SPAN 480B DG - Spc Tpc:Immigration & Social Change

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 4
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4

The course looks at the causes and consequences of immigration 1) from Latin America to the US and 2) from Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America to Spain. We look at economic and political motives for immigration in the work of demographers, sociologists, and economists, before moving to the study of the cultural and social experience of immigration, as expressed through literature, art and popular culture.

Offered Spring

Prerequisite(s): at least two 300 level Spanish courses (or above. or consent of the instructor.