AAS 3301 is also offered in Spring 2025
AAS 3301 is also offered in Fall 2024
AAS 3301 is also offered in Spring 2024
AAS 3301 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2024 | AAS 3301 Section 001: Asian America Through Arts and Culture (33125)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
ENGL 3301 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 311
- Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Americans of Asian descent comprise one of the fastest-growing racial groups in the U.S. today. While large numbers of Asian Americans have been in the U.S. since the middle of the nineteenth century, it is only in the past few decades that they have been widely recognized in art, culture, and media. This course focuses on how writing, art, performance, film, and/or other works of culture registers the experiences of Asian Americans past and present. How do individual artists or writers depict themselves and others as part of families, communities, or nations? How do questions of race, racism, family, identity, immigration, labor, citizenship, inequality, gender, sexuality, media stereotypes, and activism affect the perspectives and the creative choices in these works?
- Class Description:
- Through the analysis of theater, dance, music, visual arts, and other artistic practices, Asian American Through Arts and Culture increases awareness of the artistic contributions as well as the history, politics, and culture of Asian Americans. This semester we will focus on the close analysis and interpretation of individual plays by a range of modern and contemporary artists. Students will analyze, critique, and interpret Asian American drama and theater in light of the historical and social contexts in which they were produced, their creation and uses of aesthetic form, and their impact on individuals and communities. Discussion, writing assignments, and oral presentations will focus on different ways of encountering and evaluating plays; for instance, students will write critical analyses and production reviews. We will examine what it means to define artists and their work as being ?Asian American? and explore how other categories of identity such as gender, sexuality, or class intersect with race. We will study how art works not only as individual creativity but also as communal and social practice; for instance, we look at the history of theaters, such as East-West Players or Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, that have sustained Asian Americans as actors, playwrights, and designers.
- Grading:
- 75% Reports/Papers
25% Attendance
- Class Format:
- 25% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations
5% Guest Speakers
- Workload:
- 75-100 Pages Reading Per Week
3 Paper(s)
3 Presentation(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33125/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 26 March 2014
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2024 Asian American Studies Classes