History 200 - New Approaches To History
Spring
2015
01
4.00
Robert Weir
M W 1:25PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
18384
This course will investigate immigration and migrations in the Western Hemisphere. Students will attend their choice of events in the History Department's 2014 series on immigration, and will also attend regular lectures and discussions.
Students must not have taken History 200.
"New Approaches to Immigration History: Empires of Migration in the Modern Americas." This course investigates the history of migration to and from the Americas in the modern era. Emphasis will be placed on the ways empires, colonialism, and post-colonialism have historically shaped migrations in the North and Latin Americas and the Caribbean.
Lectures, readings and discussion will also reflect how the study of immigration has expanded beyond the nation and nations to be considered a problem of transnationalism, hybridity, borderlands, and race. Students will attend the events of their choice in the History Department's Fall 2014 Feinberg lecture series on immigration, and will also attend regular lectures and discussion."
"New Approaches to Immigration History: Empires of Migration in the Modern Americas." This course investigates the history of migration to and from the Americas in the modern era. Emphasis will be placed on the ways empires, colonialism, and post-colonialism have historically shaped migrations in the North and Latin Americas and the Caribbean.
Lectures, readings and discussion will also reflect how the study of immigration has expanded beyond the nation and nations to be considered a problem of transnationalism, hybridity, borderlands, and race. Students will attend the events of their choice in the History Department's Fall 2014 Feinberg lecture series on immigration, and will also attend regular lectures and discussion."
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.