ERIC MAR[1]
Psychology
Room 108 – SFSU
Voicemail: 415/338-6591
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar
Asian American Studies 205
(section 03) #11908 - 3 units [GE[2]]
Asian
Americans & American Ideals & Institutions
Fall 2002 -
MWF 9:10 – 10:00 a.m. – Burk Hall 28
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 & Library Electronic Reserve Readings – under Eric Mar [password =
unity] – materials on Wen Ho Lee case, excerpts from Color Lines, War Times,
Asian American Revolutionary E-Zine, & Gidra.
Requirements:
Individual Assignments
[incl. written essays & other papers, 2 community event
write-ups, etc.] 70%
Research Project/Paper 30%
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”.
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