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Dec 04, 2025
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ES 370 - South Asian American Communities
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
This course examines salient issues in contemporary South Asian American communities with origins in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal. It combines historical and social analysis with a focus on community-based activism.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Identify key themes and events in the history of South Asian American communities since the nineteenth century;
- Contextualize South Asian American experience in global and historical perspective, with attention to political and cultural features;
- Compare how individuals, ethnicities and organizations have articulated South Asian identity, culture and politics;
- Analyze racialization of South Asian Americans through discourses of Orientalism and xenophobia; and
- Evaluate contemporary struggles for civil rights, inclusion and justice.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
- identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
- analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
- recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.
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