Asian American Studies (AAS)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the 2019-2020 Catalog.
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Classes
AAS 2100
Course Description
This interdisciplinary course (with an emphasis in anthropology) will introduce students to the multiple routes/roots, lived experiences, and imagined worlds of South Asians who have traveled to various ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Munasinghe, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AAS 2130
Course Description
An introductory history of Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, Filipinos, and Koreans in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1990s. Major themes include racism and resistance, labor ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2640, HIST 2640
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
Instructors
Chang, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AAS 2623
Course Description
An introduction to Asian American performance, this course will consider both historical and contemporary examples and forms through the analytics of Asian American studies, theatre studies, and performance ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2622, PMA 2621
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Balance, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AAS 2910
Course Description
In her memoir Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston identified a conundrum familiar to many US-born children of Chinese immigrants when she asked: "What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?" What ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2910, ENGL 2910
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 181
Instructors
Wong, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AAS 3312
Course Description
This course explores cultural representations of Afro-Asian intimacies and coalition in novels, songs, films, paintings, and poems. What affinities, loves and thefts, and tensions are present in cultural ... view course details
AAS 4050
Course Description
This course focuses on three major and interrelated themes within Filipino/Filipino American history: war/empire, labor/migration, and culture/imaginaries. How do we account for the overwhelming number ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4052, ASIAN 4452
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Rockefeller Hall 128
Instructors
Balance, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For this course description, please see the Asian American Studies website: http://asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu/courses.
AAS 4640
Course Description
This course examines contemporary literary and cultural memory work that mediates the emergence of nuclear energy in Asia and the Pacific after World War Two as a transpacific settler colonial and racial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4640, COML 4640, FGSS 4641, FGSS 6641, SHUM 4640, SHUM 6640
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 109
Instructors
Cho, Y
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
AAS 4950
Course Description
Independent reading course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details