| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 50 | ASAM HISTORIES | FUJITA-RONY, D. | 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. | Take a cursory glance at recent critical work on Asian American Studies, and you’ll notice immediately how often the term “Asian America” appears, as if such a formation actually exists. Less a claim to take actual territory from the United States than a broad appeal to grant Asians a place at the American table of citizenship and national belonging, the literature of Asian Americans can be productively read alongside persistent yet often divergent, even contested, visions of Asian America. This course is designed to trace one such trajectory in 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 111 | PACIFIC RIM | CHEN, Y. | |
| 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 Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist novel, 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. | 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 151F | SOUTH ASAM STUDIES | SHROFF, B. | The class brings together diverse perspectives on the experiences of South Asians in America. South Asian countries include India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh among others. From the historical presence of South Asians in America in the 1920s, to the experience of pop culture like bhangra remix, and the lives of working class taxi drivers in New York City, after 9/11. We examine the experience of South Asians in America as one of multiple belongings, and hybrid identities that are complicated connections between the culture of the U.S. and the homeland. Selected materials include stories by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, sociological readings on domestic violence, and citizenship dilemmas after 9/11 and selected films like Turbans, Junky Punky Girlz and Knowing Her Place. |
| ASIANAM 164 | KOREA-US TRANSNATL | CHO, J. | This course examines cultural productions informed by material and affective circulations between Korea and the United States starting from the Korean War to the present. Examples such as state supported presentation of Korean athletes and sporting events, Hallyu broadcast drama and online music fandom, Korean adoptee auto-ethnography, feminist performance and visual artists, construction of diasporic identity in works by Korean American filmmakers, we will consider how different artists refer to the significance of earlier social and aesthetic movements originating in South Korea and the United States, and how genre transformation can allow for complex cultural critiques of ongoing militarized and gendered relations. |
| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 200D | INTRO ASAM RESEARCH | BALANCE, 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 | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | BALANCE, C. |