For the second year, the Institute for Ethnic Studies will offer to graduate students from all departments the opportunity to take a one-week, one-credit-hour graduate course with our Visiting Distinguished Fellow.
This year, our Visiting Distinguished Fellow is Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante, associate professor of Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.
https://journalism.arizona.edu/users/celeste-gonz%C3%A1lez-de-bustamante
She'll offer the following course from September 18 to 22, 2017.
ETHN 890: Critical Issues in U.S. & Global Society: Race, Social Justice, & Inequality
Defining the US-Mexico Borderlands: Media, Geography, and Social Justice
One-credit, one-week-only graduate seminar. The course will concentrate on moral geography and other concepts to examine constructions and perceptions of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and migration, and how journalism and entertainment media in the past and present influence public perception and policies related to the region. The course will be valuable for students interested in issues related to migration, media, geography and social justice.
18-22 September
MWF 8:00-10:20 a.m.
RT 8:00 to 10:45 a.m.
111 Andrews Hall
Enrollment is limited, and we anticipate high demand.