ERIC
MAR[1]
Psychology Bldg Room 106 – SFSU
Phone: 415/338-6591
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar
Ethnic Studies 220 (section 04) - 3 units [GE[2]]
Asians in America
Spring 2001 – T&TH 8:10 – 9:25 a.m. – Gym 113
Course Description:
Introduction to the Asian American experience. This course examines the various factors that define ‘minority’ groups and their position in American society by focusing on Asian Americans as a case study. Particular attention is given to the emerging discipline of Ethnic Studies.
Objectives:
·
Develop a critical assessment of the status of Asians and
Pacific Islanders in the U.S. and their relationships with other groups in US
society;
·
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;
·
Build multicultural awareness and a critical approach to
addressing contemporary social justice 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:
·
Excerpts from Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary
Reader,
Ed. Min Zhou & James Gatewood (New York University Press 2000)
·
Excerpts from Ron Takaki’s Strangers for a Different Shore.
·
Course Handouts –
available from the instructor throughout the course.
Requirements:
Assignments 50%
& Participation in Class
Research Project/Paper 25%
Final Project TBA 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