Spring 2027

The Literature of Migration and the Migrant Experience in the Americas

Explores literature to understand representations and experiences of migration within the United States and the Americas, employing historical and psychoanalytic approaches.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.83 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.54 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Evaluate literature in its relationship to migration by means of various communicative, deliberative, and persuasive argumentation.

  • Identify in literature historical patterns of migration within the US and the Americas and their importance to understand current national culture and tensions.

  • Understand through literature concepts and theories and apply them to the interpretation of literature across cultures.

  • Recognize, analyze, and evaluate in literature the intersections between culture and other socially meaningful categories, such as race, class, gender, identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they are represented within literature .

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.85 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.83 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.54 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Relationships between literature, art, and migration.
  • The role of migrants in constructing the United States.
  • The role of art and literature in empowering marginalized groups.
  • Intersections between culture and social categories like race, class, gender, and identity in literature.

Skills

  • Critically analyzing artistic and literary representations of the migrant experience using tools of literary analysis.
  • Evaluating literature in relation to migration through communicative, deliberative, and persuasive argumentation.
  • Identifying historical patterns of migration in the US and Americas and their relevance to current national culture.
  • Applying concepts and theories from literature to interpret works across cultures.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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