Courses of Study 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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AAS—Asian American Studies |
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AAS 1100 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
(CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
C. Balance.
This interdisciplinary course offers an introduction to the study of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the U.S. This course will examine, through a range of disciplines (including history, literary studies, film/media, performance, anthropology, sociology), issues and methods that have emerged from Asian American Studies since its inception in the late 1960s, including the types of research questions and methods that the study of Asians & Pacific Islander peoples in the U.S. as well as politics and historical relations in the Asia/Pacific region have to offer. In this course, we will pay particular attention to the role of culture and its production in documenting histories, formulating critical practices, and galvanizing political efforts. Topics and themes include: war & empire; queer & feminist lives and histories; refugee, adoptees, transnational families, and other forms of kinship & belonging; anti-Asian violence; settler colonialism and postcolonial critique.
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AAS 2042 - Jim Crow and Exclusion Era in America (crosslisted) ,
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
D. Chang.
For description, see .
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AAS 2100 - South Asian Diaspora (crosslisted)
(GHB) (CA-AS) (CU-ITL)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
V. Munasinghe.
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 lands at different historical moments spanning Fiji, South Africa, Mauritius, Britain, Malaysia, United States, Trinidad, and even within South Asia itself such as the Tamil-speaking population of Sri Lanka. The course will begin with the labor migrations of the 1830s and continue up to the present period. The primary exercise will be to compare and contrast the varied expressions of the South Asian Diaspora globally in order to critically evaluate this transnational identity. Thus, we will ask what, if any, are the ties that bind a fifth-generation Indo-Trinidadian whose ancestor came to the New World as an indentured laborer or “coolie” in the mid-19th century to labor in the cane fields, to a Pakistani medical doctor who migrated to the United States in the late 1980s. If Diaspora violates a sense of identity based on territorial integrity, then could “culture” serve as the basis for a shared identity?
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AAS 2130 - Introduction to Asian American History (crosslisted) ,
(HA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
D. Chang.
For description, see .
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AAS 2620 - Introduction to Asian American Literature (crosslisted) ,
(LA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
S. Wong.
For description, see .
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AAS 2641 - Race and Modern US History (crosslisted) , ,
(HA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
D. Chang.
For description, see .
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AAS 2800 - Cultural Psychology (crosslisted)
(SBA-AS)
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: , or , or equivalent.
b. ojalehto.
For description and learning outcomes, see .
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AAS 2910 - [It’s All Chinese to Me] (crosslisted) ,
(CA-AS)
Spring. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.
S. Wong.
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 is “Chinese tradition”? Does it mean the same thing to people in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, or to Chinese diasporic communities in North America? Does “Chineseness” change across time and space? While there will be occasion to discuss what “Chineseness” means in different Asian contexts, this course will focus primarily on how ideas of “China” and “Chineseness” have been historically constructed by, for, and in the West—particularly in the US. Course materials include readings on the concept of “Chineseness,” Chinese American literature and film, and historical studies of East/West relations.
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AAS 3020 - Asian Americans & Popular Culture (crosslisted) ,
(LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
C. Balance.
This course examines both mainstream representations of and independent media made by, for, and about Asians and Asian Americans throughout U.S. cultural history. In this course, we will analyze popular cultural genres & forms such as: documentary & narrative films, musical theatre & live performance revues, television, zines & blogs, YouTube/online performances, karaoke & cover performances, stand-up comedy, and popular music. Employing theories of cultural studies, media studies, and performance studies, we will discuss the cultural, discursive, and political impact of these various popular cultural forms and representations from the turn of the 20th century to the present.
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AAS 3030 - Asians in the Americas: A Comparative Perspective (crosslisted) ,
(HB) (CA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
V. Munasinghe.
For description, see .
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AAS 3470 - [Asian American Women’s History] (crosslisted) , ,
(CA-AS)
Fall. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Student option grading.
D. Chang.
For description, see .
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AAS 3580 - [Twentieth Century Women Writers of Color in the Americas] (crosslisted) , ,
(LA-AS)
Fall or Spring. Next Offered: 2020-2021. 4 credits. Student option grading.
S. Wong.
For description, see .
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AAS 4550 - Race and the University (crosslisted) , ,
(SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
D. Chang, S. Wong.
What is a university, what does it do, and how does it do it? Moving out from these more general questions, this seminar will focus on a more specific set of questions concerning the place of race within the university. What kinds of knowledge are produced in the 20th- century U.S. university? Why is it, and how is it, that certain knowledge formations and disciplines come to be naturalized or privileged within the academy? How has the emergence of fields of inquiry such as Ethnic Studies (with an epistemological platform built on the articulations of race, class and gender) brought to the fore (if not brought to crisis) some of the more vexing questions that strike at the core of the idea of the university as the pre-eminent site of disinterested knowledge? This seminar will give students the opportunity to examine American higher education’s (particularly its major research institutions) historical instantiation of the relations amongst knowledge, power, equality and democracy.
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AAS 4555 - [Race and Time] (crosslisted)
(LA-AS)
Fall or Spring. Next Offered: 2020-2021. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Co-meets with /.
S. Wong.
For description, see .
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AAS 4790 - Ethnicity and Identity Politics: An Anthropological Perspective (crosslisted)
(SBA-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Co-meets with /.
V. Munasinghe.
For description, see .
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AAS 4950 - Independent Study
(CU-UGR)
Fall, Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.
Permission of instructor required. To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Staff.
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.
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AEM—Applied Economics & Management |
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