International Studies Compendium Project

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Comment on this article   The purpose of this essay is to examine and describe how ethnicity, nationalism, and migration studies (ENMS) are taught. To accomplish this, we collected syllabi from members of the ENMS section of the International Studies Association (ISA). The requests were compiled and emailed to ENMS professors by the ENMS's section head. We divided these syllabi into two categories. The first encapsulates ethnicity and nationalism. Most of the syllabi dealing with ethnicity and nationalism focused on ethnic conflict. Some dealt with nationalism as a broader theme, but because they also included large sections on conflict, they are categorized as ethnic conflict. Therefore, the first topic deals with ethnic conflict. This essay's second topic is migration. Migration studies appears to be more scattered in ENMS classrooms, and therefore its section is broader. The essay divides information from the syllabi into several parts, including (1) the classic/seminal literature students must understand to be properly acquainted with the discipline; (2) the larger themes and ideas taught in the classroom; (3) some specifics of teaching itself, including regions and conflicts discussed, and the texts most often used; and (4) the books, articles, and/or other reading used, the non-academic literature that appears most on syllabi, and alternative styles of teaching including ... log in or subscribe to read full text