ASIA AM 170
Transnational Perspectives on Asian America
Description: Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: background in Asian Pacific American social and legal history. Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of transformations that have occurred in Asian America in last four decades as consequence of global economic restructuring and new immigration. Introduction to and survey of new frameworks for understanding these changes in postmodern Asian Pacific American communities, using theories of transnationalism and Asian American political and racial history. Readings and discussion on transnational aspects of wide range of historical and contemporary topics in context of Asia/Asian American experience. Building of linkages between roots of social constructions of race and multisited social processes that now constitute globalizing Asian America. Theoretical readings assigned. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2025 - professor tamai is really sweet and you can tell she cares a lot about what she's teaching, but i wouldn't recommend taking this class if you're not an AAS major and/or if you're not that interested in the topic. she assigns a lot of reading each week, you can probably get by if you skim them but it's still too much imo. no midterm or exams -- just a 6-8 page term paper (but she gives you plenty of time to do it) + a final that was set up the same as the paper, but you had 2-3 days to do it instead. honestly the paper and the final were what drained me the most, since you have to do the most work for them at the same time you would need to lock in for your other classes. attendance and participation also both matter. overall, not a bad class by any means, but definitely more than i thought it would be, and she can be a bit nit-picky about the assignments.
Spring 2025 - professor tamai is really sweet and you can tell she cares a lot about what she's teaching, but i wouldn't recommend taking this class if you're not an AAS major and/or if you're not that interested in the topic. she assigns a lot of reading each week, you can probably get by if you skim them but it's still too much imo. no midterm or exams -- just a 6-8 page term paper (but she gives you plenty of time to do it) + a final that was set up the same as the paper, but you had 2-3 days to do it instead. honestly the paper and the final were what drained me the most, since you have to do the most work for them at the same time you would need to lock in for your other classes. attendance and participation also both matter. overall, not a bad class by any means, but definitely more than i thought it would be, and she can be a bit nit-picky about the assignments.
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