| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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| ASIANAM 51 | THE U.S. & ASIA | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Explores the historical and contemporary transnational linkages between the U.S. and various regions in Asia and their resultant flows of people, goods, and ideas. Special attention given to the role of militarism and processes of globalization, and the histories of cultural contact/conflict. Requirements will include a five-page paper, a midterm exam, a final exam, and class participation. |
| ASIANAM 54 | ASAM 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 re-imagine what it means to be “Asian,” or “American,” and everything else in between. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | Our examination into Asian American documentary practices will be two-fold. We will begin with the elements and evolution of documentary film language and genres in the United States as a foundation for understanding how Asian American media artists utilize the mediums of film and video toward particular communication goals.
“…when I got to college in the late 70’s, the one film course I took [sic] was being taught by Ricky Leacock, who’s a famous cinema verite documentary filmmaker. He asked me what kind of work I wanted to do, and I talked about political filmmaking. And he said, ‘Darling, that’s passé, nobody does that anymore!’ I said, ‘Well for us, it’s just starting!’ ” - Renee Tajima-Pena, on coming out of the Asian American movement and the role of media to early Asian American filmmakers.
We will also trace the movement of documentary subjects and techniques in the context of Asian Americans’ historical exclusions, 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, target audiences, authenticity, emotional truth, and aesthetic experimentation in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions.
Our examination will be deployed toward the proposal of a feasible 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 execute a finished film. Working alone or in groups, students will undergo documentary production “readiness” by preparing topic research, story goals, stylization strategy, logistical, copyright, and budget factors, and target audience/distribution plans typically required by individual donors, commercial funders and non-profit grant organizations.
Same as FLM&MDA 130 |
| ASIANAM 115 | DISPLACED PERSONS | LEUNG, S | “Displaced Persons” looks at ways in which the condition of displacement has been a focus for contemporary filmmakers and artists in the last three decades. Focusing primarily on Asian and Asian-American perspectives, the films/art we study are sustained meditations on people who have had to become “strangers” against the backdrop of a new and difficult historical context. We will endeavor, through the lens of displacement (as the effect of war, immigration, economic migration, political unrest, or governmental policy), to consider forms of strangement, alienation, witnessing and overcoming. Our approach will stem from looking closely at films, writing, and art not just for a theme of displacement, but as aesthetic experiences that situate complex dislocated forms of subjectivity, called into being by war, colonialism, and the violence of capital, and in doing so reflect and hold different orders of time. In other words, for ten weeks, we will study how the work of art retells the life stories of the immigrant, the refugee, the exile, and the cosmopolitan. Filmmakers and artists we will study include Wong Kar-wai, Allan Sekula and Noel Burch, Tran T. Kim- Trang, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bo Zheng, Tehching Hsieh, Marlon Fuentes and Bridget Yearen, Gulf Labor, Rea Tajiri, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Tsai Ming-liang.
Same as ART 100 |
| ASIANAM 131 | ASIANAM POLITICS | O'BRIEN, G | |
| ASIANAM 151E | JAPANESE AMER EXPER | LIU, J | Examines and compares the experiences of South Asian immigrants in the U.S. over time. Looks at the economic, political, and social positions of the immigrants, with special emphasis on religious changes and the changes in the second and later generations.
Same as SOC SCI 178E |
| ASIANAM 151H | SE ASIAN AMER EXPER | FUJITA-RONY, D. | This course will focus on the United States' long involvement in Southeast Asia in comparative context. Please note that the course not only will include the United States relationship to Southeast Asia through the Tyner book (for those interested in U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia), but also will address the complex community formation of Southeast Asian Americans in the United States. Requirements: a 5-page paper, journal/blog entries, final exam, and class participation.
Same as SOC SCI 178H |
| ASIANAM 171A | MIGRATION DESTINATIONS | LIU, J | Same as Sociology 175D and Intl St 117B
This course provides a comparative examination of the three largest immigrant receiving nations in the world since the 18th century: the United States, Canada, and Australia. The comparison is strengthened by their common British ancestry and by the attention each nation has paid to the other two countries’ immigration policies. Yet, there are distinct differences that may or may not be transferrable in the contemporary world. The course will examine the evolvement of each nation’s immigration policies, the ensuing migration patterns, including undocumented migration and refugee movements, and the issues associated with creating a multicultural population. |
| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | LEE, J. | |
| 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. | |