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Asian American studies features a wide range of classes for majors, minors, and those simply interested in learning something new. Offered in many different departments, AAS classes cover a wide range of subjects, eras, and methods for studying the Asian American experience. AAS-Affiliated faculty courses are also listed, as well as the core classes for the CSRE department which must be taken by all majors and minors. For more information on the Asian American Major or Minor visit the Program page.
Spring Quarter
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AAS Classes
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AsianamSt 147A/CSRE 147A/CompLit 147. Comparative Approaches to African and Asian American Literature
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| Cultural nationalism, feminism, multiculturalism, and literary canonization. Case studies comparing novels by Zora Neale Hurston and Maxine Hong Kingston, Ralph Ellison and Chang-rae Lee, and Toni Morrison and Fae Myenne Ng. Thematic and formal similarities; cultural, historical, and critical contexts. | ||
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CSRE/AsianamSt 130K. Youth, Schools, and Race in Film
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Korina Jocson (5 units)
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This course will examine representations of youth and schools in the media, particularly films. Using a sociohistorical survey and a thematic analysis of schooling in urban contexts, the focus will be the multiple, often competing, discourses about young people, their schools, and their experiences in and outside of them. The course will draw from interdisciplinary perspectives and be guided by readings from education, ethnic studies, media studies, and related fields. | |
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AsianAmSt 184D. Voices from Southeast Asian American Communities
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| Highlights the personal narratives of Southeast Asian communities from Laos, Viet Nam, and Cambodia living in the US. Discusses the resettlement experiences of refugees from these countries, contextualized within the framework of Asian American Studies | ||
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AsianAmSt 160C. Culture and Coping: Asian American Approaches
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Caroline Lee (1-3 units)
Tue 05:15 PM - 07:05 PM Download Syllabus [doc] Instructor Consent Required: Email cupi@ |
Exploring shared experiences and challenges as Asian American students. Literature in the field of Asian American Studies and Asian American mental health will be discussed. We will have various speakers from the community (professors, psychololgists, and clinicians) come to discuss coping skills, strategies for succeeding in school, and to share on and off campus resources. This course will focus on being safe space for open discussion and self-reflection. | |
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Student Initiated Course: AsianAmSt 19SI. Japanese American Internment and the Manzanar Pilgrimage
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Karen Nga, Christine Hironaka (1-2 units)
Tues 7:15-9:05PM |
Guest speakers including former internees and community leaders talk about the experiences of the more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned in WWII internment camps. Students may participate in the 2008 pilgrimage to the Manzanar internment site, one of ten internment camps, to honor the memory of Japanese American internees. | |
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AAS-Affiliated Classes
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Music 17Q. Perspectives in North American Taiko
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| Stephen Sano (4 units) GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul | Taiko, or Japanese drum, is a newcomer to the American music scene. Emergence of the first N. American taiko groups coincided with increased Japanese American activism, and to some it is symbolic of Japanese American identity. N. American taiko is associated with Japanese American Buddhism. Musical, cultural, historical, and political perspectives of taiko. Hands-on drumming. Japanese music and Japanese American history, and relations among performance, cultural expression, community, and identity. | |
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Education 193F. Psychological Well-Being on Campus: Asian American Perspectives
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Naomi Brown (1 unit)
W 3:15-5:05 PM |
Topics: the Asian family structure, and concepts of identity, ethnicity, culture, and racism in terms of their impact on individual development and the counseling process. Emphasis is on empathic understanding of Asians in America. Group exercises. | |
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AAS Classes
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History 59. Intro to Asian American History
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Gordon Chang (5 units)
GER: DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul MTWTh 10-10:50 AM |
The historical experience of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. immigration, labor, community formation, family, culture and identity, and contemporary social and political controversies. Readings: interpretative texts, primary material, and historical fiction. | |
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English 43C/143C. Intro to Asian American Literature
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Stephen Sohn (3-5 units)
GER: DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul TWTh 10-10:50 AM |
Asian American literature as an interdisciplinary field, combining history, politics, and literature to articulate changing group and individual identity. Themes include aesthetics, colonialism, immigration, transnationalism, globalization, gender, and sexuality. | |
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AsianAmSt/CSRE 181K. New Media Literacies and Popular Culture
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Korina Jocson (5 units)
W 5:15-7:05 PM |
Individual and social uses of new media literacies (i.e. film, television, music, sports, etc.). Students develop a Wikipedia page, class blog, and new media final project for public screening and exhibition. | |
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AAS-Affiliated Classes
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History 54S. Korean and Vietnam Wars
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Kevin Kim (5 units)
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How America came to fight its major wars of the Cold War in Korea and Vietnam; who supported and who opposed them. The role of international and domestic politics, culture, ideology, and economics. How they affected the lives of Korean, Vietnamese, and Americans involved. Sources include novels, films, cartoons, periodicals, speeches, letters, and archival documents. | |
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CSRE Core Classes
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CASA 88. Theories of Race & Ethnicity
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Sylvia Yanagisako (5 units)
GER:DB-SocSci |
Concepts and theories of race and ethnicity in the social sciences and cultural studies. U.S. based definitions, ideas, and problems of race and ethnicity are compared to those that have emerged in other areas of the world. | |
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Educ 245. Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development
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T. LaFramboise (3-5 units)
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African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American racial and ethnic identity development; the influence of social, political and psychological forces in shaping the experience of people of color in the U.S. The importance of race in relation to social identity variables including gender, class, and occupational, generational, and regional identifications. Bi- and multiracial identity status, and types of white racial consciousness. | |
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CompLit 142. Literature of the Americas
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Roland Greene, Ramón Saldívar (5 units)
GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul |
Comparative perspective, emphasizing continuities and crises common to N., Central, and S. American literatures and distinctive national and cultural elements. Topics include: modes of representation of an American new world experience; myths of America as utopia; and critiques of notions of self and nation to which such myths give rise in political, historical, and literary forms. | |
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CSRE 200X. CSRE Senior Seminar
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AAS Classes
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AAS 180C/CSRE 180C/Psych 180C. Asian American Sexualities
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| Mutual constitution of culture and sexuality among Asian Americans; attitudes, behaviors, taboos, and identity. How masculinity and femininity are portrayed in the media; cultural attitudes toward homosexuality; and sexual politics. Social, political, and psychological implications. | ||
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English 261A. Geography, Time, and Trauma in Asian American Literature
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| The notion that homes can be stable locations for cultural, racial, ethnic, and similarly situated identity categories. The possibility that there really is no place like home for Asian American subjects. How geography, landscape, and time situate traumas within fictional Asian American narratives. | ||
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AAS 160C/CSRE 160C. Culture and Coping: Asian American Approaches
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| Exploring shared experiences and challenges as Asian American students. Literature in the field of Asian American Studies and Asian American mental health will be discussed. We will have various speakers from the community (professors, psychololgists, and clinicians) come to discuss coping skills, strategies for succeeding in school, and to share on and off campus resources. This course will focus on being safe space for open discussion and self-reflection. | ||
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CASA 128B. Globalization and Japan
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Harumi Befu (3-5 units)
GER:DB-SocSci |
Globalization theories in anthropology and sociology, and Japan in the context of these theories. Ethnographic cases of Japan’s global presence from the 15th century to the present. Processes of globalization in business management, popular culture, and expatriate communities. Japan’s multiculturalization through its domestic globalization. | |
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Education 181. Multiracial Issues in Higher Education
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Anthony Antonio (4 units)
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The primary social, educational, and political issues that have surfaced in American higher education due to the rapid demographic changes occurring since the early 80s. Research efforts and the policy debates include multicultural communities, the campus racial climate, and student development; affirmative action in college admissions; multiculturalism and the curriculum; and multiculturalism and scholarship. | |
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Psych 217. Topics and Methods in Cultural Psychology
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Jeanne Tsai (1-3 units)
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Theories and research on culture and emotion, including applications to clinical, educational, and occupational settings. May be repeated for credit. | |
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Hist 256. U.S.-China Relations: From the Opium War to Tiananmen
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Gordon Chang (4-5 units)
GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom, History-WIM |
The history of turbulent relations, military conflict, and cultural clashes between the U.S. and China, and the implications for the domestic lives of these increasingly interconnected countries. Diplomatic, political, social, cultural, and military themes from early contact to the recent past. | |
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CSRE Core Classes
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CSRE 196C/English 172D/Psych 155. Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
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Paula Moya, Hazel Markus
GER:DB-SocSci |
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows. | |
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Education 177/277. Education of Immigrant Students: Psychological Perspectives
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| A. Padilla (4 units) | Historical and contemporary approaches to educating immigrant students. Case study approach focuses on urban centers to demonstrate how stressed urban educational agencies serve immigrants and native-born U.S. students when confronted with overcrowded classrooms, controversy over curriculum, current school reform movements, and government policies regarding equal educational opportunity. | |
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Philosophy 177. Philosophical Issues of Race & Racism
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D. Satz (4 units)
GER:DB-Hum, EC-AmerCul |
Concepts of race, race consciousness, and racism, and their connections. What is race and what is its role in racism? How should ethnic and racial identities be viewed to secure the conditions in which humanity can be seen as a single moral community whose members have equal respect? What laws, values, and institutions best embody the balance among competing goals of group loyalty, opposition to racism, and common humanity? Philosophical writings on freedom and equality, human rights, pluralism, and affirmative action. Historical accounts of group exclusion. | |
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Soc 147A/247A. Comparative Ethnic Conflict
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Susan Olzak (5 units)
GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom |
Causes and consequences of racial and ethnic conflict, including nationalist movements, ethnic genocide, civil war, ethnic separatism, politics, indigenous peoples’ movements, and minority rights’ movements around the world. | |
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