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3.00 Credits
Beckman. Topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kao. This course presents an overview of sociological research on Asian Americans in the U.S., framed around the evaluation of Asian Americans as "model minorities." We begin with a brief overview of popular images of Asian Americans as seen through recent portrayals in mainstream media (movies, television). We review general sociological frameworks used to understand racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. and move quickly to document the history of Asian immigration to the U.S. We explore how Asian Americans fare in educational attainment, labor market experiences, political organizations, urban experience, and Asian interracial marriage and biracials. We examine whether and how "Asian American" is a meaningful label.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Park. This course will explore the varieties of Asian American Experience by considering the literary forms they take. Our readings will range from poems carved into the walls of a detention center at the beginning of the century to experiments in literary form in the eighties and nineties. The course will consider literary representations of a broad range of Asian American experience: tales of migratory labor, Chinatown stories, the extraordinary case of Japanese internment, panethnic activist literature, and the different accounts that emerge when Asian America expands beyond East Asia to include South and Southeast Asian American experience. In each instance, we will read these forms within their historical moments, ultimately asking how these formal expressions map onto the conditions of Asian America.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Azuma. 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 racism on American-born APA's. Issues of class and gender as well as the impact of international politics on APA lives will also be examined.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is cross-listed with SOCI 006 when the subject matter is related to Asian Americans.
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3.00 Credits
Gambhir S. Freshman seminar. This course is about the history of Indian immigration into different parts of the world. The course will consist of readings, discussions, observations, data collection and analysis. The topics will include cultural preservation and cultural change through generations, especially in North America, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, and the African continent. The course will encourage organized thinking, observations and analysis of components of culture that immigrant communities are able to preserve in the long run and cultural components that undergo change or get reinterpreted. In this context, we will look at entities such as religion, food, language, and family. The course will include immigrants' success stories, their contributions, thier relationship with others groups in the new society and the nature and extent of their links with India. The course will also address conflict with other sections of the host society, including discrimination against and victimization of immigrants. Other issues will include new social and cultural concerns of immigrants and the rise of new community organizations such as temples and cultural organizations to address those issues. The course will benefit from the study of other immigrant communities around the world.
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3.00 Credits
Azuma. This reading seminar will focus on how different groups of Asians interacted with each other in the context of early twentieth-century American society, especially in Hawaii and California. Such issues as ethnicity, complexity of race relations (as opposed to conventional black-white binarism), and the intricate entanglements of class and race will also be examined.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. From cultural fashion shows to protests; what does it mean to be a student activist in the new millennium Are Penn students apathetic or has the definition of activism shifted over time Through this course, students will unpack many of the controversies regarding the discourse on "multiculturalism" and "diversity" in higher education. We will examine a number of problems and questions regarding the status of Asian Americans in higher education. Students will explore the social phenomena that have impacted Asian Americans in higher education. In examining these phenomena, we will concentrate particularly on student experiences, curricula, campus climates, administrative practices, and educational policies.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Park. Topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This seminar examines the 100-year history of the Korean experience in the United States from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Topics include: immigration patterns, adjustment to the new society, exclusion, racism, relations with other groups, economic activities, the 1.5 and second generation, religion, and social issues, among others. Equal attention is given to the pre-1965 and post-1965 periods. We will pay particular attention to major economic, social and political events in American history, such as the immigration reform laws, the Great Depression, World War II, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War,which shaped the demographic changes as well as socio-economic conditions.
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