Department of Asian American Studies
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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AAS Fall 2020 CoursesSeats are still available in many of our fall courses!
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- Note: At the time of writing, AAS 120, Intro to Asian American Pop Culture, and AAS 200, U.S. Race and Empire, have both been filled. However, there are still seats left open in our other courses, many of which fulfill the US Minority Cultures General Education requirement!
- The Department of Asian American Studies is pleased to announce that the winners of the first Betty Lee Sung Undergraduate Award and the annual Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant have been selected.
- This is on behalf of the Illinois Student Government’s Helping Others Personal Excellence (HOPE) Department. Last Spring, the student body
Calendar
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.
