In collaboration with the Mason Project on Immigration, Sociology and Anthropology will host an interdisciplinary minor in immigration studies that will launch fall semester 2008. The minor in immigration studies is likely to resonate with Mason students, given the significance and intensity of the immigration debate throughout the Northern Virginia region and in the light of the great diversity among the student body itself. Please contact Deb Lattanzi-Shutika at dshutika@gmu.edu with any questions. 

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology offers a minor in Immigration Studies.  The minor combines perspectives from the humanities and social sciences in order to provide an interdisciplinary and comparative understanding of the immigrant experience, ethnic identity, assimilation, ethnic exclusion and conflict, and refugee situations. As such, the minor will be relevant to students in any major field.  Courses taken at the 100 and 200 level cannot count toward the minor. Courses applied toward this minor require a grade of C (2.0) or better. 

Requirements for Minor in Immigration Studies  
 
  You must take: 

ANTH 340 (3 credits) Comparative Perspectives on Immigration 
 
Choose one course (3 credits) focused on ethnicity in the United States from: 

SOCI 308: Sociology of Race Relations and Minorities  
HIST 418: Ethnic Groups in America  
ENG 375: Special Topics in Ethnic American Literature  

Choose one course (3 credits) focused on global perspectives on migration and ethnicity: 

ANTH 331: Refugees 
GOVT 445: Human Rights  
CONF 302: Identity and Conflict. 
 
Choose two electives (6 credits): 

FRLN 385: Topics in the Socio-politics of Language 
NCLC 361: Neighborhood, Community, and Identity 
SOCI 332: Sociology of Urban Communities 
SPAN 430: Spanish in the U.S.  
ENG 479: Ethnicity and Migration