ASIANAM Course Descriptions for 2021-2022

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ASIANAM 50ASAM HISTORIESFUJITA-RONY, D.This class will give students the tools to understand the major issues affecting Asian Americans through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, particularly in regard to race, class, gender, labor ethnicity, community, and nation.  In addition, this class also will enable students to explore how we produce knowledge about this historical period through three major themes, with integrated discussions of different kinds of texts, images, and other sources. 

With the first theme, “Empire and Nation,” we will investigate the relationship of the United States to the Pacific, particularly regarding colonialism, race, class, labor, gender, and militarism. The second theme, “Recognizing Connections” will provide a close examination of the positioning of Asian Americans within the US economy and culture, particularly in regard to US racial and ethnic hierarchies. The third theme, “Making Histories” will address the importance of memory, cultural representation, and generation in the building of Asian American communities in the United States.
ASIANAM 52ASAM COMMUNITIESVO, L.Asian American Communities will introduce students to a range of topics and discourses that shape the construction and transformation of Asian American communities with a focus on theories of inclusion, democracy, and equity. Our discussions will examine the development of voluntary and involuntary communities in both the historical and contemporary context. We will study community formation as spatial sites as well as non-territorial social networks and how they are impacted by generational, ethnic, gender, sexual, socioeconomic, religious, and ideological differences. This course will provide students with critical thinking skills to understand concepts such as nationalism, colonialism, immigration, citizenship, racialization, and representation. Students are required to complete essay writing assignments.
ASIANAM 100WRSCH METH/FIELD RESVO, L.This seminar focuses on research methodologies in Asian American Studies and analyzes how scholars have used varying methods to research core topics in the field. The readings and assignments are organized around questions, approaches, and critiques that will help students develop empirical and technical skills in qualitative research and analysis. Students will gain a critical understanding of the theoretical, interpretative, and ethical challenges posed by scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences as well as by community historians. We will discuss the politics of research collection and the debates over representation. Additionally, we will examine how artifacts, documents, interviews, photographs, videos, and other cultural texts are shared, preserved, and displayed by universities, online archives, and museums. Students are required to complete class presentations, short writing assignments, and a research project.
ASIANAM 110NARRATVES OF ILLNESLEE, J.
ASIANAM 144POLITICS OF PROTESTKIM, C.
ASIANAM 164KOREAN ADOPTIONLEE, J.
ASIANAM 166ASIANAM&RACE RELTNSQUINTANA, I.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYWU, J.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYVO, L.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYQUINTANA, I.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYLEE, J.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYLEE, J.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYKIM, C.
ASIANAM 199INDEPENDENT STUDYFUJITA-RONY, D.
ASIANAM 200BCONTEMP ISS ASAM STFUJITA-RONY, D.This course explores how Asian American Studies can be used as a critical space to examine questions about U.S. national culture and its global standing, especially in regard to the study of race, class, gender, sexuality, and difference.  In our wide-ranging analysis of these issues, we will investigate recent scholarship to examine such important areas as cultural labor, militarism, representation, critical refugee studies, and transnationalism.  While this course will explicitly and implicitly engage with other fields that have been foundational to the very constitution of Asian American Studies, it also seeks to address new interdisciplinary formations that have arisen in the production of knowledge about the field.
ASIANAM 201BORDERS & DIASPORASQUINTANA, I.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHWU, J.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHVO, L.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHQUINTANA, I.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHLEE, J.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHLEE, J.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHKIM, C.
ASIANAM 290DIRECTED RESEARCHFUJITA-RONY, D.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGWU, J.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGVO, L.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGQUINTANA, I.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGLEE, J.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGLEE, J.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGKIM, C.
ASIANAM 291DIRECTED READINGFUJITA-RONY, D.
ASIANAM 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGFUJITA-RONY, D.
ASIANAM 399UNIVERSITY TEACHINGVO, L.