Southeast Asian Area Studies Courses
AES 151 Identities, Cultures, and Power Across American Ethnic Groups
Instructor: Rick Bonus
TTh | 11:30 AM – 1:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10157
Course Description
Provides an introduction to the major theories, debates, and issues concerning the study of identities and cultures of American ethnic groups as they are constituted through relationships of power.
AES 370 / GWSS 370 Race, Gender, and Class in the Global Economy: Asian and Latina Workers
Instructor: Linh Thuy Nguyen
MW | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10162, 15232
Course Description
Examines the lives and labor of Asian and Latina workers through structures of opportunity and inequality to examine how race and gender mark specific forms of labor as feminized and racialized, and thus precarious and devalued. Contextualizes social, political, and economic implications of colonialism and imperialism, economic restructuring, global capitalism, immigration policies, and welfare reform in the United States.
AAS 206 Contemporary Issues of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
Instructor: Connie C. So
MW | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10092
Course Description
Critically examines contemporary Asian and Pacific Islander American issues, ranging from the Cold War era to present-day America. Topics include ethnic enclaves, community-building, civil rights, identity problems, family conflict, social organizations, political movements, and immigration.
AAS 392/ GWSS 392 Asian American and Pacific Islander Women
Instructor: Linh Thuy Nguyen
MW | 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM
5 credits (DIV, SSc) | SLN: 10097, 15237
Course Description
Explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality in the lives of Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Examines how forces such as immigration, colonialism, sovereignty, labor, family, gender roles and relations, community, war, homeland politics, transnationalism, and social movements shaped and were shaped by these women.
ANTH 209 Anthropology through Visual Media
Instructor: Jenna M Grant
TTh | 9:30 – 11:20 AM
5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN: 10306
Course Description
Theories of culture and cultural variation, as seen and understood through visual media such as films, video, and photography.
ART H 316 Buddhist Arts of Asia
Instructor: Miriam Chusid
Asynchronous Online | Time to be arranged
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 10532
Course Description
Examines the birth and spread of Buddhism beginning with its earliest moments in South Asia. Following the Silk Road, traces Buddhism’s development eastward through China, Korea, and finally to Japan to recognize the historical, social, political, and religious factors that inform the production of Buddhist art and belief.
ASIAN 207 Meditation, Mindfulness, and Zen
Instructor: Jonathan Laiman
MW | 1:30 – 3:20 PM
5 credits (A&H, SSc) | SLN: 10560
Course Description
Course description forthcoming
ASIAN 585 Seminar in Buddhism
Instructor: Joseph Marino
TTh | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
5 credits | SLN: 10562
Course Description
Systems and history of Buddhist thought. Original and secondary sources are used. Combines the methods of specialists in south, central, and east Asian Buddhism with those of historians of religion and philosophy.
HSTAS 265 / JSIS A 265 The Viet Nam Wars
Instructor: Christoph Giebel
WF | 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 15502, 16036
Course Description
Recent Vietnamese history and struggles for independence and national unification vis-a-vis French colonialism, Japanese occupation, American intervention, and internal divisions. Covers historical roots and contemporary contexts of revolution and war, objectives and motivations of participants, and the enormous human costs. Emphasizes socio-cultural changes and wars’ legacies.
JSIS A 463 Topics in Southeast Asian History and Society
Instructor: Christoph Giebel
WF | 2:30 – 4:20 PM
5 credits (SSc) | SLN: 16059
Course Description
Introduces major issues within the history and culture of one country of Southeast Asia. Content varies. Topics may include religion, economics, colonialism, perspectives on gender, labor history, literatures, popular culture, and performing arts. Focuses on a different Southeast Asian country each time offered.
SEASIA 377/ ENGL 349 Science and Speculative Fiction of Southeast Asia
Instructor: Nazry Bahrawi
MW | 1:30 – 3:20 PM
5 credits (A&H, DIV) | SLN: 20010
Course Description
Introduces works of science and speculative fiction from Southeast Asia. Explores how these two fantastical genres (too oftentimes linked to Euro-American cultures) act as thought experiments for Southeast Asians to deal with real world issues of climate change, racial supremacy, and technological utopianism, symptoms of the darker side of modernity.
S ASIA 498 C: Sociolinguistics and Multilingualism of (SE) Asia
Instructor: Ha Nguyen
TTh | 12:30 – 2:20 PM
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 19969
Course Description
Introduces students to the key social considerations involved in using and learning second or additional languages in today’s world, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia’s richly multilingual societies. Students learn about multilingualism in various forms, including the use of second, foreign, and heritage languages. Considers how people use their second or additional languages in the real world.
Language Courses
INDO 112 Elementary Indonesian
Instructor: Desiana Pauli Sandjaja
MTWThF | 1:30 – 2:20 PM (Hybrid)
5 credits (Conditional A&H) | SLN: 15748
Course Description
Introduction to modern standard Indonesian. Emphasis on grammar and conversational drills. Practice with basic phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures. Second in a sequence of three.
INDO 212 Intermediate Indonesian
Instructor: Desiana Pauli Sandjaja
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 PM (Hybrid)
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 15749
Course Description
Review/expansion of fundamental grammatical patterns: morphological and syntactic structures, development of conversational skills, reading some literary and cultural materials, writing compositions. Second in a sequence of three.
KHMER 112 Elementary Khmer
Instructor: Nielson Sophann Hul
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 AM
5 credits (Conditional A&H) | SLN: 16131
Course Description
Provides basic communication skills in standard spoken and written Khmer on a variety of topics including foods, directions and transportation, occupations, work, and getting things done. Second in a sequence of three.
TAGLG 102 Basic Tagalog
Instructor: Kell Rigueros Juan
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 AM
5 credits (Conditional A&H) | SLN: 21149
Course Description
Introduces the Filipino language and culture. Students use the language through speaking, listening, reading, and writing at the novice level. Examines basic language structures, appropriate forms of address, and vocabulary for communication. Second in a sequence of three.
TAGLG 202 Intermediate Tagalog
Instructor: Kell Rigueros Juan
MTWThF | 12:30 – 1:20 PM
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21151
Course Description
Provides further reinforcement and practice of the lessons learned in basic Tagalog. Improves the communicative competence of the student by teaching the social rules along with the linguistic rules. Second in a sequence of three.
THAI 112 Elementary Thai
Instructor: Not listed
MWF | 9:30 – 10:20 AM
5 credits (Conditional A&H) | SLN: 21373
Course Description
Introduction to modern spoken and written Thai. Emphasis on spoken language competence with additional skills in elementary reading and writing. Designed for students with no prior knowledge of Thai. Second in a sequence of three.
THAI 212 Intermediate Thai
Instructor: Not listed
MWF | 10:30 – 11:20 AM
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21374
Course Description
Expands students’ abilities in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Second in a sequence of three.
THAI 312 Advanced Thai
Instructor: Not listed
MWF | 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21375
Course Description
Advanced reading and translation of selections from various Thai authors, with occasional practice in conversation and composition.
VIET 102 First-Year Non-Heritage Vietnamese
Instructor: Ha Nguyen
MWF, TTh | 12:30 – 1:20 PM
5 credits (Conditional A&H) | SLN: 21729
Course Description
Second in the three-quarter sequence of elementary Vietnamese for students with no prior exposure to Vietnamese language at home or in the community.
VIET 122 First-Year Heritage Vietnamese
Instructor: Bich-Ngoc Turner
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 AM
5 credits (Conditional A&H) | SLN: 21730
Course Description
For heritage students already exposed to informal, spoken Vietnamese language at home or in the community.
VIET 212 Intermediate Vietnamese
Instructor: Ha Nguyen
MTWThF | 9:30 – 10:20 AM
5 credits (A&H) | SLN: 21731
Course Description
Development of conversation skills, reading for comprehension, and writing short compositions. Second in a sequence of three.