demographics, coping mechanisms, transmission of cultural traditions, and generational differences. Offered occasionally.

Course Types

Diversity, IF14;, Diversity, GE2K;, Diversity, GEC;, Diversity, IF;

Credit Hours Min

3

Lecture Hours Min

3