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Minor Program: The Asian American Studies Department offers a minor for students who wish to pursue a coherent course of study of the Asian American experience while completing majors in other fields. The minor program is designed to provide a wide range of course selections while ensuring specific knowledge on a broad range of different Asian American groups. The minor is of particular value for those students whose chosen careers may bring them into regular professional contact with Asian American groups and communities.
Admission to the Minor Program: Students interested in the minor should seek program advising from designated Asian American Studies faculty members who serve as AAS minor advisors. The department chair must approve all minors.
Required Courses and Units: A minor in Asian American Studies consists of 24 units, 18 of which must be from core courses and 6 from electives on advisement.
Courses:
A. Core Courses (18 units)
1. Introductory Courses (3 units; select one course)
AAS 200 History of Asian Americans (3 units)
ETHS 210 Asian American Culture (3 units)
ETHS 220 Asians in America (3 units)
2. Ethnic Group Courses (9 units; select one course each from three of the four ethnic groups, for a total of nine units)
a. Chinese American Group
AAS 310 Chinese in America (3 units)
AAS 315 Chinese American Personality (3 units)
AAS 322 Chinese American Culture-Language and Literature (3 units)
b. Japanese American Group
AAS 331 Japanese Americans in the United States (3 units)
AAS 335 Japanese American Personality (3 units)
AAS 444 Japanese American Art and Expression (3 units)
c. Pilipino American Group
AAS 355 Psyche and Behavior of Pilipinos (3 units)
AAS 363 Survey of Philippine Literature (3 units)
AAS 456 Pilipinos in America: Problems in Transition
d. Vietnamese American Group
AAS 370 Vietnamese in America (3 units)
3. Thematic or Cross-Group Courses (3 units; select one course)
AAS 205 Asian Americans and American Ideals and Institutions (3 units)
AAS 206 Introduction to Asian American Literature (3 units)
AAS 308 Photographic Exploration of Asian America (3 units)
AAS 406 Asian American Workshop in Creative Writing (3 units)
AAS 434 Concentration Camps, USA (3 units)
AAS 603 Asian American Women (3 units)
AAS 693 Asian Americans and the Mass Media (3 units)
4. Concluding Community Courses (3 units; select one course)
AAS 680 Community: Changes and Development (3 units)
AAS 695 Seminar on Contemporary Asian American Communities (3 units)
B. Electives (6 units)
Two AAS courses on advisement, with at least one being an upper division AAS course
TOTAL: 24 units (minimum)