Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
GEOG 4480 - Migration and Development
Examines migration theory, global and domestic patterns of human migration, and their implications for the environment and development. Focus on geographic approaches to understanding the causes and development consequences of migration, including transnational and return migration. Explores migration in numerous cultural contexts and examines migrant experiences through written work and first-hand experiences.
Requisites: (GEOG 1200 or 1310 or 3210 or SOC 1000) and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to identify sources and interpret information available from migration data.
- Students will be able to critically evaluate migration indicators and data collection methods.
- Students will be able to identify, describe and compare the basic approaches to migration adopted by major social science disciplines/political science, geography, sociology, anthropology, demography.
- Students will be able to describe and interpret contemporary patterns of international migration.
- Students will be able to identify and critically assess the most important contemporary immigration policies in the United States.
- Students will understand theories linking migration and environmental change, including environmental migration and migration’s relationship to global climate change.
- Students will be able to identify and critically assess explanations of relationships between migration and development.
- Students will be able to identify and describe the causes and consequences of migration and compare its legal, economic, and cultural contexts in multiple regions of the world (US, Asia, Africa, and Latin America).
- Students will be able to demonstrate curiosity, compassion, and deeper understanding about the varied and unfamiliar experiences of migrants in verbal and non-verbal communications with migrants and other people.
- Students will be able to demonstrate how to design and implement an interview with an immigrant.
- Students will be able to confront their own preconceived notions of international migrants and migration and compare their own migrant experiences with that of others.
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