| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 52 | ASAM COMMUNITIES | LEE, J. | Asian American Communities will introduce students to a range of social, cultural, economic, and political discourses concerning the construction and transformation of Asian American communities. We will study the historical and contemporary developments of ethnic communities as geographical sites as well as analyze emerging communities as non-territorial social networks. We will discuss how these communities negotiate the spatial and social terrains of generational, ethnic, gender, sexual, class, religious, and ideological differences. Our discussions will examine theories about voluntary and involuntary communities, ethnic enclaves, ethnic economies, and race relations. This course will provide students with critical thinking skills to understand concepts such as nationalism, colonialism, immigration, citizenship, and representation and how these issues frame the debates of inclusion, exclusion, and equity. |
| ASIANAM 100W | RSCH METH/FIELD RES | QUINTANA, I. | In this course, we will explore a range of research methodologies in Asian American Studies and, more broadly, in Ethnic Studies. The readings are organized around questions, approaches, and critiques that will help students develop quantitative research skills, while also considering the politics of research and representation. Students are required to complete daily short written assignments, a research project, and in-class presentations. Peer-writing exchange workshops will be a key component of our learning. |
| ASIANAM 110 | NARRATVES OF ILLNES | LEE, J. | This course introduces students to the rise of memoir narratives written by Asian American physicians, about their experiences in both medical education and profession, and the transformative capacities that take place when encountering and caring for the ill and dying. At the heart of these narratives lies a central question: what does it mean to engage in the healing arts and in the science of “cure” when illness and death are unavoidable realities to the clinical encounter? What might it mean to confront the limits of medical care as ill bodies exceed the stories that doctors tell of their patients? We will read these works with and against the emerging genre of “auto-somato-pathography,” and theorize the possibilities and limits of reading about ill bodies through the lens of those charged to care for them. We will also discuss the relative paucity of illness stories, and read recent memoirs written by Asian Americans who suffer from cancer and its treatments. |
| ASIANAM 200B | CONTEMP ISS ASAM ST | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 201 | BORDERS & DIASPORAS | QUINTANA, I. | This graduate course is designed to introduce and examine questions emerging from the scholarly analyses of borders and diasporas in the United States, with attention to populations that have historical roots in Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. Southwest/West. How has U.S. empire shaped the meanings and locations of U.S. borders (by land and by sea) as well as the movements of populations within and across these borders? How have Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans, and Latinxs created cultures, communities, and critiques in relation to U.S. empire and its borders? How can we understand borders, border-crossing, and migration as multi-sited and multi-sided, that is, simultaneously functioning in multiple locations and affecting many groups at once? We will also consider borders and diasporas in connection with other concepts that interrogate the nation such as the transnational and the transpacific. |
| ASIANAM 250 | INTRO PERF THEORY | RODMAN, T. | This course approaches performance theory as an ongoing conversation, one that we can chart across history, and one in which you will play an active role. Our investigation is grounded in two principles: 1) Theory is never isolated from practice. It is actively created via engagement with models, whether they come from the past, present, or even future. 2) Theory is never dead and gone. As scholars today, we carry out the work of theorization in a continuum and in response to theorists past. We are always in conversation with our field’s ghosts. Each week is organized around a keyword that is central to the study of performance. Sometimes the theorists are explicitly in direct conversation with each other, overturning, refining, or building upon earlier work. Sometimes the theorists will seem to be coming at our keywords from entirely different directions, and it will be your job to bring them into concrete conversation with each other. While each week is organized around one of these keywords, the individual readings offer ideas, problems, and questions in excess of their assigned keyword. Our discussions of each text, therefore, will not be limited to how it responds/invokes/problematizes its keyword. Rather, we will also consider the other questions the text raises, the ways it is of its time and place, as well as the ways it reaches out beyond its moment to other places, periods, and ways of being. |
| ASIANAM 250 | IMPACT METHDS&PRACT | ENRIQUEZ, L. |