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Chair: Thomas Kim

Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies
Lincoln 1118, Pomona College
647 North College Way
Claremont, CA 91711
E-mail: idaas@pomona.edu
Telephone: (909) 607-9508
Website: www.idaas.org 

Faculty

Active Claremont Colleges Faculty

Sharon Goto, PhD, University of Illinois (Pomona College)

Wei-Chin Hwang, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (Claremont McKenna College)

YouYoung Kang, PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Scripps College)

Thomas Kim, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Scripps College)

Ming-Yuen Ma, MFA, California Institute of the Arts (Pitzer College)

Lynne Miyake, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Pomona College)

Joseph Parker, PhD, Harvard University (Pitzer College)

Seung Hye Suh, Ph.D., Columbia University (Scripps College)

Hung Cam Thai, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Pomona College)

Richard Tsujimoto, PhD, State University of New York, Stony Brook (Pitzer College)

Linus Yamane, PhD, Yale University (Pitzer College)

Kathleen Yep, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (Pitzer College)

David Yoo, PhD, Yale University (Claremont McKenna College) 

The undergraduate Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies of The Claremont Colleges offers a rigorous, multidisciplinary major that emphasizes social justice, critical thinking, and innovative analysis of the history, society, and cultural production of Asians in the United States, within both multiracial American and transnational contexts. The curriculum provides students with a comprehensive grounding in a range of thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches within Asian American Studies. The undergraduate major integrates theory and practice through community work, and sustained and focused inquiry in the senior project or thesis. In consultation with an IDAAS advisor, students take core interdisciplinary courses in Asian American Studies and select appropriate courses in a range of disciplines throughout the five colleges. 

Examples of Courses Offered

CGU applicants and current students should note that most of the following representative courses are offered at the undergraduate Claremont Colleges. Only upper-division undergraduate courses may be taken for graduate credit, with faculty approval.

• Contemporary Asian American Issues
• Theory and Methods in Asian American Studies
• Asian American Literature and Cultural Criticism
• Race and Nation in Asian American Literature
• (Mis) Representations of the Near East and Far East
• Asian Americans in Media: A Historical Survey
• Asian American Women’s Experiences
• Introduction to Asian American History 1850-Present
• Immigration and Ethnicity in America
• Japanese and Japanese American Autobiography
• Politics and Public Policy of Asian Communities in the United States
• Asian American Mental Health
• Asian Americans and the Sociology of Sport
• Immigration and the Second Generation
• Music in East Asia and Its American Diasporas
• Asian American Psychology
• Comparative Immigration

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