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Undergraduate courses in Asian American Studies

In this section:

ASNAMST 173S. Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges

ASNAMST 180C. Asian American Sexualities

ASNAMST 185A. Race and Biomedicine

ASNAMST 200R. Directed Research

ASNAMST 200W. Directed Reading

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Asian American Studies (ASNAMST) Courses

ASNAMST 173S. Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges

(Same as CSRE 173S.) Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.

5 units, Spr (Staff)

ASNAMST 180C. Asian American Sexualities

(Same as CSRE 180C, PSYCH 180C.) Seminar. Mutual constitution of culture and sexuality among Asian Americans; attitudes, behaviors, taboos, and identity. How masculinity and femininity are portrayed in the media; cultural attitudes toward homosexuality; and sexual politics. Social, political, and psychological implications.

5 units, not given this year

ASNAMST 185A. Race and Biomedicine

(Same as ANTHRO 185A.) Race, identity, culture, biology, and political power in biomedicine. Biological theories of racial ordering, sexuality and the medicalization of group difference. Sources include ethnography, film, and biomedical literature. Topics include colonial history and medicine, the politics of racial categorization in biomedical research, the protection of human subjects and research ethics, immigration health and citizenship, race-based models in health disparities research and policy, and recent developments in human genetic variation research.

3-5 units, Win (Lee, S)

ASNAMST 200R. Directed Research

May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

ASNAMST 200W. Directed Reading

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)

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