| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 50 | ASAM HISTORIES | FUJITA-RONY, D. | This class will give students the tools to understand the major issues affecting Asian Americans through the twentieth and twenty-first century, particularly in regard to race, class, gender, ethnicity, community, and nation. In addition, this class also will enable students to explore how we produce knowledge about this historical period through two major themes, with integrated discussions of different kinds of texts, images, and other sources. With the first theme, “Empire and Nation: Asian Americans and the World,” we will investigate the relationship of the United States to the Pacific, particularly regarding colonialism, race, class, labor, and gender. The second theme, “Making Histories” will address the importance of documentation, memory, and representation in the building of Asian American communities in the United States. |
| 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 | NARRATVES OF ILLNES | LEE, J. | This course introduces students to narratives written by Asian Americans about the experience of ill embodiment. These stories include both those written by those tasked to care for ill and disabled bodyminds—physicians—and by those who themselves are, in some sense, sick. In either case, in related but differential ways, all of these memoirs highlight the transformative capacities that take place when encountering and caring for the ill and dying. At the heart of these narratives lie central questions: 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? What happens to ableist ideologies such as the “model minority” if we make central the Asian American ill bodymind? |
| ASIANAM 111 | COMPTV RACIALZN | QUINTANA, I. | This course is an introduction to comparative studies of racialization both within and in relation to the United States. Studies of racialization in the US often address the experiences and histories of discreet individual racialized groups—Asian Americans, Latines, African Americans, Native Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, for example—in relation to whites and whiteness. This course invites students to think through and to imagine how our understandings of race might change if we consider multiple nonwhite or BIPOC groups simultaneously. We will examine the historical roots of power relationships that characterize the unique experiences and histories of specific nonwhite racialized groups and their relationships to one another. Additionally, this course encourages students to consider how race intersects with other analytic categories such as gender, sexuality, and class. Finally, students will consider a variety of scholarly approaches to understanding racialization through a comparative lens. |
| ASIANAM 112 | ASAM VISUAL CULTURE | CHING, K. | This course provides an introductory look at Asian American and Asian Diasporic art and visual culture. We will approach the term “Asian America” as a heterogenous and relational term to explore the interplay of racialization, social inclusion and exclusion, and global circuits rather than as a discrete identity category. Students will examine the problematic nature of homogenizing all Asian Americans under a singular ethnic group by exploring visual culture produced by artists of Asian descent who live and work in the United States and also artists who travel between U.S., Asia, and those living abroad, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Students will examine the role of Asian American artists, their contributions to and engagements with art historical traditions, as well as depictions of Asian Americans throughout U.S. history. This course addresses themes such as (im)migration and displacement, militarization and empire, origins and diasporas, social movements, and the politics of (in)visibility in museums. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY PRAC | CHO, J. | We 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 mediums of film and video toward particular communication goals. We will also trace movements of documentary subjects and techniques in the context of American 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, audience engagement, subjectivity, emotional truth in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions. Students will pose their critical understanding of documentary film operations and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a producer faces to develop a documentary film. |
| ASIANAM 150 | ASAM ACTVSM&POLTIC | VO, L. | This seminar format course provides a nuanced understanding of the variations in Asian American activism and politics from a historical and contemporary lens. We will use a multi-layered and multi-variant approach to expand definitions of what we typically consider “activists, groups, and organizations.” Using micro- and macro-level approaches, we will analyze how entities contend with racialization, inequities, and social injustice. Our objective is to delve into the range of resources entities possess, what overt and covert strategies are employed, the interplay of narratives and counter-narratives, the shifting construction of discourses and identities, and the emergence of new alliances and possibilities. Although the focus is on the national sphere, the course is attuned to transnational permutations and interconnections that shape resistance and mobilization and the multiple ways Asian Americans directly and indirectly enact transformations. Students are required to participate in class discussions and presentations and complete short writing assignments and a research/creative project. |
| ASIANAM 164 | KOREAN ADOPTION | LEE, J. | This course introduces you to the 71-year political economy of transnational adoption of children from South Korea to the US (and other parts of the Global North) and the cultural productions of Korean adoptees. We will critically engage the discourse of the “rescue” of children and the construction of the Korean “orphan” to create Western desire and demand for these children, and explore how adoptees themselves are reframing adoption through literature, film, and activism, as well as building new networks of solidarity with unwed mothers in Korea. |
| 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 | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| 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 | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | FUJITA-RONY, D. |