FALL 2008 COURSESCourses are offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

AAS 100 Intro Asian American Studies
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a UIUC Social Sciences, and US Minority Culture(s) course.

CRN 29646 lecture AL1 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM T room 180 Bevier Hall, Rana, J.
All students must also enroll for 1 discussion-recitation section:
CRN 41758 discussion-recitation AD1 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM R 137 Henry Administration Bldg, Chung, J.
CRN 47100 discussion-recitation AD2 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM R 317 Gregory Hall, Lam, K.
CRN 47102 discussion-recitation AD3 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM R 209 David Kinley Hall, Arnaldo, C.
CRN 51248 discussion-recitation AD4 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM R 137 Henry Administration Bldg, Chung, J.
CRN 51249 discussion-recitation AD2 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM R 317 Gregory Hall, Lam, K.
CRN 51932 discussion-recitation AD3 03:00 PM - 03:50 PM R 209 David Kinley Hall, Arnaldo, C.

AAS 120 Intro to Asian Am Pop Culture
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a US Minority Culture(s) course.

CRN 47170 lecture-discussion A 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM MW 103 Talbot Laboratory, Nguyen, M.
CRN 51394 lecture-discussion b 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM MW 403 Armory, Wong, Y.

AAS 184: Asian American Cultures
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Social Sciences, and US Minority Culture(s) course.
CRN 37060 lecture-discussion 1 02:00 PM - 03:20 PM TR 228 Natural History Bldg, Manalansan, M

AAS 199 Undergraduate Open Seminar
Topic:Race in Chicago.
In the heart of the Midwast, the city of Chicago is notoriiously divided by race evident in housing, education, and economic income. Called the "second city," the boon of ethnic diversity is parralleled by the pitfalls of racial segregration.Using interdisciplinary resources drawn from the social sciences and the humanities, we will study the development of Chicago as a racialized urban space through the prominent issues of migration, transnationalism, housing, segregation, education, and community organizing.

Registration restricted to freshman. Students should only enroll in one Discovery course.
CRN 50585 lecture-discussion JRD 10:00 AM - 12:20 PM R 174 Wohlers Hall, Rana, J.

AAS 286 Asian American Literature
Same as ENG 286.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for Literature and the Arts, and US Minority Culture(s) course. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

CRN 41932 lecture-discussion B 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM MWF 226 Wohlers Hall, Lee, M.

AAS 299 Begin Topics Asian Am Studies
Topic: The Politics of Hip Hop and Urban Space.
This course examines hip hop as a culture, politics, and commodity. We will investigate hip hop?s emergence from and relation to urban landscapes deeply impacted by state surveillance, cuts in social welfare programs, immigration, and the global restructuring of capital. Our investigation will also consider the viability of a ?politics of hip hop? in the wake of hip hop?s rising value as a global commodity. This class will also analyze hip hop as a transnational site in which gendered and sexual identities are created, contested, and rearticulated.

CRN 49989 lecture-discussion DC 09:00 AM - 10:20 AM MW 29 Psychology Building, Coyoca, W.
Meets with LLS 296, CRN 49777, section A


Topic: Asian American Women Writers.
CRN 50404 lecture-discussion Q 12:30 PM - 01:45 PM TR 131 English Bldg, Koshy, S.
Meets with ENGL 280, CRN 51930, section Q, and GWS 280, CRN 51931, section Q.

AAS 310 Race and Cultural Diversity
Same as AFRO 310, EPS 310, and LLS 310.
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Advanced Composition, and US Minority Culture(s)course.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.
CRN 33770 discussion-recitation A 02:00 PM - 03:50 PM R 33 Education Bldg
lecture A 02:00 PM - 03:50 PM T 166 Education Bldg, Taaffe, C.; Anderson, J

CRN 33764 discussion-recitation B 02:00 PM - 03:50 PM R 22 Education Bldg
lecture B 02:00 PM - 03:50 PM T 2 Education Bldg, Anderson, J; Kwakye,C

AAS 328 Asian Americans & Inequalities
Same as SOC 328.

CRN 49646 lecture-discussion MKJ 03:30 PM - 05:50 PM W 170 Wohlers Hall, Jung, M.

AAS 390 Intermed Topics Asian American Studies
Topic: Narratives of Empire
Narratives of Empire. Description: Examines literary devices and narrative techniques in Filipino, Pacific Islander, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American cultural texts. We will investigate how narratives of US empire, colonialism, and immigration negotiate, contest, and complicate the assumed conventions of coming of age novels. This is an intensive writing course that will train students how to critically analyze culture and write sophisticated essays.

CRN 51335 lecture-discussion LC 02:00 PM - 04:50 PM W G48 Foreign Languages Bldg, Cacho, L.
Meets with LLS 390, CRN 48478, section A, and GWS 390, CRN 48438, section KD.

AAS 397 Asian American in America
This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a Social Sciences, and US Minority Culture(s) course.
Same as HDFS 321 and SOCW 397. See SOCW 397.

CRN 33282 lecture-discussion A 04:00 PM - 05:20 PM TR 102 1203 W Oregon, Balgopal, P.

AAS 450 Asian American Ethnic Groups
Topic: Mixed Race Asian Americans.
This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods, Keanu Reeves, Kristin Kreuk, Dean Cain, and Rob Schneider to research about interracial dating, interracial families, mixed race children, and multiracial activism, the course provides an understanding of theories of race, identity, and culture as they relate to biracial and multiracial Asian Americans. The course provides a theoretical understanding of racial identity formation, focusing at first on more general theories of race, and then moving to the more specific issues of multiracial identity and politics. Analysis of TV, film, and cyberspace images of mixed race Asian Americans will also lead to an understanding of the social context of our everyday experiences. Through readings, lectures, discussions, and course assignments, students will gain a broader understanding of race and its application to people of mixed racial heritage.

CRN 47519 lecture-discussion KOG 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM TR G58 Foreign Languages Bldg, Ono, K.
CRN 47520 lecture-discussion KOU 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM TR G58 Foreign Languages Bldg, Ono, K.

AAS 490 Adv Topics in Asian Am Studies
Topic: Creative Non-fiction: Writing Memoir, Personal Narrative, and Life Histories.
Meets with LLS 496, CRN 52337, section DC (undergrads only course).
This course is a writing workshop focused on the craft of writing creatively about our own lives. We will discuss the art and creative processes of writing non-fiction. In this class we will also examine the relationship between form and content, stories and social issues. In addition to sharing our own creative pieces, we will also read and discuss memoirs, essays, and stories by published writers of color.

CRN 45440 lecture-discussion DC 09:00 AM - 11:50 AM T 174 Wohlers Hall, Coyoca, W

Topic: Transnational Sexualities
How are sexualities viewed differently as people and ideas cross national borders? How can our understandings of nations and races affect the way that sexuality is seen at home and abroad? How can the rhetoric of sexuality be used to justify and make sense of war? This course is designed to investigate the ways in which sexual identities change as national contexts change, as borders are crossed, and as definitions of race and gender shift. The course interrogates how national identities, modernities, and colonial narratives are built on ideas of racialized sexualities, and, as such, is particularly interested in the study of the queer diaspora. Areas of inquiry will include imperialism, immigration, war, tourism and globalization.

CRN 47824 lecture-discussion FN 03:00 PM - 05:50 PM T 241 Armory, Ngo, F.
CRN 47849 lecture-discussion FNU 03:00 PM - 05:50 PM T 241 Armory, Ngo, F.

Meets with GWS 490, sections FN (CRN 47820), FNU (CRN 47844), and LLS 496, sections FNG (CRN 52017), FN (CRN 52016).

590 Asian Am Studies Seminar
Topic: Race and Ethnography
Anthropology has for long held an important role in the debate on race, including how it is studied and its discussion in the public sphere. This course is an intensive graduate seminar of the study of the concepts of race and racism through the anthropological method of ethnography. Beginning with some of the important historical debates regarding the study of race as a social concept in anthropology, we will then approach recent case studies through a set of themes that theorize race as lived experience.

CRN 51251 lecture-discussion JR 03:00 PM - 05:50 PM W 103 Bevier Hall, Rana, J.

Meets with LLS 596, CRN 51888, section JR, AFRO 598, CRN 51975, section JR, and ANTH 515, CRN 52011, section JR.

Topic: Media, Metaphor, Marginality
This graduate seminar explores the role metaphors in media culture play in discursively constructing social marginality. In particular, metaphors have been used as a racializing device, such as when animality is assigned to people of color; when water and aquatic terminology is used to characterize immigrants; and when medical idioms work to justify segregation and exclusion. The seminar begins with a discussion of metaphor, then moves on to study different uses of metaphors to inscribe gendered, sexual, racial, and national marginalization. Readings include work by Susan Sontag, Jasbir Puar, Richard King, Caren Irr, Peter Murphy, Paige Dubois, and Avery Gordon.

CRN 49538 lecture-discussion KO 12:00 PM - 02:50 PM T 209 David Kinley Hall, Ono, K.

Meets with COMM 590, CRN 51643, section K.