UCSB 2009-2010 Catalog Course Search
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| AS AM 1 - Introduction to Asian American History, 1850-Present |
| (4) Zhao |
| Historical survey of Asian Americans in the United States from 1850 to the present. Topics include: Immigration patterns, settlement and employment, race and gender relations, community development, and transnational connections. |
| AS AM 2 - Asian American and Contemporary Race Relations |
| (4) Park |
| A comparative analysis of race relations in the United
States after 1964, with special emphasis on Asian Americans. Topics include immigration trends,changing socio-economic patterns, and on-going debates about race, law, and public policy in a multiracial context.
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| AS AM 3 - Asian American Personality and Identity |
| (4) Zane |
| Cultural values and behavioral norms; ethnic identity development; process of acculturation; family patterns of communication; stressors and social support systems; tokenism; symbolic racism; academic acievement; interpersonal effectiveness; and culturally-responsive mental health treatment and service delivery. |
| AS AM 4 - Introduction to Asian American Popular Culture |
| (4) Shimizu |
| A historical survey of how Asians and Asian Americans have been represented in American popular culture, with an analytical focus on the social contexts and symbolic contents of examples in journalism, literature, theatre, and television. |
| AS AM 5 - Introduction to Asian American Literature |
| (4) J. Chan, Koshy |
| 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. |
| AS AM 6 - Sociology of Asian America |
| (4) Thai |
| Survey of contemporary sociological theories and empirical studies focusing on Asian American experiences in the U.S. and globally; major themes in the sociological imagination including race, class, gender, sexuality, marriage/family, education, consumption, childhoods, aging, demography, and the rise of transmigration. |
| AS AM 8 - Introduction to Asian American Gender and Sexuality |
| (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, mediarepresentations, gay and lesbian experiences, education, reproductive labor, Anti-Asian and sexualized violence. |
| AS AM 71 - Introduction to Asian American Religions |
| (4) Busto |
| 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. |
| AS AM 100 - Specific Asian Ethnic Groups |
| (4) STAFF |
| The historical and contemporary experiences of specific Asian ethnic groups: Chinese Americans (100AA), Japanese Americans (100BB), Filipino Americans (100CC), Korean Americans (100DD), Vietnamese Americans (100EE), South Asian Americans (100FF), and smaller Asian Ethnic Groups (100GG). |
| AS AM 107 - Third World Social Movements |
| (4) Fujino |
| Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
| A prior course in Asian American studies. |
| Comparative analysis of Third World social movements. Examines the protest activities of Asian, Black, Chicano, Indigenous, and Puerto Rican communities, primarily in the United States but also how these movements connect to global struggles. |
| AS AM 110 - Transnational Asian America |
| (4) Thai |
| 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 globablization, and transmigration) that illuminate how people, goods, and ideas intersect across multiple spaces and times. |
| AS AM 112 - Intimacies in Asian America |
| (4) Thai |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Considers varieties of "intimacies" in Asian America; deconstructs non-Western formulations of experience and lifestyle. Theories/empirical studies of love, emotions, sexualities, gender, and interracial/ interethnic experiences; institutions like the state, marriage, and culture. Sources include ethnography, film, testimony, and memoirs. |
| AS AM 113 - The Asian American Movement |
| (4) Fujino |
| Recommended: A prior course in Asian Amercian Studies. |
| The history of Asian American social movements during the twentieth century. Examination of early immigrant resistance; Japanese American WWII protest; rise of Asian American movement--student, labor, feminist, anti-war, and yellow power movements during the 1960s-70s; contemporary social issues. |
| AS AM 114 - Asian Americans and Public Policy |
| (4) Park |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Presents formal justifications for using racial categories in American public policy. Course presents racial theories about other groups, with particular attention to Asians. Covers period from 1850 to 1990. |
| AS AM 115 - Asian American Communities and Contemporary Legal Issues |
| (4) Park |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Examines several contemporary developments in American law where Asian Americans have played an important role. These include: changes in immigration rules; affirmative action law; emerging criminal defenses based on cultural background; political districting; and rules about race-based violence. |
| AS AM 116 - Asian Americans and the Law |
| (4) Zhao |
| Prerequisites: A prior course in Asian American Studies, History, or Law & Society. |
| Laws impacted the lives of Asian Americans and Asian Americans' contributions to the legal system in the United States. Review of landmark course cases with opportunities for students to analyze legal documents. |
| AS AM 118 - Asian Americans in Popular Culture |
| (4) J. Chan |
| A prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| A historical survey of how Asians and Asian Americans have been representedin American popular culture and an analysis of alternative models of popular culture. Texts include literature, theatre, television, and film. |
| AS AM 119 - Asian Americans and Race Relations |
| (4) Fujino |
| 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. |
| AS AM 120 - Asian American Documentary |
| (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 pre-production, culminates in the production of a documentary proposal. |
| AS AM 121 - Asian American Autobiographies and Biographies |
| (4) Koshy |
| Asian American 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. |
| AS AM 122 - Asian American Fiction |
| (4) J. Chan |
| 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. |
| AS AM 124 - Asian American Literature in Comparative Frameworks |
| (4) Lee |
| Prerequisites: A prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| A literature course in Asian American studies (such as As Am 5), or other ethnic studies departments (such as Black Studies 38A/38B). |
| Focuses on 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 context. |
| AS AM 125 - Asian American Plays |
| (4) J. Chan |
| 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, GennyLim, Wakako Yamauchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Velina Hasu Houston. |
| AS AM 127 - Asian American Film, Television, and Digital Media |
| (4) Shimizu |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Formal, historical, and cultural issues in the study of Asian American film, television, and digital media practices in independent, Hollywood, and transnational contexts. The role of cinema and visual technology in the understanding of Asian Americans in modern and contemporary culture. |
| AS AM 128 - Writings by Asian American Women |
| (4) Koshy |
| 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. |
| AS AM 129 - Representations of Asia in Asian American Narratives |
| (4) Koshy |
| Course traces the emergence of an American discourse about Asia by examining literary and non-literary texts. Post-1960s Asian American narratives will also be analyzed in terms of their relationship to the earlier discursive frameworks. |
| AS AM 130 - Colonialism and Migration in the Passage to America |
| (4) Park |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Examines Asian migration to the United States by looking at the influence of Western nation-states on Asian nations and peoples. It studies theories of colonialism and imperialism as well as Asian nations' contacts with the West. |
| AS AM 131 - Asian American Women's History |
| (4) Zhao |
| Prerequisites: 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 Asiangirls; and diverse lifestyles of Asian American women today. |
| AS AM 132 - Asian/Asian American Women in the Global Economy |
| (4) J. Chan |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Examination of the economic and political systems that affect Asian women's labor in the United States and internationally. Topics include: theintersection of race, class, gender, and sexuality; the garment industry; sex industry; and Asian American women's resistance. |
| AS AM 134 - Asian American Men and Contemporary Men's Issues |
| (4) J. Chan |
| 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, comic books, and essays. |
| AS AM 135 - Asian Pacific American Queer Issues |
| (4) STAFF |
| 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. |
| AS AM 136 - Asian American Familiies |
| (4) Zhao |
| Prerequisites: A prior course in Asian American studies or history or women's studies. |
| Prior course in Asian American Studies 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. |
| AS AM 137 - Multiethnic Asian Americans |
| (4) STAFF |
| 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. |
| AS AM 138 - Asian American Sexualities |
| (4) Shimizu |
| 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. |
| AS AM 139 - The "New" Second Generation Asian Americans |
| (4) Thai |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Analysis of post-1965 Asian American children of immigrants and/or immigrant children. Examination of diverse childhoods such as "brain drain" children, "refugee" children, "parachute" and "transnational" children. Emphasis on gender, class, ethnicity, intergenerational relations, education, sexuality, popular culture, and globalization. |
| AS AM 140 - Theory & Production of Social Experience |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Theory and video production of social experience course focused 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. |
| AS AM 141 - Asian American Creative Writing |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2 or 2E or 2LK; and, English 10 or Writing 50 or 50E or 50LK or 109AA-ZZ. |
| A creative writing workshop focusing on Asian American themes. Different genres are emphasized depending on the instructor's preference and expertise. |
| AS AM 142 - Introductory Asian American Performance Workshop |
| (4) STAFF |
| 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. |
| AS AM 143 - Television Production |
| (4) Shimizu |
| A prior course in Asian American studies. |
| Introduces students to television production and critical studies focused on the melodrama and comedy of race and the racialized experience. Completion of two short video works visualizing and dramatizing Asian American life in a professional three-camera studio. |
| AS AM 144 - Asian American Visual Media Workshop |
| (4) STAFF |
| 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. |
| AS AM 146 - Racialized Sexuality on Screen and Scence |
| (4) Shimizu |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Explores 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. |
| AS AM 147 - Asian American Play Writing |
| (4) STAFF |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Examination of various dramatic techniques, dialogue construction, and character development used in writing for the theater. Students create an original short play or performance piece. Some pieces may be developed for a staged presentation. |
| AS AM 148 - Introduction to Video Production |
| (4) Cho |
| Prerequisites: One prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Asian American 118, 120, 127, 146, 149. Recommended upper division standing of a junior or senior. Open to majors and non-majors. |
| 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. |
| AS AM 149 - Screenwriting |
| (4) STAFF |
| 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 America filmmakers. Students complete scripts in various formats. |
| AS AM 150 - Pacific Islander Americans |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. |
| A prior course in Asian American studies. |
| Examination of the histories, migration patterns, ethnic identities, familydynamics, community organizations, cultures, religions, health and mental health, social service needs, political concerns, and intergroup relations of people from Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Guam, Fiji, and other Pacific Islands. |
| AS AM 154 - Race and Law in Early American History |
| (4) Park |
| Prerequisites: Law and Society majors must take two of the following: Law & Society 111, 112, 113. |
| Recommended for juniors and seniors. |
| Early race relations in the American colonies and in the formation of the United States. The course examines the interrelationship of Native Americans, Africans, Asians, and Europeans in American public law before the Civil War |
| AS AM 155 - Racial Segregation from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement |
| (4) John S W Park |
| Recommended for juniors and seniors. |
| This course examines the legal dimensions of white supremacy in American public law after the Civil War. The course reviews commonly recurring rules and principles about segregation and racial subordination in American society before the 1960's. |
| AS AM 156 - Race and Law in Modern America |
| (4) Park |
| Prerequisites: Law and Society majors must take two of the following: Law and Society 111, 112, 113. |
| Recommended for juniors and seniors.New cross-listed Asian American Studies and Law and Society Program course. (AS AM 156/LAWSO 156) Designed for majors |
| This course reviews the Civil Rights Movement and American law in the post World War II era, and it concludes with an overview of contemporary debates about race and law. We examine the end of segregation, and review recurring patterns of race-based inequality. |
| AS AM 157 - Asian Americans and Education |
| (4) Fujino |
| A prior course in Asian American studies. |
| A historical and sociological examination of the effects of race and power on Asian American educational experiences. The role of critical pedagogy in the creation of knowledge. The development and impact of ethnic studies and the model minority image. |
| AS AM 158 - Asian American Aesthetics |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Prerequisites: One prior Asian American Studies course and upper division standing. |
| Questions, arguments and ideas regarding Asian American aesthetics. How can we apply traditional western concepts such as beauty, the sublime, and the imagination when considering Asian American cultural production? Explores the employment of realism, modernism and postmodernism across different genres. |
| AS AM 161 - Asian American and Religions |
| (4) Busto |
| A prior course in Asian American studies. |
| Historical and interdisciplinary approach to the themes and issues in the religious traditions of Asian Americans. Topics: the civil religious context, the transplantation of "Asian" traditions into the U.S., Asian American Christianity, Asian American theology. |
| AS AM 163A - Asian American Community Leadership and Social Change |
| (4) Cho |
| Prerequisites: One prior Asian American Studies course and upper division standing. |
| 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. |
| AS AM 163B - Asian American Community Studies B |
| (4) Cho |
| Prerequisites: One prior Asian American Studies course and upper division standing. |
| Recommended prior courses: 107, Third World Social Movements, or 113, The Asian American Movement. |
| Second course in a series that 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. AS AM 163 B is the second class of the three part series. |
| AS AM 163C - Asian American Community Studies C |
| (4) Cho |
| Prerequisites: One prior Asian American Studies course and upper division standing. |
| Recommended prior courses: 107, Third World Social Movements, or 113, The Asian American Movement. |
| Third course in a series that 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. AS AM 163 C is the third class of the three part series. |
| AS AM 170 - Special Topics in Asian American Studies - Arts & Humanities |
| (4) STAFF |
| A prior course in Asian American studies. |
| Courses focusing on various arts & humanities topics not covered in other Asian American Studies courses. |
| AS AM 171 - Special Topics in Asian American Studies - Social Science and History |
| (4) Staff |
| a prior course in Asian American Studies. |
| Focuses on various social science and history topics not offered in other Asian American studies courses. |
| AS AM 175 - Theory and Method in Asian American Studies |
| (4) STAFF |
| 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 historiogaphy, quantitative social science, literary criticism, and ethnography. |
| AS AM 183AA - Asian-Americans and the Balck Radical Imagination |
| (4) Fujino |
| Prerequisites: One upper-division Asian American or Black Studies course. |
| Asian American Studies 113; Black Studies 102, 103, 104; Chicana/o Studies 175, 176; Sociology 118M, 134, 134LA, 134R, 157; Political Science 109. |
| An analyses of the political, economic, geographic, biographical, methodological, and/or racial/ethnic comparative contexts in which Asian and African grassroots politics and social movements arose and influenced one another in the United States and globally. |
| AS AM 192A - Research Seminar in Asian American History |
| (4) Zhao |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Exploration of Asian American history from 1850 to the 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. |
| AS AM 192B - Research Seminar in Asian American History |
| (4) Zhao |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing. |
| Exploration of Asian American history from 1850 to the 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. |
| AS AM 193A - Research Seminar in Asian American Social Movements |
| (4) Fujino |
| Prerequisites: Asian American Studies 113 or Black Studies 103 or Chicano Studies 168E or Chicano Studies 170A or 177 or Sociology 118M or 134 or 134LA or 134R; upper-division standing. |
| Exploration of the study of Asian American social movements and research methodologies. Students work closely with the instructor to conduct original research and write a research paper on selected aspects of Asian American social movements. |
| AS AM 193B - Research Seminar in Asian American Social Movements |
| (4) Fujino |
| Prerequisites: Asian American Studies 193A; upper-division standing. |
| Exploration of the study of Asian American social movements and research methodologies. Students work closely with the instructor to conduct original research and write a research paper on selected aspects of Asian American social movements. |
| AS AM 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. |
| Offers an opportunity for students who meet the prerequisites to do independent research and to write an honors thesis or produce an honors film/video or performance. |
| AS AM 196 - Career Development Seminar in Asian American Studies |
| (1) STAFF |
| prior course work in Asian American Studies. |
| Course is for majors and other interested students who wish to explore career options under the supervision of a faculty member. |
| AS AM 199 - Independent Studies |
| (1-4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: A lower-division Asian American Studies course and 2 upper-division courses; upper-division standing. |
| Independent study of topics not covered in the regular curriculum under theguidance of approved faculty member. |
| AS AM 199RA - Independent Research Assistance in Asian American Studies |
| (1-4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; completion of 2 upper division courses in Asian American studies; consent of instructor and department. |
| Students will assist faculty in the latter's research under the personal supervision of the faculty. |
| AS AM 200 - Critical Issues in Asian American Studies |
| (4) Lee |
| Prerequisites: Graduate student standing and instructor consent. |
| A prior course in Asian American Studies or graduate level work in a different discipline. |
| Graduate Seminar exploring critical themes and major debate in Asian American Studies. Readings cover perspectives that may include history, literature, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, political science, gender and sexuality studies, psychology, and religious studies. |
| AS AM 218 - Asiam American in Popular Culture |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Critical and historical approaches to popular culture representation of Asian Americans in the United States in films, theater, performace, print media, sports, and music. |
| AS AM 227 - Asian American 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 is reviewed in order to formulate an analyses of production, authorship, and spectatorship of various forms. Readings of Peter Feng, E. Franklin Wong, Eve Oishi, and others are a must. Students will write two page response papers every week, attend lectures and screenings as part of Asian American 127, meet with the professor weekly, and read extensively in the field of Asia American Film Studies. |
| AS AM 238 - Asian American Sexualities |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| 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. |
| AS AM 240 - Theory and Production of Social Experience |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing. |
| Graduate level theory and production course. Theory and video production of social experience course focused 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. |
| AS AM 246 - Race, Sex, and Cinema |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Prerequisites: A graduate-level course in theory and production. |
| 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. |
| AS AM 500 - Laboratory for Teaching Assistants |
| (4) STAFF |
| Prerequisites: Appointment as a teaching assistant in a lower-division Asian American studcourse. |
| Supervised teaching of Asian American studies lower-division courses. |
| AS AM 594 - Special Topics |
| (4) Shimizu |
| Prerequisites: A graduate-level seminar in theory and production. |
| Graduate-level theory and video production course focused 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. |
| AS AM 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. |