University Bulletin (2020-2021)

• Minor

Yuri Doolan, Program Director
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

The minor in Asian American and Pacific and Islander Studies requires five courses.

1. Four distinct courses in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies consisting of one core course and three elective courses.
2. One related course in another area of Ethnic Studies or related field (as approved by the program director).
3. A minimum of three of the five courses required for the minor must be taken from Brandeis faculty. Courses taken at other institutions for credit must be approved by the student’s advisor and the program director.
4. No course with a final grade below C-, nor any course taken pass/fail, may be counted toward the AAPI minor. 
5. No more than two courses taken for the AAPI minor can double count toward any other single major or minor.

AAPI 140b Introduction to Asian American Studies
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Explores the Asian American experience and its broader connections to class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. The course will examine topics of imperialism, labor migration, racial and communal formations, identity, culture, and politics of Asian America. Usually offered every year.
Leanne Day

AAPI 141a Pacific Islander Studies: Cultures and Representations of Oceania
Offers an introduction to the field of Pacific Islander Studies and Oceania with an emphasis on literary and cultural production to reckon with settler colonialism, sovereignty movements, climate change, militarism and nuclearism, Indigenous feminisms, and popular culture. Usually offered every third year.
Leanne Day

AAPI/HIS 163a Asian American History
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Explores the history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States with a focus on their lived experiences and contributions to U.S. society. Course culminates in a final AAPI digital oral history project. Usually offered every second year.
Yuri Doolan

AAPI/HIS 171a The United States in the Pacific World
[ deis-us djw ss ]
How have U.S. imperial ventures—cultural, military, political, and economic—reconfigured local societies and geographies? What are the afterlives of those ventures and how have they reverberated between American society and the Pacific World? To answer these questions, this course explores the history of American incursion into places such as China, Hawai’i, the Philippines, Guam, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Samoa from the nineteenth century to present. We explore issues such as orientalism, empires and militarism, labor and commerce, race and inequality, intimacy and sex, as well as migration, culture, family formation, and identity both in and across the Pacific Ocean. In focusing on the lasting legacies and human consequences of this contact, this course deepens our understanding of the multiracial history and character of the United States and also provides an opportunity to place the American experience within a larger global context. Usually offered every second year.
Yuri Doolan

AAPI/HIS 186b Legacies of the Korean War
[ deis-us djw ss ]
Explores the lasting legacies and human consequences of the Korean War in a transnational context. Course culminates in a final digital oral history project. Usually offered every second year.
Yuri Doolan

AAPI/WGS 126a Asian American Women's History
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Explores race, gender, and U.S. history from the perspective of Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Course culminates in a final AAPI women's digital oral history project. Usually offered every second year.
Yuri Doolan