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Oct 10, 2025
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2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog
Forced Migration Certificate
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Contact persons: Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Professor of Italian, and Zeshan Ismat, Professor of Geosciences
According to the UNHCR, more than 120 million people around the world are currently experiencing forced displacement. The reasons that drive forced migration are ever expanding, from war and famine to public health concerns and climate change. Migration is one of the most sensitive global political issues of our time, and migration policies make or break governments. This certificate draws on courses from the social sciences, the arts & humanities, and the natural sciences in order to offer a multi-faceted exploration of global issues connected to transnational migration. The four courses in the certificate are paired with a strong experiential learning component, developed in collaboration with Lancaster-based migrant-services organizations.
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One per division of the following:
One of the following upper-level seminars with field work component:
Experiential Learning Experience:
In addition to the four courses, students are expected to design, in consultation with the certificate director(s), an experiential learning experience that takes place for
a minimum of one summer or one semester. This may include: - An experience for credit with a Lancaster-based refugee resettlement agency, such as Church World Service, the Refugee Center and Community School at Reynolds Middle School, the Literacy Council, or other pre-approved organizations that work with migrants and refugees.
- Leadership in FARR (F&M Action for Refugee Resettlement), the Muslim Student Association, Catastrophic Relief Alliance, or another student organization working to support migrants and refugees.
- An experience for credit working with the City of Lancaster in the areas of implementation of the Welcoming City certification; language access; or public safety outreach.
- A study abroad experience that includes an experiential learning component, engaging with displaced, migrant, or refugee communities in other countries (for example, through SIT).
- Another experience, identified and developed in close consultation with the certificate director(s), fulfilling the experiential learning goals of the certificate.
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