Graduate Courses
227. Asian American Film, Television, and Digital Media
(4) Shimizu
Asian American film, video, and new media produced within Asian American framework
life, culture, and politics or 'socioaesthetics.' Moving image production,
criticism, and theory are reviewed in order to formulate one's analyses of
production, authorship, and spectatorship of various forms. Peter Feng, E.
Franklin Wong, Eve Oishi, and other readings are required.
238. Asian American Sexualities
(4) Shimizu
Examines the critical lens of sexuality in studying Asian American culture, history,
and politics. Survey of interdisciplinary texts on concepts of sexuality in Asia
and America, constructions of sexual difference, denaturalizing heterosexuality
and queer theory.
246. Race, Sex, and Cinema
(4) Shimizu
Twentieth-century western film and video representations of Asian/American women
through ethnic, film and feminist studies. Examines why the legibility of Asian/American
women on screen has consistently depended on hypersexuality, or the production
of perverse and non-normative sexuality.
500. Laboratory for Teaching Assistants
(4) Staff
Prerequisite: departmental approval; appointment as a teaching assistant
in a lower-division Asian American studies course.
No unit credit allowed toward advanced degree.
Supervised teaching of Asian American studies lower-division courses.
594. Special Topics
(4) Shimizu
Prerequisite: a graduate level seminar in theory and production.
Graduate-level theory and video production course focussing on performance studies
and ethnography in the context of Asian American Studies. Central texts in these
fields as well as production of performances and ethnographies in video are covered.
596. Directed Reading and Research
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Reading and research in special topics in Asian American studies.
• Lower Division
• Upper Division
• Courses for the Current Academic Year
