New Honors Seminar: Immigration, Race and Citizenship: Across the Disciplines
Immigration Course with Trip to New York
City
Immigration, Race and Citizenship: Across
the Disciplines is an Honors seminar with a study tour to New
York City along with field trips
around Cincinnati that provide a hands-on approach to the past and
present dimensions of the immigrant experience.
Students must carry a 3.4 GPA
or higher to enroll.
Course
Description for HIST 3096 (meets W 3:30-5:50, Spring ’14)
No phenomenon has helped to define our
modern global era more than the migration of people across national
borders. And no nation-state has been more central to the realities and
imaginations of the “immigrant experience” than the United States. This multidisciplinary seminar explores the
transnational and domestic dimensions of immigration – including the related
themes of race and citizenship -- in U.S. and international history from the
eighteenth century through today. Though focused primarily on the U.S.,
this course is as globally oriented as the lives of the people we
examine. We will systematically interrogate course themes from a
diversity of academic disciplines and non-academic vocations. These
include history, film, music, journalism, literature, law, political science,
sociology, and grass-roots activism. The
course, then, has two intertwined goals:
1) to
gain an empirical and theoretical understanding of immigration, race, and
citizenship
2) to
explore how knowledge is produced – and how we “consume” it -- through a
variety of methodologies, both from within the academy and beyond it. We
will ask ourselves “what difference does one particular approach to our topic
make versus another?” and “how might our answers to this apply beyond the themes
of this particular course?”
Trips
to New York City and around Cincinnati
At the end of the semester (4/27-5/2),
we will travel to New York City, long a critically important global and
national hub for the immigrant experience. We will dive into a range of
lively phenomena central to our course themes, including different culinary
cultures (aka, delicious food!); the arts; community mobilization;
nongovernmental advocacy; religion; public policy; and the evolving landscapes
of neighborhoods that successive waves of immigrants have shaped. During the semester, we will explore Cincinnati’s
“immigrant experience” through historical and architectural walking tours. We will additionally explore the migration
experiences of African Americans through the Underground Railroad Freedom
Center.
* Trip
begins one day after graduation and two days after the last day of final exams.
Costs
Total expected cost to be paid to UC
is $1050. The actual cost per person for UC is $1650, but this will
be offset by a $600 grant from University Honors, making the actual total
expected cost $1050. All participants will receive the grant from UHP,
whether in the Honors Program or not.
Costs will include airfare,
accommodations, group dinners, tours and guides, and entrance fees.
Costs do not include some
lunches and dinners, tips, ground transportation, any additional tours that you
choose to go on, and other personal expenses (such as souvenirs).
Interested?
If interested, immediately email
History professor, Dr. Stephen Porter at Stephen.Porter@uc.edu. Enrollment
may be closing very soon. You will
also need to complete a brief application form, found at http://www.uc.edu/honors/Seminars/travel/newyork.html
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