Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: BORDER WALL: STATUS AND SYMBOL OF AMERICAN BOUNDARIES (BAKER)

Department: College Courses

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: President Trump swept to power on a promise to “Build a Wall” and to deport the undocumented, and these promises and their fulfillment have dominated media and political attention for several years. The border is in “crisis,” the United States in a “state of emergency.” Taught by a civil rights lawyer, this course surveys the real and imagined elements of this crisis: patterns of and responses to contemporary migration, border enforcement and the militarization of border communities, the promises and failures of immigration courts and immigrant detention, and the goals, costs and efficacy of a border wall.