A minor in Asian American Studies requires a minimum of 18 semester hours. Twelve of the 18 hours must be in residence. Nine hours must be advanced. Minimum 2.00 Grade Point Average for all courses applied to the minor is required. All students are required to take the following courses in this Minor.
CUST 2300 Introduction to Asian American Studies
CUST 4300 Asian American Cultures and Communities
The students are also required to take three semester hours from the following:
ANTH 2302 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ENGL 2323 Literature and Identity
SOC 2325 American Minority Peoples
PSY 2380 Introduction to Social Psychology
ANTH 2304 Introduction to Language and Culture
CHNS 2301/2302 Intermediate Chinese I & II
JPNS 2501/2502 Intermediate Japanese I & II
In addition, students must successfully complete nine (9) semester hours to be taken from the Human and Social Sciences, from which at least 3 semester hours must be taken at the upper level (4000). Students may choose from the following courses:
CUST 3310 Asian American in Pop Culture
CUST 3315 Asian American Experience of Migration
CUST 3390 Vietnamese American History
CUST 4321 Vietnamese American Community and Its Culture
AMER 3300 The
SOC 3327 Race
and Ethnic Relations in the
COMM 3375 International Communications
COMM 3379 Popular Culture and the Mass Media
ARCH 3358 Histories of Asian Architecture and Art
ANTH 3363 Race in Anthropological Perspective
ECON 3355 Economic
Development of
POLS 4320 Japanese Politics
POLS 4321 Democracy
in
POLS 4322 Political
Economy of
CHNS 3352 Chinese Culture and Society Through Modern Literature
CHNS 3350 Chinese Culture Through Films