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ASNAMST 100C: EAST House Seminar: Current Issues and Debates in Education (EDUC 100C)

Education and Society Theme (EAST) House seminar. In fall quarter, five current issues broadly related to education and society are discussed and debated among students and faculty. In winter quarter, topics pertaining to gender and education, particularly in developing countries, are explored. In the spring, the seminar revolves around race and ethnicity in higher education. Through an examination of these topics, students are able to share and develop their varied interests in educational research, policy, and practice.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Wotipka, C. (PI)

ASNAMST 146S: Asian American Culture and Community (AMSTUD 146, COMPLIT 146, CSRE 146S)

An examination of the history of Asians in America via one case history: the International Hotel in San Francisco. Background history of Asians in America, and the specifics of the I Hotel case as involving the convergence of global and local economies, urban redevelopment, and housing issues for minorities. Focus on the convergence of community and cultural production. Service learning component involving community work at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI | Repeatable 2 times (up to 10 units total)

ASNAMST 173S: Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges (AFRICAAM 173S, CSRE 173S)

Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5

ASNAMST 179: Asian American Experiences and Documentary Practice (CSRE 179, FILMSTUD 279)

Focus is on documentary cinema as a technology for understanding Asian Americans in the U.S. The social and historical context of the formation of the Asian American filmmaker, an authorial position that emerges in the 60s and 70s as part of the civil rights movement. Works include films by Loni Ding, Bob Nakamura and Curtis Choy; readings about the establishment of Asian American media industries and Asian American film criticism as a multi-genre. Social issue documentaries that represent new ethnographies of social experience including transnational adoption (Daughter From Danang), refugee experience (AKA Don Bonus), and sex tourism (The Women Outside). Readings include analyses of the implications of these works for cinema studies, ethnic studies, and the politics of film in everyday life. Experimental documentaries and their interrogation of the limits of the documentary form in representing identities and social problems. How does representation matter within and for Asian America in framing the complexities of race and racial identity? Screenings include works by Marlon Fuentes, Rea Tajiri and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Shimizu, C. (PI)

ASNAMST 185A: Race and Biomedicine (ANTHRO 185A)

Race, identity, culture, biology, and political power in biomedicine. Biological theories of racial ordering, sexuality and the medicalization of group difference. Sources include ethnography, film, and biomedical literature. Topics include colonial history and medicine, the politics of racial categorization in biomedical research, the protection of human subjects and research ethics, immigration health and citizenship, race-based models in health disparities research and policy, and recent developments in human genetic variation research.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5
Instructors: Lee, S. (PI)

ASNAMST 187: Geography, Time, and Trauma in Asian American Literature (AMSTUD 261A, ENGLISH 261A)

The notion that homes can be stable locations for cultural, racial, ethnic, and similarly situated identity categories. Tthe 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.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5
Instructors: Sohn, S. (PI)

ASNAMST 189: The Vietnamese Experience in America

Usually, courses on the Vietnam War, have often concentrated on the American perspective, and therefore have often overlooked the experience of the Vietnamese people. After the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 there has been and continues to be, a large influx of Vietnamese refugees into the United States. As a result, the experience of the Vietnamese refugees provide an excellent vantage point from which to view the dynamics of the larger social, political, and economic relations of American society.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Do, H. (PI)

ASNAMST 200R: Directed Research

May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit

ASNAMST 200W: Directed Reading

(Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable for credit

ASNAMST 74N: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Fiction: Boundaries and Border Crossings (ENGLISH 74N)

The question of "place" and "locality" in studies of identity and racial formation. Goal is to engage and examine texts with a critical eye both toward the social contexts represented and to the imaginative aesthetic techniques that American writers of color offer to bring their fictional worlds to life. Theme of border hopping and boundary crossing in works by authors including Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Alejandro Morales, Julie Otsuka, Stephen Graham Jones, and Lan Samantha Chang.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Sohn, S. (PI)
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