HS 339 - United States Immigration History [SOCR]

Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: Contact Department

4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
General Education: Social Responsibility in a Diverse World (SOCR)
Prerequisites: EN 211 and completion of a 100-level or 200-level history course, or instructor permission.

Survey of U.S. immigration history examining the immigrant experience from first contact through the present. It will explore why people immigrate, modes of transportation, settlement patterns, development of ethnic institutions, and question how immigrants assimilate and simultaneously amalgamate the host society.