Ethnic minorities in America, cross-cultural communication (and cultural security)

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English reading and speaking skills B2

The United States has long been viewed as a land of immigrants. Many of these emigrated from Eastern, Central, and Western Europe. This course seeks to more deeply understand the struggles faced by and strategies developed by ethnic minorities living in America: such as PTSD, acculturation and assimilation pressures, linguistic challenges. It also will examine the numerous strategies as well as other adaptive and creative solutions they employed to create a new home for themselves in the US.

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