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Religion and Immigration: Teaching and Learning Experientially
Proposal abstract :
This project fills a teaching and learning gap in the study of religion and its impact on immigration through a pilot course that explores the history of the bible’s influence on American immigration discourse, from colonization to the present. The course, titled “American Immigration and Apocalypse,” is a preliminary exploration of teaching and learning on the topic that will lead to further collaboration and engagement with departments at Yale, local organizations, and other educational institutions for future curricular development. Not only is the project a long-term curricular intervention, but it is also pedagogically innovative. The course will use different site visits and activities for interdisciplinary experiential learning, which is crucial for understanding an urgent topic requiring more than intellectual analysis. Students will visit the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, New York’s Tenement Museum, the Museum of Chinese in America, Ellis Island’s quarantine hospital, and volunteer at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services.
This project fills a teaching and learning gap in the study of religion and its impact on immigration through a pilot course that explores the history of the bible’s influence on American immigration discourse, from colonization to the present. The course, titled “American Immigration and Apocalypse,” is a preliminary exploration of teaching and learning on the topic that will lead to further collaboration and engagement with departments at Yale, local organizations, and other educational institutions for future curricular development. Not only is the project a long-term curricular intervention, but it is also pedagogically innovative. The course will use different site visits and activities for interdisciplinary experiential learning, which is crucial for understanding an urgent topic requiring more than intellectual analysis. Students will visit the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, New York’s Tenement Museum, the Museum of Chinese in America, Ellis Island’s quarantine hospital, and volunteer at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services.