FALL 2004 COURSES

AAS 100 Introduction to Asian American Studies
3 hours. Meets Gen Ed requirements for Social Sciences and US Minority Cultures
This is an introductory course that paints a broad picture of Asian Pacific American experiences in the U.S. over time. It addresses the legal statutes, politics, and events that affected Asian Americans historically. In addition to background into the broad experiences of Asian Americans, the course provides personal testimonials through autobiographical texts of what it was like for Asian Americans to experience racism and other kinds of discrimination. Additionally, we will use films and videos to consider Asian American experiences through the lens of cinema and television. The course concludes with a discussion of more contemporary experiences of Asian Americans, with emphases placed on the war in Southeast Asia, the Asian American movement, the movement for redress for the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, Asian American feminism, and contemporary transnational experiences. AAS 100 is the gateway course to the AAS minor.
29646 Lecture/ Discussion A 1:00pm-2:20pm TR 124 Burrill Hall Cacho
41758 Lecture/ Discussion B 02:00pm-03:20pm MW 374 Lincoln Hall Rana- 2nd section

AAS 199 Open Undergraduate Seminar: American Ethnic Theatre
Meets with ENGL 199 and THEAT 199
This course surveys the representations of ethnic identities in American theatre since the nineteenth century. The theatrical stage has been the site of tension amongst different ethnic groups, and the dramatic resolution of such tension has often led to the reaffirmation of the hegemonic structure and imagination. Whether the ethnic character on stage is ridiculed (as in the case of the Irish drunk) or feared (as in the case of the black brute), its representation has reflected the emerging narrative of American nationhood and identity. Also, the invisibility of certain ethnic characters, especially Asian Americans, on American stages has revealed the processes of exclusion and inclusion in the making of American democracy. Readings in the course will include plays, historical documents, and scholarly articles.
Info TBA 3:00pm-4:30pm MW 4-503KCPA Mendoza

AAS 224 Asian American Historical Sociology
Also SOC 224
3 hours. Meets Gen Ed requirements for US Minority Cultures
Explores concepts of colonization, international labor migration, race, nation, assimilation, and class formation through socio-historical examinations of diverse groups in Hawai'i presently categorized as Asian Americans.
Prerequisite: SOC 100 or a course in Asian American Studies is recommended.
39862 Lecture 1 12:00pm-1:20pm TR 304 Lincoln Hall

AAS 286 Introduction to Asian American Literature
Also ENGL 286
This course is an introductory survey of the themes and issues of Asian American literature. The readings will explore the historical, cultural and social matters important to Asians in America. By exploring how "Asian American" is imagined by various writers we will address what "literature" is and the many forms it can take. Primary readings will consist of selected poetry, short stories, autobiographies and novels. We will also consider literary criticism and historical writings to sharpen our thinking of how social identities are implicated in the categories of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, etc. In mapping Asian American literature our aim will be to understand this literary movement in the context of struggles in the larger American and global experience.
Info TBA

AAS 290 Individual Study- Asian American Studies Internship
3 hours
An opportunity for students to gain valuable experience and knowledge in Asian American Studies through readings and service learning. The course will provide students with a deeper understanding of key Asian American issues and the role of Asian American Studies in higher education. For more information or to register, contact Sharon Lee, Assistant Director of the AASP at 244-9530, lee1@uiuc.edu.
Conference 10-11:30 F AAS building Lee

AAS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
Also AFRO 310, EPS 310, LLS 310
2-4 hours. Meets Gen Ed Requirements for Advanced Composition and US Minority Cultures
This class studies race and cultural diversity from the Colonial era to the present; the evolution of racial ideology in an ethnically heterogeneous society; the impact of race on the structures and operations of fundamental social institutions; and the role of race in contemporary politics and popular culture.
33511 Lecture AL1 2:00pm-3:50pm T 166 Education Bldg Anderson
33764 Discussion section AD1 2:00pm-3:50pm R 385 Education Bldg
33770 Discussion section AD2 2:00pm-3:50pm R 389 Education Bldg

AAS 397 Asian Families in America
Also SOC W 397
3 hours. Meets Gen Ed requirements for Social Sciences and US Minority Cultures
Offers a comparative analysis of Asian families as they cope and adapt to American society. Examines: 1) how families from four major Asian American groups (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean) function in American society; 2) how these families compare to families in their country of origin; and 3) how these families are similar to or different from the "typical American" family. Includes visits to Asian cultural institutions and with Asian families.
33282 Lecture Discussion A 10:00am-11:20am TR 1203 W Oregon Room 102 Balgopal

AAS 484 Asian Diasporas
Also ANTH 484
3 undergraduate or 4 graduate hours.
Prerequisite: ANTH 184 or 284 or consent of instructor.
The course situates Asian diasporic movement within a comparative and transnational framework that broadens the conceptual and theoretical foundations of traditional area and ethnic studies. Using Asian American communities as points of comparison with other Asian diasporic communities in the world, the course also brings together the histories, methodologies and theories of ethnic, area, postcolonial and global/transnational studies. By utilizing various texts from anthropology, sociology, geography, urban studies, political economy, and cultural studies, the course aims to provide students the opportunity to examine Asian American issues within emerging debates around globalization. The course presents concepts and theories of globalization, diaspora and transnationalism as they are implicated in Asian immigration, travel and mobility in the late twentieth century and in the new millennium.
40284 Lecture A 5:00pm-6:20pm TR 113 Davenport Manalansan

AAS 490 Adv Topics in Asian Am Studies- Asian American Culture and Performance
Meets with DANC 551 Section ST
3 hours
This class will introduce students to a wide range of movement practices and choreographic projects created by Asian American choreographers and performers. It will look at both social and theatrical forms in order to examine how Asian American artists use ideologies of artistic "traditions" and "innovations" to embody cultural heritage, stage political protests, and express artistic visions. Meets with Dance 551.
31311 Lecture /Discussion AA 11:00am-12:20pm TR 907 ½ W. Nevada Room 109 Wong

AAS 490 Adv Topics in Asian American Studies- Constructing Deviance through Gendered Racialization
Meets with LLS 390 and GWS 390 3 or 4 hours
Examines how Asian Americans, Latinas/os, African Americans, and Native Americans have been differentially racialized and gendered through law, work, and culture. This comparative approach emphasizes that racial groups are narrated through discourses of gender deviance in relation to one another. This serves to privatize social problems as merely symptoms of dysfunctional families or pathological neighborhoods while encouraging the intensification of surveillance, incarceration, exploitation, and gendered stratification. As an interdisciplinary course, we will read scholarship from legal studies, media studies, sociology, and cultural studies.
41524 Lecture 2:00pm-3:50pm MW 207 Psychology Lab Cacho

AAS 490 Advanced Topics in Asian American Studies: SOUTH ASIAN AMERICA
3 HOURS
What does South Asian America look like? The shape that this space takes is in large part due to the complex history of cultural politics and social movements of South Asian Americans. This course elaborates on these issues by investigating how South Asians forge their communities in the United States from political organizing to the creative arts to an emergent desi youth culture that includes music cultures such as bhangra, hip hop, punk and jazz. To locate the place of South Asians in America we will examine the process of racialization to understand how this intersects with sexism, homophobia, classism, and other forms of systematic oppression. From the Ghadar Party in the early twentieth century to the post-1965 waves of immigration, the agenda of this class is to situate South Asian history in America. Our focus will shift between understanding the heterogeneity of South Asians based on national, cultural, ethnic, religious, and communal differences, to the ways in which coalitions are formed with other groups of color through acts of solidarity and examples of polyculturalism.
41759 lecture-discussion B 05:00 PM - 06:20 PM MW room 140Lincoln Hall Rana, J

AFFILIATED COURSES
(note: these courses may not fulfill AAS minor requirements. Please contact Sharon Lee, AAS academic advisory with questions, lee1@uiuc.edu)

CWL 199 Relocating Asian-ness Through Diasporic and Transnational Literature
Section DD, 1 to 5 hours
What does it mean to be Asian? Are we still relying on politically incorrect and outdated stereotypical characteristics to define the broad category of Asian identities? With the rising of recent interest in Diaspora studies and transnationalism in the academia, what kind of identity politics should we adopt in order to relocate and restructure transforming Asian identities in a global context? The objective of this course is to address these questions in general by 1) introducing students to Diasporic and Transnational Literature from three Asian cultural traditions: South Asian (Indian and Pakistani), Japanese, and Chinese; and by 2) examining the common themes and aesthetics concerning diasporic and transnational writers and filmmakers. How does one write in exile? How does one negotiate between cultures in order to textualize one's identity or that of a community? What role does language play in texts by authors who write in non-native languages? By investigating how texts of different cultural settings articulate the fantasies and desires of identity formation and relocation, in relation to issues such as nationalism, ethnicity, gender, history writing, nostalgia, modernity, coloniality, postmodernity, we will eventually acquire skills to execute critical thinking while we read materials dealing with transnational and diasporic themes.
This course studies contemporary poetry, short stories, novels, plays and films by authors and directors including Salman Rushdie, Sara Suleri, Michael Ondaatje, Dai Sijie, Gao Xingjian, Shan Sa, Chu T'ien-Wen, Tsai Ming-Ling, Wayne Wong, Li-Young Lee, Kazuo Ishiguro, John Okada, Shusaku Endo, etc.
40492 TR 10-11:20am G30 Foreign Languages E. K Tan

History 300 Topics In Film And History- Pan-Chinese Cinemas: In Search of Modernity and Globalization
Same as CINE 300
This course deals with the varied and interconnected histories of Chinese cinemas in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and diasporic Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and North America from the 1920s to today. It approaches Chinese cinemas as both a social practice and a part of the modern urban popular cultural experiences in a period marked by wars, revolutions, and economic transformation. The rise of cinemas in China were embedded in a historical context of imperialism and nationalism, and their developments have been interwoven with a vision for cultural modernity and a global audience. These contexts and visions define the themes for this course. Course requirements include research paper, film reviews, and class presentations.
34346 Lecture-disc PF 1:00pm-2:50pm MW 137 Armory Fu

History 472 Immigrant America
3 or 4 hours
A survey of 20th century immigration to the United States, with a particular focus on migrants from Asia and Latin America. The course will cover international contexts for migration, race, class, and gender issues, and the national debates on immigration. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college American history or consent of instructor.
41444 Lecture/ disc G4 10-11:20AM TR 396 Lincoln Hall Espiritu 4 hrs
41443 Lecture/ disc U3 10-11:20AM TR 396 Lincoln Hall Espiritu 3 hrs

History 502 Problems in Comparative History-Empire, Slavery and State: Filipino History in Global Perspective
4 hours
Understanding of Philippine history is becoming increasingly important in light of contemporary global developments. While the "First World" has seen the rise of flexible capitalism and as new Asian "tigers" like China, Taiwan, and Singapore have developed transnational systems that maximize their position in international trade, the Philippines has paradoxically increased its export of labor and professional personnel while increasingly attracting outsourcing ventures. Next to Mexico, the Philippines is the world's second largest exporter of foreign workers, with remittances totaling $8 billion, a significant proportion of the country's gross national product. Filipinos today are found throughout East and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Yet, while there are numerous studies of contemporary Filipino migration, there have hitherto been few searching analysis of the colonial and post-colonial histories of the Philippines and the cultural consequences of Filipino migration. This course will attempt to remedy these gaps through a survey of Philippine history that focuses on the global, transnational, and migrant dimensions of the Filipino past. It will survey critical aspects of Filipino history throughout the 20th century - the Philippine anti-colonial struggle against Spain, the Spanish-American and the U. S. - Philippine Wars, the American encounter with slavery, the formation of the colonial state, the rise of colonial modernity and expatriate Filipino cultures in the Pacific Islands and the United States, the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, and the rise of peasant insurgencies in the post-war era. These topics will be explored in a comparative and transnational dimension that connects Philippine history to the histories of the Spanish, American, and Japanese empires, histories of nationalism, race, and gender, and worldwide experiences of slavery, state formation, and cultural change.
32515 Discussion-Recitation AE 1-2:50pm T 219 Gregory Espiritu