Lower Division
1. Comparative Asian American History, 1850-1965
(4) Zhao
A comparative analysis of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Asian Indian, and Filipino
immigration into Hawaii and the continental United States; settlement and employment
patterns; community organizations; anti-Asian movements; women and families;
World War II internment of Japanese Americans; and postwar developments.
2. Contemporary Asian American History
(4) Park
Changes in Asian American communities since 1965, as a result of expanded immigration,
rise of Asian American panethnicity, and other factors; refugee migration from
Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos; current Asian American social, economic, and political
trends; and interethnic relations.
3. Asian American Personality and Identity
(4) Staff
Cultural values and behavioral norms; ethnic identity development; process of
acculturation; family patterns of communication; stressors and social support
systems; tokenism; symbolic racism; academic achievement; interpersonal effectiveness;
and culturally-responsive mental health treatment and service delivery.
4. Introduction to Popular Culture
(4) Shimizu
From the turn of the century to the present, Asian Americans have wrestled
with popular culture representations of their roles, subjectivities, histories
and communities. Using popular culture forms, Asian Americans redefine their
representations and assert their own visions through an approach that synthesizes
art, politics and entertainment. The course is divided into three parts: Histories
of Asian American Popular Culture, Gendered and Sexualized Issues of Racial
Representation and Transnationalism/ Diaspora/Globalization.
5. Introduction to Asian American Literature
(4) Ninh
Selected major themes in literary texts from Asian American communities, including
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Southeast Asian Americans: dislocation/relocation;
finding/inventing a usable past; poetics/politics in language; identities/ethnicities.
6. Sociology of Asia America
(4) Staff
Sociological theories and methods employed in Asian American Studies. Substantive
topics include political struggles, urban race relations, segmented labor markets,
educational inequality, domestic violence, and transnational predicaments, all
from a sociological perspective.
8. Asian American Gender Relations
(4) Fujino
Examination of relations between Asian American women and men from sociological,
psychological and historical perspectives. Topics include: social construction
of gender and race, effects of racism and sexism, media representations, gay
and lesbian experiences, education, reproductive labor, anti-Asian and sexualized
violence.
71. Intro to Asian American Religions
(4) Staff
Introduction to patterns and themes in religious histories and experiences of Asians in North America.
Includes theories of race/ethnicity; immigration; transplantation and transformation of "Asian"
traditions to North America; Asian American Christianities; theology; and various ways religion
functions in the contemporary representation of Asian Americans.
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