Asian American Studies Combined Major

A combined major in Asian American Studies requires at least nine courses:

1. Six core courses:

• Asian American History
• Asian American Contemporary Issues (SOC 150 AA )
• Communities course: approved field work in an Asian American community or internship with a Asian American community-based organization (ASAM 090 PZ )
• Theory and Methods in Asian American Studies (ASAM 115 PZ )
• Senior Seminar (ASAM 190A PO )
• Senior Thesis or Project: independent work with senior thesis/project adviser (ASAM 191 PO )

2. Breadth requirements and electives:

Three courses in addition to the core courses listed above. These courses should be selected in consultation with the IDAAS major advisor.

Asian American Studies Courses

American Studies

• •  AMST 110 SC -Migrant Memoir
• •  AMST 128 SC -Race, Space, and Difference
• •  AMST 130 SC -Cold War Taiwanese/America

Anthropology

• •  ANTH 088 PZ -China: Gender,Cosmology & State
• •  ANTH 156 PO -Comparative Muslim Societies

Asian American Studies

• •  ASAM 022 PZ -Healing Justice
• •  ASAM 056 PZ -Intro to Comprtve Ethnic Studies
• •  ASAM 063 PZ -Transformative Life of Malcom X
• •  ASAM 077B PZ -Tattoos:Aesthetics,Culture,Pasts
• •  ASAM 082 PZ -Racial Politics of Teaching
• •  ASAM 085 PZ -Health Inequities
• •  ASAM 086 PZ -Social Documentation
• •  ASAM 086 PO -Social Documentation/Asian Amer
• •  ASAM 088 PZ -Thích Nhất Hạnh
• •  ASAM 089 PZ -Qi Gong & Embodied Learning
• •  ASAM 090 PZ -Community Studies
• •  ASAM 094 PZ -Community Health
• •  ASAM 100A PZ -As Amer Lit Tpcs: The Korean War
• •  ASAM 101 PZ -Intro to Asian American Studies
• •  ASAM 102 PZ -Social Responsibility Praxis
• •  ASAM 105 PZ -Zines, Creativity, Community
• •  ASAM 105B PZ -Zines in the Asian Diaspora
• •  ASAM 106 AA -Asian American Literature
• •  ASAM 110 PZ -Science, Race & Social Change
• •  ASAM 111 AA -Pacific Islanders and Education
• •  ASAM 115 PZ -Theory and Methods
• •  ASAM 120 PZ -Sex Work in Asia / America
• •  ASAM 122 PZ -South & Southeast Asia Pop Cltre
• •  ASAM 125 AA -Intro Asian Amer Hist:1850-Pres
• •  ASAM 125 PZ -Asian American Hist: 1850-Presnt
• •  ASAM 126 HM -Intro: Pacific Islander History
• •  ASAM 128 PZ -Body Art in the Diaspora
• •  ASAM 130 PZ -Science, Tech, Asian America
• •  ASAM 134 AA -South Asian American Experience
• •  ASAM 135 PZ -Race Empire Filipinx America
• •  ASAM 135B PZ -Race Empire Filipnx America
• •  ASAM 136 PZ -Filipinx Diasporic Poetics
• •  ASAM 137 PZ -Phil Art Diasporic Visual Cultre
• •  ASAM 150 AA -Contemp Asian American Issues
• •  ASAM 155 PZ -U.S. Imperial Culture
• •  ASAM 156 PZ -Global Rebellion
• •  ASAM 160 AA -Asian American Women’s Experienc
• •  ASAM 160 PZ -Asian American Women’s Experienc
• •  ASAM 172 PZ -Race and Visual Culture
• •  ASAM 175 PZ -Asian Am Comics: Racial Politics
• •  ASAM 179 AA -Spec Topics: Asian Amer Studies
• •  ASAM 179A AA -Spec Topics: Asian Amer Studies
• •  ASAM 179B AA -Asian Americans and the Law
• •  ASAM 179C AA -Queering Asian America /SpecialTopics:Asian-AmerStudies
• •  ASAM 179D AA -Mixed Race Experience /SpecialTopics:Asian-AmerStudies
• •  ASAM 179E AA -Asian/Americans & PopularCulture /SpecialTopics:Asian-AmerStudies
• •  ASAM 179G AA -AsnAmer&PcfcIslan Diaspora & Mig /SpecialTopics:Asian-AmerStudies
• •  ASAM 179H AA -Music in Asian America /SpecialTopics:Asian-AmerStudies
• •  ASAM 179J AA -Techno-Orientalism
• •  ASAM 179K AA -Asian American Women on Screen
• •  ASAM 179L AA -Contmp Asian American Literature
• •  ASAM 179P AA -Afro-AsianPolitics/ExprsvCulture / Spec Topics:Asian Amer Studies
• •  ASAM 179Q AA -Narrative Filmmaking / Spec Topics:Asian Amer Studies
• •  ASAM 187 AA -Special Topics in Asian Amer St
• •  ASAM 189A PO -Music in Asian America
• •  ASAM 190A PO -Asian Amer Studies Senior Sem
• •  ASAM 191 PO -Senior Thesis Asian Amer Studies
• •  ASAM 197 AA -Spec Topics Asian Ameri Studies

English and World Literature

• •  ENGL 161 SC -Futures of Asian/America
• •  ENGL 162 SC -Asian Amer Lit:Gender+Sexuality

Environmental Analysis

• •  EA 086 PZ -Environmental Justice

Gender & Feminist Studies

• •  FGSS 188E SC -Adv Top: The Queer Transpacific
• •  GWS 162 PO -Decolonizing Gender/Sex Asian/Am

Media Studies

• •  MS 100 AA -Asian Americans in Media
• •  MS 101 PZ -Asian Amer Media in Communities

Music

• •  MUS 126 SC -Music in East Asia and Diaspora

Political Studies

• •  POLI 118 SC -Korea and Korean Americans
• •  POLI 128 SC -Race & American Capitalism

Psychology

• •  PSYC 153 AA -Asian American Psychology
• •  PSYC 155 CM -Eth Minority Psyc & Mental Hlth

Sociology

• •  SOC 073 PZ -Asians in America
• •  SOC 126 AA -Immigration & Second Generation
• •  SOC 150 AA -Contemporary Asian-Amer Issues

Theatre

• •  THEA 001G PO -Basic Acting:Acting Soc Change
• •  THEA 130 PO -Introduction to Directing