- International Migration Studies
- Curriculum and Courses
Curriculum and Courses
The M.A. Program in International Migration Studies offers a rigorous and innovative 30-credit curriculum. Students will take 4 core courses (12 credits total): International Migration, Global Immigrant Cities, Research Methods in International Migration, and Migration Policy. Students will then choose among a rich array of elective courses offered in varied academic fields (5 courses or 15 credits total), allowing them to develop their own area of specialization. A sample of elective courses is included below. Students will complete the program with an individual capstone project (3 credits), under guidance from a faculty member, on some aspect of international migration studies.
Course listings and room numbers subject to change. For the most up-to-date course listings, visit CUNY's course listings:
International Migration (3 credits). This course offers an overview of the key current topics and issues in the burgeoning field of international migration. The course will aspire to incorporate the experiences of major immigrant-receiving countries around the world, but the main comparative focus will be on Europe and North America, where the major theories and key concepts are most fully developed. The course emphasis is on exploring both the theoretical debates in the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge. Attention will be paid to detailed discussions of “classic” issues of immigration, such as assimilation, incorporation/integration, the labor market, race and ethnic relations, gender and the family, transnationalism, the second generation, and nativism/host hostility. Throughout, the course will take into account the way in which migrant-receiving cities, as contexts of reception, affect the immigrant experience, and in turn, are transformed by immigrants.
Global Immigrant Cities (3 credits). This course asks the question of how various migrant-receiving global cities experience, respond to, and are transformed by the changing composition of their ethnic populations. Looking at several European, North American, Latin American, and Asian cities, it will explore their histories of ethnic and racial difference; the ways in which their ideologies about diversity, pluralism, and multiculturalism have evolved and changed over time; the extent to which they incorporate (or do not incorporate) their migrants; and the different economic, cultural, and political impacts that migration has had on these global immigrant cities. The main focus will be on international comparison, and students will be trained in the use of comparative perspectives to illustrate similarities and differences between cities. Global immigrant cities are crucial research sites for exploring the possibility of going “beyond” the nation-state-society focus of most mainstream American research. Also, while opening the door to a crucial dimension of globalization, the comparative study of migration opens up a fresh comparative and international perspective on the urban experience. Taking advantage of our location and extensive local knowledge, the course will use New York as the basis of comparison with other major global cities, such as Los Angeles, Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Toronto, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires.
Research Methods in International Migration (3 credits). This course will provide an overview of major methodological approaches in the study of international migration. It covers both quantitative and qualitative methods with a goal of seeing students transition from consumers to producers of knowledge. The class will give students the tools they need to evaluate research in this area and will prepare them to undertake their own original research projects.
Migration Policy (3 credits). The class will address how law and politics shape migration policy in an international comparative framework. It will cover some of the main themes in migration policy historically as well as how legal migration regimes come about. It will look specifically at documented versus unauthorized migration and the role of civil society actors such as community organizations and ethnic groups in making migration policy. Other topics will include how nations decide who can and cannot migrate, how citizenship is established, what factors shape policies and their implementation, the increased role of municipalities in making policy towards immigrants, refugee resettlement, and immigrant integration and deportation.
Students may design their own area of specialization in consultation with their faculty advisor. Possible areas of specialization include Comparative Immigration, Global Immigrant Cities, Assimilation and Integration, and Immigration Politics and Policies.
Select examples of courses offered in past two academic years at the Graduate Center that might be chosen by students in the new International Migration Studies program to fulfill their 15 elective credits:
ANTHROPOLOGY Immigration, Race, and Citizenship (3 credits)
ANTHROPOLOGY Local/Global Imaginaries: Migration, Movement, and Identity (3 credits)
ANTHROPOLOGY Nationalism and Ethnicity (3 credits)
ANTHROPOLOGY Taking Back the Land: Black Social Movements in the Americas and the Caribbean (3 credits)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Bilingual Polyglot Writers (2/4 credits)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE From Guestworkers to Transnationals: Turkish Immigrants in German Literature and Film (2/4 credits)
CRITICAL THEORY Fueling Critical Race Scholarship and Undermining Whiteness in Academia (3 credits)
DEMOGRAPHY Methods of Demographic Analysis (3 credits)
DEMOGRAPHY Social Demography and Geographies of the Disadvantaged (3 credits)
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES GIS in New York (3 credits)
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Immigration, the State, and Justice: On the Margins of Membership (3 credits)
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Globalization (3 credits)
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Urban Orientalism: Global/Local Environment and Planning (3 credits)
ENGLISH Creole Poetics: Caribbean Fiction and Poetry (2/4 credits)
ENGLISH Mongrel Nation: Race, Place, and Culture in Postcolonial Britain (2/4 credits)
ENGLISH Partition, Migration, Memory (4 credits)
ENGLISH The Politics of the Refugee (2/4 credits)
ENGLISH The Transamerican Historical Imaginaries (4 credits)
ENGLISH Toward a Negative Aesthetics in U.S. Latina/o Literatures (3 credits)
HISTORY Citizenship, Religion, and Religious Minorities in Modern Europe (3 credits)
HISTORY Comparative Diasporas (3 credits)
HISTORY History of New York City (3 credits)
HISTORY Paths, Detours, and Barriers to Citizenship: Immigrants, Refugees, and Aliens in U.S. History, Law, and Culture (3 credits)
HISTORY Slavery and Freedom: African American History in Comparative Perspective (3 credits)
LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINO CULTURES Analyzing Discourse Data (3 credits)
LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINO CULTURES Exploring Translanguaging: A Critical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Language, Bilingualism, and Education (3 credits)
LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINO CULTURES Language and Politics (3 credits)
LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINO CULTURES Mapping New York City in Translation (3 credits)
LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINO CULTURES Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, and Diaspora in Contemporary Spanish Culture (3 credits)
LATIN AMERICAN, IBERIAN, AND LATINO CULTURES Theorizing the Border in Latin@ America (3 credits)
LIBERAL STUDIES Introduction to U.S. Latino Studies: "Performing Latinidad" (3 credits)
MUSIC Musics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Latin New York (3 credits)
POLITICAL SCIENCE Borders, Boundaries, and the Ethics of Immigration (4 credits)
POLITICAL SCIENCE Ethnic Groups, Generations, and Locales (4 credits)
POLITICAL SCIENCE Immigration and American National Identity (4 credits)
POLITICAL SCIENCE International Political Economy (3 credits)
POLITICAL SCIENCE Race and American Public Policy (3 credits)
POLITICAL SCIENCE The European City and the American (4 credits)
PSYCHOLOGY Group Relations: A Racial and Cultural Focus (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY American Islam: Islamaphobia and Muslim Civility (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Asian Americans (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Citizenship and Human Rights (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Community-Based Organizations and Public Policy (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Computer Mapping for LA and NY (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Ethnography and Methods (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Global Inequality: Measurement, Analysis, and Political Implications (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Immigrant Communities (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Immigration in an Era of Globalization (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Labor and Inequality: Gender, Race, Class, and Immigration and the New Precarity (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Migrant and Immigrant NYC (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Migration and Crime (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Muslim Integration in Europe and North America (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Neighborhoods, Ghettos, and Enclaves (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Politics of Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution: Theory, Empirics, Methods, and Analysis (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Quantitative Reasoning in the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Race and Ethnicity (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Race and Multiculturalism in Global Perspective (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Race, Place, and Inequality (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Second Plus Generations and American Immigrant Integration (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Survey Methodology (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY The Peoples of New York City (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY The Sociology of New York City (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY The Sociology of Undocumented Migration (3 credits)
SOCIOLOGY Urban Sociology (3 credits)
URBAN EDUCATION Globalization of Education (3 credits)
URBAN EDUCATION Immigrant Children and Families (3 credits)
Fall 2023 Course Offerings
|
Required IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
Topic |
|
IMS |
International Migration |
70000 |
Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Michael Sharpe |
Core |
|
IMS |
Research Methods in International Migration |
71100 |
Mondays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Ismael Garcia Colon |
Core |
|
IMS |
Capstone |
79000 |
||
|
IMS |
Independent Study |
79001 |
|
PRE Approved IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course number |
Schedule |
Topic |
|
Pasts & Futures of South Asia |
41666 |
Wednesdays, 11:45- 1:45 pm, Prof. Murphy Halliburton |
Anthropology |
|
|
Anthropology |
Politics of Abundance Scarcity Commoning & Life-Affi |
81200 |
Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Ida Susser |
Anthropology |
|
Anthropology |
Public Anthropology & Black Feminist Practice |
41680 |
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Bianca Williams |
Anthropology |
|
Immigration and the State: Citizenship, Borders, Nativism |
79903 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Monica Varsanyi |
EES *Cross-listed with Sociology* | |
|
French |
Africanizing Queerness: Foreign Bodies/Forbidden Sexualities |
87400 |
Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Nathalie Etoke |
|
|
Dirty Money: Race, (Anti-)Capitalism, and U.S. Currency |
74200 |
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Tanisha Ford |
History |
|
|
History |
Strategies of Resistance and Survival: The US Working Class, 1877 - Present |
75500 |
Wednesdays, 11:45 am- 1:45 pm, Prof. Donna Haverty-Stacke |
History |
|
History |
Metropolis: A Political, Historical, and Sociological Profile of New York |
74900 |
Tuesdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Thomas Kessner |
History*Cross-listed with MALS* |
|
History |
The African Diaspora |
76000 |
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Herman Bennett |
History |
|
Sociolinguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication |
79600 |
Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Matt Garley & Prof. Cece Cutler |
||
|
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies |
72300 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. James Wilson |
MALS |
|
|
MALS |
American Social Institutions |
73200 |
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Karen Miller |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Africana Studies: Introduction |
73400 |
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Nathalie Etoke |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Introduction to Mass Violence in the Modern Era |
73600 |
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Prof. Elissa Bemporad |
MALS *Cross-listed with History* |
|
MALS |
Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies |
74600 |
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Prof. Koch |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Introduction to US Latino Studies |
78300 |
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Prof. Riobo |
MALS |
|
Ethnomusicology |
39661 |
Tuesday, 2:00-5:00 pm, Prof. David Font |
Music |
|
|
Public Policy |
72500 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Di Gaetano |
Political Science |
|
|
Political Science |
Concepts and Theories of Cooperation/Conflict in International Politics |
76000 |
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Peter Romaniuk |
Political Science |
|
Political Science |
Introduction to Public Policy |
73100 |
Mondays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. John Krinsky |
Political Science |
|
Political Science |
Global Political Theory |
76000 |
Mondays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Uday Mehta |
Political Science |
|
Not available yet |
||||
|
Global Stratification |
74400 |
Mondays, 11:45 am-1:45 pm, Prof. Liza Steele |
Sociology |
|
| Sociology | Contemporary Issues in Migration and Diversity | 82800 | Wednesdays 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Philip Kasinitz and Prof. Richard Ocejo | Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Black America |
82907 |
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Juan Battle and Prof. Allia Abdullah-Matta |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Comparative and Historical Sociology: Identities and Ideologies. |
81100 |
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. John Torpey |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Social Policy & Socio-Economic Outcomes in Industrialized Countries |
85700 |
Tuesdays 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Janet Gornick |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Public Sociology, Ethnography, and Research Design: Fighting Inequality and Injustice. |
81200 |
Wednesdays 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Robert Smith |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Methods of Demographic Analysis |
81900 |
Wednesdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Frank Heiland |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Race and Multiculturalism in Global Perspective |
75600 |
Thursdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Erica Chito Childs |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Computer Mapping for Los Angeles, NY, and Global Cities. |
82301 |
Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. David Halle |
Sociology |
|
Spanish (SPAN/LAILAC) |
Hispanic Critical and Cultural Theory |
70100 |
Mondays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Degiovanni |
Latin America |
|
Urban Education |
Global Perspectives Critical Childhood Studies |
41685 |
Tuesdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Lutrell |
Urban Ed |
|
Urban Education |
Intersect between Immigration & Education |
41692 |
Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. TBA |
Urban Ed |
Spring 2023 Course Offerings
|
Required IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
Topic |
|
IMS |
International Migration |
70000 |
Wednesdays |
Core |
|
IMS |
Research Methods in International Migration |
71100 |
Mondays |
Core |
|
IMS |
Capstone |
79000 |
||
|
IMS |
Independent Study |
79001 |
|
PRE Approved IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course number |
Schedule |
Topic |
|
Pasts & Futures of South Asia |
41666 |
Wednesdays, 11:45- 1:45 pm, Prof. Halliburton |
Anthropology |
|
|
Anthropology |
Politics of Abundance Scarcity Commoning & Life-Affi |
81200 |
Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. TBA |
Anthropology |
|
Anthropology |
Public Anthropology & Black Feminist Practice |
41680 |
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Williams |
Anthropology |
|
No fitted coursed this semester |
|
|
|
|
|
French |
Africanizing Queerness: Foreign Bodies/Forbidden Sexualities (Taught in English) |
87400 |
Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Etoke |
|
|
Dirty Money: Race, (Anti-)Capitalism, and U.S. Currency |
74200 |
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Tanisha Ford |
History |
|
|
History |
Strategies of Resistance and Survival: The US Working Class, 1877 - Present |
75500 |
Wednesdays, 11:45am- 1:45 pm, Prof. Donna Haverty-Stacke |
History |
|
History |
Metropolis: A Political, Historical, and Sociological Profile of New York |
74900 |
Tuesdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Thomas Kessner |
History *Cross-listed with MALS* |
|
History |
The African Diaspora |
76000 |
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Herman Bennett |
History |
|
Sociolinguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication |
79600 |
Wednesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Matt Garley & Prof. Cece Cutler |
|
|
|
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies |
72300 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. James Wilson |
MALS |
|
|
MALS |
American Social Institutions |
73200 |
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Karen Miller |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Africana Studies: Introduction |
73400 |
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Nathalie Etoke |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Introduction to Mass Violence in the Modern Era |
73600 |
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Prof. Elissa Bemporad |
MALS *Cross-listed with History* |
|
MALS |
Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies |
74600 |
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Prof. Koch |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Introduction to US Latino Studies |
78300 |
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 pm, Prof. Riobo |
MALS |
|
Ethnomusicology |
39661 |
Tuesday, 2:00-5:00 pm, Prof. David Font |
Music |
|
|
Public Policy |
72500 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Di Gaetano |
Political Science |
|
|
Political Science |
Concepts and Theories of Cooperation/Conflict in International Politics |
76000 |
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Peter Romaniuk |
Political Science |
|
Political Science |
Introduction to Public Policy |
73100 |
Mondays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. John Krinsky |
Political Science |
|
Political Science |
Global Political Theory |
76000 |
Mondays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Uday Mehta |
Political Science |
|
Not available yet |
|
|
|
|
|
Global Stratification |
74400 |
Mondays, 11:45am-1:45 pm, Prof. Liza Steele |
Sociology |
|
|
Sociology |
Immigration and the State: Borders, Nativism, Citizenship |
82800 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm, Prof. Monica Varsanyi |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Black America |
82907 |
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Juan Battle and Prof. Allia Abdullah-Matta |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Comparative and Historical Sociology: Identities and Ideologies. |
81100 |
Tuesdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. John Torpey |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Social Policy & Socio-Economic Outcomes in Industrialized Countries |
85700 |
Tuesdays 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Janet Gornick |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Public Sociology, Ethnography, and Research Design: Fighting Inequality and Injustice. |
81200 |
Wednesdays 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Robert Smith |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Methods of Demographic Analysis |
81900 |
Wednesdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Frank Heiland |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Race and Multiculturalism in Global Perspective |
75600 |
Thursdays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Erica Chito Childs |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Computer Mapping for Los Angeles, NY, and Global Cities. |
82301 |
Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. David Halle |
Sociology |
|
Spanish (SPAN/LAILAC) |
Hispanic Critical and Cultural Theory |
70100 |
Mondays, 2:00-4:00 pm, Prof. Degiovanni |
Latin America |
|
Urban Education |
Global Perspectives Critical Childhood Studies |
41685 |
Tuesdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Lutrell |
Urban Ed |
|
Urban Education |
Intersect between Immigration & Education |
41692 |
Thursdays, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. TBA |
Urban Ed |
Fall 2022 Course Offerings
|
Required IMS Classes |
Course Title |
Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
Topic |
|
IMS |
International Migration |
|
Wednesday |
Core |
|
IMS |
Research Methods in International Migration |
|
Monday |
Core |
|
IMS |
Capstone |
79000 |
|
|
|
IMS |
Independent Study |
79001 |
|
|
PRE Approved IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course number |
Schedule |
Topic |
|
Anthropology |
Public Anthropology and Black Feminist Praxis |
82100 |
Wednesday, 4:15- 6:15pm, Prof. Bianca Williams |
Anthropology *Cross-listed with WSCP* |
|
Anthropology |
Transnational Social Movements |
81200 |
Thursday, 9:30-11:30am, Prof. Marc Edelman |
Anthropology |
|
EES |
Environmental and Climate Justice: Food, Energy, Water, Governance |
79903 |
Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm, |
Geography |
| EES | Internationalism from Below (needs instructor’s permission) |
79903 |
Wednesday, 4:00-7:00pm, Prof. Gilmore |
Geography |
|
History |
Twentieth Century African-American History |
75900 |
Tuesday, 4:15-6:15pm, Prof. Tanisha Ford |
History |
|
History |
Labor and Race in the 20th Century U.S. |
75700 |
Monday, 4:15-6:15pm, Prof. Ruth Milkman |
History |
|
History |
Police, Prisons, and Repression in the United States of America |
74900 |
Wednesday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Johanna Fernandez |
History |
|
History |
The African Diaspora |
76000 |
Thursday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Herman Bennett |
History |
|
Political Science |
Race, Representation, and Redistricting: The Case of New York City |
82604 |
Monday, 4:15-6:15pm, Prof. Mollenkopf/ Prof. Lipsitz |
Political Science *cross-listed with SOC* |
|
Political Science |
Urban Politics |
72500 |
Monday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Di Gaetano |
Political Science |
|
Political Science |
Understanding the Radical Right |
80607 |
Monday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Richard Wolin |
Political Science *cross listed with CL and HIST* |
|
Political Science |
Social Movements and Public Policy |
73100 |
Tuesday, 2:00-4:00pm, Prof. Krinsky |
Political Science |
|
Political Science |
Basic Theories and Concepts in International Relations |
76000 |
Tuesday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Romaniuk |
Political Science |
|
Psychology |
Not available now (April 18) |
|
|
|
|
Linguistics |
No courses fit this year |
|
|
|
|
Music |
No courses fit this year |
|
|
|
|
Sociology |
Representation, and Redistricting: The Case of New York City |
82800 |
Monday, 4;15-6:15pm, Prof. Mollenkopf |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Labor and Race in the 20th Century U.S. |
85913 |
Monday, 4;15-6:15pm, Prof. Milkman |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Black America |
82901 |
Tuesday, 2:00-4:00pm, Prof. Battle and Prof. Abdullah-Matta |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Global Feminisms |
83300 |
Wednesday, 2:00-4:00pm, Prof. Toor |
Sociology |
|
Sociology |
Methods of Demographic Analysis |
81900 |
Wednesday, 4;15-6:15pm, Prof. Heiland |
Demography |
|
Sociology |
Computer Mapping for NY and Global Cities. Geographic Information Systems with Mapinfo: Basic and Advanced Techniques |
84510 |
Wednesday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Halle |
Sociology / GIS |
|
Sociology |
Migration and Popular Culture |
82800 |
Thursday, 9:30-11:30am, Prof. Kasinitz |
Sociology |
|
MALS |
Metropolis: A Political, Historical, and Sociological Profile of New York |
70200 |
Thursday, 6:30- 8:30pm, Prof. Garland |
New York |
|
MALS |
American Social Institutions |
73200 |
Tuesday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Miller |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Introduction to Global Early Modern Studies |
74600 |
Monday, 4:15-6:15pm, Prof. Carrol |
MALS |
|
MALS |
Introduction to Caribbean Studies |
78600 |
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15pm, Prof. Etoke |
MALS |
|
Spanish (SPAN/LAILAC) |
Fictions of Transnational Violence: Narratives of War, Citizenship and Sovereignty in Mexican Literature |
86400 |
Wednesday, 6:30-8:30pm, Prof. Oswaldo Zabala |
Latin America |
|
Spanish (SPAN/LAILAC) |
What’s in a name? |
80100 |
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15 pm, Prof. Ariana Mangual Figueroa |
Latin America |
|
Urban Education |
Schooling & Education within Black Ima |
|
Wednesday, 4:15-6:15pm, Prof. TBA |
Urban Ed |
|
WSCP |
Global Feminisms (same as Sociology) |
|
|
Spring 2022 Course Offerings
| Required IMS Classes | Course Title | Course Number | Schedule/Instructor | Topic |
| IMS | Global Immigrant Cities | 70100 |
Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm Philip Kasinitz |
Core |
| IMS | Migration Policy | 70200 |
Monday 6:30-8:30pm Els de Graauw |
Core |
| IMS | Capstone | 79000 | |
|
| IMS | Independent Study | 79001 |
| Pre Approved IMS Classes | Course Title | Course Number | Schedule/Instructor | Topic |
| Anthropology | The Anthropology of Labor: Dispoability, Mobility, Contention | 71200 | Monday 2:00-4:00pm Isamel García-Colón |
Labor and mobility |
| Anthropology | Intersecting Mobilities | 82000 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Miriam Ticktin |
Mobilities |
| Anthropology | Language Standardization & Social Inequaity | 87700 | Tuesday 11:45am-1:45pm Jose Del Ville |
Language |
| LAILAC / SPAN |
The Many Faces of Resentment: Narratives from Argentina and Colombia |
70200 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Silvia Dapia |
Narrative analyses |
| LAILAC / SPAN |
Language Standardization and Social Inequality |
80100 | Tuesday 11:45am-1:45pm José del Valle |
Language studies |
| History | Anti-Racism in Comparative-Historical Perspective | 72300 | Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm John Torpey |
Global racial history |
| History |
Police, Prisons, and Repression in the United States of America |
74900 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Johanna Fernandez |
American criminal justice history |
| History |
Migration Control and Migrant Agency: Mobility in U.S. History |
75500 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm Libby Garland |
Migrants and migration regulation |
| MALS |
Critical Issues in International Studies |
71500 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Peter Bratsis |
Introduction to international studies |
| MALS |
Africana Studies: Global Perspectives |
73500 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Nathalie Etoke |
Global Africana studies |
| MALS |
Introduction to US Latino Studies |
78300 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Carlos Riobo |
American Latino studies |
| WSCP |
Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies: Promoting and Resisting Equality |
81000 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Anissa Helie |
Muslim diaspora |
| WSCP |
The New Critical Ethnography: Hybrid, Virtual and Multi-Modal |
81000 | Tuesday 11:45am-1:45pm Setha Low |
Research methods |
| Sociology | Data Analysis for Urban Politics and Policy | 82800 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm John Mollenkopf |
Research methods |
| Sociology | Spatial Data Analysis | 81900 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Jeremy Porter |
Research methods |
| Sociology | Intersectionality in the Social Sciences | 82800 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Leslie McCall |
Intersectional theory/research |
| Sociology | Deportation and Ethnography | 81500 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm David Brotherton |
Deportation research |
| Political Science |
Politics of Identity | 87800 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Professor George |
Identity politics |
| Political Science |
Comparative Foreign Policy: Non-Western countries |
86105 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Professor Braveboy-Wagner |
International relations |
| Political Science | Critical Urbanisms and Just Cities: Reimagining Social Infrastructures and Politics from Below |
82505 |
Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm Professor Su |
Urban politics |
| Political Science | Participatory Democracy and Social Movements |
73904 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm Professor Su |
Social movements |
| EES | TBA |
|||
| Urban Education |
TBA |
Fall 2021 Course Offerings
| Required IMS Classes | Course title | Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
| IMS | International Migration (See course description below) | 70000 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Philip Kasinitz |
| IMS | Research Methods in International Migration | 71100 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Jamie Longazel |
| IMS | Capstone | 79000 | |
| IMS | Independent Study | 79001 |
PRE Approved IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course number |
Schedule |
Topic |
| Anthropology | TBD |
|
|
|
| EES | Migration and the State: Borders, Citizenship, Nativism | 79903 |
Wednesday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Varsanyi |
Migration Politics |
| History | Race and the Middle East/North Africa |
72500 | Thursday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Baron |
Race in the MENA region |
| History | The African Diaspora |
76000 | Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Bennett |
Diaspora |
| History |
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in the Americas |
76900 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Bergad |
Slavery history |
| Political Science | Politics of Development |
87609 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Colburn |
Development |
| Political Science | Comparative Urban Politics & Policy |
87609 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. DiGaetano |
Urban |
| Political Science | Introduction to Public Policy | 73100 | Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Krinsky |
Policy |
| Political Science |
Global inequality: Measurement, analysis, and political implications |
73908 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Milanovic |
Global |
| Psychology | Critical Discourse Theory and Analysis |
TBD |
Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Daiute |
Theory |
| Linguistics | Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism |
86100 | Wednesday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Martohardjono |
Linguistics |
| Music | Seminar in Ethnomusicology: Spanish Caribbean Musical Cultures in the Caribbean and New York |
88400 | Monday 10:00am-1:00pm Prof. Lapidus |
Ethnomusicology |
| Music | Seminar in Ethnomusicology: (Ethno)musicology and Social Theory |
83500 | Wednesday 10:00am-1:00pm Prof. Sugarman |
Ethnomusicology |
| Sociology | Quantitative Research Methods |
81900 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Porter |
Methods |
| Sociology | Global Social Stratification |
74400 | Monday 11:45am-1:45pm Prof. Steele |
Stratification |
| Sociology | Government & Politics of New York City |
82800 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Mollenkopf |
Urban politics |
| Sociology | Ethnography, Methods & Research Design |
81200 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Smith |
Methods |
| Sociology | Social Policy and Socio-Economic Outcomes in Industrialized Countries |
82800 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Gornick |
Policy |
| Sociology | Islamophobia in America | 82907 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Bilici |
Religion |
| Sociology | Urban Sociology | 72500 | Thursday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Ocejo |
Urban |
| Sociology | Asian Americans | 85800 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Min |
Ethnicity |
| Sociology | Spatial Demography | 81900 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Balk |
Methods |
| MALS | The Political Ecology of Social and Environmental Justice |
72700 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Imamichi |
Justice |
| MALS | Introduction to Caribbean Studies | 78500 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Etoke |
Caribbean studies |
| MALS | Introduction to Latin American Studies | 78400 |
Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Skurski |
Latin American studies |
IMS 70000 International Migration (3 credits) Professor Philip Kasinitz. Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm.
This course offers an overview of the key current topics and issues in the burgeoning field of international migration. The course will aspire to incorporate the experiences of major immigrant-receiving countries around the world, but the main comparative focus will be on Europe and North America, where the major theories and key concepts are most fully developed. The course emphasis is on exploring both the theoretical debates in the field and the empirical data and case studies on which these debates hinge. Attention will be paid to detailed discussions of “classic” issues of immigration, such as assimilation, incorporation/integration, the labor market, race and ethnic relations, gender and the family, transnationalism, the second generation, and nativism/host hostility. Throughout, the course will take into account the way in which migrant-receiving cities, as contexts of reception, affect the immigrant experience, and in turn, are transformed by immigrants.
Spring 2021 Course Offerings
| Department | Course title | Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
| IMS | Global Immigrant Cities | 70100 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Van Tran |
| IMS | Migration Policy | 70200 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Els de Graauw |
| IMS | Capstone | 79000 |
| Department |
Course title |
Course number |
Schedule/Instructor |
Topic |
| Anthropology | Anthropology and Media |
70900 | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Christa Salamandra |
Media analysis |
| Anthropology | Latin America: Sources and Methods (Spanish required) |
740000 | Tuesday 9:30-11:30am Marc Edelman |
Latin America/Cultural Anthropology |
| Anthropology | The Caribbean & the Black Atlantic |
741000 |
Wednesday 2-4pm Julie Skurski |
Global perspectives |
| Anthropology |
Cultural Property/Heritage/Rights |
84400 |
Tuesday 11:45am-1:45pm Alexander Bauer |
Cultural rights |
| LAILAC |
La frontera México-Estados Unidos en la imaginación neoliberal: Comunidades sacrificiales, geopolítica, militarización y guerra |
87100 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Oswaldo Zavala |
Mexico-US relations |
| LAILAC | Language & Identity | 80000 |
Monday 2-4pm Cecilia Cutler |
Theorizing language |
| LAILAC | Transatlantic Polemics and the Panhispanic Cultural Field |
80100 | Tuesday 11:45am-1:45pm Jose del Valle |
Global perspectives |
| LAILAC |
Theorizing the Border in Latin@ America |
87100 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Vanessa Perez Rosario |
Border theories |
| History | Policing and Police Forces in Transnational Contexts |
72600 | Thursday 11:45am-1:45pm Mark Lewis |
Global law enforcement |
| Sociology | Sociology of Work & Inequality | 74100 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Ruth Milkman |
Labor |
| Sociology | Intersectionality in the Social Sciences | 83100 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Leslie McCall |
Analytical approaches |
| Sociology | Producing Sociological Theory: The Role of Gendered Colonialsm, Culture and Revolution in Bourdieu’s Theory |
80000 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Marnia Lazreg |
Theory |
| Sociology | Sociology of New York City | 82301 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm David Halle |
Urban |
| Sociology | Race & Ethnicity | 85800 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Philip Kasinitz |
Race/ethnicity |
| Sociology | Deportation & Ethnographic Immigration | 81500 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm David Brotherton |
Deportation |
| Sociology | Applied Qualitative Research | 81005 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Juan Battle |
Methods |
| Sociology |
Applied Spatial Econometrics | 81900 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Jeremy Porter |
Methods |
| Political Science | The Rules: International Law and International Relations Approaches to Global Issues | 76404 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Stephanie Golob |
International Relations |
| Political Science | Participatory Democracy and Social Movements | 73904 | Tuesday 11:45-1:45pm Celina Su |
Social Movements |
| Political Science | International Intervention and Domestic Consequences | 87800 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm Susan Woodward |
Domestic Issues |
| Political Science | Race and Ethnic Politics | 82601 | Wednesday 2-4pm Charles Tien |
Race and Ethnicity |
| Political Science | International Political Economy | 76300 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Michael Lee |
International Relations |
| Political Science | Comparative Foreign Policy: Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy | 86105 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner |
Domestic Issues |
| Political Science | Power, Resistance, Identities, and Social Mvoements | 72410 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Ruth O'Brien |
Social Movements |
Fall 2020 Course Offerings
| Required IMS Classes | Course title | Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
| IMS | International Migration | 70000 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Foner/Alba |
| IMS | Research Methods in International Migration | 71100 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Jamie Longazel |
| IMS | Capstone | 79000 |
Department |
Course title |
Course number |
Schedule/Instructor |
Topic |
| Anthropology | Migration Labor and Walls |
80700 |
Monday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Ismael Garcia-Colon |
Labor |
| EES | The Rise of the New Right |
79903 |
Monday 2-4pm Prof. Monica Varsanyi |
Political movements |
| Spanish | Glottopolitical Approaches to Latin America | 80000 | Tuesday 11:45am-1:45pm Prof. José del Valle |
Latin America |
| History | Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists and Humanists |
78500 | Thursday 4:15-6:15 pm Prof. Laird Bergad |
Methods |
| Political Science |
Basic Theories & Concepts in International Relations |
76000 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. George Andreopoulos |
Theory |
| Political Science | Neo-Fascism: From the New Right to the Alt-Right |
71908 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Richard Wolin |
Political Movements |
| Political Science | The United Nations and Changing World Politics |
76203 | Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Thomas Weiss |
Global Politics |
| Political Science | Global Political Theory | 80607 | Wednesday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Uday Mehta |
Theory |
| Psychology | The Politics and Psychology of Belonging and Exclusion in Contemporary Global Systems |
80103 |
Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Colette Daiute |
Psychology and Human Rights |
| Sociology | Computer Mapping for LA & NY, and Global Cities GIS with Mapinfo: Basic and Advanced Techniques | 82301 |
Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. David Halle |
Methods |
| Sociology | Population Dynamics and Climate Change | 72200 |
Monday 4:15-6:15pm Prof. Deborah Balk |
Global Demography |
| Sociology | Social Movements in Latin America |
85600 |
Thursday 2:00-4:00pm Prof. Jack Hammond |
Social Movements |
| Sociology | Ethnography of Public Policy |
82800 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm Profs. Mollenkopf/Smith |
Methods |
| Sociology | Quantitative Research Methods |
81900 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Jeremy Porter |
Methods |
| Sociology | New Immigrants and their Religion |
82800 | Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Min |
Religion |
| Sociology | Spatial Analysis of Social Data | 81900 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm Prof. Jeremy Porter |
Methods |
Spring 2020 Course Offerings
| Required IMS Classes | Course Title | Instructor | Schedule |
| IMS 70100 | Global Immigrant Cities | David Halle | Monday 6:30-8:30pm |
| IMS 70200 | Migration Policy | Jamie Longazel | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm |
| IMS 79000 | Capstone Project |
Global Immigrant Cities (3 credits). This course asks the question of how various migrant-receiving global cities experience, respond to, and are transformed by the changing composition of their ethnic populations. Looking at several European, North American, Latin American, and Asian cities, it will explore their histories of ethnic and racial difference; the ways in which their ideologies about diversity, pluralism, and multiculturalism have evolved and changed over time; the extent to which they incorporate (or do not incorporate) their migrants; and the different economic, cultural, and political impacts that migration has had on these global immigrant cities. The main focus will be on international comparison, and students will be trained in the use of comparative perspectives to illustrate similarities and differences between cities. Global immigrant cities are crucial research sites for exploring the possibility of going “beyond” the nation-state-society focus of most mainstream American research. Also, while opening the door to a crucial dimension of globalization, the comparative study of migration opens up a fresh comparative and international perspective on the urban experience. Taking advantage of our location and extensive local knowledge, the course will use New York as the basis of comparison with other major global cities, such as Los Angeles, Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Toronto, Shanghai, and Buenos Aires.
Migration Policy (3 credits). The class will address how law and politics shape migration policy in an international comparative framework. It will cover some of the main themes in migration policy historically as well as how legal migration regimes come about. It will look specifically at documented versus unauthorized migration and the role of civil society actors such as community organizations and ethnic groups in making migration policy. Other topics will include how nations decide who can and cannot migrate, how citizenship is established, what factors shape policies and their implementation, the increased role of municipalities in making policy towards immigrants, refugee resettlement, and immigrant integration and deportation.
This is a non-exhaustive list of elective courses offered in Spring 2020. Course offerings are subject to change. IMS students wishing to take other classes should consult with the Program Director.
| Electives | Course Title | Instructor | Schedule | Topic |
| SPAN 80000 | Todo nuevo bajo el sol. Re-Shaping Spanish Identity at the End of the 20th Century |
Alvaro Fernandez | Monday 4:15-6:15pm |
Latin America |
| PSC 89101 | Applied Quantitative Research: Correlation, Comparison, Causality | Till Weber | Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm |
Methods |
| PSC 89301 | Advanced Qualitative Methods | Samantha Majic | Monday 4:15-6:15pm |
Methods |
| PSC 89300 | Regression Analysis | Charles Tien | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm |
Methods |
| PSC 73903 | Social Policy and Socio-Economic Outcomes in Industrialized Countries | Janet Gornick | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Public Policy |
| SOC 83300 | The Ties that Bind: Family Demography in a Global Context | Jessica Halliday Hardie | Monday 2:00-4:00pm |
Family |
| SOC 82800 | Refugees & Forced Migration | Juan Battle | Monday 4:15-6:15pm |
Migration |
| SOC 82800 | Immigrant Communities & Politics in New York City | John Mollenkopf | Monday 4:15-6:15pm |
NYC Immigration |
| SOC 81100 | Comparative Sociological Methods | John Torpey | Tuesday 2:00-4:00pm |
Methods |
| SOC 85800 | Race & Ethnicity | Philip Kasinitz | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Race/Ethnicity |
| SOC 81500 | Deportation & Ethnographic Immigration | David Brotherton | Tuesday 6:30-8:30pm |
Methods |
| SOC 72200 | Immigration and Health | Anahi Viladrich | Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Health |
| SOC 85200 | Transnational Social Movements | Carolina Bank Munoz | Thursday 2:00-4:00pm |
Global |
| HIST 76900 | Labor and U.S. Empire in the Americas | Eduardo Contreras | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm |
Global |
| EES 79903 | Critical Geographies of Human Rights | Jean Carmalt | Monday 2:00-4:00pm |
Global |
| SOC 85000 | Foundations of Legal Thought: Theory & Practice of Justice | Leslie Paik | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Legal |
Fall 2019 Course Offerings
| Required IMS Classes | Course title | Course Number |
Schedule/Instructor |
| IMS | International Migration | 82800 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm Foner/Alba |
| IMS | Research Methods in International Migration | 81100 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm Phil Kasinitz |
This is a non-exhaustive list of elective courses offered in Fall 2019. Course offerings are subject to change. IMS students wishing to take other classes should consult with the Program Director.
| PRE Approved IMS Classes |
Course title |
Course Number |
Schedule |
Topic |
| Anthropology | Revolution & Counter Revolution in Latin America | 73300 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Latin America |
| Anthropology | Anthro of Mid-East & Indian Ocean | 73900 | Friday 11:15-12:15pm |
Mid-East/Asia |
| EES | (Im)migration & the State | 79903 | Tuesday 2-4pm |
Immigration |
| Spanish | Contemporary Spanish & Mexican Cinema & Television | 87000 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm |
Latin America |
| Urban Education | Quantitative Research Methods in Urban Education | 74100 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm |
Methods |
| History | History of US Labor & Capitalism | 75500 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm |
History |
| History | Rural History of Latin America & Caribbean | 77300 | Thursday 4:15-6:15pm |
History |
| Political Science | Urban Politics & Policy | 72500 | Monday 6:30-8:30pm |
Politics of inequality |
| Political Science | Comparative Politics & International Migration | 87609 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm |
Migration |
| Political Science | Public policy | 83502 | Monday 4:15-6:15pm |
Urban studies core seminar II |
| Sociology Department Electives | Course Title | Course Number | Schedule | Instructor |
| Soc | Gender & Globalization | 73200 | Monday 2:00-4:00pm |
Eisenstein |
| Soc | Immigrant New York | 82800 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Tran |
| Soc | Computer Mapping LA, NY & Global Cities | 82301 | Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm |
Halle |
| Soc | Voices of the City: accessibility, reciprocity, and self-representation in place-based community research |
82905 | Thursday 2-4pm |
Hum/ Kanakamedala |
| Soc | Doing Visual Research | 81500 | Tuesday 4:15-6:15pm |
Luttrell |
| Soc | Geo Social Demography & Demography of the Disadvantage | 81100 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm |
Porter |
| Soc | Ethnography Methods & Research Design | 81200 | Thursday 6:30-8:30pm |
Smith |
