| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 54 | ASAM STORIES | LEE, J. | This course introduces you to literature written by Asian Americans throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Asian American authors wrote with a clear understanding that their works challenged divergent, even contested, visions of what it meant to be an American. We will pay special attention to the political, economic, and social constraints during the time of their historical production and reception. we will examine how Asian American literary work both reflected and transformed the expectations of their day, and in doing so helped to reimagine the terms of social belonging. |
| 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 qualitative 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 138 | RACE & URBAN SPACE | QUINTANA, I. | This upper-division undergraduate 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 nonwhite people on the periphery of social, cultural and geographical power in the nation. Histories of racialization tell us that power has always been contested, negotiated, and shaped by people and institutions in historical context—specific times and places. |
| 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 164 | DISABILITY STUDIES | LEE, J. | This course explores what happens when disabled bodyminds are centered and assumed as normative, especially within Asian American contexts. How does disability and its critical appraisal of normative assumptions challenge the hyperableism that undergird model minority formations in contemporary Asian American communities? This class refuses a medicalized, pathologized understanding of diversity in bodymind and instead insists that what are disabling are structures that demand ablebodied and ableminded performance. We will examine how a disability justice model offers new forms of storytelling, life making, and future imagining. |
| ASIANAM 168 | ANIMAL RIGHTS | KIM, C. | This course examines the moral, legal, and practical status of nonhuman animals in the contemporary U.S. Topics to be covered include: theoretical debates about the moral status of animals; current knowledge about animal minds and emotions; modern industrial farming; the use of animals for scientific experimentation and human entertainment; the ethics of vegetarianism and veganism; divergent ideologies, strategies, and tactics within the animal liberation/welfare movement; the role of capitalism in furthering animal exploitation; the relationship between animals and ecological crisis; and the nexus of racism and speciesism. |
| 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. | |
| ASIANAM 200C | COMM LEAD&SOC CHNG | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| 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 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | VO, L. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | KUNIGAMI, A. | |
| 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 | LEE, J. |