| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 51 | THE U.S. & ASIA | WU, J. | This course explores how the relationship between the U.S. and Asia, predominantly during the second half of the 20thcentury, has shaped Asian America. The lectures, readings, and discussions will focus on how war and militarism, international relations, and globalization have influenced migration, racialization, politics, economic practices, sexuality, family formation, cultural identity, and activism among Asian Americans. The category of Asian American encompasses diverse groups of peoples who differ in terms of ethnicity, citizenship, motivations for migration, generational status, socio-economic class, sexual and gender identifications, and so on. However, they have collectively tended to be racialized as foreign in the U.S. context, as extensions of their respective Asian countries and culture. Some Asian Americans also identify with their ancestral countries and cultures, and have vested political, economic, and cultural interests in Asia as well as the U.S. This course examines how the international shapes the local and the national as well as how individuals and communities navigate complex global relationships. |
| ASIANAM 52 | ASAM COMMUNITIES | LEE, J. | |
| 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 130 | UNDOCUMENTD IMM EXP | ENRIQUEZ, L. | |
| ASIANAM 144 | POLITICS OF PROTEST | KIM, C. | |
| ASIANAM 164 | KOREAN ADOPTION | LEE, J. | This course introduces you to the more than 70-year political economy of transnational adoption of children from Korea to the US (and other parts of the West) and the cultural productions of Korean adoptees. We will critically engage the discourse of the “rescue” of children and the manufacture of the Korean “orphan” to create Western desire and industrial demand for these children, and explore how adoptees themselves are reframing adoption through literature, film, and activism, building new networks of solidarity with unwed mothers in Korea, and using international institutions—legal, media, and otherwise—to begin the process of dismantling the transnational adoption-industrial complex in and from South 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 200A | THEORY&METH ASAM ST | LEE, J. | Since its inception, Asian American Studies has struggled with the vexed position of Asian Americans in US society and culture, swinging between the poles of complicity and resistance. This struggle has wrought an ongoing anxiety with the scholarly field of Asian American Studies, which this course will explore. In uncovering the ongoing but not necessarily progressive dialectics of Asian American Studies, we hope to glimpse the possible futures of Asian America and the directions and purpose of the field in which we study. Our exploration will also introduce a variety of disciplines, methods, dispositions, and goals to engage the problematic of Asian American identity and position. |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | QUINTANA, I. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | WU, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | WU, J. |