- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Cities and Immigrants. Social Studies and Public Image 4016-CISPI-OG
1. Introduction and overview
2. Cities and urban life reader, ch. 3 The development of North American cities, ch. 11 Race, ethnicity and gender: urban diversity
3. Helmreich William, New York Nobody Knows. Walking 6000 Miles (BUW online)
4. Sugar (2008)
Foner, Nancy. One Out of Three : Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, New York : Columbia University Press. 2013
5. Zukin, Sharon, Philip Kasinitz, and Xiangming Chen. Global Cities, Local Streets : Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai. Routledge, 2016
6. Kim, Jinwon. “Manhattan’s Koreatown as a Transclave: The Emergence of a New Ethnic Enclave in a Global City.” City & Community 17, no. 1 (March 2018): 276–95. doi:10.1111/cico.12276
7. The Big Sick (2017)
Mollenkopf, John, Philip Kasinitz, and Mary Waters. “Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York ; Version 1,” 2011
8. Waters, Mary C., and Philip Kasinitz. “Immigrants in New York City: Reaping the Benefits of Continuous Immigration.” Daedalus 142, no. 3 (Summer 2013): 92. doi:10.1162/DAED_a_00221
9. The Visitor (2007)
Foner Nancy, Foner, Nancy. New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape, New York: NYU Press. 2014
10. The Immigrant (2014)
The Polish peasant in Europe and America: a classic work in immigration history / William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki ; ed. by Eli Zaretsky
11. Park, Burgess, fragments from Urban Sociology Reader
Peasant Maids, City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America Paperback, 1997 edited by Christiane Harzig
12. Wirth Louis, The ghetto, with a new introduction by Hasia R. Diner, New Brunswick, London: Transaction Publishers, 1998
13. The Irishman (2019)
14. Museum of the City of New York, Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Tenement Museum in NYC versus Chicago History Museum, National Museum of Mexican Art, DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago
Type of course
Learning outcomes
1. KNOWLEDGE: Detailed knowledge in the field selected for the research on immigrants in urban environment
2. SKILLS: Formulating research problem; Preparing literature review; understanding and applying research methods; Critical analysis of primary sources; Writing text in a style and format of an academic article.
3. SOCIAL COMPETENCES: presenting academic texts; presenting one's research results; expressing constructive and polite opinions on someone else's research.
Assessment criteria
Inspired by the methods and following the structure of the discussed studies, the students prepare a research paper. In the second part of the semester, they conduct a research and prepare a research paper. The research should concern a selected aspect of immigration preferably in New York City, Chicago or Warsaw. The research methods can include: observation, in-depth interviews, survey, official data analysis generated by local governments, churches, associations and museums, newspaper content analysis, analysis of artifacts, i.e. architecture, topography, public space arrangements, family history analysis. The paper should have a format of a scholarly article and be 15-20 standard pages long.
Students’ presentations should be submitted to aksosnow1@uw.edu.pl by 10AM on the preceding the class when it would be held.
Grading:
1. presentation of the academic literature and one own project 20% (20: excellent; 17: very good; 14: good, 11: acceptable)
2. research paper 50% (50: excellent; 42: very good; 35: good, 27: acceptable)
3. well informed participation in the class discussion 30% (20: excellent,17: very good; 14: good; 12: acceptable)
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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