Asian American Studies Certificate
Asian American Studies Certificate is an interdisciplinary program that examines the history and experiences of Asian Americans. In order to graduate with the Asian American Studies Certificate, students must register for the Certificate and complete 12 credit hours of course work relavant to Asian American studies with "C" or higher grades. Of the 12 credit hours, at least 6 credit hours must be core Asian American studies courses, while remaining credit hours can be chosen from the list of electives. Please contact Dr. Malini Johar Schueller (English Department) at mschuell@english.ufl.edu for more information.
List of Asian American Studies Courses
Since most of the courses are not offered regularly, students should register for the core courses at the earliest time possible when they are offered.
All courses are 3 credit hours and for undergraduate students unless otherwise noted.
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CERTIFICATE CORE COURSES
AML 3285 Asian American Literature
AML 3673 Introduction to Asian American Studies [*same course was offered as AML 4685 and AML 3285 in the past]
AML 4135 Introduction to Asian American Film
AML 4685 Asian American Culture in Historical Perspective
ENG 4130 Martial Arts Cinema (Kill Them with Karate)
POS 4931 Asian American Politics
PSY 4905 Asian American Psychology [*1 credit hour]
SYA 4930 Sociology of Asian Americans
LIT 6856 Issues and Methods in Asian American Studies [*graduate-level course]
LIT 2120 "The Orient/The East": Asian & Asian Diasporic Childhoods 1930 - 2008
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CERTIFICATE ELECTIVE COURSES
AML 4282 Women of Color and Politics of Sexuality
LIT 4185 Postcolonial Literature, Culture, and Theory
LIT 4930 Racism, Classism, and Sexism
POS 4624 Race, Law, and the Constitution
POS 4931 Multiracial Politics
PUP 4313 Minorities and Change
SYA 4931 Race, Class, and Gender
SYD 3700 Minorities in American Society
SYG 2930 Asian Families
WST 3000 Women & Diversity in US History
WST 3015 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women
WST 3930 Women of Color in the U.S.
WST 4930 Third World Women’s Poetry and Short Stories
AFA 2000 Introduction to African American Studies
ISS 2160 Cultural Diversity in the U.S.
Spring 2008 Asian American Studies Courses
All courses are 3 credit hours and for undergraduate students unless otherwise noted.
SPRING 2008 ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CERTIFICATE CORE COURSES
- AML 3673 Introduction to Asian American Studies [Non-Gordon Rule, Non-Gen Ed ], Section 9392, T4&R4-5, Turlington 2346, Professor Schueller (mschuell@english.ufl.edu)
- SYA 4930 Sciology of Asian Americans [Non-Gordon Rule, Non-Gen Ed], Section 6799, T7&R7-6, Little 121, Yuko Fujino (yfujino@ufl.edu)
- This course presents an overview of sociological studies of Asian Americans. We will explore the diverse experiences of East, Southeast, and South Asian Americans. We will closely examine topics such as immigration, identity, education, families, sexualities, gender, social movements, discrimination, and interracial relationships. This class will familiarize students with some of the major social issues in contemporary Asian America; encourage students to think critically about identity, citizenship, diversity, power, privilege, and oppression in the U.S.; and urge students to use their “sociological imagination” to make connections between your individual lives and the events that happen in the larger society. Previous coursework in sociology or other social sciences is ideal, but no prerequisites are necessary.
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[GRADUATE-LEVEL] LIT 6856 Issues and Methods in Asian American Studies, T6-8, CBD 216, Professor Schueller (mschuell@english.ufl.edu)
- “Asian-American” is a highly contested, yet necessary category, born of racism, nationalism, and resistance. This course is an introduction to Asian-American literary and cultural production as well as to major critical debates generated by the institutionalization of Asian-American studies. Although the course includes works by Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Filipino Americans, the point is not simply to emphasize the cultural and national multiplicity of Asian-American writing. Rather, the readings are arranged according to major theoretical questions that recur in Asian American studies: cultural nationalism, racial-national authenticity, hybridity, model minorities, Orientalism, sites of exclusion, race and definitions of gender, the politics of location, and postcolonial identities. We’ll probably read Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies, and Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 . In addition we’ll work with documentaries such as Sa-I-Gu and Miss India, Georgia. We’ll engage with the works of race theorists such as Omi and Winant and Anne Anlin Cheng; postcolonialists such as Edward Said and Rey Chow; gender theorists like Judith Butler; Asia-Pacific theorists like Rob Wilson; as well as prominent Asian-American critics including Lisa Lowe, Gary Okihiro, Frank Chin, David Palumbo-Liu, and Vijay Prashad. Requirements: One or two oral presentations; 8-10 response papers; long final paper.
- LIT 2120 "The Orient/The East": Asian & Asian Diasporic Childhoods 1930-2008, Section 3613, Spring 2008, T7&R7-8, CBD 210, Jaimy Mann (jaimymichellemann@gmail.com)
SPRING 2008 ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CERTIFICATE ELECTIVE COURSES
- POS 4624 Race, Law, and the Constitution [Gordon Rule Writing 6, Non-Gen Ed], Section 4364, MWF1, Professor Stafford
- WST 3015 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women [Non-Gordon Rule, Non-Gen Ed]
- Section 1358, T5&R6-7, Professor Hedrick
- Section 4454, MWF4, Professor Anantharam
- Section 6895, R3-4&T3, Professor Travis
- WST 3930 Women of Color in the U.S. [Non-Gordon Rule, Non-Gen Ed], Section 1390, T8-9&R8, Professor Evans
- SYD 3700 Minorities in American Society [Non-Gordon Rule, Gen Ed S or D]:
- Section 9582, MWF8, Beau Niles
- Section 9587, MWF5, Steven Arxer
- SYG 2930 Asian Families [Non-Gordon Rule, Non-Gen Ed], Section 9377, MWF5, Ching-Yu (Louisa) Chang
- AFA 2000 Introduction to African American Studies [Gordon Rule Writing 4, Gen Ed H]
- Section 1373, MWF4, Professor Dorcely
- Section 2517, MWF2, Professor Dorcely
- ISS 2160 Cultural Diversity in the U.S. [Gordon Rule Writing 6, Non-Gen Ed]
- T78&R4 (2 sections)
- T78&W3 (2 sections)