ETHN 20 - INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

    Recent Professors
    H. Carnie, M. Okuhata, C. Yamasaki, S. Bae, A. Dinh, E. Aguinaldo
    Recent Semesters
    Spring 2027, Fall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
    Class Size
    40–45 students
    Credits
    3
    Spring 2027 Sections
    View Spring 2027 sections of ETHN 20
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · Cal-GETC Area 4 · Cal-GETC Area 6 · IGETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 7 · CSU GE Area C2 · CSU GE Area D · CSU GE Area F
    Description
    ETHN 20 is a critical study of the Asian American experience. Students will read scholarly, literary, and visual texts in order to understand how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American Studies confronts issues of Asian American immigration, racialization, exclusion, social and political activism, assimilation, community-building, and transnationalism. It explores questions of gender and sexuality, race and class, war and imperialism, and culture and memory, and the forces that have shaped the experience of Asian Americans. It will also focus on how Asian Americans negotiate and often resist such forces through political and creative means of expression.
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 12:30pm–1:45pm, Tue Thu 12:30pm–1:45pm, Tue Thu 9:30am–10:45am, Mon Wed 9:00am–10:15am