UNV 101: Section 02

Course Description:

Taking the recent Central American refugee crisis as a point of departure, this seminar explores childhood and migration in the Américas through the study of visual culture. By incorporating readings and discussions of graphic novels, street art, films, videos, and multimedia texts, students will hone close visual reading skills, while learning about the structural and political causes of migration, exile and forced displacement in the hemisphere. The course is designed to provide students with the instructional and theoretical scaffolding to think critically about the visual culture of migration and to historicize childhood as an experience that is not fixed or universal.

Course by Major:

This course may be particularly interesting to you if you are interested in one of the following majors.

• Africana Studies
• Anthropology
• Asian-Pacific Studies
• Behavioral Science
• Chicana/Chicano Studies
• Geography
• History
• Human Services
• Humanities
• Interdisciplinary Studies
• Labor Studies
• Liberal Studies
• Political Science
• Pre-Law
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Women's Studies

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