Social Concerns Seminar: Border Issues

THEO 33966 / ILS 20804 / CSC 33966

Immersion Location:

Southern Arizona Borderlands

Immersion Dates:

January 3–11, 2014

Size: 10–12 students

Application is now closed.

All Social Concerns Seminar placements will be posted on the following webpage when they have been confirmed. You will receive email notification when the site has been updated: Winter 2014 Application Status.

Only those students who are in good academic standing with the University are eligible for participation. By submitting the application, you confirm that you are in good academic standing with the University.

Seminar Fee: $175

This covers food, housing, and supplies, and will be assessed through student accounts during March or April. If you are accepted into the seminar and decide not to participate after November 9, 2013, you will be charged the full seminar fee.

Airfare: Students must provide their own tranportation to and from Tuscon, Arizona. All air travel must be comfirmed with the seminar director by September 15, 2013.

Additional spending money: $50– $75

2014 Calendar of Events Coming soon!

This seminar will expose students to diverse perspectives about México-U.S. border and immigration issues. During the fall semester, students will meet with the seminar director five times to discuss readings about these issues. At the beginning of January of 2012, students will travel to the Southern Arizona borderlands and will attend legal proceedings focused on immigration, participate in humanitarian service efforts for migrants, hear religious leaders discuss their current and past border ministry work, and travel through the desert and ports of entry assuming that security is not an issue. Particular attention will be devoted to the intersection of religion—especially Catholic Social Teachings—and migration. Fluency in Spanish is preferred, but not required.

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