SOCI413-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Ethnicity, Migration and Multiculturalism

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course explores ethnicity, race, racism, indigeneity, migration, nationalism and related phenomena in a range of different times and places.

What is ethnicity and how can we understand its manifestations, influences and social dynamics? This course provides an advanced introduction to the study of ethnicity in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond, and focuses on related topics: the movement of people across national borders (and within nation states); the way population movement transforms categorization of people; and the cultural, economic and political dynamics around, and impacts of, such transformations. In particular, we explore ethnicity, race, racism, indigeneity, minority rights, migration, nationalism, multiculturalism and related phenomena in a range of different times and places. The concept of ethnicity is discussed both in relation to group rights in existing nation states and in relation to transnational, multilingual and multicultural communities in globalized world, and we will understand the contemporary social context of global migration. We will analyze the practical implications of an increasingly culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse population in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond, and we will examine what “diversity” means and how our society has responded to it.

Learning Outcomes

  • Acquire an advanced introduction to current sociological research of ethnicity, migration, nationalism and multiculturalism.
  • Be able to demonstrate understanding of the key sociological and transdisciplinary concepts of ethnicity and theories of global migration and multiculturalism.
  • Be critically competent in relation to ethnicity, migration, nationalism and multiculturalism (i.e., being able to use their sociological imagination and critical thinking skills to analyse the practical implications of an increasingly culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse population in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond).
  • Be able to adapt their sociological knowledge to local and global contexts through case studies of migration in Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.
  • Develop and demonstrate scholarly research abilities.
  • Learn critical skills of collaboration, consensus and formal presentations of ideas (by working with peers in a small group).

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

HSRV413, MAOR422

Equivalent Courses

HSRV413

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 10:00 - 13:00 Elsie Locke 313 Meeting Room
17 Feb - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Shinya Uekusa

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Seminar participation 10% Due date: Through the semester
Discussion facilitator 10%
Reflective journal 1: Ethnicity 10% Due Week 4
Reflective Journal 2: Migration 10% Due week 7
Reflective Journal 3: Multiculturalism 10% Due week 10
Case study: Presentation 10% Due week 11
Case Study: Essay/Literature review 40% Due week 12

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,169.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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  • SOCI413-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025