Assignments

Critical Question Presentation and Roundtable (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up in small groups for an oral presentation and roundtable during the course of the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate two or three main points from the week’s scholarly or critical text (as assigned), generate a critical question connecting the theory to the text, and contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

In-Class Quizzes (10%) -- There will be seven or more in-class five-minute quizzes at various times during the semester. These quizzes serve as a review of the week's main ideas, terms, texts, and readings. These quizzes might include identifications, fill-in-the-blanks, definitions, and short answers.

Creative Responses (10%) -- Over the course of the semester, you will write a short-short story, create a drawing, and generate a critical review as an alternative way to explore and demonstrate the ideas and goals of the course. These creative responses will be evaluated on completion and your critical, thoughtful engagement with the prompts.

Critical Response Papers (20%) -- You will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers. These single-spaced, one-page writings serve as close readings of, analyses of, and articulations of the texts and connections you see, read, and talk about in the tutorial. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 5.

Mixed-Paper/Mash-Up Final Project (20%) -- Your final paper project will be a "mixed-paper," a multimodal mash-up that collects together three of your short response papers, which you'll revise, your creative responses, and incorporates the addition of images, verse, and other kinds of evidence, all of which is framed by an introduction and conclusion page. The "mixed-paper" asks you to think critically about the course questions and texts, to make connections, and to create an argument across texts and different kinds of evidence.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

What is Close Reading?

How to Write a Summary

Claims, Claims, Claims

Introductions & Conclusions

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Revision Check-List

Readings

The course texts are available via a reputable bookseller; the Little Professor Book Center (65 S. Court) can order books for you given enough time. Shorter readings are available via the course Canvas. The required texts for this class are (in order of use):

Yep, Lawrence. Dragonwings. Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Lai, Larissa. When Fox Is a Thousand . Yamashita, Karen Tei. Tropic of Orange . Yang, Gene Luen. American Born Chinese . Nguyen, Qui. She Kills Monsters . Liu, Marjorie and Sana Takeda. Monstress, Vol. 1. Kuang, RF. The Poppy War .

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. "Disability." Keywords for Disability Studies. NYU Press. 29 May 2018. https://keywords.nyupress.org/disability-studies/essay/disability/. Alston, Vermonja R. "Environment." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 104-106. Aultman, B. "Cisgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 61-62. Berlant, Lauren. "Citizenship." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 37-42. Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221. Chang, Edmond Y. "Musings on Asianfuturism." edmondchang.com. 27 Apr. 2020. http://www.edmondchang.com/2020/04/27/musings-on-asianfuturism/. Cherniavsky, Eva. "Body." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 26-29. Chiu, Monica and Jeanette Roan. “Asian American Graphic Narrative.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. 26 Sep. 2018. https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-784. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Georgiou, Myria. "Identity." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 94-98. Gray, Herman. "Race." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 61-164. Gruesz, Kirsten Silva. "America." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 16-22. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Henderson, Lisa. "Representation." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 172-176. London, Jack. “The Unparalleled Invasion." Jack London Online. http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/StrengthStrong/invasion.html Prashad, Vijay. "Orientalism." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 174-177. Roh, David S., Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu. “Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction.” Techno-Orientalism. Eds. David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu. Rutgers University Press, 2015. 1-19. Shu, Yuan. “Cultural Politics and Chinese-American Female Subjectivity: Rethinking Kingson's Woman Warrior.” MELUS. 26.2 (Summer 2001) 199-223. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Tchen, John Kuo Wei. "Asian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2014. 18-21. Tongson, Karen. "Queer." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. https://keywords.nyupress.org/media-studies/essay/queer/. Williams, Cristan. "Transgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 232-234. Print. Wu, Judy Tzu-chun. "Gender." Keywords for Asian American Studies. Eds. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. NYU Press, 2015. https://keywords.nyupress.org/asian-american-studies/essay/gender/ “Yellow Peril.” Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

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