TOPIC IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

ASIANAM 560

Topics in the arts and humanities that illuminate the Asian American experience.

ASIANAM 540

Themes in Asian American Studies. Topics may include activism, public policy, history, poverty, family, law, immigration, diaspora, refugeeism, gender, sexuality.

ASIANAM/ENGL 150

Since the 19th century, "America" has often been defined by its relationship with "Asia," through cultural influence, immigration, imperialism, and war. Traces the role of Asia and Asians in American literature and culture, from the Chinese and Japanese cultural influences that helped shape literary modernism to the rise of a distinctive culture produced by Asian immigrants to America and their descendants.

ASIANAM/ENGL 270

Survey of Asian American literature from 1880 to present.

ASIANAM 240

An examination of specific themes in Asian American life and culture. Topics may include comparative analyses of Asian American communities, Asian American experience and history, and the specific concerns and histories of Asian groups in the U.S., such as Korean, Hmong, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Chinese, and Japanese.