| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 50 | ASAM HISTORIES | FUJITA-RONY, D. | This class will give students the tools to understand the major issues affecting Asian Americans through the twentieth and twenty-first century, particularly in regard to race, class, gender, ethnicity, community, and nation. In addition, this class also will enable students to explore how we produce knowledge about this historical period through two major themes, with integrated discussions of different kinds of texts, images, and other sources. With the first theme, “Empire and Nation: Asian Americans and the World,” we will investigate the relationship of the United States to the Pacific, particularly regarding colonialism, race, class, labor, and gender. The second theme, “Making Histories” will address the importance of documentation, memory, and representation in the building of Asian American communities in the United States. |
| ASIANAM 54 | ASAM STORIES | LEE, J. | This course introduces you to literature written by Asian Americans throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Asian American authors wrote with a clear understanding that their works challenged divergent, even contested, visions of what it meant to be an American. We will pay special attention to the political, economic, and social constraints during the time of their historical production and reception. we will examine how Asian American literary work both reflected and transformed the expectations of their day, and in doing so helped to reimagine the terms of social belonging. |
| ASIANAM 111 | FILPNO AMER HISTORY | FUJITA-RONY, D | This class will introduce students to the broad history of Filipino American community formation in the United States. Key topics will include US empire, diaspora, class, family, and cultural production. Students also will address the importance of oral history in the development of Filipino American Studies, and will have the opportunity to conduct an oral history. Requirements will include a midterm exam, final exam, completion of an oral history project, and class participation. |
| ASIANAM 150 | BOLLYWOOD FILM | SHROFF, B. | This course examines how the global reach of popular Hindi-language cinema of India referred to as Bollywood film creates new representations of nationalism and national narratives. Increasing travel, changing modes of life and material expansion even within India and within the Indian diasporas have generated transnational and international movements of people, media and commodities and Bollywood is a major player in these movements and markets. The masculinist space of nation as represented in older films is transformed as gender and sexuality intersect with social categories of class and particularly caste and religion. As an increasingly transnational and global product, Bollywood’s glittering, glitzy dance and song routines reconstruct femininity and masculinity, gender and sexuality, and family identities in ways that attempt to challenge patriarchal, and nationalist discourses. Selected films include The Lover Wins the Bride, Monsoon Wedding and My Name Is Khan. As a counterpoint to Bollywood's conventions of gender production, we analyze some independently produced films that deploy the language of Bollywood, and attempt to contest its conflicted messages of gender and nation. |
| ASIANAM 151C | KOREAN AMER STUDIES | LEE, J. | This course centers the histories, words, and cultures of Korean Americans and Korean diasporans living and working in the United States. Although the primary focus of the class will be on the experiences of Korean Americans, we will also consider the Korean diaspora in a global context. The course will be organized thematically, with potential units on the afterlives of the Korean War, histories of migration and neocolonialism, Koreatowns, transnational adoption, and Hallyu & K-Pop. Students should expect to read, watch, and listen to a wide variety of class materials including literature, film, essays, visual works, and popular music. The secondary source readings will draw from a variety of disciplines including literary studies, history, media studies, sociology, and urban studies. |
| 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, Nepal among others. Topics range 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 experiences 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. Regular travel to the homeland and extended family networks of South Asians creates multi-layered realities in which a tension between tradition and modernity is continually negotiated and questions of home, belonging and assimilation become slippery terrain of debate and doubt. Within specific contexts of class, ethnicity and gender we discuss how the diverse texts represent complex negotiations of identities. Selected materials include stories by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, sociological readings, and selected films like Turbans, Miss India, Georgia and Performing Girl. |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | LEE, J. | Since its inception, Asian American Studies has struggled with the vexed position of Asian Americans in US society and culture, swinging between the poles of complicity and resistance. This struggle has wrought an ongoing anxiety with the scholarly field of Asian American Studies, which this course will explore. In uncovering the ongoing but not necessarily progressive dialectics of Asian American Studies, we hope to glimpse the possible futures of Asian America and the directions and purpose of the field in which we study. Our exploration will also introduce a variety of disciplines, methods, dispositions, and goals to engage the problematic of Asian American identity and position. |
| ASIANAM 200D | INTRO ASAM RESEARCH | LEE, J. | This course will introduce students to research topics & methods within the field of Asian American Studies. Each week, students will meet core and affiliated Asian American Studies faculty at UCI as well as read their published work and/or works-in-progress, sometimes alongside foundational texts within the field. This course aims to expose students to UCI faculty research and help them identify possible advisors for M.A. research projects or members of doctoral committees. At the end of the course, each student will create a work plan outlining his/her/their research project topic and methods. |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | LEE, J. |