ETH 40 - Vietnamese American Culture and Experience

    Recent Professors
    Thien Huong N. Villarreal, Lan H. Nguyen
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026
    Class Size
    45–48 students
    Difficulty
    7.0Demandingout of 10
    Credits
    3
    Spring 2027 Sections
    View Spring 2027 sections of ETH 40
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4C · IGETC Area 4G · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area D · UCTCA Area 3B · UCTCA Area UC-H · UCTCA Area UC-B · UCTCA Area UCTCA · UCTCA Area 4
    Description
    This course provides students with a basic theoretical background to critically situate Vietnamese American lives within the contexts of racialization, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. It draws upon scholarly, literary, and artistic production across disciplines and by multiple agents, including Vietnamese Americans, to expose and interrogate the orchestration of war and militarism, coerced displacement, global capitalism, and racialization. It also explores questions of gender, sexuality, class, religion, generation, transnationalism, community-building, and social justice political activism that intersect with Vietnamese American lives and creative expression.