Courses for Fall 2020
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ASAM 001-401 | Asian Amer in Contemp So: Asian Americans in Contemporary Society | Vani S Kulkarni | 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 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM001401 | |||
ASAM 002-401 | Asian-American Lit | David L Eng | W 12:00 PM-01:00 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. Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Recitation (see below) |
https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM002401 | |||
ASAM 002-402 | Asian American Literature | Arianna Qian Ru James | F 12:00 PM-01:00 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. | ENGL072402 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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ASAM 002-403 | Asian American Literature | Andrew James Smyth | F 12:00 PM-01:00 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. | ENGL072403 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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ASAM 002-404 | Asian American Literature | Bethany Swann | F 12:00 PM-01:00 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. | ENGL072404 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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ASAM 002-405 | Asian American Literature | Joseph Earl Thomas | F 12:00 PM-01:00 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. | ENGL072405 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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ASAM 002-406 | Asian American Literature | Molly Rose Young | F 12:00 PM-01:00 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. | ENGL072406 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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ASAM 002-407 | Asian American Literature | CANCELED | 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. | ENGL072407 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components Registration also required for Lecture (see below) |
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ASAM 002-408 | Asian American Literature | CANCELED | 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. | ENGL072408 | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | ||||||
ASAM 003-401 | Intro To Asian Amer Hist | Eiichiro Azuma | 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. Crse Online: Sync & Async Components |
https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM003401 | |||
ASAM 100-001 | Intro Asian Am Studies: Introduction To Asian American Studies | Rupa Pillai | 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 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM100001 | ||||
ASAM 160-401 | South Asians in the Us | Fariha Khan | 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 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM160401 | |||
ASAM 203-401 | Japanese-American Internment | Eiichiro Azuma | W 02:00 PM-05:00 PM | Topics vary. Please see our website for more current information: asam.sas.upenn.edu | HIST231401 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM203401 | ||||
ASAM 208-001 | Asian American Cinema | Robert V Buscher | 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. | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM208001 | |||||
ASAM 210-301 | Asian Am Religions: Asian American Religions | Rupa Pillai | 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 | Crse Online: Sync & Async Components | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM210301 | ||||
ASAM 294-601 | Facing America | William D Schmenner | 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. | AFRC294601, ARTH274601, ARTH674601, CIMS293601, LALS274601 | Cultural Diversity in the US | Course Online: Synchronous Format | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2020C&course=ASAM294601 |