Each year, the Department of Asian American Studies awards a research grant, the Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant, to a graduate or PhD student whose work centers around Asian Americans. This year, our winner was Jacqueline Yi, a PhD candidate in Clinical-Community Psychology.
AAS Fall 2020 CoursesSeats are still available in many of our fall courses!
Rubab Hyder talks about her experiences as a student in Asian American Studies.
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- Federal government rescinds new rule regarding international students July 14, 2020 5:48 PM To our students, faculty and staff:
- Campus COVID-19 Updates
- AAS 100: Intro to Asian American Studies Soo Ah Kwon • MW 1:00 – 1:50 pm • CRN 29646 • Online Lecture (Friday Online Discussion Sections)
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AAS 100Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and approaches in Asian American Studies. Surveys the various dimensions of Asian American experiences including history, social organization, literature, arts, and politics.
AAS 200Invites students to examine histories and narratives of U.S. race and empire, drawing upon multiple theoretical and methodological works in Asian American studies and related fields.
AAS 215Examines the racial, gendered, and sexualized aspects of US citizenship historically and comparatively. Interdisciplinary course taught from a humanities perspective. Readings draw from critical legal studies, history, literature, literary criticism, and ethnography.
AAS 300Explores theories for performing interdisciplinary, intersectional and comparative studies within the field of Asian American studies. Follows multiple genealogies of critical work in ethnic and American studies.
