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| ASIANAM 60B | INTR ASIA AMR ST II | VO, L. | Same as Soc Sci 78B. This class will cover the major issues affecting Asian Americans in the post-World War II era, particularly in regard to race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Topics will include labor, immigration, colonialism, community formation, public policy agendas, political participation, education, and cultural production. The requirements will be a mid-term, a final exam, written project, and participation in discussion section. |
| ASIANAM 101 | GLOBAL DIASPOR&RACE | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as Soc Sci 177A. This course will exam the position of Asian Americans in a global and diasporic context, with an emphasis on the impact of race. Course topics will include militarism, economy, transnationalism, migration, labor, gender, culture,and family. Requirements will be a 5-page paper, midterm, final exam, and engaged class participation. |
| ASIANAM 111 | PAC RIM: CHINA&AMER | CHEN, Y. | Same as Hist 152. Pacific Rim is becoming a new center of gravity in our rapidly shifting world. This course is focused on a central part of it: the economic and cultural interactions between the United States and China from the late 18th century to the present. We will combine economic and cultural perspectives in an effort to understand the transpacific Sino-American world as a historically coherent region. We will seek to appreciate the experiences and roles of Chinese Americans in the development of the region. Topics include the following: pre-20th century encounters between what was called “the World’s Oldest and Newest Empires;” China's changing status in global geopolitics; education; the paradigm-shifting transformation of the Chinese economy; the political and socioeconomic changes of American society and economy, Orientalism; Chinatown and its meanings. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | Our examination into Asian American documentary practices will be two-fold. We will 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 the mediums of film and video toward particular communication goals.
We will also trace the movement 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, authenticity, emotional truth, and aesthetic experimentation in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions.
Our examination will be deployed toward the proposal of a feasible short documentary project about Asian American lived realities. Students will pose their critical understanding of cinematic language and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a producer faces to execute a finished film. Working in groups, students will undergo documentary production “readiness” by preparing topic research, story goals, stylization strategy, logistical, copyright, and budget factors, and target audience/distribution plans typically required by individual donors, commercial funders and non-profit grant organizations. |
| ASIANAM 115 | ASAM MEDIA&ARTS | LE, V | This course looks at Asian American history and society through visual art, film, and pop culture. Through these media forms, we will examine the diversity of Asian Pacific American identities and identifications in both the United States and in the diaspora; gender and sexuality; pervasive stereotypes; family; ethnic and interethnic communities; migration and labor; and anti-Asianism.
Course materials include experimental and feature films, artwork, performance art, viral youtube videos, mass media output and other creative and critical texts. Field trips and guest lectures will highlight the vibrant voices and communities active in the Southern California area and beyond.
Students will hone their critical thinking skills through 1) formulating questions for, and engaging in, class discussions 2) paper writing 3) group presentations and 4) creative and critical projects. Course requirements include: weekly journal entries (reading responses), 5-page research paper, group presentations, and final creative project or essay. |
| ASIANAM 131 | POLITICS OF PROTEST | KIM, C. | Same as Pol Sci 124A. This course examines three of the most important social movements in American history: the civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the women's movement. Constructing a dialogue between social movement theories and the factual profiles of these movements, the course encourages students to think critically and analytically about the subject matter. Central questions to be examined include: How and why did these movements emerge? What did movement leaders do to mobilize participants? What did movement leaders and participants seek to accomplish? How much organizational and ideological diversity characterized each movement and with what consequences? What opposition did these movements awaken? How did the state and the mass media respond to these movements? To what extent did these movements succeed or fail? To what degree did they generate political and social change? What can their trajectories and outcomes tell us about power, inequality, and politics in the U.S.? |
| ASIANAM 138 | RACE & URBAN SPACE | VO, L. | The course will examine how ethnic and racial processes shape and structure interactions in urban settings, such as schools, housing, employment, and public spaces. Our discussion will focus on how human geography is transforming the cultural and social organization of the metropolis. Additionally, it examines the ways in which the political economy and gender intersect in the “post-industrial city.” The emphasis will be on the United States, with comparative attention to the international impact of globalization and postcolonial forces. We will also interrogate the formation of power relations and inequalities as well as public policies to address these issues and the forms of resistance that arise in urban spaces. The course requirement is a midterm, special project, and final. |
| ASIANAM 150 | ASAM PUB HEALTH II | TRIEU, S. | Same as Soc Sci 179. This is the second of a 3-quarter course that provides intensive training in social science research methods within the context of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) and public health. Students will learn about API health issues both locally and nationally. Students will work in groups analyzing results from an API health survey that was conducted during the fall quarter. Class discussions and assignments will focus on various topics that were included in the survey, as well as how to disseminate the results to campus organizations and the broader community. Students will also beginning the planning process of social action campaigns for the spring quarter. |
| ASIANAM 151D | VIET AMER EXPER | VO DANG, T | Same as Soc Sci 178D. This course examines Vietnamese American identities and communities through a sustained critique of United States imperialism and analysis of the wars in Southeast Asia, which spurned the mass migration of over 1 million Vietnamese to America since the 1970s. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarly research, literary works and visual media, this course aims to equip students with a critical and transnational framework for engaging Vietnamese American experiences. We will explore how Vietnamese Americans have been made subject to US racial formation before and after their arrival in the US. Most importantly, we seek to understand how they craft their own lives and meanings, their memories of the homeland, as well as their triumphs and struggles to build community. Toward this end, a major component of this course is an oral history project each student will complete with a Vietnamese American elder. Students will be trained in oral history methodology and be required to conduct and process (transcribe, translate, and index) one oral history interview to donate to the Vietnamese American Oral History Project, which will be archived in the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. |
| ASIANAM 151K | FILIPINO/AMER EXPER | BALANCE, C. | Same as Soc Sci 178K. This course focuses on three major and interrelated themes within Filipino/Filipino American history: empire/war, labor/migration, and culture/imaginaries. How do visual, theatre, and literary artists continue to remember the oft-forgotten Philippine-American War and its aftermath? How do we account for the overwhelming number of Filipinos in the U.S. military and nursing and other care-giving professions? In what ways have diasporic Filipinos and Filipino American youth—in both recent and historical times— created their own popular culture as well as engaged with their counterparts in the Philippines? By examining historical/sociological texts in relationship to performance and pop culture texts (i.e. plays, poetry, songs, dance, and film), this course considers the politics of history, memory, and cultural citizenship for Filipino America. Course assignments include: weekly reading responses, in-class group presentation, take-home midterm, and final short writing assignment. |
| ASIANAM 164 | KINSHIP&BELONG ASAM | BALANCE, C. | Same as WS 139. This course examines what the queer & feminist studies analytics of kinship & belonging bring to bear upon popular conceptions within Asian American studies. What are the various methodologies & frameworks that have been mobilized throughout U.S. popular history to analyze queer, Asian, and gendered bodies & sociality? How do historical & contemporary examples of alternative kinships within Asian America—bachelor societies, military base prostitution, transnational adoption, diasporic & immigrant communities—challenge traditional notions & fictions of the nuclear family? Likewise, this course focuses on cultural objects—theatre/performance, documentary & narrative film, literature, websites—created by, for, and about Asian/Pacific Americans, with a particular focus on queer & feminist artists. Course requirements include: weekly reading responses, in-class presentations, online group project, and a final short writing assignment. |
| ASIANAM 167 | ASAM & AFAM RELATNS | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as AFAM 117, HISTORY 152. This course will explore the comparative and often connected history of Asian Americans and African Americans in the United States, with particular emphasis on the contemporary era. Themes will include labor, community formation, political mobilization, and cultural expression. Requirements will be a 5-page paper, midterm, final exam, and engaged class participation. |
| 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 | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |