Classes
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ASAM82 Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of Teaching.
C. Fought; K. Yep, PZ,
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class examines how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling from sociological, linguistic, and ethnic studies standpoints. Specifically, we will discuss how race and ethnicity are constructed in schooling, and ways teachers/educators may refine their pedagogies in relation to race and ethnicity.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
Curriculum guide on language ideologies for elementary school teachers Short film about teaching critical multiculturalism based on interviews with elementary school teachers Workshops on student mobilization against whiteness and class privilege
ASAM84 Nonviolent Social Change.
K. Yep, PZ
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Asian American Studies emerged out of the longest student strike in the history of the United States. The third world liberation front used social protest to call for educational relevance and greater success to higher education. This class takes a comparative racial approach to examine the history, philosophy and practice of nonviolent social change.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
Spoken word workshops with incarcerated high school students in LaVerne Workshops with youth Asian Youth Center in San Gabriel Valley Workshops at Fremont Middle School through Pomona Partners in South Pomona Workshops at Pomona Economic Opportunity Center in Pomona Workshops through Asian American Mentor Program at Pomona College Get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states for 2004 and 2008 elections.
ASAM90 Asian American and Multiracial Community Studies.
S. Suh.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Introduces students to studying and working in Asian American and interracial communities. Issues to be addressed in the course include field research and community organizing; major issues in Asian American communities; nation-centered organizing; and interracial coalition-building.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
A major project for this course will be a community-based internship or other community research project. Occasional all-day site visits will take place on Fridays.
PREREQUISITES: Any one of the following courses: ASAM101, 125, 127 or 150, or permission of the instructor.
ASAM111 Asian Americans and Education.
L. Yamane and K. Yep, PZ
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The broader social processes of racialization and contestation are explored using the educational experiences of Asian Americans. We will analyze access to education and curricular marginalization. Issues like bilingual education, Asian American feminist and critical pedagogies, education as a workplace, and racialized glass ceilings will be investigated.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
Community forum about direction of Asian American Studies and finding memo Proposal for a commuity engagement staff position in Asian American Studies to the department and lead dean Workshops for women of color students about anti-racist, feminist allies
ASAM 179B Asian Americans and the Law.
[B. Yang, LINC1121 PO, R 7:00-9:50 p.m.]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Analyze the intersection of Asian American history to American Jurisprudence, especially Constitutional and Immigration law. In many regrettable instances, our legal system has been used to oppress Asians and Asian Pacific Americans. However, Asian Americans have used the courts to fight back for equality and justice, contributing immensely to the formation of Civil Rights in the United States. The class will attempt to tie in current events and contemporary issues to past legal struggles and victories. We will use actual court cases in the same manner that a law school course might to examine issues such as Immigration, Property Rights, Employment, Education, Hate-crimes, Racial Profiling, among others.
ASAM 187 Art, Activism, and the Asian American Social Movement.
[Staff, HM103 SCR, M 7:00-9:50 p.m.]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Course addresses the lack of recognition given to the role of the arts in the Asian American movement. It will primarily focus on the role that the arts have played in social justice and awareness work situated in the context of the Asian American movement. It will look at how art, whether in music, fine arts, street art, poetry, etc. has transformed as a part of social justice and awareness work and responded to changing times. This course will encourage students to support local Asian American art events with their participation and attendance as well as their boundless creativity. Individual and class projects will include the production of creative works, publications or workshops and conferences. In addition, students will collaborate to create the next year’s ASAM 197 course topic and syllabus.
SOC 34 Sociology of Education.
K. Yep
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course explores the role of education in society. Drawing from the work of Paulo Freire, bell hooks and Michael James, students will interpret various educational paradigms in relation to inequality, race, geography, class, gender, and sexuality. As part of a social documentation project, students will research the use of “popular education” in social movements.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
Assignments invited students to integrate their placements, classroom lectures and discussions, and the reading. Students extrapolated from their community placements by writing a policy memo about a social issue related to their community placement, and thought of possible solutions. For example, students examined class size and resources in schools with predominately low-income students.
MUS123 Music and the Performance of Identities: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender
Y. Kang
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course explores the ways in which individuals and groups represent, transform, and create their identities through musical performance and other performative acts. Several issues of “musical identity” are discussed: creation and expression of gender through music, musical expressions of ethnic and/or racial identity, musical creation of “official” identities (including U.S. nationalism), and the representation of the self through music.
MUS126 Music in East Asian and Its American Diasporas.
Y. Kang
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course introduces the “traditional” music of China , Korea , and Japan , and explores the ways in which traditional performing arts have been transformed, adapted, and given new meanings in these modern nation-states and East Asian diasporic communities of the United States . A survey of these musical traditions will be followed by a closer study of pungmul , kabuki , taiko , Chinese opera, and pansori .
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
Any community-based component revolves around ethnography of musical performing groups. Sometimes students go out into community organizations to do their work.
JPNT178 Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography.
[L. Miyake, MA3 PO, TR 2:45–4:00 p.m.]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The tradition of the native Japanese literary diary (nikki bungaku), modern Japanese autobiography and autobiographical writings, and Japanese American diary/autobiography, emphasizing works by women. Readings in literary criticism on autobiography in general and women's autobiography in particular.
MS 100AA Asian Americans in Media: A Historical Survey.
[M. Ma, BH210 PZ, W 7:00-9:50 p.m.]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This is a historical survey of Asian American involvement in media production, beginning with the Silent Film Era and ending with contemporary projects in film, video, and new media. In this course, we will focus on the shifting yet continuous participation of Asians in the production of media in North America, and look at how changing political, social, and cultural discourses have shaped media representations of Asians throughout this period. Prerequisites: any intro-level Media Studies or Asian American Studies course.
PSYC 153AA Asian American Psychology.
[S. Goto, LINC1125 PO, TR 1:15-2:30 p.m.]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Introduces students to the salient psychological issues of Asian Americans. Taking into account the social, cultural, and historical context of the Asian American experience, this course addresses values and cultural conflict development, acculturation, marriage and gender roles, vocational development, psychopathology, and delivery of mental health services.
THEA115N Staging Our Stories: Contemporary Asian American Drama.
[J. Lu, TE100 PO, TR 2:45-4:00 p.m.]
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course examines several post-1960 dramatic and performance works created by Asian American artists, such as, Phillip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, Julia Cho, Ralph Peña, and Lan Tran, taking into account the historical and cultural contexts in which these productions emerged. We will look at how these different artists attempt to represent themselves and their experiences with dignity, how they preserve old traditions and create new ones, and at how these practices reflect different aspects of the relationships between the United States and various Asian countries, and between different ethnic groups in the U.S. This course includes a field trip, a written review of your experience, as well as a self-written monologue, and a final paper or dramatic performance.
Race and American Capitalism
T. Kim
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course engages in a sustained examination—both theoretical and grounded—of the contemporary political struggle of communities of color negotiating liberal-capitalist ideology and its empirical manifestations. Through textual engagement, the course seeks to significantly advance and refine analyses that focus on the relationship between race, racism, and American capitalism. Through direct engagement with individuals and organizations, the course seeks to provide practical insight into working for social change that is grounded in the lives of communities negotiating the systemic relationship between race and capitalism on a daily bases.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT:
The course interfaces with organizations active in social movements that address the relationship between capitalism and communities of color in the Claremont Colleges, Los Angeles , and all over the world. Individuals and organizations that were involved in the first iteration of the course included the Labor/Community Strategy Center, Critical Resistance, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, Sweatshop Watch, UNITE-HERE, the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, and the progressive spoken word artist SKIM, and campus organizations.