1) Current Events Poster/Magazine Cover--accompanied by a one-page explanation. I’m not sure if we definitively decided that this poster necessarily has to be magazine-cover size (8 X 11). Rather, it should be like a magazine-cover?but it could be any size you want (you might prefer to work in a larger format than 8 X 11). See the Chavez article from WEEK 8 for ideas. The theme/images/etc should be drawn from media, current events, etc?but you can retool these in light of our study of many aspects of migration. If you wish, the poster could be a companion piece to your case study topic?but it does not necessarily have to be on this topic if you wish to focus on something else.

2) Portfolio Project. This should include the all of following assignments that you have done for this course. Put them all into some sort of folder/notebook/etc so that they work as a package. Please correct any typos or minor errors, print out clean copies (don’t use the ones I scribbled on for your portfolio).

• Family Migration Map
• Short Essay
• Report on BorderLinks Trip to Nogales (or alternative assignment)
• Case Study Ethnography Report
• Current Events Poster/Magazine Cover(and one-page explanation)
• Wrap-Up Essay(2-4 pp), reflecting on all your projects, key migration issues of concern and interest to you, what you learned in this course, etc. On the syllabus I suggest that you might consider writing this short piece as an imagined conversation between an INS [or Grupo Beta?] officer and an un/documented immigrant (see article by Kumar WEEK 2 for ideas). You do not absolutely need to adopt this idea, but I encourage you to come up with some other imaginative idea of your own that may make this final piece more fun, creative, and interesting to write (and to read!). I do believe that using our imagination to dramatize, make vivid, inspire, and get to the meaning of what is at stake [but for whom?] in the things we study, is a great way to spark the old synapses into making innovative, even unexpected connections that can enliven and make more insightful topics that might otherwise seem unnecessarily lifeless. (my Word program tells me this last sentence is "too long"?tough!) Make it come alive!

Please do not miss this final class! If you’re not done with your portfolio yet, come to class anyway and finish up later (bring what you have).