Asian-Pacific Studies (APP)

Basic themes and key issues in Asia and the Pacific region. Multi-disciplinary survey of art, literature, philosophy, religion, politics, and society. Background to understanding tradition and change in the region, and introduction to the multicultural roots of Asian-Pacific Americans.

Offered Fall, Spring

Offered As needed

Examines basic themes and key issues in the Study of Asian Americans. Interdisciplinary survey of immigration history, community formation, and development of ethnic identities through the arts, literature, music, multimedia and internet, cultural festivals, scholarship. and student and community organizations.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Explores the lived experiences of the three Ethnic/Global communities in the United States and their place of origin. Examines the socio-cultural dynamics in Africana, Asian-Pacific and Chicano/Latino communities.

Offered Fall, Spring

Examines the cultural, historical and contemporary experiences of various peoples of Hawai'i and the Pacific including the struggle over land, traditions, and sovereignty, state and national political restructurings, and global flows od knowledge, capital, and bodies.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite(s): N/A. Examines the history of colonialism and neo-colonialism in Hawai`i (under the United States) and the broader Pacific region. Explores how Pacific Islanders in the Pacific and the United States have utilized strategic social activism, resistance, and social justice movements to work toward decolonial and anti-colonial goals and fight inequities within their own societies.

A study of selected topics or issues in Asian-Pacific Studies. Repeatable for a maximum of six units for credit.

Offered As needed

Examination of the history and contemporary realities of Asian America. Analyzes the differences and commonalities in the experiences of various Asian American populations, focusing on the interplay of ace, ethnicity, class, gender and culture in shaping their lives.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

An investigation of the roles that artist-activists from the diverse areas of the world have played in 20th and 21st century social justice struggles. Students become familiar with the works of key resistance artists, including but not limited to the Mexican Muralists, members of the California Labor School, 1960's activists, and feminists. The course exposes students to specific propaganda art repositories, such as the Oakland Museum of California, where one of the world's largest and culturally diverse collections of social justice art is housed. The course examines museums in their evolution as sites of contestation for exhibitors and visitors who challenge their previously unquestioned scripts

Offered Fall, Spring

Explores the growing transnational flows of Asian popular culture in historical and socioeconomic contexts. Analyzes the ramifications of the popularity of Asian pop culture for the changing contemporary global cultural landscape and power relations.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao American culture, history, and identity examines the challenges of these immigrant groups focusing on the context of refugee experiences, intergenrational conflict, education, and preservation and transformation of culture in American society. GE F3. 

Offered Fall, Spring

Explores the lived experiences of Filipino Americans through the lens of Philippine history and culture, U.S. colonization, immigration, and community formation. Examines key issues, debates, and theories about diversity, ethnic identity and assimilation, education, families, and gender/sexuality.

Offered Spring odd

Examination of diverse Asian Pacific cultures and history through art, music, and written and oral literatures. Analyzes the contributions of past and present artists, musicians/composers, and writers to the establishment and challenging of cultural identities in a globalized and mass-mediated world.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisites: Completion of all lower division General Education requirements. Junior Examination of basic values and societal outlooks unique to various Asian Pacific groups. Comparative analysis of verbal and nonverbal communication models for better cross-cultural understanding.

Offered Fall, Spring, Summer

Focusing on Japanese comics and animation, this course examines the contemporary transnational flows of culture and their implications. It also explores how the existing power relations between the East/West, center/periphery, and men/women are reflected and challenged in the production and dissemination of Japanese comics and animation.

Offered As needed

Through critical analyses of films, this course will explore various aspects of East Asian societies including history, cultural traditions, socioeconomic transformations, politics, identity, gender and generational relations. It will also examine the issue of ethnic/racial/national/gender representation in East Asian cinema and its implications.

Offered As needed

Analysis of Asian Pacific culture traditions and their transformation and globalization. Examines how Asian Pacific food culture intersects with local ecology, gender, cultural traditions, identity politics, (im)migration, colonialism, modernization, and globalization.

Offered Fall, Spring

Analysis of Asian diaspora populations' practice of Asian religions outside of Asia, especially in the U.S. Examines how Asian religions are transformed in different historical, social and cultural contexts and how the transformation in also intertwined with identity and community-building.

Offered Fall, Spring

Critical analysis on how a written source can be transformed from literature into film. Several Asian Films and Asian novels or short stories will be examined.

Offered Fall, Spring

Critical analysis of Asian gender and family structure and their dynamic processes. Examines issues of dating, marriage, reproduction, parenting and child socialization, domestic labor, the negotiation of paid work and family care, sexual desires and practices.

Offered Fall, Spring

Prerequisite: Consent of program coordinator. An intensive study of an issue, concept or theme in Asian-Pacific Studies. Repeatable for a maximum of nine units for credit.

Offered As needed

Prerequisites: APP 301 and APP 321. Capstone experience in Asian-Pacific concentration. In-depth study and project development of historical or current issues confronting Asian-Pacific populations. Three hours of seminar per week.

Offered Infrequent

Independent study of a particular topic in Asian/Pacific Studies, relating two or more disciplines, such as anthropology, art, education, history, languages, music, philosophy, politics, or sociology under the direction of an Asian/Pacific Studies Program faculty member. Repeatable course.

Offered Fall, Spring

An intensive study of selected topics or issues in Asian-Pacific studies.

Offered Infrequent

Prerequisites: Lower division courses in Asian Pacific Studies Involves supervised work experience in community-based business, non-profit organization, or government agency serving Asian Pacific Americans with specific emphasis upon business and public administration, public policy, program planning, and economic development projects in a local, national, and/or international setting. Supervision emphasizes training and application of administration, analytical, socio-political and cultural knowledge, and technical skills. Students will be placed in setting suitable to their academic specialization. One hour of tutorial per week is required with instructor. Student must complete all of the lower division courses in Asian Pacific Studies before they can enroll in an internship.

Offered Fall, Spring