Departments & Programs

Asian American Studies

Minor in Asian American Studies

Requirements

At least 15 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences course work, 6 of which must be at or above the 300 level, including the following:

  1. A101 Introduction to Asian American Studies
  2. 9 credit hours from courses in Lists A and B (see below). At least 6 credit hours must be from List A. With the approval of the director of the Asian American Studies program, 3 credit hours of A495 Independent Reading and Research in Asian American Studies may be substituted for one AAST course at the 200 or 300 level.
  3. A499 Senior Seminar in Asian American Studies
  4. No course taken in fulfillment of the American Studies major or minor can be applied to this minor.
  5. Students who choose course work outside the College in partial fulfillment of the minor will need to take additional College of Arts and Sciences course work to meet the minimum total of 15 credit hours in the College.
List A (Asian America)
  • AAST-A 200 Asian American Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE DUS
  • AAST-A 300 Topics in Asian American Studies (3 cr.) CASE DUS (Topic: Social Problems in the Health and Well-being of Asian America)
  • AAST-A 320 Advanced Topics in Asian American Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE DUS
  • AMST-A 298 Special Topics in Arts and Humanities for American Studies (3 cr.) CASE A&H (Topic: Negotiating Asian/American Identities: A Survey in Asian American Literature)
  • AMST-A 299 Special Topics in Social and Historical Studies for American Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H (Asian American Topics)
  • EALC-E 385 Asian Americans: Cultural Conflict and Identity (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE DUS
  • EDUC-G 204 Asian American Mental Health
  • ENG-L 374 Ethnic American Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE DUS (Asian American topics)
  • HIST-A 205 Asian American History (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE DUS
  • POLS-Y 200 Contemporary Political Problems (3 cr.) CASE S&H (Topic: Asian American Politics Since the 1960s)
  • SOC-S 342 Asian American Communities and Identities (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE DUS
List B (Asian Diaspora)
  • AAST-A 201 Asian Diaspora Experience (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • AMST-A 398 Advanced Topics in Arts and Humanities for American Studies (3 cr.) CASE A&H (Topic: Responses to Empire: Reading Philippine–U.S. Contact)
  • CMCL-C 314 Communication, Culture, and Social Formations (3 cr.) CASE S&H (Topic: Asian/Pacific Islander Families and Diasporas)
  • CMLT-C 360 Diasporic Literatures (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (Topic: Literatures of the Asian Diaspora)