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Spring 2025 ASAM
(Class schedules for this semester will be posted at a later date.)
Fall 2025 ASAM
| Course | Title | Schedule/Units | Meeting Type Times/Days | Location | Instr(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL B223-1 | The Help: Asian American Literature & Care Work | Semester / 1 | LEC: 10:10 AM-11:30 AM TTH | Mao,S. |
Spring 2026 ASAM
| Course | Title | Schedule/Units | Meeting Type Times/Days | Location | Instr(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL B313-001 | The Art of Minor Feelings: Asian American Emotional Lives | Semester / 1 | LEC: 1:10 PM-2:30 PM MW | Mao,S. |
2025-26 Catalog Data: ASAM
ENGL B223 The Help: Asian American Literature & Care Work
Fall 2025
This course surveys Asian American literature and cultural productions that feature the work of care: jobs, whether official or unofficial (such as mothering, nursing, and nannying) that are essential, yet so often undercompensated and overlooked. We will examine how Asian American immigration history has led to the burgeoning of industries around care work. We will see how narrative and fiction portray the troubling entanglements between economic structures, race and gender roles, and personal feeling in the labor of care. This course operates under the premise that an attentiveness to how care unfolds is essential to creating a more just world. Collectively, we will not just talk about care as an abstract set of ideas but concretely practice it with one another in the space of our classroom.
Critical Interpretation (CI)
Counts Toward: Asian American Studies.
ENGL B313 The Art of Minor Feelings: Asian American Emotional Lives
Spring 2026
In her essay collection Minor Feelings (2020), Cathy Park Hong argues that Asian Americans experience a "racialized range of emotions"-what she calls "minor feelings"-when their concerns about racial injustice are repeatedly dismissed as inconsequential. What do emotions have to do with Asian American history and identity? And how do we talk about emotions critically? This seminar revolves around the cultural history of affect for Asian Americans in a variety of contemporary literary works by Asian Americans since the 90s including essays, short stories, novels, and genre fiction. Over the course of the semester, we will learn to understand and critically analyze affect-or feelings and emotions-in ways that are not just psychic and personal but also embodied and socially, politically, and historically specific. We will examine different affective states (e.g., anger, disgust, and detachment but also the beautiful and joyous), considering how specific affects have contributed to the stereotyping of Asian Americans both as unassimilable foreign threats (the Yellow Peril) and as idealized, upwardly mobile American citizens (model minorities). More importantly, we will explore how Asian Americans themselves have used affects to challenge and exceed the categorizations that have been laid out for them
Course does not meet an Approach
Counts Toward: Asian American Studies.
PSYC B354 Asian American Psychology
Not offered 2025-26
This course will provide an overview of the nature and meaning of being Asian American in the United States. We will examine the history, struggle, and success of Asian Americans, drawing upon psychological theory and research, interdisciplinary ethnic studies scholarship, and memoirs. Students will also learn to evaluate the media portrayal of Asian Americans while examining issues affecting Asian American communities such as stereotypes, discrimination, family relationships, dating/marriage, education, and health disparities. Prerequisite: Introduction to Psychology (Psych 105) is required, Research Methods and Statistics (Psych 205) is recommended..