Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Spring Quarter 2013
• Summer Quarter 2013
• Autumn Quarter 2013

Kathie Friedman
JSIS B 441
Seattle Campus

Forced Migrations

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: either JSIS B324 or JSIS F 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, intensive reading, exams, papers, service learning option.

Recommended preparation

Recommended: previous international studies or human rights courses.

Class assignments and grading

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Modified:May 17, 2013