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MINOR IN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Requirements

The Minor in Asian American Studies is designed for students who have an interest in learning about the experience, expression, and social conditions of Americans of Asian ancestry, including those whose origins trace back to south, as well as east Asia and the Pacific islands.

Cross-disciplinary in nature, the minor draws on a wide variety of courses offered throughout the university which relate to Asian American history, art, literature, politics, socio-economics, psychology, and relations to other ethnic and socio-political groups.

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The goals of the minor are to encourage more students to do work in the area and prepare students in selected career paths where sensitivity to and knowledge of Asian American issues, history and artistic expression are important. These include careers in counseling, human services, nursing, public administration, law and the health professions, as well as teaching careers in history, English, political sciences, psychology, sociology, as well as elementary school education.

Two features of the minor are of special note. First, there is a conscious effort to inform and sensitize students to other ethnic groups and to interrelationships and commonalties. Second, there is a definite emphasis on contributing to Asian American communities and, thereby, to the larger society. The requirement in experiential and community based learning is one example of our effort to combine learning with service.


Minor Requirements in Asian American Studies

The minor consists of 21-23 required semester units, distributed between core, breadth, topical, and fieldwork or language proficiency requirements, with at least six units being upper-division units.

Core Courses (6 units)
Introduction to Asian American Studies (ASAM 300)
The History of Asian Americans (Hist/ASAM 201)
 
Comparative Cultures Breadth Requirements (3 units)

One elective course on a non-Asian minority group in America should be selected in consultation with the program coordinator or a faculty adviser.

Elective courses include, but are not limited to the following:

  • The American Character (American Studies 301, 3 units)

  • Intra-cultural Socialization (AFRO/HUSR311)

  • History of Racism (AFRO 335)

  • Prejudice and American Culture (AMST 377)

  • Survey of American History with Emphasis on Ethnic Minorities (HIST 190)

  • Minority Group Relations (SOCI 431)

  • Introduction to Intercultural Women's Studies (WMST 302)

  • The Black Family (AFRO 309)

  • Black Women in America (AFRO 310)

  • Black Politics (AFRO 317)

  • Black American Intellectual Thought (AFRO 320)

  • Psychology of the Afro-American (AFRO 422)

  • White Ethnic in America (AMST 411)

  • Mexican Heritage (CHIC 220)

  • The Chicano Family (CHIC 305)

  • Contemporary Chicano Literature (CHIC 337)

  • Cultural Differences in Mexico and the Southwest (CHIC 403)  Topical Requirements (6 units)

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Topics in Asian Pacific American Studies (6 units) Select two three-unit courses in consultation with a faculty adviser. Topics include, but are not limited to the following courses. A complete list available from the program adviser.

  • Vietnamese Communities in the U.S. (ASAM 220)

  • Asian Pacific American Women (ASAM 308)

  • Asian American Creative Expression (ASAM 320)

  • Asian Pacific Americans and Religion (ASAM 322)

  • Asian American Film and Video (ASAM 325)

  • Asian American Literature (ASAM 327/ENGL 327)

  • Asian American Communication (ASAM 340/SPCM 340)

  • Asian American Families (ASAM 342)

  • Asian American Identities (ASAM 344)

  • Asian American Psychology (ASAM 346)

  • Mixed Heritage Asian Americans (ASAM 360)

  • The Filipina/o American Experience (ASAM 362)

  • The South Asian American Experience (ASAM 364)

  • The Korean American Experience (ASAM 366)

  • The Chinese American Experience (ASAM 370)

  • Human Services for Immigrants and Refugees (HUSR 318)

  • Cultural Pluralism in American Literature (when topic covers Asian American author) (ENGL 323T)

  • World War II Japanese American Evacuation (ASAM/HIST 382)

  • Specialized Reporting (Reporting on Minority Affairs) (COMM 438T)

Asian Language or Asian Cultures and Social Institutions: (3-5 units)

One three-unit course in an Asian Language or one thee-unit course on Asian cultures or Asian social institutions, chosen in consultation with the undergraduae advisor.

Asian Language Course (3-5 units) One course in any Asian language offered through the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature will meet this requirement (e.g. Vietnamese 101, Chinese 101, Japanese 101, Japanese 213, Japanese 214). 

OR

Asian Cultures and Social Institutions (3 units) Approved courses include, but are not limited to the following:

  • ANTH347 Peoples of Asia

  • CPTL423T Topics in Asian Literature

  • ENGL380 Introduction to Asian Literature

  • GEOG 340 Asia

  • HIST 464B History of Contemporary Southeast Asia

  • HIST 465A,B History of India

  • PHIL 350 Asian Philosophy

  • PHIL 352 Philosophy of Asian Martial Arts

  • PHIL 353 Buddhism in India

  • PHIL 354T Buddhism Outside India

  • POSC 433 Politics of the Asian Pacific

  • POSC 434 Comparative Politics of China and Japan

  • POSC 435 International Relations of Southeast Asia

  • CPRL 270T Introduction to Asian Religions

  • CPRL 180 Introduction to Buddhism

  • CPRL 353 Buddhism in India

  • CPRL 354T Buddhism Outside India

  • SPCH 492C Intercultural Communications

Service Learning and Community Research (3 units)

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Students may choose one of the following courses to meet this requirement:

Internship in Asian American Studies (ASAM 495) This course provides students with an internship at an Asian American community agency or organization. It requires students to display knowledge, understanding, and application of research methods, and culturally relevant skills to solving real world problems in an Asian American community setting.

Oral Histories of Asian American Communities Students will receive training and work with the Center for Oral History to learn how to conduct and process oral histories from members of various Asian American communities.

Independent Studies (ASAM 499) Requires a reseach project directed by a faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program Council and related to Asian Pacific Americans.

 

 

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