DGS 166 - Immigration Law and the Rights of Non-Citizens

5 Credits

From a global perspective, this course will survey the contemporary and historical immigration issues with respect to race, gender, religion and human rights. The course will focus on the impact of substantive and procedural laws including (1) Local, regional, global and socioeconomic integration and interdependence as dictated by immigration law; (2) Societal/cultural group contributions to legal theory or systems; (3)Institutional oppression and dominant group privilege as dictated by immigration law and policy; (4) Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination and its influence and impact on immigration law; (5) The social construction of law; (6) Skills for confronting biased treatment and advocating for justice; and (7) Dynamics of intercultural or inter-societal conflict and conflict resolution.

Course Note cross list with Legal 166
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Summer Online

Winter Day

Designed to Serve Students interested in Immigration and Legal Issues; satisfies Social Science Area 1 distribution and DGS requirement
Active Date 2011-06-13

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 38
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 55 Lab 0 Field Studies 0 Clinical 0 Independent Studies 0
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
AA

Diversity & Globalism
Social Science Area I

Course Outline
1. An overview of the legal system 2. A history of immigration and immigration law 3. Temporary statuses 4. Avenues to permanent residence 5. Citizenship 6. Asylum/Refugee status 7. The Diversity Visa 8. Matters related to undocumented aliens and workers 9. Matters related to undocumented children 10. The impact of legal and illegal immigration 11. Comparative immigration law

Student Learning Outcomes
Analyze substantive law as it impacts race, gender, culture and human rights.

Apply legal history perspectives in the cocnext of race, gender, culture and human rights

Analyze and apply the dynamics of intercultural and inter-societal conflict and conflict resolution

Articulate the power and limits of law with respect to issues of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

Recognize and analyze biased treatment of non-citizens and non-residents at a community level.

Develop and apply skills for advocacy for justice for disenfranchised non-citizens/non-residents.

Articulate a global perspective with regard to issues of race, gender, culture and human rights.