ASAM-MIN - Asian American Stu (Minor)
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Program Overview
The Interdepartmental Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) explores how race and ethnicity shape global history, undergird our social systems, and touch every aspect of our lives. Our courses empower students with the tools to assess and build inclusivity, equity, diversity, accessibility, and justice. CCSRE programs—encompassing Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies—take an interdisciplinary approach to considering how gender, sexuality, ability, capital, technology, education, politics, and the environment structure our bodies, experiences, and communities. Students have the option to focus on particular racial and ethnic groups and on issues that move across peoples and places.
The interdisciplinary nature of the academic programs empowers students to enroll in a wide variety of courses. CCSRE listings can be found in Anthropology, Art and Art History, Education, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theater and Performance Studies, and more. Majors and minors in CCSRE engage with various perspectives and methodologies and grapple with pivotal themes, including decolonization, indigeneity, intersectionality, movement-building, resistance, solidarity, and wellness. By analyzing interlocking structures of identity and difference, CCSRE students interrogate the role of power, reimagine the world, and reclaim the future.
Born out of the 1960s movements for student activism and third-world liberation, Asian American Studies offers students intellectual frameworks and tools to examine issues relevant to Asian America and beyond.
Visit the Asian American Studies website for more information about the program and how to declare the minor.
Program Learning Outcomes:
The Program in Asian American Studies expects that undergraduate minors concluding their course of study will be able to:
Mobilize comparative frameworks for analyzing how race and ethnicity develop historically, cross-culturally, and transnationally
Understand, interpret, and utilize trans- and interdisciplinary theories and methods in the study of race and ethnicity
Critically engage with primary and secondary sources and use both types of evidence in research and argumentation
Effectively communicate data, research, and arguments to diverse audiences
Apply a core inventory of theories, methods, and concepts to local and global contexts
Examine the artistic, historical, humanistic, political, and social dimensions of Asian America
Interrogate intersections of power across multiple communities and varied identities of Asian America
Minimum Units in the Program
Minimum University Units
Students must enroll in CSRE 100 or ASNAMST 100 before they can declare the minor in Asian American Studies.
Asian American Studies minors may count a limited number of Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS), Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies (CHILATST), Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE), Jewish Studies (JEWISHST), and/or Native American Studies (NATIVEAM) courses toward their degree in Asian American Studies. However, course(s) outside of ASNAMST may only account for up to one quarter of the total number of elective units in the minor, and they may not be used to satisfy core requirements.
No more than 5 units of petitioned courses may be applied to electives in the Asian American Studies minor. Students who wish to petition a course must fill out and submit a course petition form for the CCSRE Academic Programs team to review within one month of completing their annual degree audit meeting with the CCSRE Student Services Officer.
A minimum grade of C- is required for a student to count a class towards the Core Curriculum, including the Gateway and Major Core. Additional units toward the minor require a passing grade of D- or above.