Courses by Category for the Major | Asian American Studies

IDAAS Core Courses

ASAM 090. Asian American and Multiracial Community Studies.
ASAM 115. Theory and Methods.
ASAM 125. Introduction to Asian American History, 1850-Present.
ASAM 190 PO. Asian American Studies Senior Seminar.
ASAM 191 PO. Asian American Studies Senior Thesis.
SOC 150. Contemporary Asian American Issues.

IDAAS Elective Courses

ASAM 022. Healing Justice (1/2 credit).
ASAM 101. Introduction to Asian American Studies (1/2 credit).
ASAM 102. Social Responsibility Praxis.
ASAM 197. Special Topics in Asian American Studies.

ELECTIVE CATEGORIES:

ASAM Social Sciences Courses

AMST 128. Race, Space, and Difference. (W. Cheng)
ANTH 156 PO. Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 082. Racial Politics of Teaching. (K. Yep)
ASAM 084. Nonviolent Social Change. (K. Yep)
ASAM 085. Health Inequities: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. (K. Yep)
ASAM 089. Embodied Learning: Pedagogies of Belonging and Qi Jong. (K. Yep)
ASAM 094. Community Health. (K. Yep)
ASAM 095. Asian Americans and Non-Profits. (Staff)
ASAM 103. Asian American Voices. (K. Yep)
ASAM 104. Asian American Foodways. (Staff)
ASAM 110. Science, Race, and Social Change. (T. Honma)
ASAM 111. Pacific Islanders and Education. (Staff)
ASAM 126. Introduction to Pacific Islander History. (A. Flores)
ASAM 135. Race, Empire, Filipinx America. (T. Honma)
ASAM 135B. Race, Empire, Filipinx America. (T. Honma)
ASAM 143. Race and Policing. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 144. Anti-Muslim Racism: A Global Perspective. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 160. Asian American Women’s Experiences. (Staff)
ASAM 172. Race and Visual Culture. (T. Honma)
ASAM 179B. Asian Americans and the Law (Staff)
ASAM 179N. New Directions in Pacific Islander Studies. (A. Flores)
ASAM 188. Decolonizing Education. (K. Yep)
ASAM 189B. Islamophobia and its Discontents. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 189C. South Asian American Studies. (B. Nasir)
POLI 118. Politics, Economics, and Culture of Korea. (T. Kim)
POLI 127AA. Politics and Public Policy of Asian Communities in the United States. (T. Kim)
PSYC 153AA. Introduction to Asian American Psychology. (S. Goto)
PSYC 155. Seminar in Ethnic Minority Psychology and Mental Health. (W. Hwang)
SOC 073. Asians in America: Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner. (A. Junisbai)
SOC 124AA. Global Asia/Asian America. (H. Thai)

ASAM Humanities Courses

AMST 110. Migrant Memoir. (W. Cheng)
AMST 130. Cold War Taiwanese/America. (W. Cheng)
ASAM 022. Healing Justice. (K. Yep)
ASAM 077. Tattoos in American Popular Culture. (T. Honma)
ASAM 086. Social Documentation and Asian Americans. (Staff)
ASAM 105. Zines, Creativity, Community. (T. Honma)
ASAM 126. Introduction to Pacific Islander History. (A. Flores)
ASAM 130. Science, Technology, Asian America. (T. Honma)
ASAM 134. South Asian American Experiences. (Staff)
ASAM 137. Philippine Art and Diasporic Visual Culture. (T. Honma)
ASAM 171. Visual Culture at the Margins. (T. Honma)
ASAM 172. Race and Visual Culture. (T. Honma)
ASAM 175. Asian American Comics: Racial Politics. (T. Honma)
ASAM 179a. Asian American Cultural Politics: Hip Hop. (Staff)
ASAM 179J. Tecnho-Orientalism. (Staff)
ASAM 179K. Asian American Women on Screen. (Staff)
ASAM 179L. Contemporary Asain American Literature. (Staff)
ASAM 179M. Stories of Survival: Pacific Islanders in History & Life Writing. (A. Flores)
ASAM 179N. New Directions in Pacific Islander Studies. (A. Flores)
ASAM 189A (Fall 2019). Music in Asian America (Staff/D. Panikker)
ENGL 161. The Futures of Asian/America. (W. Liu)
ENGL 180. Asian American Fiction. (W. Liu)
HIST 169. Globalization and Oceania: Hawai’i and Tonga. (C. Johnson)
MS 100AA. Asian Americans in Media. (M. Ma)
MS 101PZ. Asian American Media in Communities. (M. Ma)
MUS 126. Music in East Asia and its American Diasporas. (Y. Kang)
THEA 001G. Acting for Social Change. (J. Lu)
THEA 115M. Race and Contemporary Performance. (J. Lu)
THEA 115O. Applied Theatre in Elementary Schools: Breaking Cycles of Harm. (j. Lu)

ASAM Gender and Sexuality Courses

ANTH 088. China: Gender, Cosmology, State. (E. Chao)
ASAM 077B: Aesthetics, Culture, and Pasts in the United States. (T. Honma)
ASAM 105. Zines, Creativity, Community. (T. Honma)
ASAM 105B. Zines in the Asian Diaspora. (T. Honma)
ASAM 128. Body Art in the Diaspora. (T. Honma)
ASAM 136. Filipinx Diasporic Poetics. (T. Honma)
ASAM 160. Asian American Women’s Experiences. (Staff)
ASAM 175. Asian American Comics: Racial Politics. (T. Honma)
ASAM 179K. Asian American Women on Screen, (Staff)
ENGL 162. Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality. (W. Liu)
FGSS 188E. The Queer Transpacific: Sinophone Cultures and Race/Ethnicity in Asian America. (J. Cheng)
MS 80AA. Video and Diversity. (M. Ma)
MS 100AA. Asian Americans in Media. (M. Ma)

Comparative Ethnic Studies Courses (Comparative ethnic studies course as approved by your advisor or cross-listed in IDAS, or IDCLS)

AMST 110. Migrant Memoir. (W. Cheng)
AMST 113. Asian/American Geographies. (W. Cheng)
AMST 128. Race, Space, and Difference. (W. Cheng)
ASAM 056. Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies. (Staff)
ASAM 063. Transformative Life of Malcolm X. (Staff)
ASAM 077. Tattoos in American Popular Culture. (T. Honma)
ASAM 077B: Aesthetics, Culture, and Pasts in the United States. (T. Honma)
ASAM 082. Racial Politics of Teaching. (K. Yep)
ASAM 084. Nonviolent Social Change. (K. Yep)
ASAM 110. Science, Race, and Social Change. (T. Honma)
ASAM 111. Pacific Islanders and Education. (Staff)
ASAM 143. Race and Policing. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 144. Anti-Muslim Racism: A Global Perspective. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 155. U.S. Imperial Culture. (Staff)
ASAM 156. Spirit of Bandung: Third World Internationalism & Decolonization. (Staff)
ASAM 171. Visual Culture at the Margins. (T. Honma)
ASAM 179C HM. Beaches, Bikinis, and Bombs: Race & U.S. Empire in the Pacific Islands. (A. Flores)
ASAM 179D. Mixed Race Experience. (Staff)
ASAM 179G HM. Asian American and Pacific Islander Diaspora and Migration. (A. Flores)
ASAM 188. Decolonizing Education. (K. Yep)
ASAM 189A (Fall 2019). Music in Asian America. (Staff)
ASAM 189B. Islamophobia and its Discontents. (B. Nasir)
MS 80AA. Video and Diversity. (M. Ma)
POLI 128. Race and American Capitalism. (T. Kim)
PSYC 155. Seminar in Ethnic Minority Psychology and Mental Health (W. Hwang)
SOC 073. Asians in America: Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner. (A. Junisbai)

Courses related to Asia and Migration, Globalization and/or Imperialism

AMST 113. Asian/American Geographies. (W. Cheng)
AMST 130. Cold War Taiwanese/America. (W. Cheng)
ANTH 088. China: Gender, Cosmology, State. (E. Chao)
ANTH 156 PO. Comparative Muslim Societies in Asia. (B. Nasir)
ASAM 105B. Zines in the Asian Diaspora. (T. Honma)
ASAM 128. Body Art in the Diaspora. (T. Honma)
ASAM 130. Science, Technology, Asian America. (T. Honma)
ASAM 135. Race, Empire, Filipinx America. (T. Honma)
ASAM 135B. Race, Empire, Filipinx America. (T. Honma)
ASAM 136. Filipinx Diasporic Poetics. (T. Honma)
ASAM 137. Philippine Art and Diasporic Visual Culture. (T. Honma)
ASAM 145. Asian North American Women Writers: Colonial Legacies. (Staff)
ASAM 155. U.S. Imperial Culture. (Staff)
ASAM 156. Spirit of Bandung: Third World Internationalism & Decolonization. (Staff)
ASAM 179C HM. Beaches, Bikinis, and Bombs: Race & U.S. Empire in the Pacific Islands. (A. Flores)
ASAM 179G HM. Asian American and Pacific Islander Diaspora and Migration. (A. Flores)
ASAM 179J. Techno-Orientalism. (Staff)
ASAM 189C. South Asian American Studies. (B. Nasir)
FGSS 188E. The Queer Transpacific: Sinophone Cultures and Race/Ethnicity in Asian America. (J. Cheng)
HIST 134. Empire and Sexuality. (C. Johnson)
HIST 169. Globalization and Oceania: Hawai’i and Tonga. (C. Johnson)
POLI 118. Politics, Economics, and Culture of Korea. (T. Kim)
SOC 124AA. Global Asia/Asian America. (H. Thai)
SOC 126AA. Immigration and the Second Generation. (H. Thai)