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| ASIANAM 50 | ASAM HISTORIES | FUJITA-RONY, D. | Same as HIST 15C, SOC SCI 78A. This class will introduce students to the major issues affecting Asian Americans up through World War II, particularly in regards to race, class, gender, ethnicity, community, and nation. In addition, this class also will enable students to explore how we produce knowledge about this time period, with integrated discussions of different kinds of texts, images, and other sources. This course is open to all students and meets the Social and Behavioral Sciences (III) or Arts and Humanities (IV) and the Multicultural Studies VII- General Education requirements. (It can count for either GE III or GE IV but not both.) It is also part of a lower-division series for students who want to major or minor in Asian American Studies. |
| ASIANAM 100W | RSCH METH/FIELD RES | VO, L. | This seminar will introduce students to a range of key methodological issues in Asian American Studies. The readings are organized around questions, approaches, and critiques that will help students develop technical skills in qualitative research and analysis, as well as examine how researchers have studied the demographic transformations, economic restructuring, and political changes that shape social relations. We will gain a critical understanding of some of the theoretical, empirical, and ethical challenges posed by scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences. In addition, we will discuss "voice" which can refer to literal, direct forms of expression such as interviews, personal testimonies, and oral histories; and more broadly, as well to forms of symbolic representation such as photographs, videos, and other cultural texts. Students are required to complete a fieldwork research project, a presentation, and short writing assignments. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | Same as /FlmMda130. Our examination into Asian American documentary practices will be two-fold: First, begin with the elements and evolution of documentary cinema language and genres as a foundation for understanding how Asian American media artists utilize 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 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, targeting and reaching audiences, cultural meanings, multi-lingual communities, and aesthetic experimentation in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, and ethnic notions.
Course Organization: Class time will consist of lecture, film viewings, and discussion. Assignments include individual authorship in online class forums, readings, viewing of short works outside of class, and a take-home midterm. The final project moves into group-based work culminating in a proposal for a 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 prepare a realizable film. Proposal development includes preparing topic research, story goals, stylization strategies, logistical/copyright/budget factors, and audience & distribution outreach. |
| ASIANAM 115 | ASAM MEDIA&ARTS | O'BRIEN, G. | 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 151J | CHINESE AMER EXPER | LIU, J. | Same as SocSci 178J. This course examines the factors that have contributed to diversity of experiences among Chinese who have been migrating to the United States since the nineteenth century. The emphasis on diversity does not mean the absence of any commonalities among Chinese Americans. Rather, it indicates that a fuller understanding of the experiences of Chinese Americans requires examining the differences as well. Topics to be addressed include the factors underlying the social construction of Chinese American identities, the fluidity of these constructions, and the institutional and personal ramifications of continuous identity formation on our changing perspectives of both Chinese and other Asian Americans. Examination of these topics will contribute to a general understanding of the nature of race and ethnicity in the United States, the social construction of identities among racial and ethnically defined groups, and the relationship of identity to political economic circumstances. |
| ASIANAM 151K | FILIPINO/AMER EXPER | ROBLES, R | This course will explore the historical and contemporary experiences of Filipinos/as in the United States, focusing on twentieth century experiences to the present. Themes for this course include immigration, labor, social organizations, gender and sexual politics, and contemporary culture. The overall goal of this course is to interrogate American history and situate Filipino/a Americans within it. The skills developed in this course will enable you to think more carefully about the processes and contexts of immigration, the development of minority cultures within the United States, community based organizing and resistance, and the intersections of race, class, and gender. |
| ASIANAM 163 | ASAM WOMEN'S FILM | KUNTE, N | Asian American women have provided a rich resource for filmic representation – but not always of their own accord. Often the images we see of Asian women in filmic representation rely on totalizing stereotypes born of the oppressive and dehumanizing social and political conditions that define the lived experiences of Asians in America. How have the histories of orientalism, immigration and labor law, and global imperialism affected the kinds of images we see of Asian American women in film? How have these images changed over time, reflecting the dynamic place of Asian American women within American society? Further, how have Asian American women as cultural producers spoken back to their historical representation in film and how have they shaped their own representation on the screen? In this class, we will look at the filmic representation of Asian American women beginning with the silent period of Hollywood film and chart a course to the present, analyzing the images we engage with through the discourses of race, gender, and class. We will focus on both big-budget mass media movies as well as independent films, documentaries and narrative fiction, in order to examine topics such as yellow face, masculinity and femininity, sexuality, generational conflict, and activist intervention. |
| ASIANAM 200B | CONTEMP ISS ASAM ST | FUJITA-RONY, D. | This class will introduce students to contemporary issues in Asian American Studies, with special attention to issues of transnationalism, globalization, labor, culture, community, and gender. On one level, this course has been designed to acquaint seminar participants with recent key readings in Asian American Studies to help us form a common ground for productive seminar discussion. But on another level, this seminar also is intended to provide a space for students to further investigate their particular interests within the field, particularly in terms of research and teaching. Requirements are as follows:
25% Class participation, including attendance & active participation in discussion.
25% 5-page review and in-class presentation for one of the week’s readings 50% 10-15 page historiographical essay on a contemporary issue in Asian American Studies |
| 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 | |