Administrative Office
Kalmanovitz Hall, Room 248
Phone: (415) 422-6112 or (415) 422-5706
Evelyn Rodriguez, Director
The
undergraduate Minor in Asian Pacific American Studies is an interdisciplinary
program concerned with significant concepts and realities that bear on
Asian Pacific American identity and culture. Special attention is
focused on social and political advocacy of people of Asian and Pacific
Islander descent in the United States. The program highlights their
legacy of struggle and their ongoing contributions to American culture
and democracy. It also strives to broaden perspectives on class,
gender, sexual, religious, and other differences that comprise Asian
Pacific America.
This
program enables students to diversify their educational experience and
develop skills that address new cultural realities in the United
States. Specific goals of the Asian Pacific American Studies Minor include the
following:
- Enhance a student's major through a concentrated study of diversity issues
- Prepare and support students who apply to graduate schools in Asian Pacific American studies, Ethnic Studies, and other related fields
- Offer special knowledge, skills, and invaluable contacts to students seeking employment in Asian Pacific American communities
- Foster a passion for social justice, which is essential to a Jesuit education and relevant to any career path
The
disciplines represented include psychology, sociology, literature,
philosophy, and religious studies, among others. The program also
administers internships and requires service-learning courses that will
provide access to numerous Asian Pacific American organizations in the
region.
The
program thus offers students "the knowledge and skills necessary to
succeed as persons and professionals, and the values and sensitivity
necessary to be men and women for others" as stated in the University
Mission.
By
integrating knowledge and service, the program seeks to contribute to
the University's mission of raising leaders competent to face the
changing realities of the Bay Area and beyond.
The
Minor requires the completion of 20 credits of Core and Elective courses.
Many of these courses fulfill both Core and major requirements. For
more information on such courses along with current updates to the
course list below, please contact the Faculty Coordinator.
Asian Pacific American Studies Minor Requirements
Students are required to take these two core courses in sequence:
- SOC - 228 Asians and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Society
- ENGL - 405 Capstone Seminar; Asian American Studies or
- COMS - 405 Capstone Seminar: Asian American Studies
Electives
Students
are required to take three elective courses. Courses in Ethnic Studies
or Asian Studies that have an Asian Pacific American Studies component may
fulfill (1) elective course requirement with permission of the Faculty
Coordinator.
- COM - 315 Asian American Culture and Communications
- ENGL - 195 FYS - Chinese American Literature in San Francisco
- ENGL - 211 Asian American Literature Survey
- PHIL - 275 Asian American Philosophy
- POLS - 369 Asian Politics, Activism, and Justice
- PSYC - 317 Asian American Psychology
- RHET - 195 FYS - Language and Power: The Rhetoric of Nationalism and Social Justice
- SOC - 195 FYS - Gangsters, Geeks and Geishas
- SOC - 240 People of Mixed Descent
- SOC - 375 Contemporary Asian American Issues
- THTR - 312 Asian American Performance and Culture
- YPSP - 325 Filipino Culture and Society
