Courses for Fall 2019

	Title	Instructors	Location	Time	Description	Cross listings	Fulfills	Registration notes	Syllabus	Syllabus URL
ASAM 001-401	Asian Amer in Contemp So	Vani S Kulkarni	MCNB 395	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	This class will introduce you to sociological research of Asian Americans and engage in the "model minority" stereotype. We begin by a brief introduction to U.S. immigration history and sociological theories about assimilation and racial stratification. The class will also cover research on racial and ethnic identity, educational stratification, mass media images, interracial marriage, multiracials, transracial adoption, and the viability of an Asian American panethnic identity. We will also examine the similarities and differences of Asian Americans relative to other minority groups.	SOCI103401	Society Sector
ASAM 002-401	Asian-American Lit	Josephine N Park	STIT B21	TR 01:30 PM-03:00 PM	An overview of Asian American literature from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century to the present. This course covers a wide range of Asian American novels, plays, and poems, situating them in the contexts of Asian American history and minority communities and considering the variety of formal strategies these different texts take.	ENGL072401	Arts & Letters Sector Cultural Diversity in the US	Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen.
ASAM 003-401	Intro To Asian Amer Hist	Eiichiro Azuma	COHN 402	TR 03:00 PM-04:30 PM	This course provides an introduction to the history of Asian/Pacific Americans, focusing on the wide diversity of migrant experiences, as well as the continuing legacies of Orientalism on American-born APA's. Issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality will also be examined.	HIST155401	History & Tradition Sector Cultural Diversity in the US	Course is available to Freshmen and Upperclassmen.		https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2019C&course=ASAM003401
ASAM 160-401	South Asians in the Us	Fariha Khan	GLAB 102	TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM	This course investigates the everyday practices and customs of South Asians in America. Every immigrant group has its own history, customs, beliefs and values, making each unique while simultaneously a part of the "melting pot" or salad bowl" of American society. Yet how do people define themselves and their ethnicities living in a diasporic context? By taking into account the burgeoning South Asian American population as our model, this course will explore the basic themes surrounding the lives that immigrants are living in America, and more specifically the identity which the second generation, born and/or raised in American, is developing. South Asians in the U.S. will be divided thematically covering the topics of ethnicity, marriage, gender, religion, and pop culture. Reading and assignments will discuss a variety of issues and viewpoints that are a part of the fabric of South Asia, but will focus on the interpretation of such expressive culture in the United States.	SAST290401	Cultural Diversity in the US
ASAM 190-001	Intro Asian Am Studies: Introduction To Asian American Studies	Rupa Pillai	WILL 1	MW 02:00 PM-03:30 PM	According to the U.S. Census, there are approximately 21 million Asian residents in the U.S. that comprise almost 6 percent of the total population. This relatively small number disguises the critical experiences Asian American communities face in both the local and transnational context. Yet, Asian Americans constitute one of the most heterogeneous racial groups within the U.S. Over the course of this semester we will read about and actively discuss the history of Asian immigration to the U.S., the social construction and experience of race in the U.S., and the political, economic, and cultural contributions of Asian Americans. We will also examine how Asian Americans negotiate/deploy their culture and ethnicity to achieve recognition in multicultural America and how the construction of Asian American identity intersects with class, gender, and sexuality.		Cultural Diversity in the US
ASAM 203-401	Amer Expansion-Pacific	Eiichiro Azuma	BENN 17	W 02:00 PM-05:00 PM	Topics vary. Please see our website for more current information: asam.sas.upenn.edu	HIST231401				https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2019C&course=ASAM203401
ASAM 208-001	Asian American Cinema	Robert V Buscher	DRLB 3C2	W 04:30 PM-07:30 PM	Providing a broad introduction to the history of persons of Asian descent living in the United States, this course will specifically examine the Asian American & Pacific Islander American experience as told through the cinematic lens. Equal parts socio-political history and media studies, this course will comprehensively assess factors contributing to the historical under representation of AAPIs in mainstream American media. By contrast, the media texts that we study will reveal a cinematic history that runs parallel to the mainstream, consisting of independently produced films created by and/or starring AAPIs that feature authentic portrayals of the community they represent. Topics will include economics of film production, broadcast television ratings, film festivals as a mechanism of distribution, negative stereotyping, Hollywood whitewashing, cultural appropriation, and media activism.					https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2019C&course=ASAM208001
ASAM 210-301	Asian Am Religions: Asian American Religions	Rupa Pillai	COLL 311A	TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM	This course examines the changing religious landscape of the United States through a focus on the religious life of Asian Americans. Through interdisciplinary texts and ethnographic field assignments, students will consider how religion and race intersect to inform notions of cultural and political citizenship, community, and culture. Topics to be explored include the impact of 9/11, religious political activism, and the appropriation and commodification of "Asian" religious practices.		Cultural Diversity in the US
ASAM 294-601	Facing America	William D Schmenner	JAFF B17	W 05:30 PM-08:30 PM	This course explores the visual history of race in the United States as both self-fashioning and cultural mythology by examining the ways that conceptions of Native American, Latino, and Asian identity, alongside ideas of Blackness and Whiteness, have combined to create the various cultural ideologies of class, gender, and sexuality that remain evident in historical visual and material culture. We also investigate the ways that these creations have subsequently helped to launch new visual entertainments, including museum spectacles, blackface minstrelsy, and early film, from the colonial period through the 1940s.	ARTH274601, LALS274601, CIMS293601, ARTH674601, AFRC294601	Cultural Diversity in the US