The Certificate in Migration Studies promotes a multidisciplinary understanding of migration and competency in a range of research methodologies. It accomplishes these goals by linking students to diverse learning resources spread across departments and centers at Brown University, and by building community among students and faculty with shared interests in migration, immigration, and the immigrant experience. The program places particular emphasis on research methods, research experience, and rigorous approaches to the study of migration.  The required introductory course covers the central features, concepts and foci of international migrations studies, and the two elective courses selected from the lists of preapproved courses expose students to diverse substantive concerns and disciplinary approaches. A required methods course from a list of preapproved courses exposes students to methods beyond their concentration requirements.

As with all undergraduate certificates (https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/undergraduatecertificates/), students may only have one declared concentration and must be enrolled in or have completed at least two courses toward the certificate at the time they declare in ASK, which must be no later than the last day of classes of the antepenultimate (typically the sixth) semester.

There are no excluded concentrations.

Certificate Requirements:

Course work in Migration Studies:
SOC 0315	International Migration	1
One of the following:		1
AMST 1611A	Making America: Twentieth-Century U.S. Immigrant/Ethnic Literature
ETHN 1750A	Immigrant Social Movements: Bridging Theory and Practice
SOC 1128	Migrants, Refugees and the Mediterranean
SOC 1281	Migration in the Americas
SOC 1155	Borderlands
One course from the following:		1
ANTH 1225	Gendering Migration and Diasporas
FREN 1410T	L'experience des refugies: deplacements, migrations
HIST 0150D	Refugees: A Twentieth-Century History
HIST 0577B	The US-Mexico Border and Borderlands: A Bilingual English-Spanish Seminar
HIST 0940D	The Border/La Frontera (ETHN 0090A)
HIST 2971P	Diaspora, Displacement, Transnationalism
LACA 1210B	A Migration Crisis? Displacement, Materiality, and Experience (MGRK 1210)
LACA 1503W	Migration and Gender in Latin America: Crossing Borders and Bridging Disciplines
LACA 1503Y	Latin America in Motion: Migration and Crisis in the Post-globalization Era
LACA 1503X	Regulating Bodies: Migration, Race, and Colonial Legacies in Central America
POLS 1824S	The Politics of Migration
SOC 0030	Race, Immigration, and the Making of Inequality
SOC 1128	Migrants, Refugees and the Mediterranean
SOC 1281	Migration in the Americas
SOC 1450	Unstable Times: Migration, Identity and Societal Integration
SOC 2320	Migration
One methods course (that is not a requirement for your concentration):		1
ANTH 1201	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis
ANTH 1940	Ethnographic Research Methods
APMA 1650	Statistical Inference I
APMA 1660	Statistical Inference II
ECON 1000	Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems
ECON 1620	Introduction to Econometrics
ECON 1629	Applied Research Methods for Economists
ECON 1660	Big Data
ECON 1680	Machine Learning, Text Analysis, and Economics
EDUC 1230	Applied Statistics for Ed Research and Policy Analysis
EDUC 1240	Using Qualitative Research Methods
POLS 1600	Political Research Methods
PHP 1501	Essentials of Data Analysis
PHP 1510	Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis
PHP 1560	Statistical Programming in R
PHP 1511	Applied Regression Analysis
SOC 1020	Methods of Social Research
SOC 1100	Introductory Statistics for Social Research
SOC 1117	Focus Groups for Market and Social Research
SOC 1260	Market Research in Public and Private Sectors
SOC 1340	Principles and Methods of Geographic Information Systems
SOC 1118	Context Research for Innovation
SOC 1120	Market and Social Surveys
SOC 1872N	Ethnography in Organizations
Capstone Thesis, Project or Experiential Learning in Migration Studies: Students have available a number of opportunities for hands-on experience in migration research, either through a senior project or thesis that is completed for a concentration requirement, participation in a faculty research project, or an internship or volunteer work with an immigrant service organization.		1
(i) Students who undertake a senior project or thesis for their concentration are required to have a migration related topic as the central focus of the project or thesis. Proposals for projects/theses will need program approval for migration content.
(ii) Students in the certificate program have opportunities to participate in faculty research projects with a focus on migration. These opportunities are available on a limited basis and are contingent on project needs and faculty approval.
(iii) Students may opt to complete an internship or volunteer with a community organization that primarily serves immigrant communities.
Course credit for a thesis or project should be arranged through the student's concentration. Course credit for participation in faculty research, an internship or community service is optional and can be arranged as a faculty directed independent study.
Total Credits		5