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Apr 03, 2026
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ES 360 - Asian American Intimacies and Families
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
This course problematizes the patriarchal heterosexual nuclear Asian American family based on marital and biological ties. It examines how and why cultural practices and public policies continue to prioritize biological familial bonds despite the emergence of intentional family formations.
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), and ES Majors: ES 100 and ES 200.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- List the variety of intimate relationships and family types Asian American ethnic groups have been a part of as evidence to challenge the pervasive image of the “model” Asian American family (married heterosexuals of the same race and their biological children).
- Explain the ways in which cultural traditions and larger socio-historical forces, including power differentials (racial, legal, gender, generational, etc.), shape/d Asian American ethnic groups’ intimacies and families.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to accurately apply social science concepts from research/literature on Asian American intimate relationships and family.
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
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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