SPAN 3403 is also offered in Spring 2024
SPAN 3403 is also offered in Spring 2023
SPAN 3403 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2021 | SPAN 3403 Section 001: Latino Immigration on US/Mexican Border (67702)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Span 3015W or Span 3015V or Tldo 3231 or Argn 3015W or Ecdr 3015W
- Times and Locations:
Extended Regular Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course takes place off campus, through an organization called "Border Links" that is located in Tucson and works with migrants. Students will experience firsthand many issues that directly affect the migrant journey and meet with many immigrants to hear their personal stories. In addition to learning the history of the situation on the border, students will take a tour of the border wall, visit neighboring communities that work with immigrants, do a legal immigration simulation, walk the migrant trails in the Sonoran Desert and leave water there with Humane Borders, go to a Operation Streamline Deportation Court hearing, visit migrants seeking political asylum in Florence Detention Center, talk with a leader in Southside Workers Center, meet with an author focusing on Border Patrol, and more. Themes explored in this course include the connection between the roots of emigration and the global economy of violence in Central America; human rights on the border; and issues immigrants face in the US such as immigrants living in the US with or without legal documents, detention and deportation and the work they are doing to make a more just immigration system. Students will gather information during their stay and create a presentation to be shown to people in Minnesota upon returning from the border.
- Class Notes:
- Span 3403 will be taught online. BorderLinks staff will be leading our delegation from Tucson, in Mexico and from the actual border itself. January 6, 7 & 8 --- 3 preparation classes with instructor, 2-3 hours each January 11-15 --- BL delegation (classes): (http://borderlinks.nationbuilder.com/) January 16, 17 & 18 --- 3 Post-BL classes for reflection, creation of a presentation and meeting Twin Cities organizations working with Latino immigrants We will meet mostly synchronously with many small and large group discussions and other activities. Students will do some work asynchronously, most in activities in Discussion Boards.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67702/1213
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