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1.00 Credits
Credits: 1 Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor Corequisites: None Type: LAB Choose from the following: Arts Management Internship Students are assigned to art galleries or other institutions within the university or the community to get hands-on experience as interns. May be repeated once in a different location. Communication Design Internship An arranged experience within an agency and the printing industry familiarizes students with actual working conditions and considerations; students observe and participate in design for publication, mechanicals, and other facets of graphic arts production. May be repeated second semester. Photography Internship Internship at an art gallery or with a commercial, portrait, or architecturalphotographic firm; provides professional experience and familiarizes students with working conditions and expectations in their field. Print Media Internship Provides professional experience and familiarizes students with practices and expectations in the field. An internship may be arranged with a commercial or not-for-profit print studio or gallery.
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 1 Prerequisites: accepted art major, permission of instructor Corequisites: None Type: TUT Open to studio majors only. Requires a written proposal of the project and its justification, and approval by a faculty member supervising the work.
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1.00 Credits
Credits: 1 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces the field of Asian studies and its relationship to selected disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Intended for students who have elected or who are considering the major in Asian Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC The Asian American experience from the beginning of Asians and Pacific Islanders entry into North America in the eighteenth century to the present. Investigates this phenomenon in connection with national and transnational power relations, economic structures, and political realities. Also considers the construction of American identities in the United States and their impact on Asian American communities and individuals. Goals are to develop a historical and multi-cultural perspective on the Asian American experience, to enlarge students capacities for analytical and critical thinking, and to achieve a better understanding of the diversity within Asian American communities and of Asian Americans social status in North America.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Focuses on Asian American literature and the social contexts for the formation of Asian American literary traditions and genres. Introduces students to major Asian American literary texts and authors, including recurrent themes, new modes of narratives, and innovative techniques. Addresses the impact of Asian Pacific histories and cultures on specific writers, while locating Asian American literature within the historical and cultural contexts of North America, particularly the formation and effects of racial and national identities in the United States and Canada.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces major themes in Asian American history from the beginning of Asian immigration to the present. The course examines why Filipinos, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, and Vietnamese came to North America and what happened to them in the contexts of ethnic identity, gender, community, and family.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces traditional and contemporary aesthetics, thought, literature, and theatre of East Asia. The arts of China, Japan, and Korea had fascinated observers in the West for centuries, and reveal much about the rich cultures and vibrant societies of East Asia. Team-taught by Asian specialists in the humanities from several UB departments.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Examines Asian American women s writings and the social, cultural, and historical contexts that shape their thematic concerns, narrative strategies, and poetic styles. Through Asian American women s prose and poetry, we seek to understand the formation of gender, racial, and sexual identities, and their effects on Asian American women s literary traditions and innovations. Examines the relations between gender and genre, between race and class, and between culture and sexuality.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Investigates Hollywood representations of Asians and Asian Americans and Asian Americans self-representations. Through a comparative analysis of Hollywood films and Asian American films and videos, we seek a better understanding of the tactics and specific historical contexts for constructing identities of race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. This understanding provides a historical and critical perspective for examining both the content and technique of Asian Americans films and videos.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Provides an overview of the major religions of Asia (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam) in the light of their sacred texts, and focuses on the theological underpinnings, stories, and practices of each tradition. This course fosters a better understanding of religion in general, and familiarity with the spiritual values that shape everyday lives in many different locales worldwide.
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