| Week One |
"Travelling Cultures" / Diaspora |
| 12 Aug 2003 |
Welcome and Administrative Matters |
| 15 Aug 2003 |
Clifford, "Traveling Cultures"; Clifford,
"Diaspora"; Anderson |
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| Week Two |
Globalization |
| 19 Aug 2003 |
Appadurai; Hall; Miyoshi |
| 22 Aug 2003 |
Discussion of Poetry; Chin |
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| Week Three |
Woman Warrior - Asian America |
| 26 Aug 2003 |
Discussion of Autobiography and Fiction;
Kingston |
| 29 Aug 2003 |
Kingston |
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| Week Four |
Asian American Trans-Pacific Connections |
| 2 Sep 2003 |
Kingston |
| 5 Sep 2003 |
Lee; Gotera; Discussion of Film and Film
Criticism |
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| Week Five |
Flexible Citizenship |
| 9 Sep 2003 |
TBA |
| 12 Sep 2003 |
Chow; Mitchell; Ong |
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| Week Six |
Short Essay |
| 16 Sep 2003 |
Screening of Chinese Box |
| 19 Sep 2003 |
Short Essay due; Discussion of Chinese
Box |
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| Week Seven |
Consuming Culture |
| 23 Sep 2003 |
Chua; Iyer |
| 26 Sep 2003 |
Discussion of Plays; Kureishi; Manalansan |
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| Week Eight |
Hybridity |
| 30 Sep 2003 |
Lim |
| 3 Oct 2003 |
Lim |
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| Week Nine |
Mid-Term Test |
| 7 Oct |
In-Class Mid-Term Test |
| 10 Oct |
Screening of East is East |
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| Week Ten |
"The Empire Strikes Back" |
| 14 Oct 2003 |
Discussion of East is
East |
| 17 Oct 2003 |
Project Topic due. |
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| Week Eleven |
Starting Your Project |
| 21 Oct 2003 |
Conferences on Project |
| 24 Oct 2003 |
Lahiri |
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| Week Twelve |
Your Choice |
| 28 Oct 2003 |
TBA (Syllabus to be established by students in
consultation with instructor) |
| 31 Oct 2003 |
TBA |
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| Week Thirteen |
Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet |
| 4 Nov 2003 |
Screening of The Wedding Banquet |
| 7 Nov 2003 |
Discussion of The Wedding Banquet |
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| Week Fourteen |
Final Project |
| 11 Nov 2003 |
Final Project due |
