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Kathie Friedman
SIS 438
Seattle Campus
Provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences across the global system. Explores how international policy makers, humanitarian workers, and scholars have constructed forced migration as a problem for analysis and action, including some of the ethical dilemmas involved. Recommended: SIS 325 or SIS 344.
Class description
Provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences across the global system. Explores how international policy makers, humanitarian workers, and scholars have constructed forced migration as a problem for analysis and action, including some of the ethical dilemmas involved.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
lecture, discussion, service learning option
Recommended preparation
Recommended: sis 325 or sis 344. previous international studies or human rights courses
Class assignments and grading
intensive reading, writing, and discussion, service learning option
Class participation, exams, papers, service learning option
