Introduction to Diaspora Studies: There's No Place Like Home

Undergraduate

This course introduces students to diasporas-scattered populations living in exile from their ancestral homelands. The course focuses on the significance of migration, exile, belonging, and nostalgia (for ancestral homelands) for diasporas throughout the world. Students submit projects (incorporating oral histories, for example) on the diaspora of their choice. (Also offered as Languages, Literatures and Cultures JWST-1700)