Fall 2020 - GEOG 382 D100
World on the Move (4)
Class Number: 4102
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 9 – Dec 8, 2020: Mon, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
May Farrales
mfarrale@sfu.ca
778-782-2366
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Prerequisites:
At least 45 units, including GEOG 100.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
The world is on the move. Migrants seeking better opportunities cross paths with refugees fleeing persecution. Some are helped and welcomed, many encounter barriers and threats, while identities, including class, race, gender, sexuality, mediate their prospects. This course's geographic perspective clarifies these complexities by combining conceptual analyses with contemporary cases.
COURSE DETAILS:
This course offers a critical overview of contemporary international migration, movement, and mobility of people. As the global migration and movement of people stirs up different concerns and controversies over borders, belonging, and boundaries, the course provides students with a set of critical tools and approaches to understand the complexities of contemporary global migration. We will move from examining (im)migration issues in Canada to the global forces, factors, and forms of migration. In particular, we will think through ways that migration and movement can be understood from the settler colonial relations and place we are situated in – the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Using anti-racist and anti-colonial frameworks to understand contemporary migration issues, we will examine how global migration works within the context of colonial and capitalist nation-building projects.
Remote Learning
Lectures will be held asynchronously, with an optional discussion/Q&A period during the first hour of the scheduled lecture time. Tutorials will be held synchronously. Mandatory attendance in tutorials is not required.
No Tutorials in the first week of class
Grading
- Class Engagement Activities: 10%
- Tutorial Presentation: 15%
- Personal Story Map: 30%
- Midterm Exam (Asynchronous): 25%
- Opinion Editorial Piece: 20%
NOTES:
Grading Scale:
A+ [90% and above]
A [85 - 89.99%]
A- [80 - 84.99%]
B+ [77- 79.99%]
B [73 - 76.99%]
B- [70 - 72.99%]
C+ [67 - 69.99%]
C [63% - 66.99%]
C- [60 - 62.99%]
D [50 - 59.99%]
F(ail) [49.99% and below]
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
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TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2020
Teaching at SFU in fall 2020 will be conducted primarily through remote methods. There will be in-person course components in a few exceptional cases where this is fundamental to the educational goals of the course. Such course components will be clearly identified at registration, as will course components that will be “live” (synchronous) vs. at your own pace (asynchronous). Enrollment acknowledges that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes. To ensure you can access all course materials, we recommend you have access to a computer with a microphone and camera, and the internet. In some cases your instructor may use Zoom or other means requiring a camera and microphone to invigilate exams. If proctoring software will be used, this will be confirmed in the first week of class.
Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need class or exam accommodations, including in the current context of remote learning, are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112).