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LACIS 367

THE LITERATURE OF MIGRATION AND THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN THE AMERICAS

3 credits.

Explores literature to understand representations and experiences of migration within the United States, and in the Americas more broadly, over time and across cultures. Focusing on literature and employing historical and psychoanalytic interpretive approaches, critically analyze artistic and literary representations of the migrant experience. Topics include: the relationships between literature, art, and migration; the role of migrants in constructing the United States; the role of art and literature in the empowerment of marginalized groups. Analyze literary texts in their contexts using tools of literary analysis and express ideas about literary texts and art from a critical perspective.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate literature in its relationship to migration by means of various communicative, deliberative, and persuasive argumentation. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify in literature historical patterns of migration within the US and the Americas and their importance to understand current national culture and tensions. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand through literature concepts and theories and apply them to the interpretation of literature across cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate in literature the intersections between culture and other socially meaningful categories, such as race, class, gender, identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they are represented within literature . Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate literature in its relationship to migration by means of various communicative, deliberative, and persuasive argumentation. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify in literature historical patterns of migration within the US and the Americas and their importance to understand current national culture and tensions. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand through literature concepts and theories and apply them to the interpretation of literature across cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate in literature the intersections between culture and other socially meaningful categories, such as race, class, gender, identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they are represented within literature . Audience: Undergraduate

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