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Text Box:   Syllabus Mentoring Project 3390-Exam1Questions                                                                                    Week 1: Introduction & Overview of the Vietnamese American Experience 8/22:  Introduction   8/24: Rethinking of the Vietnamese American Experience by Long Le   Week 2: The Origin of Vietnamese Civilization 8/29-9/5:  Prehistoric Vietnam by the University of Hawaii's Center of Southeast Asian Studies Joseph Buttinger's Smaller Dragon, Chap, 2 in Course Reader1 The Legend of the Supernatural Crossbow in Course Reader1 Han Xiaorong's The Present Echoes of the Ancient Bronze Drum                  Suggested Internet Readings: Vietnam's Archaeology by http://archaeology.about.com/od/vietnam/  Dong Son Periods by VietTouch Bronze Drums by http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/drum/BRONZEDRUMSLOCATIONS.HTML General Vietnam History and Major Events by US Library of Congress General Vietnam History & Timeline by VietTouch              Viet Nam by Different Names , Flags, and Maps: Historical Maps of Vietnam http://www.charm.ru/library/vh.htm http://home.ust.hk/~lbxwang/ref/cntryNm.htm http://www.thingsasian.com/goto_article/article.623.html  http://flagspot.net/flags/vn_early.html     WEEK 3-4: General History of Vietnam    9/7-14    Hue-Tam Ho Tai's Review of Essays on Vietnamese History, p.81-91 Joseph Buttinger's A Dragon Defiant, Chap. 3, in Course Reader1 The Vietnamese "Nation" in the Trinh-Nguyen Era (1600-1771) by Mark Lim Shan-Loong Phan Boi Chau's The New Vietnam in Course Reader2 Phan Chau Trinh's Letter to Governor-General Paul Beau   Suggested Internet Readings: The Tay Son Rebellion (1771-1802) by Prof. Dutton Joiner & Nguyen's Saigon From Citadel to Nation's Capital in Course Reader2 Virtual Museum of Cham by http://www.onthe.net.au/~cgribbin/introduction.html Absorption of Champa by Vietnam, p.53-64 Remnants of the Nguyen Dynasty by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Phuc_Buu_Chanh The Fundamental Features of the Vietnamese Civilization by Thai Van Kiem & Ton That Uan  Old Vietnam Pictures by http://nguyentl. free.fr/html/ cadre_sommaire_ vn.htm     Week 4-6: The Vietnam War from the Vietnamese American Perspective 9/19 -21       Nguyen The Anh's Monarchy under French Colonial Rule (p.2-18) Ngo Vinh Long’s Vietnam Revolutionary Tradition in Course Reader2    Vu Ngu Chieu's The Other Side of the 1945 Vietnamese Revolution  Ngo Vinh Long’s The France-Vietnamese War in Course Reader2       Suggested Internet Readings: Wikipedia.Org : State of Vietnam (1949-1955) & South Vietnam (1955-1975)   9/26-10/5       Bui Diem's In the Jaw of History, Chap. 13, in Course Reader2 Bui Diem's In the Jaw of History, 15, & 18, in Course Reader3          Nguyen Cao Ky's How We Lost the Vietnam War, Chap.13 & 16, in Course Reader3  Buu Hoan's The South Vietnamese Economy in the Transition to Peace and after (19-35) Lam Quang Thi's The Twenty-Five Year Century, Chap. 10, in Course Reader4                           Lam Quang Thi's The Twenty-Five Year Century, Chap. 15, in Course Reader4 Le Hoang Trong's Survival and Self-Reliance (35-56)             Suggested Internet Readings: The Vietnam War Timeline & Resources by Prof. Robert Brigham Louis Wiesner's Vietnam: Exodus from the North (p.214-243) The Virtual Vietnam Archives by Texas Tech's Vietnam Project The Vietnam War Timeline & Resources Viet Quoc Vietnam War Maps by United States Military Academy How We Won in Vietnam by Viet D. Dinh, Policy Review, December 2000-January 2001 What the Poets Thought: Antiwar Sentiment in North Vietnam by Barbara Crossette Videos on the Vietnam War  in the Wellesly College Library   Week 7-8: The Aftermath of the Vietnam War: Living Under and Escaping Communism 10/10-12 Reeducation or Revenge by Nguyen Van Canh (57-68) Phan Quynh Giao's’s Living with Communism in Course Reader 4 Ngoc-Dien’s Life as a Schoolteacher in Course Reader 4 (p.34-38) Hoang Ngoc Thanh Duong's To Serve the Cause of Women's Liberation (43-77)   Suggested Internet Readings: To Be Made Over: Tales of Socialist Reeducation in Vietnam in the Lac Viet Series, No.5 RE-EDUCATION IN UNLIBERATED VIETNAM by Ginetta Sagan and Stephen Denney Reducation Camps' Pictures/Videos by http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts ; http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-524-2706/life_society/boat_people/clip2   10/17-24 Bui Van Cao's Planning Escape (69-70) Thanh Hung's Pirate's Attack (71-74) Nguyen’s Why do They Escape? In Course Reader 5 Thanh-Bam’s Choice in Course Reader 5 Thanh Nam's Thai's Camp (75-770 Han-Hai-Van’s Pulau Bidong in Course Reader 5   Exam I on 10/26 Outline of Student’s Class Project Due anytime 10/28   Week 9: Personal Voices of Adaptation, Acculturation, Assimilation 10/30 Antedating and Anchoring Vietnamese America by Vu Pham in Linda Vo's Text (p.137-150) Coping with America by Gail Kelly in Course Reader 7 (p.11-22) Vietnamese Pioneers Show True Grit in Texas by Far Eastern Economic Review in Course Reader 6 The Newest Americans (in Beaumont, TX) by Gene Lyons Personal Amerasian Story by Anh in Course Reader 6 Personal Amerasian Story by Hanh in Course Reader 6 Personal Amerasian Story by Mai Linh in Course Reader 6   Suggested Internet Readings: The Growing Presence of Vietnamese Houstonians Vietnamese Refugee Statistical Profile New Census Report, "We the People: Asians" http://vietnamese-american.borgfind.com/   11/2-11/7 Notes of a Warrior's Son by Andrew Lam Chapters of Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala in Course Reader 6 (p.12-29) Stories from Home by by Brandy Lien Worrall in Linda Vo's Text (p.239-252) Across the Ocean of My Soul by Phuc Luu in Linda Vo's Text (p.254-265   Week 10: Personal Voices of Social, Political, and Economic Productions 11/9-11/14  Vietnamese American Trajectories by Linda Vo in Linda Vo's Text (p.ix-xvii) Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1963-1994 by Michele Janette in Linda Vo's Text (p.267-283) Desire and Design by Lan Duong in Linda Vo's Text (p.97-112) Emergence of Queer Vietnamese America in Linda Vo's Text (p.117-133) The Adopted Vietnamese Community: From Fairy Tales to the Disapora by Indigo Williams Willing 30 Years after Vietnam War by Andrew Lam   Suggested Internet Readings: Occupational Trends Among Young Vietnamese Americans Today by Ly Phan (PowerPoint) Vietnamese-American Sexuality and Aids by Bao Huong Hoang (PowerPoint) Self-Expression Values of Vietnamese Americans in Houston Indicators of Generational Issues and Divisions TVF's Survey of Young Vietnamese Americans on Protest Politics   Preliminary Results of E-Survey of Vietnamese Student Association (VSA)    Week 13: Generation Gap & Gender Roles 11/16 INVISIBLE WOMAN by Tran Dieu Hang The Vietnamese Double Gender Revolt by Hung Cam Thai in Linda Vo's Text (p.51-70) Vietnamese Women and Domestic Violence by Tuyen Nguyen Help-seeking Behavior Among Abused Immigrant Women by Hoan Bui Separate Ways...Worlds Apart? By Christian Collet and Nadine Selden in Linda Vo's Text (p.199-217) Viet Nam, Nuoc Toi (Vietnam, My Country) by Yen Le Espiritu and Thom Tran   Week 14: Mental and Social Health Needs 11/21 A Community's Perspective and Report by Tu-Uyen Ngoc Nguyen et al in Linda Vo's text, 183-198 "When Cultures Collide: Providing Health Care for Vietnamese- Americans" Vietnamese Parental Perceptions of Child and Adolescent Mental Illness (159-165) by Robert McKelvey and et al Spousal Abuse: Vietnamese Children's Reports of Parental Violence by Yoko Baba and Susan Murrary (p.101-127) Domestic Violence among Vietnamese Refugee Women Anti-Smoking Campaign for Vietnamese Men Lowers Smoking Rates, According to UCSF Study   Suggested Internet Readings: Vietnamese Health in Alief and Park Place, Houston by St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities, p. 47-64 Community Voices at Alief and Park Place, Houston by St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities, p. 3-10   Week 15: Personal Voices of Reconnecting with the Homeland 11/28-11/30 Making Vietnamese Music Transnational by Kieu Linh Valverde in Linda Vo's text, p. 29-50 Return to Vietnam, the things I left behind by Dai Huynh  A Daughter's Journey by Phuong Le   Suggested Internet Readings: The Development of Vietnamese Music Over Time by Ngan Lien, Christina Nguyen, Synthia Le, Khoa Le, and Yvonne Truong (PowerPoint)                                               Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                   Text Box:                  

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