| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
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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 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 LIT/FLM ADAPT | SHROFF, B. | This course analyzes the historical context within which Asian American literary texts have been adapted into filmic texts. 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, dramas and short stories, for example Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, Le Ly Hayslip's memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and David Henry Hwang's drama, M. Butterfly. Cinematic adaptations/versions of literary texts sometimes re-title 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 which is 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. We interrogate the strengths of each medium and the spatial and temporal capabilities of the cinematic medium. |
| ASIANAM 137 | ASIANAM LABOR | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as HIST 152A. This course will explore the history of Asian Americans and work from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics of discussion will include migration, colonialism, family, social organization, work culture, and activism. Requirements will include a five-page paper, a midterm exam, a final exam, a small group project, and regular class participation. |
| 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 163 | POLITICS OF ASN AMER WMN¹S FILM | SHROFF, B. | This course analyzes the work of selected Asian American films and videos made by women. We explore the politics and poetry of each filmmaker’s vision, through diverse genres such as documentary, personal essay, experimental and feature films. The films expand boundaries of the nation and assert spaces of cultural and dissenting citizenship through the film medium, as they address the interconnected issues of history, memory, race, gender, sexuality and the negotiation of hybrid identities. Selected films include work by Renee Tajima, Emiko Omori, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Rea Tajiri, Helen Lee, Debbie Lum, and Nisha Ganatra among others. |
| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | BALANCE, C. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |