ES 232 - Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Popular Culture

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-3A; Diversity
This course explores how popular culture shapes Asian American and Pacific Islander (AA & PI) identities and cultures, examining representations/expressions of AA & PIs across media platforms of documentary and narrative film, television, print, popular music, social media, and sports.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-3A - Lower Division Arts, Overlay - Diversity
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, 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:

Assess the historical role of popular culture and countercultures in constructing knowledge of/about Asian American and Pacific Islanders.
Discuss how intersections of race, class, nation, gender, sexuality, and dis/ability in U.S. culture are articulated, negotiated, contested, and remixed through popular mass media.
Examine how social locations and systems of power have shaped access to resources, opportunities, and representation for Asian American and Pacific Islanders in popular culture.
Practice theory and methods of critical media literacy across a broad range of aesthetic mediums and cultural productions.
Apply course frameworks in the collaborative production and exhibition of new cultural texts.

GE-3A. Arts Learning Outcomes

Evaluate the impact of the arts on their life.
Examine the cultural and/or historical context(s) of the arts.
Describe the ways that diverse identities influence the creation and experience of art.
Identify the role of art in diverse settings.

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.