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| ASIANAM 50 | ASAM HISTORIES | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as HIST 15C, SOC SCI 78A. This class will introduce students to the major issues affecting Asian Americans up through World War II, particularly in regards to race, class, gender, ethnicity, community, and nation. In addition, this class also will enable students to explore how we produce knowledge about this time period, with integrated discussions of different kinds of texts, images, and other sources. This course is open to all students and meets the Social and Behavioral Sciences (III) or Arts and Humanities (IV) and the Multicultural Studies VII- General Education requirements. (It can count for either GE III or GE IV but not both.) It is also part of a lower-division series for students who want to major or minor in Asian American Studies. |
| ASIANAM 110 | ASAM AUTOBIOGRAPHIE | LEE, J. | Same as English 105. 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 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | Same as FlmMda130. Our examination into Asian American documentary practices will be two-fold: First, begin with the elements and evolution of documentary cinema language and genres as a foundation for understanding how Asian American media artists utilize film and video toward particular communication goals. We will also trace the movement of documentary subjects and techniques in the context of Asian Americans’ historical racialized representations and social roles in nonfiction films. As we view a range of works by and about Asian Americans, we will consider how various makers engage strategies for production style and content, targeting and reaching audiences, cultural meanings, multi-lingual communities, and aesthetic experimentation in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, and ethnic notions.
Course Organization: Class time will consist of lecture, film viewings, and discussion. Assignments include individual authorship in online class forums, readings, viewing of short works outside of class, and a take-home midterm. The final project moves into group-based work culminating in a proposal for a short documentary project about Asian American lived realities. Students will pose their critical understanding of cinematic language and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a producer faces to prepare a realizable film. Proposal development includes preparing topic research, story goals, stylization strategies, logistical/copyright/budget factors, and audience & distribution outreach. |
| ASIANAM 143 | RELIGIOUS TRAD ASAM | 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 144 | POLITICS OF PROTEST | KIM, C | Same as Pol Sci 124A.This course examines three of the most important social movements in American history: the civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the women’s movement. Constructing a dialogue between social movement theories and the factual profiles of these movements, the course encourages students to think critically and analytically about the subject matter. Further, the course considers the relationship between each of these canonical movements and the genesis and organization of the Asian American movement. Central questions to be examined include: How and why did these movements emerge? What did movement leaders do to mobilize participants? What did movement leaders and participants seek to accomplish? How much organizational and ideological diversity characterized each movement and with what consequences? What opposition did these movements awaken? How did the state and the mass media respond to these movements? To what extent did these movements succeed or fail? To what degree did they generate political and social change? And in what ways did these movements inspire other groups toward political awakening and activism? What can their trajectories and outcomes tell us about power, inequality, and politics in the United States? |
| ASIANAM 150 | ASAM MEDICAL NARR | LEE, J. | This course explores the increasing presence of Asian Americans in the health professions, and how they narrate that experience. We will undertake both a critical review of the cultures of medical practice, examine the role of social hierarchies in the hospital as they relate to larger social relations of power, and challenge discourses of ableism and health in modern US society. We will also engage in emphatic modes of reading, especially as they pertain to experiences of illness. Some of the authors that we may read include the following: Sandeep Jauhar, Pauline Chen, Audrey Young, Abraham Verghese, Anthony Youn, and Atul Gawande. Critical work include pieces by Arthur Frank and Rita Charon. |
| ASIANAM 151K | FILIPINO/AMER EXPER | BALANCE, C. | Same as Soc Sci 178K. Same as Soc Sci 178K. This course focuses on three major and interrelated themes within Filipino/Filipino American history: empire/war, labor/migration, and culture/imaginaries. How do visual, theatre, and literary artists continue to remember the oft-forgotten Philippine-American War and its aftermath? How do we account for the overwhelming number of Filipinos in the U.S. military and nursing and other care-giving professions? In what ways have diasporic Filipinos and Filipino American youth—in both recent and historical times— created their own popular culture as well as engaged with their counterparts in the Philippines? By examining historical/sociological texts in relationship to performance and pop culture texts (i.e. plays, poetry, songs, dance, and film), this course considers the politics of history, memory, and cultural citizenship for Filipino America. Course assignments include: weekly reading responses, in-class group presentation, take-home midterm, and final writing assignment. |
| ASIANAM 164 | KINSHIP&BELONG ASAM | BALANCE, C. | Same as WS 139. This course examines what the queer & feminist studies analytics of kinship & belonging bring to bear upon popular conceptions within Asian American studies. What are the various methodologies & frameworks that have been mobilized throughout U.S. popular history to analyze queer, Asian, and gendered bodies & sociality? How do historical & contemporary examples of alternative kinships within Asian America—bachelor societies, military base prostitution, transnational adoption, diasporic & immigrant communities—challenge traditional notions & fictions of the nuclear family? Likewise, this course focuses on cultural objects—theatre/performance, documentary & narrative film, literature, websites—created by, for, and about Asian/Pacific Americans, with a particular focus on queer & feminist artists. Course requirements include: weekly reading responses, in-class presentations, online group project, and a final writing assignment. |
| ASIANAM 167 | ASAM & AFAM RELATNS | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as AFAM 117, HISTORY 152B. This course will explore the comparative and often connected history of Asian Americans and African Americans in the United States, with particular emphasis on the contemporary era. Themes will include labor, community formation, political mobilization, and cultural expression. Requirements will be a 5-page paper, midterm, final exam, and engaged class participation. |
| ASIANAM 168 | ANIMAL RIGHTS | KIM, C | Same as Pol Sci 126F. This course examines the animal rights/welfare movement’s efforts to transform the moral, practical, and legal standing of nonhuman animals in the contemporary U.S. Informed by theories and methodologies of race and ethnicity, including Asian American Studies, the course examines the intersection of racism, sexism, and speciesism as articulated in Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Neoliberal Age. Within that framework, topics to be covered include: philosophical debates about the moral status of animals (in comparison to moral status of racialized groups); current knowledge about animal minds and emotions; use of animals in the cultural traditions of marginalized human groups; factory farming and live animal markets; the use of animals in scientific experimentation and product testing; the use of animals for human entertainment; the ethics of vegetarianism and veganism; competing ideologies and strategies within the animal rights/welfare movement; and the connections among speciesism, sexism, and racism. |
| ASIANAM 201 | MULTICUL & CRITICS | KIM, C. | |
| 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 | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |