Support the ProgramAsian/Asian American Studies at Miami University
Minor
The Asian/Asian American (AAA) Studies minor provides a critical understanding of important issues connecting and affecting Asia and communities of Asian descent in the U.S. and in the diasporas. Its innovative course of study moves beyond object-oriented area studies and nationalistic identity politics to feature transnational and transcultural approaches to:
- political-economic relations
- historical and socio-cultural formations
- ethno-linguistic and religious practices
- literary and artistic representations
The AAA minor enables students to productively engage issues of sameness and difference and to critically reflect on their relations to an increasingly interdependent world.
The AAA minor, which may be used to fulfill the Thematic Sequence requirement, requires the completion of a minimum of 18 semester hours, normally 6 courses, with a cumulative GPA of 2.0 in the program. It's possible that students could use other courses not listed below to count toward the AAA minor.
For additional questions about the program or about next year's course offerings, please contact the program's interim director, Quanyu Huang (huangq@MiamiOH.edu).
Foundation Course (3 hours)
- Introduction to Asian/Asian American Studies
(AAA 201) (3 hr, G-MPF, CAS-B)
Core Courses (6 hours)
Choose two from:
- China and Globalization
(AAA/SOC 207)(3 hr, G-MPF, CAS-B) - Visualizing Asia and Asian America
(AAA/ENG 350 E)(3 hr, CAS-B) - Global Religions of India
(REL/AAA 203)(3 hr, G-MPF) - Gender and Sexuality in Asian/America
(AAA/ENG/WMS 351)(3 hr, CAS-B)
Capstone (3 hours)
- Topics in Asian/Asian American Studies
(AAA 410)(3 hr)
Related Courses (6-8 hours)
Choose one from each of two of the following thematic clusters:
- A. Comparative Perspective
- Sociology of Family
(AAA/SOC/FSW 363)(3 hr) - Ethnic American Literatures
(ENG 348)(3 hr) - China and the Silk Road: Patterns of China's Interactions with Other Peoples before 1600
(HST 434)(3 hr) - Health and Culture – US and Asia*
(KNH 499)(5 hr, P) - Comparative Ethnic Politics
(POL 326)(3 hr)
- Sociology of Family
* This is a summer workshop.
- B. Cultural Analysis and Political Economy
- Geography of East Asia
(GEO 308)(3 hr) - Geology and Geopolitics: Silk Road
(GLG 108 F)(3 hr, G-MPF) - Politics of Central Asia
(POL 328)(3 hr) - Politics of East Asia
(POL 335)(3 hr) - International Relations of East Asia
(POL 375)(3 hr)
- Geography of East Asia
- C. Transnational & Transcultural Expressions in Art, Literature, and Religion
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
(AAA/ENG 369)(3 hr) - Studies in Literary Theory: Food and Power
(AAA/ENG 470 E)(3 hr) - Asian American Literature
(ENG 248)(3 hr) - Religions of Asia
(REL 202)(3 hr, MPF, MPT) - Feminism and the Diaspora: U.S. Women of Color
(WMS/BWS/ENG 432)(3 hr)
- Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
If there is discrepancy between this information and the Miami Bulletin in terms of CAS and Miami Plan requirements, the latter takes precedence over the former.