From: achin@math.tamu.edu (Andrew Chin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asian.american
Subject: REPOST: Asian American Studies Depts
Date: 18 Dec 1992 09:28:37 GMT
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I have received a few more replies.  Thanks to all.

UC Berkeley:  a large and active department.
	"I used mostly AAS classes to satisfy the social studies and
	humanities requirements." -- Terry Cheung <tcheung@ramius.ocf.llnl.gov>
	An old general catalog lists the coordinator as L. Ling-chi Wang, M.A.,
	"so I guess it's not really a huge department." -- Jeannie
	<c9c-dk@danube.berkeley.edu>
	Also Gary H
UCLA:  Asian American Studies Center
	-- Qingsong Zhang <qsz2u@faraday.clas.Virginia.edu>
UC San Diego:  early efforts in 1988 -->?
	"When I graduated from UCSD in 1988 an AA math professor named James
	Lin headed an effort to start an Asian American studies program.
	I have not kept up on how things went."  -- David Johnson
	<david@xlnt.com> 
UC Santa Barbara:  AA courses offered.
	"We have a section in our schedule of courses that is called Asian
	American Studies.  I don't know if this is a department but it's
	a start."  Courses listed for Spring 1992 include:
		Introduction to Asian American Literature
		Amerasians
		Asian-American Gender Relations
		The Japanese-American Experience
		The Filipino-American Experience
		Asian-American Communities
		Asian-American Education
		Asian-American Films
		Asian-American Visual Media 
	-- Mathew Waywe Yee <upsi1@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu>
Chicago:  unknown.
	"I guess my university has such a program." -- Paul Tsi Hang Ho
	<th12@midway.uchicago.edu>
Colorado:  a "well known" AA studies program
	James Lin <ir243@sdcc3.ucsd.edu>
Cornell:  miniature department with professors from other disciplines
	Department is headed by Prof. Lee C. Lee and Prof. Gary Okihiro,
	and offers about 10 different courses dealing primarily in history,
	literature and images in society.  "The department is closely
	affiliated to the Asian Studies department, which is quite
	extensive.  As for the quality of the program, it is one of the
	factors in my decision to come to Cornell." -- David Inoue
	<gwhx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Hawaii:  a "well-known" AA studies program
	James Lin <ir243@sdcc3.ucsd.edu>
Hunter College, CUNY:  Asian American Studies Center
	-- Qingsong Zhang <qsz2u@faraday.clas.Virginia.edu>
Oberlin:  an Asian studies department with a few AA courses.
	"The department does not specialize in Asian-American studies, but
	a few courses on that specific subject are offered." -- Michael
	c/o Otto Titsling <SMB2866@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu>
U Pennsylvania:  fighting for AA courses
	Three courses were offered last semester:  Asians in America,
	Asian American Perspective on Government Policy, and Asian
	American Literature.  -- Alexander Wu <wu41@wilma.wharton.upenn.edu>
Stanford:  no AA program!
	"A few years ago, Gordon Chang left for Irvine, siunce Stanford
	refused to create a tenured position for AA Studies.  He has since
	returned and another faculty member has come (Palumbo-Liu or something
	like that) who teach a few courses now and then.  I believe they're
	in the history department (or maybe one was in Comp Lit or something),
	but the status is that there is essentially no general AA Studies,
	except for the very motivated." -- Alan J. Hu <ajh@cs.stanford.edu>
-- 
Andrew Chin    Dept. of Math.    Texas A&M U.    College Station, TX 77843
achin@math.tamu.edu   Probably not TAMU's exact opinions.   (409) 845-0261
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