2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Dec 03, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

SSJ 383 - 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.

Formerly IDCE 383. Students who have already passed IDCE 383 cannot receive credit for SSJ 383 and should not take this course.

Prerequisites: A Qualitative Research Methods class, such as:
IDCE 30285   - Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
IDCE 30283   - Qualitative & Quantitative Research Methods: Intermediate
IDCE 30290   - Participatory Research Methods
SSJ 30291   or IDCE 30291 - Qualitative Research Design and Methods
PSYC 306   - Qualitative/Interpretive Methods

Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall