COLT 57.11 Migration, Ecology, and the Mediterranean

Why do people migrate? How does their migration impact the places they cross? How have migration trajectories changed in the last 150 years? Why do people embark on a risky journey across the Mediterranean Sea? How do their destination countries react to their arrivals? How does migration change Europe? These are some of the questions we will try to answer in this class. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will look at the impact of migration on the environment and the changing of old ideas about what Europe looks like now. Through an interdisciplinary approach using material that originates from both the humanities (film and literature) and the social sciences (mainly geography and sociology), we will explore the present and discuss the possible futures of migrations across the Mediterranean.

Cross Listed Courses

ITAL 35.03

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT; WCult:W

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