| 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 55 | ASAM & THE MEDIA | CHO, J. | This course investigates types of messages created, consumed, propagated, and repeated by and about Asian Americans in American culture [1]. We will examine popular representations of and cultural performance and media productions by Asian Americans and Asians in the United States from the late-nineteenth century to the present. Our genres and forms may include film, television, news reporting, stage performance, zines, radio and podcasts, blogs, social media, and web-hosted tools and channels. The course will also explore cases of different sites and communities of Asian Americans using communication and representation (local, national, global) in desire and imaginings of cultural citizenship. Because the grouping “Asian American” is inherently diverse and conditional, we shall situate our understanding of media in historical contexts of U.S.- Asia relations, immigration, political discourses and ideologies, accessible technologies and funding streams, social movements, and institutions and structures of mass media and “micro media industries [2].” |
| ASIANAM 110 | ASAM SHORT STORIES | LEE, J. | Understudied and undertaught, the short story has arguably tracked Asian American 20th and 21st century social life more comprehensively than other genres. We will take advantage of the form’s brevity by reading widely. Students will come away from this class with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Asian America’s literary practitioners. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | We 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 mediums of film and video toward particular communication goals. We will also trace movements 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, subjectivity, emotional truth in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions. Students will pose their critical understanding of cinematic language and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a creator or storyteller faces to record lived experiences, and acts of stewardship for a documentary film. |
| 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 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 citizenship dilemmas after 9/11 and selected films like Turbans, Junky Punky Girlz and Knowing Her Place. |
| ASIANAM 151H | SE ASAM STUDIES | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Analyzes experiences of refugees and immigrants from Southeast Asia, which may include those from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and the Philippines, as well as the experiences of later generations born in the US. Examines histories, communities, and identities. |
| 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 | QUINTANA, I. | This course introduces students to a variety of research topics and methodologies within the field of Asian American Studies. Students will meet members of our core and affiliated faculty, and engage with their research. This course aims to help students identify and connect with possible advisors, committee members, and mentors. |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | CHO, J. |