Spring 2005: UMass Amherst Courses
Asian Studies 162: Folktales & Legends of Vietnam
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue. 2:30-5:15 pm
- Instructor: Nguyen, Nhiem
Asian Studies 397B: Bridging Asia and Asian America ("The Colloquium")
- Location: Dwight Hall Lounge
- Time: Thur. 4:00-6:00 pm (2 credit course)
- Instructor: Schlund-Vials, Cathy, J
Asian Studies 397E: Demography of Minority Groups
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tues. & Thur. 4:00 pm-5:15 pm
- Instructor: Le, C.N.
- See Sociology 361 for description
Asian Studies 491A: Senior Seminar
- Location: TBA
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Le, C.N.
Chinese 141: Chinese Script II
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 2:30-3:20 pm
- Instructor: Shen, Zhongwei
Chinese 150: People and Languages of China
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 11:15 am-12:45 pm
- Instructor: Shen, Zhongwei
Chinese 197D: Modern China through Literature and Film
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 2:30-3:45 pm
- Instructor: Xiao, Yun
Chinese 397C: Chinese Culture and Business
- Location: TBA
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Shen, Zhongwei
Chinese 527: Modern Chinese Literature II
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 9:30-10:45 am
- Instructor: Luo, Shaodan
Communication 397T: Contemporary World Cinema
- Location: Herter 227
- Time: Mon. & Wed. 3:35pm - 5:30pm
- Instructor: Ciecko, Anne
CompLit 122: Spiritual Autobiography
- 2 Sessions; check Spire for detailed information
CompLit 141: Good & Evil: East-West
- 3 Sessions; check Spire for detailed information
CompLit 151: Fiction East & West
- Location: Hasbrouck 134
- Time: Tue., Thur. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
- Instructor: Balce, Nerissa
CompLit 693V: Empire and Visual Culture (Graduate Level)
- Location: TBA
- Time: Thur. 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Instructor: Balce, Nerissa
Education 615Q: Workshop in Education: Program Development and Evaluation for Bilingual/ESL/ Multicultural Education
- Location: TBA
- Time: TBA
- Instructor: Austin, Theresa
- Students will conceptualize and plan for Summer Language Camps in ESL, Japanese, Chinese,Spanish,Russian,etc.. Students taking the course must be available to participate in the Camps (if an undergarduate or masters student) or in the Teacher Education Program (if a doctoral). Permission of Instructor needed to register
English 117: Ethnic American Literature
- 2 Sessions; check Spire for detailed information
English 270: American Identities
- Location: Thom 104
- Time: Tue., Thur. 9:30-10:45 am
- Instructor: Bromell, Nicholas Knowles
History 114: History of China I
- Location: SOM 133
- Time: Mon., Wed. 2:30-3:20 pm
- Instructor: Schmalzer, Sigrid
History 115: History of China II
- Location: SOM 133
- Time: Mon., Wed. 10:10-11:00 am
- Instructor: Platt, Stephen R
History 116: History of East Asia-Japan
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon., Wed. 1:25-2:15 pm
- Instructor: Minear, Richard H
History 131: Middle East History II
- Location: Hasbrouck 134
- Time: Tue., Thur. 4:00-5:15 pm
- Instructor: Wilson, Mary C
History 297E: US Empire Asian Pacific American History
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
- Instructor: Chu, Richard T
History 346: Modern China 20th Century
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
- Instructor: Schmalzer, Sigrid
History 391I: Islamic Movements
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 11:15 am-12:30 pm
- Instructor: Broadbridge, Anne F
History 391V: Vietnam
- Location: Goessmann 20
- Time: Tue., Thur. 9:30-10:20 am
- Instructor: Appy, Christian G
History 402: US-East Asia Relations
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon. 1:25-3:55 pm
- Instructor: Pelz, Stephen E
Japanese 143: Courtly Romance and Warrior Epic
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 11:15 am-12:30 pm
- Instructor: Bargen, Doris Gertrud
Japanese 190B: Japanese Fiction through Film
- Location: Hert 227
- Time: Tue., Thur. 1:00-2:15 pm
- Instructor: Holman, Martin
Japanese 197F: Haiku Roots: Japanese Poetic Tradition
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
- Instructor: Forrest, Stephen M
Japanese 392B: Death in Japanese Culture
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon. 2:30-5:30 pm
- Instructor: Sono, Reiko
Japanese 499D: Rebels and Martyrs
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue. 1:00 am-3:45 pm
- Instructor: Bargen, Doris Gertrud
Japanese 592B: Death in Japanese Culture
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon. 2:30-5:30 pm
- Instructor: Sono, Reiko
Sociology 244: Sociology of Immigration
- Location: TBA
- Time: Mon., Wed., Fri. 11:15 am-12:05 pm
- Instructor: Lundquist, Jennifer H
Sociology 361: Demography of Minority Groups
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tues. & Thur. 4:00 pm-5:15 pm
- Instructor: Le, C.N.
- SPIRE Class Number: 18949
- This course examines how demographic analysis helps students to understand the socioeconomic characteristics of racial/ethnic minority groups in the U.S., with a particular focus on Asian Americans. The course will first focus on basic concepts and methods of measurement in demography and population studies, then focus on specific social issues that affect groups of color. These include education, immigration, assimilation and ethnic identity, work and employment, income mobility, marriage, family structure, residence and homeownership, crime, etc. Students will also have the opportunity to conduct their own research projects using up-to-date data from the Census and other sources.
WOST (Women's Studies) 296Q: Asian American Women Writers: Identity and Language, a Writing Workshop
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tues. & Thur. 4:00 pm-5:15 pm
- Instructor: Kang, Milian
- This course is not listed on SPIRE and is being registered as an independent study, so interested student should fill out a form in the Women's Studies office (Bartlett 208). Any questions, please contact sjuliettelee@hotmail.com
- Reading literary and critical texts in concert, we will explore how Asian-American women writers negotiate language and identity. The class will be organized thematically, allowing us to inspect the various contexts in which gender and ethnic identity frequently collide in the experience of Asian American women. We will discuss issues such as: the family/performing and redefining tradition; labor and gender; sexuality and the body; history/politics and agency; cultural hybridity; and sexual relationships/gender relations. Concurrent with the discussion of readings, students will also produce their own creative work that will contribute to the ongoing dialogue.
Spring 2005: Amherst College Courses
American Studies 80 (an all-level course): Hapa Issues: Asian Americans of Mixed Racial Descent.
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 11:30 am-12:50 pm
- Instructor: TBA
- Growing numbers of inter-racial marriages and the products of these marriages--children of mixed racial descent--have contibuted to the increasing diversity of America in the 21st century. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the 2000 Census allowed people to claim more than one racial background for the first time. In this course, we will evaluate the experiences of hapas--Asians of mixed racial descent--through a historical and comparative framework. This class will explore inter-racial and inter-ethnic marriage trends in various Asian communities in the U.S. in order to highlight the complexity of the Asian American experience. Additionally, we will compare the experiences of hapas representing a range of backgrounds, including those of Asian/White ancestry as well as Asian/Black heritage. Some of the specific topics that will be covered inthis course include the following: racial and ethnic community membership and belonging; the dynamics of inter-racial relationships; identity, authenticity, and choice; and the gender identities of mixed race individuals. This course highlights the simultaneous fluidity and social construction of race while marking its real impact on everyday and structural aspects of American life.
Spring 2005: Hampshire College Courses
HACU 0177: Reading Buddhist Sutras
- Location: FPH 104
- Time: Wed. 4:00-5:20 pm
- Instructor: D'Amato, Mario
SS 0145: Constructing Tibet
- Location: FPH 101
- Time: Tue., Thur. 2:00-3:20 pm
- Instructor: Zablocki, Abraham
SS 0297: Transnational Identity of Asian Diaspora
- Location: FPH 104
- Time: Thur. 6:00-9:00 pm
- Instructor: Kim, Lili and Nitasha Sharma
- This comparative seminar focuses on the migration and settlement processes of various Asian diasporas throughout the world through an historical and contemporary approach. We will analyze the experiences of Asian migrants and their children in various countries by focusing on their processes of migration, the historical development of diasporic communities, and the role of cultural production (music, art, literature, performance). In this co-taught class, students will engage with theories of globalization and transnationalism, cultural production, community formation, ethnicity, identity and authenticity. This course seeks to push the boundaries of Asian American Studies beyond the borders of America, challenge the division of "East" and "West," highlight the long legacy of global economies, and understand how individuals and communities make their "home away from home."
Spring 2005: Mount Holyoke College Courses
301 (02): Globalization and Transnationalism in Asian American Literature and Film
- Location: FPH 104
- Time: Wed. 1:00-3:00 pm
- Instructor: Santa Ana, Jeff
- This seminar will focus on recent critical attention paid to globalization and transnationalism in Asian American literary and cultural studies. We will examine prose narratives, films, and criticism by Asian Americans that feature the experience of crossing national borders and living in the global economy of North America. We will focus on three particular themes concerning transnationalism and globalization in contemporary Asian American literature and film: (1) the multiple displacements of postcolonial Asian women in Canada and the U.S., (2) the journey of Asian Americans to Asia either as first visit to their "ancestral" land or as return, and in some cases, as tourist destination; and (3) the interconnections-historical, political, personal, economic-between American lives and Asian lives in the global cities of the United States. Ultimately, the course materials will offer us a way to critique current conceptions of transnational mobility and identity in an age of globalization. Authors include Rachna Mara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lydia Minatoya, Peter Bacho, Andrew X. Pham, Ruth Ozeki, and Chang-rae Lee. Films include Chutney Popcorn, Three Seasons, Daughter from Danang, and First-person Plural.
Spring 2005: Smith College Courses
AMS 221: Pacific Empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries and the A/P/A Communities: The Race to World Dominance and the Domination of Race
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 3:00-4:15 pm
- Instructor: A href="mailto:rtchu@history.umass.edu">Chu, Richard
- How does a study of "empire" help us understand the history of migration? This course seeks to examine this question by focusing on the Pacific empires of the 19th and 20th centuries in order to help us better understand the diasporic movement of Asian-Pacific Islanders to the United States. The presence of a growing and significant Asian-Pacific-Islander-American community in the United States in the last 150 years is a product of various historical forces, but courses and studies about them often place their histories strictly or solely within the boundaries of "American" studies. This course will link their lives with the wider political and socio-economic developments in their original homelands in the Asia-Pacific region, at a time when European, American, and Asian (Chinese and Japanese) competed for world dominance. This course will therefore focus on the Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, American, and British empires in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries, and will include a general overview of the A/P/A communities impacted by their imperial projects. Themes to be discussed include imperialism, racism, gender, colonialism, neo-colonialism, globalization, transnationalism, and migration.
AMS 230: The Asian American Experience
- Location: TBA
- Time: Wed. 1:00-2:30 pm
- Instructor: Schlund-Vials, Cathy J
- We will, through the course of the semester, consider the many histories, experiences, and cultures that shape and define the ever-changing, ever-evolving field of Asian American Studies, an interdisciplinary space marked by multiple approaches, voices, issues, and themes. By no means will our explorations be exhaustive or comprehensive - given the immense diversity of Asian/Pacific Islander communities, such a goal is impossible. Instead, we will look at the field of Asian American Studies (with its many communities) through a variety of lenses - history, literature, photography, art, and film - and our discussions will be contextualized through these different perspectives. We will cover the first wave of Asian immigration in the 19th century, the rise of anti-Asian movements, the experiences of Asian Americans during World War II, the emergence of the Asian American movement in the 1960s, and the new wave of post-1965 Asian immigration. And, we will also look at the ways in which Asian American comunities transform and are transformed by their relationships to other groups of color. Racial formation, immigration, citizenship, transnationalism, gender, class, and war will serve as foundational topics in the course, and we will attempt to map some of the collisions that occur among these different thematic foci.
ENG267: Asian American Literature
- Location: TBA
- Time: Tue., Thur. 1:00-2:20 pm
- Instructor: Cheung, Floyd
- Although we sometimes think only of modern-day authors like David Henry Hwang or lê thi diem thúy when we think of Asian American literature, in fact Asian Americans have published writings in English since at least 1887. In this course, we will read selected Asian American poetry, autobiographies, novels, short stories, and plays produced from the late nineteenth century until the present. This year, we will juxtapose earlier and more contemporary texts to highlight continuities and to investigate contrasts within and across five thematic units: "Where are you from?": The Outsider Racialization of Asian Americans; Immigrants and Refugees Sell-out or Subversion: Reading Responses to Images of Asian Americans; The Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality; Locating Interethnic Alliance
