2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Mar 05, 2026

2024-2025 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ID 283 - Cultures of Exile

This course explores both the concept and context of exile in the contemporary world from the perspective of those who experience it, create cultural artefacts about those experiences, and contribute to transformations–small and large–of the communities and cultures that shape their identity in exile. The course analyzes how race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, age, ability, citizenship, nationality, or ethnicity may frame an experience of exile in specific ways. While the course draws on social science analyses of exile, home, belonging, diaspora, transnationalism, and so forth, special emphasis will be given to narratives created by exiles themselves that explore these concepts.

Capstone eligible seminar.

Prerequisites: A Qualitative Research Methods class, such as:
ID 132 - Methods of Inquiry: Applied interdisciplinary approaches for social change
GEOG 255 - Critical Geopolitics and the Environment
GEOG 141 - Research Design and Methods in Geography
PSYC 109 - Qualitative Methods in Psychology
SOC 202 - Social Research Process
UDSC 245 - Going Local: Community Development and Planning

Course Designation/Attribute: GP, DI

Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall