| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ASIANAM 52 | ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES | VO, L. | Same as Social Science 78C. Asian American Communities will introduce students to a range of social, cultural, economic, and political discourses concerning the formation and construction of Asian American communities. We will study the development of ethnic communities as geographical sites as well as analyze emerging communities as non-territorial social networks. We will discuss how these communities negotiate the spatial and social terrains of generational, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, religious, and ideological differences. Our discussions will examine theories about voluntary and involuntary communities, ethnic enclaves, ethnic economies, and race relations. Integral to this discussion will be issues of nationalism, colonialism, globalization, immigration, citizenship, public policy, education, and representation and how these issues frame the debates of inclusion and exclusion. Grading is based on a mid-term, analysis assignment, and final exam. [Same as ASAM 60B] |
| ASIANAM 54 | ASIAN AMERICAN STORIES | LEE, J. | This course is designed to trace the creation and recreation of Asian America through literature. Paying special attention to the political, economic, and social constraints during the time of their production and reception, we will examine how Asian American literary work both reflected and transformed the social protocols of their day, and in doing so helped to reimagine what it means to be “Asian,” or “American,” and everything else in between. |
| ASIANAM 110 | ASIAN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | LEE, J. | This course examines how and why Asian Americans write about change and transformation in autobiographical writing, particularly under the rubric of vocation. How does the vocational search correspond with or diverge from the process of forming a social identity? How does the formation of Asian American identity unravel the seeming stability of one’s professional vocation? We will read these works to reveal the constraints and possibilities of representing “oneself,” and in doing so also uncover the significance, illuminations, and pitfalls of narrating vocation as identity, identity as vocation. |
| ASIANAM 117 | SEXUALITY IN ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN FILM & VIDEO | SHROFF, B. | This course analyzes sexuality and gender roles in specific social, historical and political contexts represented in selected Asian and Asian American films and videos. We will examine how patriarchy polices borders and boundaries of feminine and masculine constructions of gender, especially in the context of colonialism and nationalism. Different representations of male, female, lesbian and gay sexuality as depicted in selected films and readings explore how the body becomes a contested terrain for various manifestations of desire. Our study will also include an analysis of various sexual and social roles and definitions such as daughter, son, wife, mother and issues of gay parenting. |
| ASIANAM 139 | ASIAN AMERICANS & EDUCATION | SHAO-KOBAYASHI, S. | This course offers an introduction to educational issues Asian Americans encounter in both historical and contemporary American society. We will focus on topics that impact U.S. born and immigrant Asian Americans including education policies, racial implications within the public education system, and cross- and intra-racial and ethnic peer relationships within K-12 and post-secondary education. The class will discuss topics and issues such as bilingual education, English as a Second Language education, the model minority stereotype, affirmative action, mental illness, and the reconstruction of cross- and intra-racial and ethnic relationships, identities and ideologies among Asian American students within and across school, community and cyberspace contexts. Assignments include response papers, a midterm project and a final paper. |
| ASIANAM 142 | MUSLIM IDENTITIES IN NORTH AMERICA | LEONARD, K. | Same as ANTHRO 125Z. This course explores multiple identities of Muslims in North America, including African American Muslims and immigrants of many national origins. We explore religious, political, cultural, ethnic, and class differences among American Muslims, paying particular attention to recent efforts to mobilize and participate in American politics. The course involves a team research effort in the local communities. |
| ASIANAM 143 | RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS OF ASIAN AMERICANS | MAZUMDAR, S. | Same as SOCIO 136. 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 | AMERICAN WAY OF EATING | CHEN, Y | The course explores the significance of food for understanding social and cultural changes. Focused on American history and society since the early 20th century, it also takes a global comparative perspective at the same time.
Topics include fundamental concepts and perspectives about food; geographical and cultural travels of cuisines; myths and science about food consumption; individual foods and cuisines, such as tea, coffee, sugar, and Chinese food; race. |
| ASIANAM 151D | VIETNAMESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | VO DANG, T. | Same as Soc Sci 178D. This course examines Vietnamese American identities and communities through a sustained critique of United States imperialism and analysis of the wars in Southeast Asia, which spurned the mass migration of over 1 million Vietnamese to America since the 1970s. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarly research, literary works and visual media, this course aims to equip students with a critical and transnational framework for engaging Vietnamese American experiences. We will explore how Vietnamese Americans have been made subject to US racial formation before and after their arrival in the US. Most importantly, we seek to understand how they craft their own lives and meanings, their memories of the homeland, as well as their triumphs and struggles to build community. Toward this end, a major component of this course is an oral history project each student will complete with a Vietnamese American elder. Students will be trained in oral history methodology and be required to conduct and process (transcribe, translate, and index) one oral history interview to donate to the Vietnamese American Oral History Project, which will be archived in the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. |
| ASIANAM 162 | ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN | O'BRIEN, G. | Same as SocSci 177B. This course focuses on the intersection of ethnicity, race, class, gender, generation, and sexuality in the lives of Asian American women. We will analyze the historical and contemporary cultural, social, political, and economic forces that shape their life experiences in the United States and in transnational communities. In this regard, we will consider the diversity of their ethnic experiences and the commonalities of their social histories. Additionally, our focus is to discover the voices and agency of women from the various ethnic groups, in order to understand how they are critically and creatively responding with strategies of resistance, social change, and coalition-building. Students will examine conceptual frameworks that link theory to concrete individual and collective experiences. Course requirements include a mid-term exam, analysis paper, and final exam. |
| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | BALANCE, C. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |