Asian American 6
Upon completion of this course a student will be able to:
A. identify long term and emergent issues of the Asian American experience;
B. compare and contrast the experiences of different Asian American groups;
C. evaluate the significance of race, gender, class, and sexuality to the Asian
American experience;
D. critically engage Asian American writings and analyze form and content as
well as its social and historical contexts;
E. assess the ways Asian Americans have been racialized as economic threats to
white labor and as sexual threats to white racial purity;
F. delineate the ways war and memories of war are implicated in the Asian
American experience;
G. evaluate the shifting meanings of Asian American masculinities and
femininities;
H. delineate sources of tensions and conflicts within Asian American families
particularly along the lines of gender and generation;
I. analyze the term "Asian American" and its shifting boundaries as well as points
of contention among the different Asian American groups;
J. critically assess the ways Asian Americans create, maintain, and recreate ties
with the homeland as well as the intricate nature of migration and settlement
and the ambiguities of belonging and longing.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1. Analyze and describe from a sociological viewpoint
Filipino American community issues and problems.
2. Distinguish and relate how issues and problems of the
Filipino American community are not uniquely Filipino, but cross
cultural in scope.
3. Compare and identify from a sociological viewpoint
different Filipino American Community agencies, organizations and
resources.
4. Analyze and describe participation in the Filipino
American community and community related activities.
5. Review and illustrate the motivation of actively
participating in issues affecting Filipino American community
organizations.
6. Identify issues, formulate positions on and interpret
the significance of topics affecting the Filipino American
community, including immigration patterns, economic
opportunities, political situations, cultural traditions and
social conditions.
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Upon completion of this course a student will be able to:
A. assess the significance of culture as a site of political critique and intervention
given the historical exclusion of Asian Americans from the realm of formal
politics;
B. analyze the different ways Asian Americans have turned to culture to express
identity and experience;
C. demonstrate a nuanced understanding of Asian American cultural life;
D. assess the significance of culture to Asian American working class men as a site for
reclaiming their bodies and creating collective memories;
E. analyze the ways Asian American women deal with the burden of upholding
the reputation of the family and the purity of cultural traditions;
F. evaluate how cultural productions serve as a generational marker for Asian
American youth;
G. evaluate the ways culture serves as an important realm of cross-cultural
interaction between Asian American youth and other groups of youth;
H. delineate the different ways Asian Americans forge and redefine their relationships
with the homeland through their cultural practices.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1. to describe the history of united States government
policies which impacted immigrant communities from China, Japan,
Korea, the Philippines, and India;
2. to summarize the diverse histories of the Chinese
American, Japanese American, Filipino American, Korean American
and Indian American communities;
3. to analyze the similarities and differences between
individual Asian American communities;
4. to identify issues. frame positions and write essays
about topics affecting Asian American groups, including
immigration patterns, economic opportunities, political
situations, cultural traditions and social conditions.
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Upon completion of this course a student will be able to:
A. Construct a working knowledge of the Asian Pacific American community, identity,
organization, history, needs, and contemporary concerns.
B. Analyze methods of effective civic participation of the APA community.
C. Interpret key public policies and how these policies impact today's Asian Pacific
American Community.
D. Describe important attributes of effective Asian American community leaders.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1) to define what race relations encompass, including
theories of race and interaction between ethnic groups, the
impact of social, economic and class structures; and legal
precedent;
2) to describe current group interactions and race relations
in the United States between Asian Americans and other ethnic
groups including European Americans, African Americans,
Chicano/Latinos and Native Americans;
3) to analyze factors affecting race relations such as class, social norms, geography and population,
historical events, economic status, and other influences including education and mass media;
4) to identify issues, frame positions, and write essays
about racial incidents that involve Asian Americans;
5) to summarize theories of racial inequities and race
relations in the United States.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1) to describe events, forces and policies which have
affected the experience of Asian Americans.
2) to identify and write essays about key contemporary and
historical issues in the Asian American experience from 1820
until the present.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1. to describe the events, forces and movements which have
affected the experience of Asian women in America.
2. to analyze the variety of images and the diverse social,
cultural, political, and economic conditions of Asian American
women;
3. to summarize the similarities and differences between the experience of Chinese American,
Japanese American, Filipina American, Korean American women and Southeast Asian American
women.
4. to identify issues and write essays about Asian American women's
lives, which have been affected by immigration, work, family,
identity and community issues, using methodology and sources
of the behavioral sciences and the humanities.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1) to describe the experience of the Chinese American
community from the past to the present, including social,
economic and cultural changes over time.
2) to identify and write essays about key sociological
issues in the Chinese Asian American community.
3) to discuss Chinese contributions to the development of
the multiethnic and pluralistic society in America.
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1. to describe verbally and in writing the diversity of the
Southeast Asian community in the United States;
2. to analyze, frame positions and write essays about topics affecting Southeast Asian
groups, including economic opportunities, cultural traditions, social conditions, political
situations, refugee issues and immigration patterns from a sociological viewpoint;
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1. to describe the history and function of at least one
community based organization which serves the Asian American
community, or immigrant communities from china, Japan, Korea,
Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Pacific Islands, and India;
2. to analyze the similarities and differences between
individual Asian American communities;
3. to identify issues, frame positions and write reports
about topics affecting Asian American groups, including
immigration patterns, economic opportunities, political situations, cultural traditions,
or social conditions;
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When the student has completed this course s/he should be
able to:
1. to identify a specific topic or issue in Asian American
Studies;
2. to summarize the literature that exists on this topic or
issue;
3. to analyze the complexities of this topic; the
similarities and differences between different viewpoints and
readings;
4. to write essays about topics or issues affecting Asian
American groups, which might include immigration history,
patterns of economic development, political situations, cultural
traditions and social conditions;