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| ASIANAM 60A | INTR ASIA AMER ST I | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as HIST 15C, SOC SCI 78A. The course provides an interdisciplinary survey of the history, social organization, and cultural representations of Asians immigrating to the United States prior to World War II. Topics to be discussed include: early globalization, immigration patterns, and the impact of Asians on the emergence of the notion of nonwhiteness in the American race relations, community development, institutionalized racism and resistance. This course is open to all students and meets the Multi-cultural VII-A general education requirement. It is also the first of a three-quarter introductory sequence that is mandatory for students who want to major or minor in Asian American Studies. If you are not majoring/minoring in Asian American Studies, the sequence can be used to fulfill the Social Science general education breadth requirement. |
| ASIANAM 100W | RSCH METH/FIELD RES | LEE, J. | This seminar will introduce students to a range of key methodological issues in Asian American Studies. The readings are organized around questions, approaches, and critiques that will help students develop technical skills in qualitative research and analysis, as well as examine how researchers have studied the demographic transformations, economic restructuring, and political changes that shape social relations. We will gain a critical understanding of some of the theoretical, empirical, and ethical challenges posed by scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, we will discuss "voice" which can refer to literal, direct forms of expression such as interviews, personal testimonies, and oral histories; and more broadly, as well to forms of symbolic representation such as photographs, videos, and other cultural texts. Students are required to complete a fieldwork research project, a presentation, and short writing assignments. |
| ASIANAM 111 | ASNAM, U.S. & WAR | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as HIST 152. The course will explore the history of Asian Americans through the role of militarism with a focus on the twentieth century. Topics of discussion will include U.S./Asia relations and U.S. interests in the Pacific region. We also will examine the impact of these issues on politics, culture, and the economy. Requirements will include a five-page paper, a midterm exam, a final exam, a small group project, and regular class participation. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | Same as ArtH 101, CompLit 143, Eng 105. This course analyzes the historical context within which Asian American texts have been adapted into films. There is a vast body of Asian American Literature but very few texts have been adapted to cinema since issues of audience and market are primary considerations. A historical context demonstrates how representations of Asian Americans have changed from the stereotypical images in the 1920s to self-representations by Asian American writers and filmmakers in contemporary times. We analyze different literary genres such as novels and dramas and short stories, for example Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, Le Ly Hayslip's memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, David Henry Hwang's drama, M. Butterfly and Philip Kan Gotanda's drama, The Wash. Cinematic adaptations/versions of literary texts sometimes retitle and reconstruct texts as suitable for a mass audience such as Heaven and Earth directed by Oliver Stone, and others such as Hot Summer Winds directed by Emiko Omori based on two Hisaye Yamamoto short stories, Seventeen Syllables and Yoneko's Earthquake. We employ literary and film theory in reading the novels and plays to analyze language, structure, characterization and historical representation. We also discuss how the literary form translates into a visual medium, and the modifications of story/plot and characterization for the screen--for instance, how dramas lend themselves to screen adaptation more easily than do novels. We interrogate the strengths of each medium such as the scope of the fictional framework, and the spatial-temporal capabilities of the cinematic medium.
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| ASIANAM 115 | ASIAN AMER THEATRE | LEI, D. | |
| ASIANAM 116 | ASIANAM POP CULTURE | BALANCE, C. | Same as FLM&MDA 130. This course considers popular representations of and cultural productions by Asian Pacific Americans and Asians in the Americas from the late 19th century to the present. Employing theories of cultural studies, queer/feminist studies, media studies, and performance studies, we will discuss vital ways to contextualize the presence of Asian/Pacific and Asian /Pacific Americans in U.S. popular culture. Popular culture mediums examined include: political cartoons, visual art, film/television, music, blogs/websites, performance art and theatre. |
| ASIANAM 143 | RELIGIOUS TRAD ASAM | MAZUMDAR, S. | Same as SOCIO 136, REL STD 120. This course is an introduction to the religious traditions of Asian Americans. It examines how religious beliefs and practices affect the lives of Asian Americans. It focuses on the transplantation of religious institutions, the establishment of sacred spaces such as churches, mosques and temples, the celebration of significant religious holidays and the socialization of children into their religious identity. It also analyzes the importance of religion in life cycle rites such as birth, marriage and death, and the role of religion in the structuring of gender relations and family. |
| ASIANAM 150 | AMERCN WAY OF EATNG | CHEN, Y. | Same as Hist 152. The course uses food as a vehicle for understanding changes in both the U.S. since the early twentieth century and ethnic/immigrant communities and individuals. While trying to measure the transformation of the nation, we will take a look at the issues under discussion from both global and local perspectives. In so doing, we will take a close look at individual cuisines and communities, such as Chinese Americans and their culinary traditions. We will also investigate the impact of ethnic food on ethnicity. Topics will include the following: national and individual identity, cultural authenticity, social memory; perceptions/representations of food in the public sphere; food activities in the private sphere; myths and science about food; consumption patterns and volumes; and research methodological issues. A research paper; small projects |
| ASIANAM 150 | ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN PUBLICH HEALTH I | STAFF | SAME AS SOC.SCI 179, PUB. HEALTH 159, PPD 100. This 3-quarter course provides intensive training in social science research methods within the context of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women in public health. Students will learn about API women's health issues both locally and nationally. They will then apply this knowledge by actively researching a women's health topic that most affects the UCI campus community. Students will be required to work collaboratively to conduct community-based researach and to disseminate an online survey tool of their own design. Students' personal experiences and perspectives will be critical in informing their own research topics.
This research will serve as an organizing tool for students to become engaged in, and/or to lead, campus, local and state campaigns around women's health issues. Students are highly encouraged to continue on to the next sections of this course, in which students will conduct social action projects based upon the research findings obtained in class. |
| ASIANAM 151K | FILIPINO/AMER EXPER | BALANCE, C. | Same as SOC SCI 178K. This course looks at the history of Filipino America through the rubrics of performance and popular culture. By thinking through these forms, we will consider the politics of categories such as history, memory, and cultural citizenship and how they are utilized in and by historical and contemporary cultural productions. This course focuses on three major themes within Filipino/Filipino American history: empire/war, labor/migration, and culture/imaginaries. Equal attention will be paid to cultural forms, artists, and aesthetics developed in the Philippines and the United States as an ongoing exchange. Popular culture mediums to be discussed include: theatre, dance, popular music, blogs/websites, and everyday performance. |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | MIMURA, G. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |