Brown University
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The Certificate in Migration Studies promotes a multidisciplinary understanding of migration and competency in a range of research methodologies. It accomplishes these goals by linking students to diverse learning resources spread across departments and centers at Brown University, and by building community among students and faculty with shared interests in migration, immigration, and the immigrant experience. The program places particular emphasis on research methods, research experience, and rigorous approaches to the study of migration. The required introductory course covers the central features, concepts and foci of international migrations studies, and the two elective courses selected from the lists of preapproved courses expose students to diverse substantive concerns and disciplinary approaches. A required methods course from a list of preapproved courses exposes students to methods beyond their concentration requirements.
As with all undergraduate certificates (https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/undergraduatecertificates/), students may only have one declared concentration and must be enrolled in or have completed at least two courses toward the certificate at the time they declare in ASK, which must be no later than the last day of classes of the antepenultimate (typically the sixth) semester.
There are no excluded concentrations.
Certificate Requirements:
| Course work in Migration Studies: | ||
| SOC 0315 | International Migration | 1 |
| One of the following: | 1 | |
| AMST 1611A | Making America: Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigrant/Ethnic Literature | |
| ETHN 1750A | Immigrant Social Movements: Bridging Theory and Practice | |
| SOC 1128 | Migrants, Refugees and the Mediterranean | |
| SOC 1281 | Migration in the Americas | |
| SOC 1155 | Borderlands | |
| One course from the following: | 1 | |
| ANTH 1225 | Gendering Migration and Diasporas | |
| FREN 1410T | L'experience des refugies: deplacements, migrations | |
| HIST 0150D | Refugees: A Twentieth-Century History | |
| HIST 0577B | The US-Mexico Border and Borderlands: A Bilingual English-Spanish Seminar | |
| HIST 2971P | Diaspora, Displacement, Transnationalism | |
| LACA 1503W | Migration and Gender in Latin America: Crossing Borders and Bridging Disciplines | |
| LACA 1503Y | Latin America in Motion: Migration and Crisis in the Post-globalization Era | |
| LACA 1503X | Regulating Bodies: Migration, Race, and Colonial Legacies in Central America | |
| POLS 1824S | The Politics of Migration | |
| SOC 0030 | Race, Immigration, and the Making of Inequality | |
| SOC 1128 | Migrants, Refugees and the Mediterranean | |
| SOC 1281 | Migration in the Americas | |
| SOC 1450 | Unstable Times: Migration, Identity and Societal Integration | |
| SOC 2320 | Migration | |
| One methods course (that is not a requirement for your concentration): | 1 | |
| ANTH 1201 | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis | |
| ANTH 1940 | Ethnographic Research Methods | |
| APMA 1650 | Introduction to Probability and Statistics with Calculus | |
| APMA 1660 | Statistical Inference II | |
| ECON 1000 | Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems | |
| ECON 1620 | Introduction to Econometrics | |
| ECON 1629 | Applied Research Methods for Economists | |
| ECON 1660 | Big Data | |
| ECON 1680 | Machine Learning, Text Analysis, and Economics | |
| EDUC 1230 | Applied Statistics for Ed Research and Policy Analysis | |
| EDUC 1240 | Qualitative Methods | |
| POLS 1600 | Political Research Methods | |
| PHP 1501 | Essentials of Data Analysis | |
| PHP 1510 | Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis | |
| PHP 1560 | Using R for Data Analysis | |
| PHP 1511 | Applied Regression Analysis | |
| SOC 1020 | Methods of Social Research | |
| SOC 1100 | Introductory Statistics for Social Research | |
| SOC 1117 | Focus Groups for Market and Social Research | |
| SOC 1260 | Market Research in Public and Private Sectors | |
| SOC 1340 | Principles and Methods of Geographic Information Systems | |
| SOC 1118 | Context Research for Innovation | |
| SOC 1120 | Market and Social Surveys | |
| SOC 1872N | Ethnography in Organizations | |
| Capstone Thesis, Project or Experiential Learning in Migration Studies: Students have available a number of opportunities for hands-on experience in migration research, either through a senior project or thesis that is completed for a concentration requirement, participation in a faculty research project, or an internship or volunteer work with an immigrant service organization. | 1 | |
| (i) Students who undertake a senior project or thesis for their concentration are required to have a migration related topic as the central focus of the project or thesis. Proposals for projects/theses will need program approval for migration content. | ||
| (ii) Students in the certificate program have opportunities to participate in faculty research projects with a focus on migration. These opportunities are available on a limited basis and are contingent on project needs and faculty approval. | ||
| (iii) Students may opt to complete an internship or volunteer with a community organization that primarily serves immigrant communities. | ||
| Course credit for a thesis or project should be arranged through the student's concentration. Course credit for participation in faculty research, an internship or community service is optional and can be arranged as a faculty directed independent study. | ||
| Total Credits | 5 |