Asian American Studies (AAS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

AAS 2100

This interdisciplinary course (with an emphasis in anthropology) will introduce students to the multiple routes/roots, lived experiences, and imagined worlds of South Asians who have traveled to various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 2410SHUM 2101

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7065 AAS 2100   SEM 101

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Munasinghe, V

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AAS 2130

An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2640HIST 2640

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7434 AAS 2130   LEC 001

    • TR Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AAS 3312

This course explores cultural representations of Afro-Asian intimacies and coalition in novels, songs, films, paintings, and poems. What affinities, loves and thefts, and tensions are present in cultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  8574 AAS 3312   SEM 101

    • MW Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AAS 4040

Fictions of dictatorship, as termed by scholar Lucy Burns, denote both the narratives and spectacles produced by authoritarian governments and the performances, events, and cultural objects that work against ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18474 AAS 4040   SEM 101

    • R Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Balance, C

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AAS 4123

Considering the archipelagic turn, this course takes a transnational approach to geographies, ecologies, literatures, and cultures of island chains. How are archipelagoes understood in relations of power ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17960 AAS 4123   SEM 101

    • M Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Goffe, T

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AAS 4555

Race, comparison, and time—what do these terms have to do with each other? What does it mean to be in time, or out of time? What are some other ways of inhabiting time, or of being inhabited by time? What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16709 AAS 4555   SEM 101

    • W Online Meeting
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Wong, S

  • Instruction Mode: Online

AAS 4950

Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4186 AAS 4950   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Chang, D

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7048 AAS 4950   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Munasinghe, V

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8485 AAS 4950   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Balance, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8486 AAS 4950   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Sep 2 - Dec 16, 2020
    • Wong, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies