Upper Division

100AA-ZZ. Specific Asian Ethnic Groups
(4) Staff
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units provided letter designations are different.
The historical and contemporary experiences of specific Asian ethnic groups.

100AA. Chinese Americans
(4) Zhao
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 51 or 101.

100BB. Japanese Americans
(4) Fujino
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 52 or 102.

100CC. Filipino Americans
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 53 or 103.

100DD. Korean Americans
(4) Park
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 54 or 104.

100EE. Vietnamese Americans
(4) Ninh
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 55 or 105.

100FF. South Asian Americans
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 56 or 106.

100HH. Southeast Asian Refugees and Immigrants in the United States
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 55, 100EE, 100GG, or 105.

110. Transnational Asian America
(4) Staff
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Focuses on "deterritorialized" processes that have emerged due to intensified globalization. Emphasis on three distinct schools of thought (diasporic studies, cultural globalization, and transmigration) that illuminate how people, goods, and ideas intersect across multiple spaces and times.

107. Third World Social Movements
(4) Fujino
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
A comparative analysis of Third World Social movements. We examine the protest activities of Asian, Black, Chicano, Indigenous, and Puerto Rican communities, primarily in the United States, but also as these movements connect to global struggles. The rise of Third World movements is situated within historical, political, economic, geographica, racial, and gendered contexts. The class emphasizes the period of the 1960s and 70s, but also addresses current social justice struggles.

112. Intimacies in Asia America
(4) Staff
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Historical, contemporary, and racial conditions that surround the ways in which intimate relations, broadly construed, are assembled and produced in Asia America. The course addresses how racial boundaries produce demographic and geographical boundaries of sex, love, and eroticism. The course employs transdisciplinary readings including social science empirical research, novels, and memoirs.

113. The Asian American Movement
(4) Fujino
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
The history of Asian American social movements during the twentieth century. Examination of early immigrant resistance; Japanese American World War II protest; rise of Asian American Movement-student, labor, feminist, anti-war, and yellow power movements-during the 1960s-70s; contemporary social issues.

114. Asian Americans and Public Policy
(4) Park
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Formal justifications for using racial categories and criteria in American public policy. The course presents comparative theories of race, but with particular attention to Asians. The course covers a period from 1850 to 1990.

115. Contemporary Legal Issues in Asian American Communities
(4) Park
Prerequisite: a prior course in Asian American studies or history or law & society.
Asian Americans in law and society since 1965. The course will focus on the development of immigration law, reparations, race and law in a multiracial society, law and culture, and class inequality.

116. Asian Americans in American Law
(4) Zhao or Park
Prerequisite: a prior course in Asian American studies or history or law & society.
Laws impacted the lives of Asian Americans and Asian Americans' contributions of the legal system in the United States. Review of landmark court cases with opportunities for students to analyze legal documents.

118. Asian Americans in Popular Culture
(4) Shimizu
A historical survey of how Asians and Asian Americans have been represented in American popular culture and an analysis of alternative models of popular culture. Texts include literature, theater, television, film.

119. Asian Americans and Race Relations
(4) Fujino
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Examination of the development of racial ideology and racism, theories of race relations, effects of racism and discrimination against Asian Americans, and contemporary race issues.

120. Asian Americans Documentary Practices
(4) Cho
Analysis of modes of Documentary production to negotiate issues of Asian American history, culture, class, and personal identity. Critical readings and discussion of filmic strategies, combined with introduction to documentary preproduction; culminates in the production of a documentary proposal.

121. Asian American Autobiographies and Biographies
(4) Lee
Asian American autobiographies and biographies, their socio-political reflections and expressions inscribing the subject in and against culture, relations between intention and form. Readings may include Pardee Lowe, Jade Snow Wong, Monica Sone, Jeanne Houston, Carlos Bulosan, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

122. Asian American Fiction
(4) Lee / Ninh
Recommended preparation: Asian American Studies 5.
Examination of the ways in which Asian American writers create fiction in order to reflect on pertinent issues concerning Asian Americans, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality. Texts include short stories and novels.

124. Asian American Literature in Comparative Frameworks
(4) Lee / Ninh
Recommended preparation: Asian American Studies 5.
Reads literature by Asian American writers alongside texts from one or more of the other ethnic American literary traditions. Generic and thematic coverage will vary. Emphasis on literary analysis in comparative racial contexts.

125. Asian American Plays
(4) Harsha
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
An examination of plays by first-, second-, and third-generation Asian Americans that demonstrate divergent yet expanding vitality in Asian American theater; works by Ping Chong, David Henry Hwang, Frank Chin, Genny Lim, Wakako Yamauchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Velina Hasu Houston.

127. Asian American Film, Television, and Digital Media
(4) Shimizu
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
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.

128. Writings by Asian American Women
(4) Ninh
Asian American women's writings covering a variety of genres and cultural communities; emphasis on literary analysis of works in relation to central themes of race, family and gender.

129. Representations of Asia in Asian American Narratives
(4) Staff
Course traces the emergence of an American discourse about Asia by examining literary and non-literary texts. Post 1960's Asian American narratives will also be analyzed in terms of their relationship to the earlier discursive frameworks.

130. Colonialism and Migration
(4) Park
Examines Asian migration to the United States by looking at the influence of Western nation-states on Asian nations and peoples. The course reviews theories and practices of colonialism and imperialism, and offers detailed analyses of migration patterns and trends from Asia since the late 19th century.

131. Asian American Women's History
(4) Zhao
Prerequisite: a prior course in Asian American studies or history or women's studies.
The lives and changing status of Asian immigrant women, past and present; Japanese and Korean "picture brides;" American-born girls of Asian ancestry; Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Filipino war brides; adopted Asian girls; and diverse life-styles of Asian American women today.

132. Asian/Asian American Women in the Global Economy
(4) Fujino
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Examination of economic and political systems that affect Asian women's labor in the United States and internationally. Topics include: the intersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality; the garment industry; sex industry; and Asian and Asian American women's resistance.

134. Asian American Men and Contemporary Men's Issues
(4) Staff
Recommended preparation: Asian American Studies 8.
An interdisciplinary study of Asian American male identities, masculinities, and bodies; emphasis on literary, sociocultural, cinematic, and popular culture representations; Asian American masculinist discourses as complements to Asian American feminist discourses. Texts include literatures, films, photos, and essays.

135. Asian Pacific American Queer Issues
(4) Staff
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
An interdisciplinary survey of the histories, experiences, and identities of Asian Pacific American gays, lesbians, and bisexuals; coming out issues, family and community pressures, and socio-political representation in Asian Pacific American communities and in the mainstream gay movement.

136. Asian American Families
(4) Zhao
Prerequisite: a prior course in Asian American studies or history or women's studies.
The importance of the family in the East and Southeast Asian cultural heritage; family formation in the United States; contemporary Asian American family dynamics; interracial families; changing gender roles and relationships; the family and the life cycle.

137. Multiethnic Asian Americans
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 7 or 107.
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
The history, identities, and social relations of multiethnic Asian Americans. Uses fiction, autobiography, sociological and psychological studies of people of mixed racial or ethnic parentage. Considers cognate issues such as interracial marriage.

138. Asian American Sexualities
(4) Shimizu
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
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.

139. The "New" Second Generation Asian Americans
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 171BB.
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Analysis of post-1965 Asian American children of immigrants and/or immigrant children. Examination of diverse childhood experiences, including 'brain drain' children, 'parachute' and 'transnational' children, and 'refugee' children. Emphasis on gender, class, ethnicity, intergenerational relations, education, sexuality, popular culture, and globalization.

141. Asian American Creative Writing
(4) Staff
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 7 or 107.
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
An introductory course on writing fiction, using texts in Asian American literature as models for literary styles and themes.

142. Introductory Asian American Performance Workshop
(4) Harsha
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
An introductory performance workshop focusing on Asian American themes. Students write original pieces, learn the basic techniques of stage performance, and participate in presenting a public performance at the end of the quarter.

143. Television Production Workshop
(4) Shimizu
This course introduces students to television production in a professional three-camera television studio. Each student will produce three short video projects in the following formats: experimental, non-narrative and narrative. In a rotating crew format, students will learn how to direct, edit as well as function in the basic crew production positions. Videos will focus on dramatizing and visualizing the racialized experience of Asian Americans and course work will include readings and screenings focused on television production in general and Asian American independent media. Students need not have experience in film and video production prior to course enrollment. Instructor approval required

144. Asian American Visual Media Workshop
(4) Staff
Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
A laboratory workshop in which students can use a variety of visual media, such as photography, film, painting, and drawing to express the Asian American experience.

146. Racialized Sexuality on Screen and Scene
(4) Shimizu
Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 170KK. Recommended preparation: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Explore race and sexuality in Asian American moving image visual cultures, with particular attention to the production of the hypersexual "Asian Woman" in film and performance. Theories of visuality and perception in the contexts of racial, gendered, and queer representation and visibility.

147. Asian American Play Writing
(4) Harsha
Recommended prepration: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Examination of various dramatic techniques, dialogue construction and character development used in writing for the theater. Students will create an original short play or performance piece. Some pieces may be developed for staged presentation.

148. Introduction to Video Production
(4) Cho
Recommended prepration: a prior course in Asian American studies. Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 170QQ.
Introduction to video pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution of Asian American independent video. Covers fundamentals of production planning, budget, lighting, sound recording, and design, editing, and the film festival and distribution requirements for race and independent media projects. Examples of various practices by Asian American independents are explored.

149. Screenwriting
(4) Cho
Recommended prepration: a prior course in Asian American studies. Not open for credit to students who have completed Asian American Studies 170RR.
Writing intensive course focuses on the craft of screenwriting in the short film, television, and feature film format. Attention to development of visual language, story, structure, plot, conflict, and other alternate modes of storytelling deployed by various Asian American filmmakers. Students complete scripts in various formats.

161. Asian and Pacific Americans and Religion
(4) Staff
Recommended prepration: a prior course in Asian American studies.
Examination of the religious experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Christianity in their Asian/Pacific and Asian/Pacific American forms. Emphasis on social and historical context as well as theology, experience, and expression.

163. Asian American Community Leadership and Social Change
(4) Harsha
Recommended prior courses: 107, Third World Social Movements, or 113, The Asian American Movement.
Examines models of community leadership, in the context of Asian American activism and social movements. Research on contemporary social issues and personal skill-building exercises support groundwork for internship placement with community organization.

170AA-ZZ. Special Topics in Asian American Studies: Arts and Humanities
(4) Staff
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units provided letter designations are different.
Recommended prepataration: a prior course in Asian American studies.
An upper-division seminar focusing on topics in the arts and humanities not offered in other Asian American studies courses.

171AA-ZZ. Special Topics in Asian American Studies: Social Sciences and History
(4) Staff
May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units provided letter designations are different.
Recommended prepataration: a prior course in Asian American studies.
An upper-division seminar focusing on topics in the social sciences or in history not offered in other Asian American studies courses.

175. Theory and Method in Asian American Studies
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: junior or senior standing; open to Asian American studies majors only.
Exploration of the main theoretical orientations that have shaped Asian American studies: race and ethnicity, diasporas, international labor migration, etc. Introduction to several methodologies, including historiography, quantitative social science, literary criticism, and ethnography.

191AA. Research Seminar in Asian American History
(4) Zhao
Prerequisites: Asian American Studies 1 or 2, or one lower-division course in history; upper-division standing.
A research seminar exploring historical approaches to studying Asian American experiences. Students have the opportunity to collect, analyze, and evaluate historical documents and manuscripts. Students carry out a research project and produce a research paper.

192A-B. Research Seminar in Asian American History
(4-4) Zhao
A two-quarter in-progress sequence course with grades for both quarters issued upon completion of Asian American Studies 192B. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Exploration of Asian American history from 1850 to present. Students collect, analyze, and evaluate primary sources and work closely with the instructor to write research papers on selected aspects of Asian American history.

195H. Senior Honors Project
(4) Staff
Prerequisites: Open only to Asian American studies majors who have completed at least six upper-division courses in Asian American studies.
Must have a 3.0 overall grade-point average and 3.5 grade-point average in courses in the major.
Offers an opportunity to students who meet the prerequisites to do independent research and to write an honors thesis or produce an honors film/video or performance.

196. Career Development
(1) Staff
Prerequisites: Open only to Asian American studies majors who have completed at least six upper-division courses in Asian American studies.
This one-unit seminar invites students of Asian American Studies to clarify their values, priorities, and concerns to help determine possible career options after they graduate. What unique opportunities and challenges does one face with an Asian American Studies education in fashioning an ideal career? Through both individual exercises and biweekly discussion, this class will facilitate a broad exploration of the world of work and will conclude with specific goals for participants to achieve in their individual pursuits.

197. Field Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; completion of at least two upper-division courses in Asian American studies.
Must have at least a 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Students will conduct independent field work in Asian American communities. Specific projects include working with community agencies and organizations to evaluate programs, implement new or modified services, and develop community resources.

199. Independent Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; one lower-division course and two upper-division courses in Asian American studies.
Must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters. Maximum of 4 units per quarter or a total of 12 units in Asian American studies. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter, and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA courses combined.
Independent study of topics not covered in the regular curriculum under the guidance of an approved faculty member.

199RA. Independent Research Assistance in Asian American Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: upper-division standing; two upper-division courses in Asian American studies; consent of instructor and department.
Must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters. Students are limited to 5 units per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199RA courses.
Students will assist faculty in the latter's research under the personal supervision of the faculty.

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