AAPI 125 - Asian American and Pacific Islander Identities and Cultures

    Recent Professors
    Ly Thi Hai Tran
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025
    Class Size
    45 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · Cal-GETC Area 6 · IGETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 7 · CSU GE Area D · CSU GE Area F
    Description
    This course explores the identity formation and the ongoing experiences of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) through an analysis of culture and power. Students will examine how cultural productions – literature, film, visual art, music, performance, museums, national monuments and memorials, among others – produce ideas, stories, values and ideologies in different moments during the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Using various methods of cultural inquiry, students explore how race, class, gender, sexuality, immigration status and indigeneity together produce intricate arrangements of power in U.S. society as well as how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders politicize(d) themselves through their cultural expressions. This course is designed for all students interested in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies.
    Usually Held
    Tue Thu 11:10am–12:35pm, Tue Thu 9:35am–10:55am, Tue Thu 9:35am–11:00am