Spring 2017 Course Offerings

UNIV 349 - Transfer Year Seminar

Description

Hours: Three hours lecture per week Prerequisite: Junior Standing or Consent of Instructor Description: This interdisciplinary seminar for first year transfer students promotes successful intellectual and social transition to CSU Channel Islands through a problem-based approach. Students examine the modern world and issues facing societies from multiple perspectives, and develop and convey to others analyses of and solutions to problems using the methodologies, tools and techniques of academic disciplines. Students will develop inquiry skills that emphasize critical thinking and independent learning as well as identify how universities and specific disciplines relate to social problems. The seminar promotes student reflection on prior learning at other institutions and its relationship to the CI mission and their degree program, and aims to increase student engagement in intellectual life at the university. Themes will vary. Students will meet outside of class for one hour on a bi-weekly basis in small groups with a peer leader.

Meeting Information

Info current as 5/19/2024
Days Times Room Meeting Dates Instructor
MW  3:00 PM  -  4:15 PM  Bell Tower 1688 1/21/2017 - 5/26/2017 Raul Moreno Campos

Status: Open
Class Number: 2406
Session: Regular Academic Session
Units: 3.00
Class Components: Lecture
Career: Undergraduate
Dates: 1/21/2017 - 5/26/2017
Grading: Letter Grade

Class Availability

Information below is 24 hours old.
Enrollment Total: 22
Available Seats: 3
Wait List Capacity: 10
Wait List Total: 0

Enrollment Information

  • Upper Division
  • A3: Critical Thinking
  • E: Life-Long & Self-Development
  • UDIGE: Interdisciplinary

Notes

Students will examine how U.S. foreign and economic policy have shaped the process of migration to the U.S., particularly from Latin American countries. In addition, students will examine the multidimensional challenges faced by economic/political refugees and migrants seeking refuge in the United States, and analyze how and why the U.S. absorbs or rejects new migrant communities. Using literary materials, social science research, and film, this seminar seeks to broaden our understanding of the politics of immigration and citizenship, both from a historical perspective and in terms of its future prospects under the Trump presidency.