Asian American Studies (AAS)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

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 2410

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8436 AAS 2100   SEM 101

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

  •  8989 AAS 2130   LEC 001

AAS 2623

An introduction to Asian American performance, this course will consider both historical and contemporary examples and forms through the analytics of Asian American studies, theatre studies, and performance ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2622PMA 2621

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17823 AAS 2623   LEC 001

AAS 2910

In her memoir Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston identified a conundrum familiar to many US-born children of Chinese immigrants when she asked: "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" What ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2910ENGL 2910

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17809 AAS 2910   SEM 101

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
  • 18134 AAS 3312   SEM 101

AAS 4050

This course focuses on three major and interrelated themes within Filipino/Filipino American history: war/empire, labor/migration, and culture/imaginaries. How do we account for the overwhelming number ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4052ASIAN 4452

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16200 AAS 4050   SEM 001

  • For this course description, please see the Asian American Studies website: http://asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu/courses.

AAS 4640

This course examines contemporary literary and cultural memory work that mediates the emergence of nuclear energy in Asia and the Pacific after World War Two as a transpacific settler colonial and racial ... view course details

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  • 16969 AAS 4640   SEM 101

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

  •  5349 AAS 4950   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Chang, D

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8416 AAS 4950   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Munasinghe, V

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17827 AAS 4950   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Balance, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17828 AAS 4950   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Wong, S