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Asian American Studies Institute Director and Faculty Roger N. Buckley and Sam Lee working together.

The Asian American Studies Institute encourages students to explore the ways in which race, gender and class are shaped through immigration histories, social inequalities, changing global dynamics and shifting border politics through its course offerings.

 

Spring 2010

AASI 3222 - Asian Indian Women: Activism & Social Change in India and the United States
Also Offered as HRTS 3573 and SOCI 3222

MW 1:00 – 2:15

This course examines how gender, class and race and ethnicity structure the everyday lives of Asian Indian women in both societies. It also examines how Indian women have mobilized to change the social context of their lives. This course includes e-mail and person-to-person discussions with activists in India and the United States.

Bandana Purkayastha, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies

AASI 3531- Japanese Americans & World War II
Also Offered as HIST 3531

TTh 2:00 - 3:15

Japanese Americans and World War II examines the events that led to martial law in Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the forced removal and confinement of over 100,000 Americans and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry on the U.S. mainland after Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This course illuminates the wartime experiences of Japanese Americans and assesses some of the consequences of those events for all Americans.

Roger N. Buckley, Professor of History

Fall 2009

AASI 3201 – Introduction to Asian American Studies

MW 10:30 – 11:45 Art Building Room 107

This interdisciplinary course provides a general introduction to major themes in Asian Pacific American Studies through readings and class discussions, guest speakers, group projects, visits to community organizations and video screenings. This course will explore issues of identity, history and community, as well as aspects of what constitutes Asian American contemporary art and culture.

Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Asian American Studies

AASI 3212 – Asian American Literature
Also Offered as ENGL 3212-001

TuTh 9:30 – 10:45 CLAS Building Room 445

This course reviews novels, short stories, drama and poetry by and about Asian Americans. It will discuss significant cultural and historical moments for Asian Americans in different regions of the United States. It will also discuss pre and post 1965 “waves” of Asian immigration and exclusion, and how literature explores the difficulties of dislocation and relocation.

Cathy Schlund-Vials, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies

AASI 3220 – Asian American Art & Visual Culture
Also Offered as ARTH 3020

MW 1:30 – 2:45 – Art Building Room 107

This interdisciplinary course explores issues of contemporary Asian American identity in art and visual culture, with emphasis on the need for greater transcultural awareness and understanding in the fluid environment of the post-Cold War world where people, ideas and images swiftly traverse ever more porous national boundaries.

Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Asian American Studies

AASI 3221 – Sociological Perspectives on Asian American Women
Also Offered as SOCI 3221 and HRTS 3571

TuTh 12:30 – 1:45 Monteith Room 233

This course focuses on the social structures affecting the lives of different groups of Asian American women in the United States and relates current experiences of this group to larger socio-historical processes. This course also examines the different social hierarchies – gender, race and class – within which these women, originally from East, South and Southeast Asia, live their lives. The course will look at different institutions, investigate Asian American women’s experiences and explore some organized movements for social change.

Bandana Purkayastha, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies

AASI 3812 – Modern India 1500 to the Present
Also Offered as HIST 3812 – 001

TuTh 2:00 – 3:15 Asian American Cultural Center Multi-Media Room

This course examines the development of India from the Mughal and European invasions of the Sixteenth Century to the present. India’s remarkable synthesis of East and West, traditional and new, is the focus. The course comprises a series of lectures drawn from six main sections: India Today; Traditional India; India in the Muslim Period; The Music and Art of India; India in the European Period; and National and Independent India.

Roger N. Buckley, Professor of History