| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 53 | ASIAN AMER & RACE | KIM, C. | This course examines the racialization of Asian Americans in the U.S. from the mid-1800s to the present, with special attention to the role structural anti-Blackness has played in shaping the status and experience of Asian Americans. How have Asian Americans been positioned in, and how have they positioned themselves in, an anti-Black racial order? Topics to be covered include: Chinese “coolies”; the racial advancement strategies adopted by early Asian immigrants; Japanese American internment and the emergence of the “model minority”; the relationship of the Asian American Movement to the Black Power movement; the Los Angeles uprising of 1992; the politics of disposability around Hurricane Katrina; and cutting-edge developments in the fight over affirmative action in higher education. |
| ASIANAM 55 | ASAM & THE MEDIA | CHO, J. | in American culture [1]. We will examine popular representations of and cultural performance and media productions by Asian Pacific 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, music and dance performance, zines and magazines, radio and podcasts. blogs, social media and web-hosted organizing. 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 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 American 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, audience engagement, subjectivity, emotional truth in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions. Students will pose their critical understanding of documentary film operations and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a producer faces to develop a documentary film. |
| ASIANAM 130 | UNDOCUMENTD IMM EXP | STAFF | This course will explore the laws and policies that shape the everyday experiences of undocumented immigrants in the United States. We will cover various topics including the historical production of the undocumented population in the U.S., demographic trends, the educational, work, and family lives of undocumented immigrants, immigrant rights activism, and the shifting policy terrain including the impact of DACA and its rescission. We will pay attention to the diversity of undocumented immigrant experiences, including differences by racial/ethnic background, age of migration, and life stage. You will have the opportunity to engage in a collaborative project to develop deeper knowledge about a single issue related to undocumented immigration and/or immigrants. I approach this course as a sociologist but we will be tapping scholarship from a wide variety of scholarly disciplines: sociology, political science, economics, history, anthropology, education, public health, art, and public policy. |
| ASIANAM 150 | ASAM ACTVSM&POLTICS | VO, L. | This seminar format course provides a nuanced understanding of the variations in Asian American activism and politics from a historical and contemporary lens. We will use a multi-layered and multi-variant approach to expand definitions of what we typically consider “activists, groups, and organizations.” Using micro- and macro-level approaches, we will analyze how entities contend with racialization, inequities, and social injustice. Our objective is to delve into the range of resources entities possess, what overt and covert strategies are employed, the interplay of narratives and counter-narratives, the shifting construction of discourses and identities, and the emergence of new alliances and possibilities. Although the focus is on the national sphere, the course is attuned to transnational permutations and interconnections that shape resistance and mobilization and the multiple ways Asian Americans directly and indirectly enact transformations. Students are required to participate in class discussions and presentations and complete short writing assignments and a research project. |
| ASIANAM 151D | VIET AMER STUDIES | VO, L. | This seminar course examines the complexities of Vietnamese American narratives and the multiplicity of stories. We will delve into the ways that cultural, historical, sociological, and political knowledge of Vietnamese Americans has been produced and how it has shifted the discourse on Asian America. Our discussions will focus on larger themes of nationalism, colonization, war, displacement, resettlement, and trauma. We also will be attentive to how Vietnamese refugees and immigrants used their social agency and engaged in acts of resistance, pushing against the image of them as “victims.” Using resource materials from a range of disciplines, this course unravels the context of refugee policies and the ongoing transformation of Vietnamese diasporic communities. We will critically analyze the dominance of specific narratives and question why some experiences and voices have been marginalized. Students will complete special projects that will engage with primary resources at the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive and that involve researching Vietnamese communities in Southern California. |
| ASIANAM 162 | ASIAN AMER WOMEN | QUINTANA, I. | This upper-division undergraduate course is designed to introduce students to the study of gender in Asian American Studies, with a specific focus on women. Using intersectional frameworks, we will examine how Asian American women have experienced, challenged, and acceded to power. Additionally, we will learn about individual Asian American women, whose activism and ideas help us to better understand the world and the choices we have in making it. |
| ASIANAM 166 | ASIANAM&RACE RELTNS | QUINTANA, I. | As an analytic lens, "race" helps us to understand how groups of people have negotiated unequal power relationships with each other over time. This discussion-centered course is designed to examine a set of questions that have emerged from the historical analysis of race in the United States. By looking at the development and complexities of race in U.S. history, we will examine how race has been socially constructed in the past and the social processes through which social structures emerged. After laying solid historical and theoretical foundations, we will consider a series of themes from the perspectives of scholars who examine various regions and time periods. We will look at how race intersects with other analytic themes such as gender, sexuality, citizenship, labor, and class. How were racial categories produced and contested over time? How were political, social, economic, and cultural mechanisms of power created? How did people respond to these power structures? |
| ASIANAM 168 | ANIMAL RIGHTS | KIM, C. | This course examines the moral, legal, and practical status of nonhuman animals in the contemporary U.S. Topics to be covered include: theoretical debates about the moral status of animals; current knowledge about animal minds and emotions; modern industrial farming; the use of animals for scientific experimentation and human entertainment; the ethics of vegetarianism and veganism; divergent ideologies, strategies, and tactics within the animal liberation/welfare movement; the role of capitalism in furthering animal exploitation; the relationship between animals and ecological crisis; and the nexus of racism and speciesism. |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | WU, J. | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | QUINTANA, I. | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | WU, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | QUINTANA, I. | |
| 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 291 | DIRECTED READING | WU, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | QUINTANA, I. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | CHO, J. |