A group of graduate students at the University of Minnesota put together these fantastic resources on teaching race, ethnicity, and migration.
The Global REM Teaching Modules are a set of teaching resources related to Global R(ace) E(thnicity) and M(igration). Modules are appropriate for use in high school classrooms, and introductory college-level courses. Each teaching module includes a brief introduction to the topic, source materials, discussion questions, and suggested readings. These modules provide busy instructors with a series of comprehensive and organized 50-minute lesson plans for facilitating learning related to global race, ethnicity, and migration. At the same time, they are flexible enough to provide instructors room to use the modules in ways appropriate to the particular aims of their own course themes.
The main objectives of the Global REM Teaching Modules:
- To improve students’ research skills by encouraging them to utilize and analyze a variety of source materials
- To increase use of source materials related to issues of race, ethnicity, and migration, particularly in a global and/or comparative context
- To foster interdisciplinary thinking and to incorporate a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and methods in the classroom
- To provide busy teaching assistants and instructors with ready-made lesson plans for 50-minute class periods. The modules are especially designed for teaching assistants and instructors who may not have an expertise in race, ethnicity, and migration but aim to augment discussion of global issues related to these topics
The teaching modules were developed by an interdisciplinary team of graduate students in 2007, and are maintained by the Institute for Global Studies and the Immigration History Research Center. If you have questions or comments about the teaching modules, you may direct them to outreach@umn.edu.