Open to students of all disciplines, the minor fills a need to raise awareness and understanding of the growing refugee population in the United States in general and in Idaho in particular. For those who want to work with the refugee community, the minor provides essential and practical tools to accomplish that goal.
Minor in Interdisciplinary Refuge Studies Courses| Courses | Credits |
|---|---|
| Take at least 1 of the following: HIST310 – Forced To Flee: Refugees in European History (3) HIST320 – Global Diaspora: Refugees in the Modern World (3) | 3 |
| Take at least 1 of the following: REFUGEE407 – Principles of Refugee Resettlement (3) SOCWRK407 – Principles of Refugee Resettlement (3) | 3 |
| Take at least 4 of the following: ANTH306 – Kinship and Social Organization (3) ANTH425 – Medical Anthropology: Disease, Culture, and Healing (3) CJ103 – Introduction to Law and Justice (FS) (3) COMM351 – Intercultural Communication (3) CONFLICT405 – Culture and Conflict (3) ECON315 – Global Economic Development (3) ED-LLC201 – Cultural Diversity in the School (3) EOHS230 – Healthy Environments, Healthy People (2) GENDER200 – Intro to Gender Studies (3) GEOG200 – The Global Neighborhood (FS) (3) HCS216 – Literature and Global Consciousness (3) HCS396 – Postcolonial Literature (3) HIST310 – Forced To Flee: Refugees in European History (3) HIST320 – Global Diaspora: Refugees in the Modern World (3) LING305 – Introduction to Language Studies (3) LING317 – Second Language Acquisition (3) LING321 – Introduction to Sociolinguistics (3) LING327 – Applied Linguistics in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (3) POLS306 – International Relations: Actors, Interactions, and Methods (3) POLS421 – International Law and Organization (3) PSYC219 – Cross-cultural Psychology (3) PSYC419 – Children and Families: Multicultural Perspectives (3) SOC230 – Introduction to Ethnic Studies (FS) (3) SOC305 – Racial and Cultural Minorities (3) Note: HIST310 and HIST320 may only be taken once for credit | 11 – 12 |
| Take at least 3 credits from a 493 Internship: Working with Refugees Each participating department will coordinate its interns and use its own prefix Eg. SOC 493, etc. | 3 |
| Total: | 20 – 21 |
For more information contact your advisor or the history department chair at 426-1255