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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Provides students with demographic and historical overview of the status of Latinos in the United States today, and of the salient issues plaguing them. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, analyzes strategies, tactics, and policies that may effectively deal with these issues. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A survey of the dispersal, transplantation, and transformation of Asian populations in selected regions of the world-the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific- as viewed from the historical and contemporary experiences of the Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, and other Asian groups in the contexts of colonization, cultural and political domination, and an emerging global economy. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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Lecture, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Overview of the Asian American experience in the United States before World War II. Describes how the racialization of Asians as "non-White" and nonassimilable shaped theexperiences of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, and South Asians in America. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Overview of mass incarceration of Japanese Americans within their overall experience in the United States. Emphasis is on variables that generated similarities and internal diversity within the broader ethnic group. Also explores the broad relevance of mass incarceration for understanding our post-9/11 world. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the history of Koreans in the United States to analyze a wide range of contemporary social and identity issues. Students are encouraged to do original research, develop writing and communication skills, and devise research projects that address the immigrant Korean community's needs. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. This course will focus on the Vietnamese American experience in contemporary society. Special emphasis will be placed on the relationship of Vietnamese Americans to the larger society and on intergenerational strains and conflicts. Among the topics addressed are: 1) socioeconomic and educational problems; 2) the family; 3) religion; and 4) the relationship between Vietnamese Americans and other racial ethnic groups (African Americans, Native Americans, Anglos, and Chicanos). Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Survey of the historical development of Asian American literature. Special emphasis placed on the origin and growth of Asian American novels, autobiographies, poetry, short stories, and plays that focus on socioeconomic and political struggles of Asian American communities. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Analyzes contemporary issues facing Asian Americans: Asian American identity and images, education, employment, housing, dual oppression, interethnic conflicts, juvenile delinquency, generational conflicts, and anti-Asian violence. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Addresses the shifting role of Asian American women in the United States as they struggle to define their identities between and within diverse and often opposing cultures. The myths and realities of being an Asian American woman are explored and analyzed through literature, art, documents, films, and first-person accounts. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A survey of the significant Black American writers and literary movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (the folk period of Black literature). Attention is on slave narratives, protest literature, and the Harlem Renaissance. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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