The final interview transcript and analytical reflection is due
Thursday, April 26,
before class
commences
.
You must upload your project to Turnitin before class begins and bring a hard copy
to class
.
No late interview projects will be accepted.
More details are provided at the end of the
syllabus
.
**An alternative assignment is available for students who wish to volunteer with JEP. An
announcement will be made in class. Students in the past find this service-learning experience to
be intellectually stimulating and personally rewarding.
Note:
Please be aware that any papers, assignments or exams handed in after the due date will
not be accepted or graded.
Appealing Your Grade
If you feel that an evaluation of an assignment or exam does not fairly reflect its quality and you
wish for the professor to reconsider it, you will need to submit: 1) your graded assignment and 2)
a typed memo explaining point by point why you believe the grade you received does not
accurately reflect the quality of your work given the requirements of the assignment. You must
submit these items to the Professor’s mailbox (not your TA) within
one week
of the date the
graded assignment was handed back to you. Please note that if you ask the professor to
reevaluate your work, your new grade may increase, stay the same or be lower than the original
grade. Keep all returned work in the event that you have a grade dispute. If you cannot provide a
copy of the returned and graded work, the grade in the grade book stands.
Extra Credit –
There will be extra credit opportunities announced over the course of the
semester. These opportunities typically include attending campus events related to immigration
issues. You must sign in at the event and write a 1 page summary of the event and how it relates
to the class. Your write-up is due in your TA’s mailbox by one week after the event. You may
earn two extra credit points.
Required Texts
–
Vallejo, Jody Agius. 2012. Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican-American Middle
Class. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.
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Waters, Mary C. 1999. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Weintraub, Eric. 2015.
Dreams of an American Exile
. Black Hill Press.
$12.00 paperback, $4.00 Kindle, via Amazon
Optional Texts—Required chapters from these texts will be uploaded to Blackboard
Massey, Douglas, Durand, Jorge and Nolan Malone. 2003.
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican
Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration
. New York: Russell Sage Foundation
Lee, Jennifer, and Min Zhou. 2015.
The Asian American Achievement Paradox.
New York:
Russell Sage Foundation.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
: Links to peer reviewed journal articles are included when
available or they will be uploaded to Blackboard if no links are available.
