| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|
| ASIANAM 50 | ASAM HISTORIES | WU, J. | |
| ASIANAM 54 | ASAM STORIES | LEE, J. | |
| 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. | Using the Korean Wave (South Korean popular culture) as a major case study, this class asks how and why a society that experienced highly compressed political and economic changes, has made such transnational activities possible. In particular, a study of Korean popular culture allows us to consider historically specific responses to globalization in a state that is divided and diasporic. By looking at films, pop songs, television serials, sports, cosmetic, and culinary industries, along with independent performance projects, we examine nation-building and branding, diasporic identity formation, and transnational capital and labor. We also consider how Korean American and Asian American engagements with Korean popular culture illuminate meanings of race and gender. Our course seeks to bring a critical eye to everyday sources of information, understand academic arguments of scholars in a range of disciplines, and to support students to be producers of knowledge who contribute to existing scholarship on popular culture. |
| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | WU, J. | This graduate level course examines key paradigms and research approaches in the field of Asian American Studies. Founded in the late 1960s as a central demand of the Third World Liberation movements, Asian American Studies has deepened our collective understandings of racialization and capitalism, immigration and refugeeism, citizenship and exclusion, diaspora and transnationalism, U.S. empire and militarism, Orientalism and intersectionality, among other important intellectual and political formations. This course will focus on the emerging scholarship that animates the field of Asian American Studies. |
| ASIANAM 200D | INTRO ASAM RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | BALANCE, C. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | WU, J. | |