Context
Innovative Curriculum & International Approach
Specific Objectives

CONTEXT

The European Union and the United States have long witnessed large flows of international (and internal) migrants. Consequently, European and American societies have become highly diverse from an ethnic and religious point of view. In the United States , expectations are that the African-American and Latino communities will become the numerical majority in the near future.

In the European community since the 1960's various waves of immigration, mainly from ethnically different societies in North Africa, Southeast Asia, as well as from Eastern Europe, have transformed European societies, making them more and more culturally diverse and raising nationalistic concerns and prejudice. The resulting challenges in dealing with issues of race and ethnic diversity are interesting topics of study and comparison across the American and the European contexts.