Support the ProgramAsian/Asian American Studies at Miami University
Courses
Sample Course Descriptions
Introduction to Asian/Asian American Studies (AAA 201)
(3 hr, Global MPF, CAS-B)
- provides a general introduction to the related disciplines of Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies
- considers how "Asia" and "Asian America" are defined, geopolitically and strategically to allow us to develop a critical view about Asian and Asian American studies in a transnational frame
- examines fiction, film and sociological works to enable students to acquire a better understanding about what is being researched in this field
China and Globalization (AAA/SOC 207)
(3 hr, Global MPF, CAS-C)
- studies recent transformative interactions, influences, and adaptations between China and the world
- uses sociological theories and comparative and cross-cultural methodologies to illustrate how social and cultural institutions shape the globalization process
- guides students to understand how social behavior varies across cultures as well as across categories of difference, particularly race, class, and gender within society
Global Religions of India (REL/AAA/ITS 203)
(3 hr, Global MPF, CAS-B)
- explores the major religions of India and their growth outside India
- asks how these religions have contributed to the religious pluralism of America
- illustrates how Asian American and non Asian American practitioners of these religions have changed the way that religion is practiced in India and other parts of Asia
Visualizing Asia and Asian America (AAA/ENG 350 E)
(CAS-B)
- explores films largely from and about South and South East Asia and Asian America to illustrate how visual texts as modes of representation play a significant role in negotiating, constructing, and reproducing "culture"
- critically evaluates how cinema creates, recreates, perpetuates and reproduces 'Asian' cultures for western, native, and diasporic audiences
- guides students to analyze how mainstream notions of nation, gender, sexuality, family values, social hierarchies and social change get constructed at the intersection of the audience, visual imagery and political economic context
Gender and Sexuality in Asian/America (AAA/ENG/WMS 351)
(3 hr)
- offers an intensive interdisciplinary study of imaginative representations of the encounters between "Asia" and "America," particularly the entangled relations among their diverse constituencies in the contexts of colonialism and globalization
- uses transnational feminism, women of color feminism, and queer of color critique as key analytical frameworks to examine how culturally and historically specific ideas about racialized gender and sexuality inform people's lived and imagined relationships to shifting boundaries of nation-states and changing international politics
- enables students to identify and describe key elements in critical concepts of gender, sexuality, race, and nation in the context of Asian/American histories and cultural production and to recognize how the changing relationships between "Asia" and "America" shape cultural imagination about inter-Asia relations and inter-ethnic relations in the U.S., and more broadly, America(s)
Topics in Asian/Asian American Studies: Asian/Asian American Rhetoric (AAA410A/ENG409)
(3 hr)
- studies how Asians and Asian Americans use language and other discursive means to redress the injuries of the past and to respond to and shape the social, political, and cultural conditions of their time
- draws upon rhetorical theories, comparative rhetoric studies, discourse analysis theories, as well as Asian immigration history and US Supreme Court cases to investigate, e.g., the forms Asian/Asian American rhetoric takes; the questions it addresses; and the audiences it engages
Fall 2012 Courses
- Introduction to Asian/Asian American Studies
- Professor Anita Mannur
AAA 201 (3 credits) (Global MPF, CAS-B) - China and Globalization
- Professor Walter Arnold
AAA/SOC 207 (3 credits) (Global MPF, CAS-B) - Global Religions of India
- Professor Elizabeth Wilson
REL/AAA/ITS 203 (3 credits) (Global MPF, CAS-B) - Psychology across Cultures
- Professor Vaishali Raval
PSY/AAA 210 (3 credits) (Global MPF, CAS-B) - Asian/Asian American Cinema
- Professor Nalin Jayasena
AAA/ENG/FST 350E (3 credits) (Global MPF, CAS-B) - Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
- Professor Nalin Jayasena
AAA/ENG 369 (3 credits) (CAS-B-LIT) - The Role of Woman/Transformed Society
- Professor Yu-Fang Cho
AAA 410D/WGS 401 (3 credits) (CAS-B)
Spring 2013 Courses
(tentative, incomplete list)
- Asian American Literature
- Professor Anita Mannur
AAA/ENG/AMS 248 (3 credits) - Gender and Sexuality in Asian/America
- Professor Yu-Fang Cho
AAA/ENG/WMS 351 (3 credits) - Topics in Asian/Asian American Studies: Asian/Asian American Rhetoric
- Professor LuMing Mao
AAA410A/ENG409 (3 credits)