Apr 13, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog (BETA) 
    

ES 231 - Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Racialization in U.S. Schools


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Diversity
This course explores racialization of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) students, teachers, and communities in learning environments, examines development of Asian American Studies and AANHPI issues, and focuses on concepts, processes, and constructions of power in education.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social Sciences, 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:
  1. apply educational theory to critically analyze AANHPI racialization in and beyond U.S. schools;
  2. identify and articulate the major issues, challenges, and controversies AANHPI students and teachers encounter in schools;
  3. identify critical pedagogical interventions that affect AANHPI in the United States


GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
  1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
  2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
  3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
     

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
  1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
  2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
  3. 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;
  4. 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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