ERIC MAR[1]
Psychology Bldg Room 106 – SFSU
Phone: 415/338-6591
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar
Asian American Studies 205
(section 04) - 3 units [GE[2]]
Asian
Americans & American Ideals & Institutions (#00324)
Spring
2001 – T&TH 9:35 – 10:50 a.m. – Burk
Hall 226
Course
Description:
Introduction to the Asian
American political experience. Drawing
from historical examples and contemporary issues, students will examine how
Asian Americans have been impacted by U.S. institutions, including federal, state
and local governments, the mass media system, and the new institutions of
global corporate power. The course will
also emphasize how Asian American communities have historically resisted
oppression and how social movements and organizations continue to advance the
struggle for equality and democracy within the U.S.
Objectives:
·
Increase fundamental
understanding of the political & ideological framework of U.S. and
California institutions and government;
·
Develop a critical
assessment of the political status of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S.;
·
Develop greater
awareness of basic rights and responsibilities under the U.S. Constitution;
·
Build awareness of
how institutionalized forms of domination operate in contemporary U.S. society
by uncovering the intersections of race, class and gender in social struggles;
·
Analyze the
relationships between federal, state and local governments;
·
Build multicultural
awareness and a critical approach to addressing contemporary public policy
issues;
·
Increase students’ ability
to analyze social problems and formulate opinions and solutions.
Methodology:
Lectures/Dialogue/Class & small group
discussions/Readings/Written Assignments/
Audio Visual presentations/Guest Speakers/Community
Observation Assignment
Course Text and Reading
Materials:
·
Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience (Angelo Ancheta, Rutgers Univ.
Press 1998)
·
Course Handouts –
available from the instructor throughout the course. Including: There
goes the neighborhood: a regional analysis of gentrification & community
stability in the SF Bay Area (Cameron Yee/Julie Quiroz – Urban Habitat
Program 1999) and excerpts from Deliberate
Disadvantage: A Case Study of Race Relations in the SF Bay Area (Applied
Research Center 1996).
Requirements:
Assignments 50%
& Participation
in Class
Research Project/Paper 25%
Comprehensive Take Home Final
Exam 25%
Regular Attendance and
Participation:
I expect every student to make her best efforts to participate
in the class discussions and in small groups. Therefore, regular attendance is
absolutely necessary.
Warning: repeated missed classes will severely lower
your final course grade.
Policy on late work:
I
do accept late papers but assignments turned in late get lowered grades. For example, an “A” paper which is turned in
one class after the due date will be given a “B“ grade. If that paper is turned in 2 classes after
the due date, the grade will have fallen to a “C”.
No
late work will be accepted more than 3 class meetings after the due date.
Education is not neutral.
It is for the liberation or for the domestication of people,
for their humanization or their dehumanization,
…whether the educators are conscious of this or not.
Paulo Freire, Revolutionary
Educator