Immigration Studies Minor

Location(s): University Downtown Center

The Department of Human Development in the College of Community and Public Affairs offers a minor in Immigration Studies. The objective of this interdisciplinary minor is to grapple with the complex and multiple ways in which citizenship is defined and experienced at global, societal, institutional, community, and individual levels. The key focus is on the effect of contemporary conceptualizations of citizenship and their translation into policies and everyday practices on the lives of those deemed immigrants, refugees, or the displaced. The minor applies a social justice and rights-based philosophy to examine citizenship, immigration, emigration, and immigrant lives in transnational, national, and local contexts. A key emphasis of the minor is to explore the intersectionality of discourses on belonging, justice, and displacement in various global, national, and localized contexts. The requirements for the Human Development minor in Immigration Studies are as follows:

Coure Requirements

Students should study at least six courses, including four core courses and two elective courses.

Core Coursework

The four core courses will be taken within the Department of Human Development from the following list of five courses:

HDEV 361 - Global Migration Flows & Procs
HDEV 379 - Migration, Citznshp & Humn Rts
HDEV 404 - Migration Gendr & Human Rights
HDEV 465 - Researching Immigrant Lives
HDEV 475 - Practicum In Human Development (This course requires a 100-hour internship that must be focused on immigrant populations)

Electives

The two electives will be selected from courses focusing on immigration and immigrant-related issues and may be taken outside the Department of Human Development. Courses in the following departments: history, sociology, geography, English, Africana studies, Latin American and Caribbean area studies, and Asian and Asian American studies are applicable for elective courses for the immigration studies minor. The Department of Human Development must approve the courses.

The first elective course will focus on immigration/immigrants with a historical emphasis.
The second elective will be a course that focuses in-depth on one specific immigrant community, population, or context.

Additional Requirements

If students are interested in the Human Development minor in Immigration Studies, they should contact the Department Academic Advisor.
For participation in the Human Development minor in Immigration Studies, a student must have declared a major (HDEV or other) and completed at least 56 credits.
For human development students, at least four of six courses for the Immigration Studies minor must be in addition to courses counted toward fulfillment of the human development major.
For students outside of Human Development, at least four of the six courses for the Immigration Studies minor must be in addition to courses counted toward fulfilling the student’s major.
At least four of the six courses for the Immigration Studies minor must be completed at Binghamton University.
Courses for the minor in Immigration Studies must be completed with a grade of C or better. These courses may not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.