Spring 2022 Course Evaluations

In what way(s) did this course benefit your professional or intellectual development?

I feel as though I have a deeper intellectual understanding about crimmigration and theories for reform. I also really loved Professor Shah’s teaching style in class. She is brilliant and fostered a very comfortable classroom learning environment. She was also very helpful and knowledgeable about finding research for our papers. This is the field I want to go into so it is instrumental in my development and growth The material was overall very helpful and relevant to the course. As an immigrant I had no idea that crimes of moral turpitude or crimes that did not count as convictions could have such a significant impact on being able to stay within the United States and not be deported. It was also interesting to see how crimes, in general, played a much more significant role in immigration law than I had previously been aware of. The paper required for this class has really helped me in cultivating my research skills and improving my writing skills. The course material overall has helped me develop different perspectives in the topic of immigration and crimmigration especially. I thought about things through a different lens. We spent a lot of time looking at bigger-picture consequences to minor actions. It was a wonderful and challenging course that helped me connect the coursework with most of the other courses I have taken here. I learned a significant amount about the substantive doctrine in the four areas of crimmigration that Prof. Shah focused on. Moreover, her emphasis on thinking about policy solutions to these problems greatly expanded my perspective.

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