| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 52 | ASAM COMMUNITIES | VO, 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. This course fulfills the GE Category III and Category VII requirements. |
| ASIANAM 100W | RSCH METH/FIELD RES | VO, L. | This seminar focuses on a range of research methodologies for understanding the Asian American experience and evaluates how varying resources and materials are processed to present points of view and convey a narrative. The readings and video assignments are organized around questions, approaches, and critiques that will also help students develop empirical and contextual skills in qualitative research and analysis. Students will gain a critical understanding of the theoretical, interpretative, and ethical challenges in collecting evidence and presenting textual and visual arguments. We will closely examine how artifacts, documents, interviews, photographs, videos, oral histories, and other cultural texts are archived, curated, and shared, with an emphasis on new digital technologies. The students are required to participate in class discussions and complete a presentation, short writing assignments, and a research project. |
| ASIANAM 110 | ASAM AUTOBIOGRAPHIE | LEE, JIM | This course examines how and why Asian Americans write about change and transformation in autobiographical writing, particularly under the rubric of vocation. Vocation derives from the Latin word vocare, or “to call.” Originating in religious contexts, the notion of vocation—as an occupation or profession that one is “called to” (By whom? By what?)—can also be viewed as a more general, social process of discovering oneself. How does the vocational search correspond with or diverge from the process of forming a social identity? What special “calling” or vocation do Asian Americans bring to US society and culture? How does the formation of Asian American identity unravel the seeming stability of one’s professional vocation? And to what extent might these narratives of vocation gesture to the impossibility of a “calling?” We will read these works to reveal the constraints and possibilities of representing “oneself,” and in doing so also uncover the significance, illuminations, and pitfalls of narrating vocation as identity, identity as vocation. Finally, we will spend time reflecting on our own vocational autobiographies by exploring the particular ways that politics, economics, culture, and history impact the psychic lives of Asian Americans and of our own stories. |
| ASIANAM 138 | RACE & URBAN SPACE | QUINTANA, I. | This course takes the city as a starting point to understand larger social and political developments in the United States. Processes of segregation and exclusion have placed BIPOC people in the United States on the periphery of social, cultural and geographical power in the nation. We will explore how Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans, Latinas/os, and African Americans have navigated, created, and made sense of urban environments. Students will learn to interpret “space” for evidence of past and present social relationships, including how race intersects with gender, class, sexuality, and nation. |
| ASIANAM 144 | POLITICS OF PROTEST | KIM, C. | This course examines how the Black freedom struggle has challenged racial, economic, and political inequalities in U.S. history, with a specific focus on the role that Black collective action and social movements have played in advancing social change. We will look at abolitionism in the 1800s, Black internationalism during the long arc of the twentieth century, the civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Some questions we will address: How is the U.S. racial order structured? How has the Black freedom struggle challenged this order? How has the Black freedom struggle changed across historical eras? What disagreements and conflicts characterized this struggle in different periods? What types of opposition have Black activists face? How have the state and economic elites and the media responded to them? What mechanisms of repression—physical, legal, ideological—have been deployed against them? To what effect? What is the genealogical relationship of Black Lives Matter to earlier Black activism? What can these stories tell us about race, power, and inequality in the United States? |
| ASIANAM 150 | ASIAN AM WEST | LEE, JULIA | This course examines the relationship between Asian Americans and the American "West" in cultural representations. While the nineteenth-century American West is frequently mythologized in American history and culture, it is also often portrayed as a space and time dominated by white American masculinity. There has been a strong interest in the late twentieth and twenty-first century in countering that conception. After a short (re)introduction to the way the West has been constructed in popular culture, we will turn to an array of Asian American cultural and historical texts that complicate this narrative. |
| ASIANAM 150 | FILIPINA/O AM COMM | FUJITA-RONY, D. | This course will address major issues shaping the formation of Filipina/o American communities, with a special focus on activism. These issues include: migration, labor, class, gender, sexuality, race, and generation. Featured topics will include community organizing, employment and labor, and political mobilization. |
| ASIANAM 164 | ASAM DISABLTY STUDY | LEE, JIM | The broad goal of this class is to develop an understanding of disability as a complex and crucial part of human experience, and how Asian American identities intersect with this experience. This course will introduce you to a critical framework for recognizing how people with disabilities see their worlds, and suggest new ways of thinking about difference, myths, identity, justice, power, privilege, the body, and society. We will explore how ableist and model minority expectations impinge on the capacities for Asian Americans to engage in such reframing, and how a disability framework can provide. deep critiques of model minority social narratives. We will further explore how disability activists and scholars have reconceptualized disability from a more empowering sociopolitical and human rights perspective, as an element of human diversity, and as a source of community, for Asian Americans and for other groups made marginal by the hegemonies of ableism. |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 200B | CONTEMP ISS ASAM ST | FUJITA-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 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 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | VO, L. |