The Colleges of the Fenway Shared Minor in Migration Studies is offered through Emmanuel College and Simmons University. Students across the COF may participate in the minor through cross-registration. The minor addresses an urgent need to prepare undergraduate students for professional and civic lives in a world increasingly marked by diversity. The program enhances student understandings of migration, emigration, and immigration through strong scholarly foundations, interdisciplinary case studies, and engagement with the Boston community. Students minoring in migration studies will grapple with important questions about diversity and what it means to live in a “country of immigrants,” while enhancing their global awareness.
Students planning careers in business, education, social work, health care, the arts, policy and government, law, nongovernmental organizations, and nonprofit administration (to name just a few fields) likely will come from, work with, and/or serve immigrant communities. By adding an interdisciplinary repertoire of courses specifically addressing immigration to their undergraduate careers, students will be well positioned to succeed in these fields and to bring a comprehensive understanding of migration and immigration to their professional and civic lives.
Requirements
Migration Studies minors will be required to take:
One Required Course: Introduction to Migration Studies: Offered annually in Spring, rotating instructors, rotating campuses. All students must take “Introduction to Migration Studies,” an introductory-level course (1000-level at Emmanuel, 100-level at Simmons, etc.) familiarizing students with the major issues, methods, and frameworks of migration and immigration studies.
One Required Experiential Learning Component. This could take the shape of a service-learning class (eg; SOC101) or a supervised internship (eg; HU370), and will be worked out in consultation with the student’s Migration Studies home-campus advisor according to guidelines developed by the Migration Studies faculty. Students may “double dip” experiential learning courses taken towards their majors if the service/internship entails significant work with an immigrant community or with an organization primarily focused on issues related to migration, immigration, or immigrant communities. Draft guidelines and petition forms are available upon request.
Three electives from the list of approved classes. (Attached.) Electives are subject to the following requirements:
- At least one course must be taken away from the student’s home institution within the COF.
- Students must take at least one advanced seminar (3000-level at Emmanuel, 300-level at Simmons, etc.), selected from the list of approved courses.
- Students must take one elective not in her/their declared major’s discipline.
For more information, contact Information:
- Violetta Ravagnoli and Jeff Fortin, History, Emmanuel
- Franny Sullivan, History, Simmons
- Lisong Liu, Liberal Arts, MassArt