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ASA 001 Syllabus S15 Revised
ASA 001 Syllabus S15 Revised
ASA 001 Syllabus S15 Revised
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Midterm and final exams: In-class exams, consisting of multiple choice and short sentence identifications.
THERE WILL BE NO MAKEUP EXAMS.
Analytical essays: One of key objectives of the course is to develop analytical and writing skills. Using the
lectures, readings, discussions, and films for the course, this paper will ask you to analyze some major aspect of
Asian American history. You will be required to write TWO different essays during the quarter. Essay prompts
and guidelines will be handed out separately. Paper #1 will be due in lecture on April 24 and Paper #2 on June 3.
LATE PAPERS WILL BE GRADED DOWN ONE FULL LETTER GRADE EVERY PASSING DAY,
INCLUDING WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS.
Failure to submit Paper #1 will result in a grade of 0 points for Paper #1 and Paper #2 will automatically be graded
down one full letter grade.
Discussion sections: Class attendance and participation in discussion sections are MANDATORY. The teaching
assistants will keep track of students attendance and participation in their respective discussion sections. If the TA
believes a student has missed discussion too many times, he or she can recommend that the student fail the course.
The TA will assess your participation and the quality of your input in section.
Required Texts:
Coursepack Reader. Available on Smartsite for course under Resources.
The following books are available at the UCD Bookstore (copies will also be on reserve at Shields Library on 2
hour loan):
Milton Murayama, All I Asking for is my Body (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994)
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart: A Personal History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995)
Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2008)
Weekly Reading Assignments and Class Schedule
Course readings marked by an asterisk (*) are located in the coursepack reader. Page numbers
below refer to page numbers in the coursepack located in far right margin of each page.
Week 1 What is Asian American History?
Mar 30
Course intro
April 1
Bill Hing, What Does It Mean to be Asian American? in Major Problems in Asian American
History, pp. 1-3.*
Yen Le Espiritu, Panethnicity and Asian American Activism, pp. 4-7.*
San Francisco State University Third World Liberation Front Position, pp. 8-10.*
The Need for a United Asian-American Front, pp. 11-12.*
April 3
Roger Daniels, Neglect and Distortion of Asian Americans by American Historians, in Major
Problems in Asian American History: Documents and Essays, eds. Lon Kurashige and Alice
Yang Murray (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), pp. 13-16.*
Ronald Takaki, The Centrality of Racism in Asian American History, in Major Problems in
Asian American History, pp. 16-19.*
Sucheng Chan, Preface, in Asian Americans: An Interpretative History, pp. 20-21.*
(there are no pp. 22-29 in coursepack)
Guide to Reading Primary Sources, pp. 30-31.*
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
Chris Friday, Excerpts from Chapter 6 in Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast
Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994), pp. 147153.*
Bulosan, America is in the Heart, pp. 315-327.
May 8
Life Magazine, How to Tell Japs from the Chinese, pp. 196-198.*
Lieutenant John L. DeWitt Recommends the Removal of Japanese Americans, pp. 198-199.*
Executive Order 9066, pp. 200-201.*
Army Instructions for Removal of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles, pp. 201-202.*
Japanese American Mike Masaoka Vows to Cooperate with Government Removal Plans, pp.
203-204.*
Mike Masaoka, Japanese American Creed, p. 205.*
Toku Shimomura Diary, pp. 206-209.*
May 15
May 20
May 22
May 29
June 10 (WED)