ASAM215 - Asian Am Gendersexuality: Asian American Gender and Sexuality

Status
C
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Asian Am Gendersexuality: Asian American Gender and Sexuality
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM215401
Course number integer
215
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rupa Pillai
Description
This course explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race in Asian America. Through interdisciplinary and cultural texts, students will consider how Asian American gender and sexualities are constructed in relation to racism while learning theories on and methods to study gender, sex, and race. We will discuss masculinities, femininities, race-conscious feminisms, LGBTQ+ identities, interracial and intraracial relationships, and kinship structures.
Course number only
215
Cross listings
SAST215401, GSWS215401
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM202 - Tpcs Asian American Lit

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Tpcs Asian American Lit
Term
2021A
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM202401
Course number integer
202
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
T 01:30 PM-04:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
David L Eng
Description
Topics vary. Please see our website for more current information: asam.sas.upenn.edu
Course number only
202
Cross listings
ENGL272401
Use local description
No

ASAM165 - The Asian Caribbean

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
The Asian Caribbean
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM165401
Course number integer
165
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
TR 03:00 PM-04:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rupa Pillai
Description
This course complicates prevailing understandings of the Caribbean and extends the boundaries of Asian America by exploring the histories, experiences, and contributions of Asians in the Caribbean. In particular, we will focus on the migrations of Chinese and Indian individuals to Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Guyana as well as how their descendants are immigrating to the United States. We will examine the legal and social debates surrounding their labor in the 19th century, how they participated in the decolonization of the region, and how their migration to the United States complicates our understandings of ethnicity and race. Ultimately, through our comparative race approach, we will appreciate that the Caribbean is more than the Black Caribbean, it is also the Asian Caribbean.
Course number only
165
Cross listings
LALS165401, SAST166401, GSWS165401
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM120 - Asian Am Pop Culture: Asian American Popular Culture

Status
C
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Asian Am Pop Culture: Asian American Popular Culture
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
301
Section ID
ASAM120301
Course number integer
120
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
TR 04:30 PM-06:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Peter T Van Do
Description
This course will examine the ways in which Asian Americans have constituted and positioned their identities through various mediums of popular culture, community building and activism. First, students will become familiar with major concepts relating to Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, and Asian American Cultural Studies. Second, students will have a deeper understanding of the Asian American Movement. Third, students will make connections between representations and dominant images of Asian Americans within various mediums.
Course number only
120
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM110 - Asian American Activism

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Asian American Activism
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
301
Section ID
ASAM110301
Course number integer
110
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
M 04:30 PM-07:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert V Buscher
Description
Please see our website for more current information: asam.sas.upenn.edu
Course number only
110
Use local description
No

ASAM104 - Asian Am Community: Asian American Community

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Asian Am Community: Asian American Community
Term
2021A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
401
Section ID
ASAM104401
Course number integer
104
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
TR 12:00 PM-01:20 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Fariha Khan
Description
Who is Asian American and how and where do we recognize Asian America? This interdisciplinary course explores the multiple factors that define Asian American identity and community. In order to provide a sketch of the multifacted experience of this growing minority group, we will discuss a wide variety of texts from scholarly, artistic, and popular (film, cinematic) sources that mark key moments in the cultural history of Asia America. The course will address major themes of community life including migration history, Asian American as model minority, race, class, and transnational scope of Asian America. In combination with the readings, this class will foster and promote independent research based on site visits to various Asian American communities in Philadelphia and will host community leaders as guest lecturers.
Course number only
104
Cross listings
URBS207401, SAST113401
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM006 - Race & Ethnic Relations

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
920
Title (text only)
Race & Ethnic Relations
Term session
2
Term
2020B
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
920
Section ID
ASAM006920
Course number integer
6
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
TR 01:15 PM-05:05 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Dylan Elisabeth Farrell-Bryan
Description
This course will focus on race and ethnicty in the United States. We begin with a brief history of racial categorization and immigration to the U.S. The course continues by examining a number of topics including racial and ethnic identity, interracial and interethnic friendships and marriage, racial attitudes, mass media iages, residential segregation, educational stritification, and labot market outcomes. The course will inlcude discussions of African Americans, Whites, Hispanics, Asian Ameriacns, and multiracials.
Course number only
006
Cross listings
AFRC006920, URBS160920, SOCI006920
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM294 - Facing America

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
601
Title (text only)
Facing America
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
601
Section ID
ASAM294601
Course number integer
294
Registration notes
Course Online: Synchronous Format
Meeting times
W 05:30 PM-08:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
William D Schmenner
Description
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.
Course number only
294
Cross listings
AFRC294601, ARTH274601, ARTH674601, CIMS293601, LALS274601
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM210 - Asian Am Religions: Asian American Religions

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Asian Am Religions: Asian American Religions
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
301
Section ID
ASAM210301
Course number integer
210
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
TR 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Rupa Pillai
Description
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.
Course number only
210
Fulfills
Cultural Diversity in the US
Use local description
No

ASAM208 - Asian American Cinema

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
1
Title (text only)
Asian American Cinema
Term
2020C
Syllabus URL
Subject area
ASAM
Section number only
001
Section ID
ASAM208001
Course number integer
208
Registration notes
Crse Online: Sync & Async Components
Meeting times
W 04:30 PM-07:30 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Robert V Buscher
Description
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.
Course number only
208
Use local description
No