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Feeling a visit to the concrete jungle that dreams are made of where theres nothing you cant do? NEW YORK Study Away: The Immigrant Experience June 7-July 5, International House, 500 Riverside Dr, NYC Professor Kenneth Harrow Information Session: Thursday, December 4 – 4pm – 120 Linton Hall This program is built around the immigrant experience in New York. The courses will explore cinemas and literatures that represent the immigrant experiences. The filmmakers’ and authors’ works represent the diaspora lives which engaged the values of multiculturalism, globalization, and difference or otherness. We will study the basic issues confronting the immigrants coming to New York in the 20th century, and what it meant to be considered other or different from the mainstream. The cosmopolitan spaces of New York were peopled by immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Eastern Europe, the Asian subcontinent, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Africa. We include African American fiction and films as the Great Migration north in the early part of the 20th century also defined the city. This courses will focus on issues of diaspora, immigration, cultural integration, and forms of otherness in a modernist or globalized economy, and will situate those works within the urban sensibility and world that constitutes New York. We will also have regular outings to those parts of the city that reflect the various cultures in the city, and study the neighborhoods and architecture. Excursions to a number of museums, and famous landmarks like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty will be included in the program. Students will enroll in 8 credits including course options in IAH, GSAH and ENG. RSVP: events.cal.msu.edu/registrations/add/afffcdfa
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:56:18 +0000

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