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4.00 Credits
An introduction to Filipino with an emphasis on mastering basic grammar skills and working vocabulary. Lessons incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. Open to beginning language students, Asian/Pacific /American Studies EnterReplacementCharacter College of Arts & Science EnterReplacementCharacter New York University 80 Major/Minor in Asian/Pacific /American Studies and lessons are modified according to the needs of individual students. Because language is key to connecting with community concerns, the course includes field trips to Filipino neighborhoods in Queens and Jersey City.
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4.00 Credits
At this level, when the basic skills and working vocabulary have been mastered, emphasis can be placed on the linguistic rules to enable the student to communicate with more competence. There is also a focus on translation. Lessons use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. To observe and experience the language at work, the course includes field trips to Filipino centers in the New York/New Jersey area, as well as invited guests who converse with students in Filipino about their life and work.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to Cantonese with an emphasis on the spoken and written language and conversational proficiency as a primary goal. Emphasizes grammar, listening comprehension, and oral expressions. Designed to give beginning students a practical command of the language. Upon completion of the course, students can expect to converse in simple sentences and recognize and write about 350 Chinese characters. Students with passable conversational ability or native speakers from Cantonese-speaking communities should not enroll in this course.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced-level language and culture course following Elementary Cantonese. At this level, when the basic skills and working vocabulary have been mastered, emphasis is placed on the linguistic rules to enable students to communicate with more competence. The lessons focus not only on language, but also use a holistic approach and incorporate discussions on history, current events, literature, pop culture, and native values. Because language is key to connecting with community concerns, the course also includes field trips to Chinatown and other Cantonese-speaking neighborhoods.
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4.00 Credits
As a global city, New York is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse places in the world. In particular, the growth of migrant populations from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean is driving the transformation of New York's economic, social, and political landscape. This course both explores the global socioeconomic conditions that facilitate and sustain these migrations and examines the cultural practices, imaginaries, and strategies of migrants as they become part of the city.
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4.00 Credits
Identical to POL-UA 801, LWSOC-UA 327. Offered every year.
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4.00 Credits
Much contemporary public discourse characterizes race as a problem that some individuals "have," or, even, a "card" that some people "play." It is rarely recognized as a structural or material dimension that comprises everyday experience and knowledge. In this course, we ask what it means to "read" race in objects, spaces, and events that for the most part do not seem to be "about" race per se. The course is organized around a series of such topics, which we consider from an interdisciplinary perspective, engaging historical and legal texts, literature, and film, as well as scholarship from anthropology, sociology, and history. Over the course of the semester, we address concepts and themes related to U.S. ethnic studies and critical race theory, including citizenship, rights, segregation, whiteness, colonialism, labor, migration, and alienness. The course provides an introduction to critical American studies as a field of scholarship that challenges our sense of the nation as socially and politically exceptional by asking what is forgotten or excluded in such a self-image. "Chinatown" and the American Imagination:
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4.00 Credits
What is a "Chinatown"? The word alone evokes many images, sounds, smells, and tastes from many different sensibilities. For recent immigrants, it can be a home away from home; for "outsiders," an exotic place for cheap eats; for male action-flick fans, Chow Yun-Fat (or Mark Wahlberg) in The Corruptor; and for you? (Fill in the blank.) We explore the nooks and crannies of Chinatown in the American imagination and in its New York realtime, nonvirtual existence. How do we know what we know and do not know? What does Chinatown have to do with the formation of normative "American" identities? What are the possibilities (and limits) of crossing cultural divides? Class members individually and/or in groups research, experience, and document a chain of persons, places, and/or events, creating their own narrative "tour" of this place's meanings. Novels, history books, tourist guides, films, and pop culture supplement the primary "text" of New York's Chinatown. This is a collaborative, discussion-intensive, field-researchdriven class.
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4.00 Credits
Examines contemporary immigration through the lens of visual culture. Explores a variety of expressive forms produced by migrant subjects-including film, photography, art, and fashion-and considers how these work to narrate the experiences of travel and displacement; home and exile; leisure and labor. In doing so, students consider how these visual representations seek to express the conditions of contemporary immigration in ways that co-exist with and counter dominant depictions. We ask: How do visual practices-from filmmaking to graffitiing-operate within immigrant communities as a mode of story-telling or world-making? How have immigrants employed visual culture to narrate their cross-cultural movements, community-building efforts, political struggles, and cultural memories?
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4.00 Credits
Specific topics vary from semester to semester. Former topics have included "Yellow Peril": Documenting and Understanding Xenophobia; Transnational Feminism; Cultural Politics of Food; and Politics of Fashion in the Asian Diaspora.
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