Fall 2013: UMass Amherst Courses
AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES 236: History of the Civil Rights Movement (Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWe 10:10AM - 11:00AM
- Instructor: Ernest Allen
ASIAN STUDIES 197B: Beginning Korean I (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM
- Instructor: Chan Young Park
ASIAN STUDIES 397B: Bridging Asia & Asian America Colloquium (Required Certificate Course)
- Time & Location: Wed. 6pm-8pm, Lewis Hall 124
- Instructor: C.N. Le
- Description: This is one of the two required courses that all Certificate students must eventually take. This course is a weekly seminar that combines class discussions, guest speakers, film screenings, and online activities focusing on the political, economic, and cultural connections between Asia and Asian America. Meeting in Lewis Hall (the location of the Asian & Asian American residential community floor), this course is also part of the "Living and Learning Program" that connects a student's academic learning to the his/her personal experiences and real-world social environment.
CHINESE 120: Non-Intensive Elementrary Chinese II (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM, MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM, or MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM
- Instructor: Yi-Hsien Ho or Yi Feng
CHINESE 126: Intensive Elementrary Chinese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM or TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Yi Feng
CHINESE 127: Intensive Elementrary Chinese I: Reading and Writing (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Yi Feng
CHINESE 140: Chinese Script I (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Zhongwei Shen
CHINESE 285: Lang Suite Convrsatn (Asian Studies)
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Ping Geng
CHINESE 326: Intensive Intermediate Chinese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 1:00PM - 2:15PM or TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM
- Instructor: Yu Liu
CHINESE 375: Intro to Chinese Linguistics (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 2:30PM - 3:45PM
- Instructor: Zhongwei Shen
CHINESE 394WI: Women in Chinese Cultures (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Suet-Ying Chiu
CHINESE 426: Advanced Modern Chinese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM
- Instructor: Yu Liu
CHINESE 450: Elementary Classical Chinese (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM
- Instructor: David Schneider
COMMUNICATION 297A: Intro to Global Communication (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 4:00PM - 5:15PM, Engineering Lab II Room 119
- Instructor: Henry Geddes
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 141: Good & Evil: East-West (Asian or Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM, 10:10AM - 11:00AM, 11:15AM - 12:05PM, 12:20PM - 1:10PM, or 1:25PM - 2:15PM
- Instructor: TBA
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 290H: From Renaissance to Revolution: Modern Arabic Literature in Comparative Perspective (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 4:00PM - 5:15PM
- Instructor: Annette Lienau
ECONOMICS 144H: Political Economy of Racism (Asian American Studies)
- Time: TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM
- Instructor: Lisa Saunders
ECONOMICS 322: International Trade (Asian or Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM
- Instructor: TBA
EDUCATION 115: Embracing Diversity (Asian American Studies)
- Time: Th 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Benita Barnes
EDUCATION 210: Social Diversity in Education (Asian American Studies)
- Time: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Maurianne Adams
EDUCATION 229: International Education (Asian Studies)
- Time & Location: Tu 4:00PM - 6:30PM
- Instructor: Cristine Smith
EDUCATION 258: Educating for Social Justice & Diversity Through Peer Theater (Asian American Studies)
- Time: Tu 4:00PM - 6:30PM
- Instructor: Michael Dodge
EDUCATION 392D: Social Issues Workshop: Racism (Asian American Studies)
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Kerrita Mayfield
ENGLISH 117: Ethnic American Literature (Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM
- Instructor: TBA
ENGLISH 204: Introduction to Asian American Literature (Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM
- Instructor: Asha Nadkarni
- Description: Introduction to Asian American Literature as an evolving field and to the history, politics, and cultural production of Asian American communities. Themes may include citizenship, borders, space, youth culture, labor, and the body, using texts by and about Asian Americans, including theoretical works, fiction, ethnographic studies, and documentary film.
ENGLISH 270: American Identities (Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM
- Instructor: Ron Welburn
FIVE COLLEGE CENTER WORLD LANGUAGES (Asian Studies)
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Elizabeth Mazzocco
- Description: The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages offers courses in several Asian languages, including Indonesian, Urdu, Hindi, Thai, Arabic, Malay, and Vietnamese. Please see their website for more details.
HISTORY 115: China: 1600 to Present (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWe 2:30PM - 3:20PM
- Instructor: Stephen Platt
HISTORY 130: Middle East History I (Asian Studies)
- Time & Location: TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM, Fernald Hall 11
- Instructor: Anne Broadbridge
HISTORY 247: Empire, Race, and the Philippines (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Richard Chu
HISTORY 269: The American War in Vietnam (Asian Studies)
- Time & Location: MoWe 9:05AM - 9:55AM, Fernald Hall 11
- Instructor: Christian Appy
HISTORY 343H: Modern Middle East (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWe 4:40PM - 5:55PM
- Instructor: Mary Wilson
JAPANESE 120: Non-Intensive Elementary Japanese II (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM or 11:15AM - 12:05PM
- Instructor: Yuki Yoshimura
JAPANESE 126: Intensive Elementary Japanese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM or 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: TBA
JAPANESE 135: Japanese Art and Culture (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 4:00PM - 5:15PM
- Instructor: Doris Bargen
JAPANESE 144: Japanese Modern Literature (Asian Studies)
- Time & Location: MoWe 11:15AM - 12:05PM, Holdsworth Hall 203
- Instructor: Stephen Forrest
JAPANESE 197M: Study Abroad in Japan (Asian Studies)
- Time: Fr 3:35PM - 4:25PM
- Instructor: Stephen Forrest
JAPANESE 285: Language Suite Conversation (Asian Studies)
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Yuro Takahashi
JAPANESE 326: Intensive Intermediate Japanese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM or 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Mako Koyama
JAPANESE 391G: Queer Japan in Literature & Culture (Asian Studies)
- Time: We 3:35PM - 6:30PM
- Instructor: Stephen Miller
JAPANESE 497A: Readings in Modern Japanese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM
- Instructor: Amanda Seaman
JAPANESE 497B: Contemporary Japanese I (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM
- Instructor: Mako Koyama
LABOR STUDIES 190A: Labor and the Global Economy (Asian or Asian American Studies)
- Time: Th 2:30PM - 3:45PM
- Instructor: Alejandro Reuss
LEGAL STUDIES 375: Human Rights & Wrongs (Asian or Asian American Studies)
- Time: TuTh 11:15AM - 12:30PM
- Instructor: Lauren McCarthy
POLITICAL SCIENCE 391S: Politics of the "Arab Spring" (Asian American Studies)
- Time: Online Course
- Instructor: Mohammed Elghoul
PSYCHOLOGY 391AD: Psychology of Adoption (Asian American Studies)
- Time & Location: We 4:40PM - 7:10PM, Bartlett Hall room 206
- Instructor: Harold Grotevant
PSYCHOLOGY 391SS: Prejudice & Intergroup Relations (Asian Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 2:30PM - 3:20PM
- Instructor: Linda Tropp
SOCIOLOGY 240: Sociology of the Asian American Experience (Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM
- Instructor: C.N. Le
- Description: This course -- required for the AAAS Certificate, Asian American Studies Concentration -- explores both the similarities and differences in the histories, experiences, and cultures within the Asian American population, using a mix of lecture, readings, class discussions, films & videos, and student-designed projects. We will also examine specific issues including immigration to the U.S., assimilation and ethnic identity, media images and popular culture, demographic trends, ethnic enclaves, anti-Asian discrimination, socioeconomic mobility, gender dynamics, and emerging connections between Asia and Asian Americans.
SOCIOLOGY 340: Race Relations (Asian American Studies)
- Time: MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM or 2:30PM - 3:20PM
- Instructor: TBA
SOCIOLOGY 392R: Racialization & Immigration (Asian American Studies)
- Time: TuTh 2:30PM - 3:45PM
- Instructor: Sujani Reddy
THEATER 130: Contemporary Playwrights of Color (Asian American Studies)
- Time: TuTh 2:30PM - 3:45PM, French Hall 209
- Instructor: Priscilla Page
WOMEN, GENDER, SEXUALITY STUDIES 392AA: Asian American Feminisms (Asian American Studies)
- Time: Th 2:30PM - 5:00PM
- Instructor: Miliann Kang
- Description: How have the figures of the Chinese bachelor, the geisha, the war bride, the hermaphrodite, the orphan, the tiger mother, the Asian nerd, the rice king and queen, and the trafficked woman shaped understandings of Asian Americans, and how have these representations been critiqued by Asian American feminist scholars and writers? Is there a body of work that constitutes “Asian American feminism(s)” and what are its distinctive contributions to the fields of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and Ethnic Studies? How does this body of work illuminate historical and contemporary configurations of gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, citizenship, migration, empire, war, neoliberalism and globalization? In exploring these questions, this course examines Asian American histories, bodies, identities, diasporic communities, representations, and politics through multi- and interdisciplinary approaches, including social science research, literature, popular representations, film, poetry and art. The course is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates (contact the professor if you have any questions about eligibility). It fulfills honors requirements for undergraduates (as it will involve in-depth readings, presentations and independent research) but is also open to non-honors students who are willing to work hard. It also fulfills the critical race feminisms or transnational feminisms requirement for graduate feminist certificate students and undergraduate majors and minors.
Courses at other Five College Campuses
Please search the Five College Course Catalog for possible courses taught at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mt. Holyoke College, and/or Smith College related to Asia or Asian Americans and then contact Prof. C.N. Le at to confirm that it counts toward the UMass Amherst Asian/Asian American Studies Certificate.
