St. Cloud State University
General Education Goal Area 6
Humanities & Fine Arts
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Response Date:
Effective Date:
1.
Prepared by: Kyoko Kishimoto
Phone: 8-5627
Proposal Number:
Email: kkishimoto@stcloudstate.edu
2.
Requesting Unit: Ethnic Studies Department
3.
Department, Course Number, Title: ETHS 345: Asian Pacific Americans in Popular Culture
4.
New Course
5.
Will this course be flagged as a diversity course?
Already Designated as Diversity
6.
Will this course also satisfy another General Education Goal Area?
If “Yes” specify which goal area.
Existing Course
No
Diversity Proposal Accompanying This Form
No
Yes
7.
Course bulletin description, including credits and semesters to be offered:
Representation of Asian Pacific Americans in historical and contemporary U.S. popular culture and selfrepresentations of Asian Pacific Americans. Prereq.: one of 201, 215, or approved Racial Issues course. 3 Cr. F,
ALT.
8.
Indicate the clientele for whom this course is designed. Is the course for general education only, or
does it fulfill general education and other program needs for this or another department? Obtain
signatures from any affected departments.
This course can fulfill a requirement or an elective for the Asian Pacific American Studies Minor.
9.
Indicate any changes that must be made in offerings or resources in your department or other
departments by offering this course.
None
10.
For new courses or courses not yet approved for General Education, indicate any other SCSU departments
or units offering instruction that relates to the content of the proposed course.
None
11.
Courses designated as General Education are included in the assessment plan for the Goal Area(s)
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for which they are approved. Courses for which assessment is not included in the annual GE
assessment report for two years will be removed from the General Education Program.
The Requesting Unit understands and recognizes the above conditions.
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12.
Provide a concise explanation of how the following goal is a “significant focus” of the proposed course.
Goal Area 6: Humanities & Fine Arts
Expand appreciation and critical understanding of changing modes of human expression and systems of
thought in the arts and humanities, and develop abilities in the creation and performance of meaning.
This course will analyze issues of race as a social construct and Orientalism; racialization and public
policies; legacies of wars in the Asia Pacific; visibility and invisibility and the Model Minority Myth; anti-Asian
movements; self-definition, resistance, and empowerment of Asian Pacific Americans through representations and
self-representations of Asian Pacific Americans in popular culture (movies, television, news, literature,
magazines, art, and other forms of media).
13. In order for a course to be designated as fulfilling Goal Area 6, it must address at least 5 of the 7 student learning
outcomes (SLOs) below. Check the SLOs below that are focused on in the proposed general education course.
1. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
2. Describe and appreciate works in the arts and humanities as expressions of individual and collective values
within an intellectual, cultural, historical and social context.
3. Interpret and respond critically to works from various cultures in the arts and humanities.
4. Explore intellectually the ideas expressed in works in the arts and humanities.
5. Engage in creative processes or interpretive performance.
6. Articulate an informed personal response to works in the arts and humanities.
7. Analyze the diverse means of communication in the arts and humanities.
14.
Discuss how each Student Learning Outcome checked above is achieved in this course. (Note: Although
descriptions of typical assignments or types of assignments may be part of this discussion, it is not
appropriate to submit copies of actual assignments.)
SOL 1: Students will fulfill this objective by being exposed to a variety of Asian Pacific American
popular culture (poetry, literature, television shows, films, art, magazines, news, music, photography, performing
art, etc.) that serve as cultural representations and expressions of human experiences in the arts and humanities.
The students will learn the diversity within Asian Pacific American communities.
SOL 2: Students will fulfill this objective by analyzing representation s of Asian Pacific Americans in the
mainstream media in the context of racial politics and power relations. Students will learn how individual
expressions can have unexpected outcomes when analyzed in relation to social groups or larger society.
Collective values of the dominant society can also have consquences on the experiences of Asian Pacific
Americans. In addition, students will analyze self-definitions and self-representations by Asian Pacific
Americans as a means to resist the oppressive and marginalizing forces of the larger society. Students will
demonstrate their competencies of these issues in class discussions and written work.
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SOL 3 & SOL 4: Students will be introduced to critical race theory and the theory of intersectionality and apply
these to works about and by Asian Pacific Americans. Students are expected to understand the larger context
(racialization of Asian Pacific Americans) in which such work was produced about or by Asian Pacific
Americans. The students are expected to apply critical analytical skills to understand the ideas expressed in the
various works in arts in humanities. Students will demonstrate their competencies in class discussions and written
work.
SOL 6: Students will investigate and critically examine their own social position. They will also analyze how
their social position affects the lens they use to analyze the works in the arts and humanities. Students will
demonstrate their competencies in class discussions and written work.
SOL 7: Students will investigate the role of popular culture in the context of power relations. Diverse forms of
popular culture serve as a means to maintain unequal power relations through the exclusion and marginalization
of Asian Pacific Americans. However, by analyzing the diverse means of self-representations by Asian Pacific
Americans, students will also learn the creative ways in which Asian Pacific Americans have resisted this
oppression. Students will demonstrate their competencies in class discussions and written work.
15.
List or attach the Course Outline (adequately described and including percentage of time to be allocated
to each topic). Curriculum Committees may request additional information. Topics larger than 20% need
to be broken down further. Indicate in your course outline where the Student Learning Outcomes
checked above are being met.
Race as a social construct and Orientalism -- 14% (SLO 3, SLO 4, SLO 7)
Racialization/sterepypes and public policies (film, magazines, news) -- 14% (SLO 3, SLO 4, SLO 7)
Legacies of wars in the Asia Pacific (literature, film, poetry, art, architecture) -- 14% (SLO 3, SLO 4, SLO 7)
Visibility and invisibility and the Model Minority Myth (literature, art, film, television) -- 14% (SLO 3, SLO 4,
SLO 7)
Anti-Asian movements and resistance (literature, art, film, television) -- 14% (SLO 3, SLO 4, SLO 7)
Representation of Asian Pacific Americans in movies, television, news, literature, magazines, art, and other forms
of media -- 15% (SLO 1, SLO 2, SLO 3, SLO 4, SLO 5, SLO 6, SLO 7)
Self-definition, resistance, and empowerment of Asian Pacific Americans through self-representations of Asian
Pacific Americans in popular culture (art, television, film, literature, music) -- 15% (SLO 1, SLO 2, SLO 3, SLO
4, SLO 5, SLO 6, SLO 7)
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St. Cloud State University
General Education Transmittal Form
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Response Date:
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Proposal Number
Department: Ethnic Studies
Course or Course(s): ETHS 345: Asian Pacific Americans in Popular Culture
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Department forward to Academic Affairs for publication and electronically to Chair of General Education Committee, Chair
of College Curriculum Committee, College Dean
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