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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Asian Pacific American Studies (APAM)
  

  • APAM 1117 Introduction to Asian Pacific American Studies: A Comparative and Global Perspective

    4 semester hours

    An introductory course which surveys the cultures and histories of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States. Interaction among various Asian Pacific American communities also will be discussed.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity.
  

  • APAM 2371 Asian Pacific American Literature

    4 semester hours

    A survey of Asian Pacific American writers and their literature, using critical analysis of autobiographies, short stories, novels, poetry, essays, and films.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Creative Experience; Flag: Writing.
  

  • APAM 2417 Contemporary Issues of Asian Pacific Americans

    4 semester hours

    Topical studies of timely and pertinent contemporary interest involving Asian Pacific Americans in the United States.

    University Core fulfilled: Explorations: Understanding Human Behavior; Flag: Engaged Learning.
  

  • APAM 4178 Asians in America: From the “Yellow Peril” to the “Model Minority”

    4 semester hours

    This class traces the many-faceted histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from cross-cultural and transitional perspectives, beginning with the earliest immigration to the present era.
  

  • APAM 4188 Imagining Asian Pacific America

    4 semester hours

    Using interdisciplinary approaches and cross-cultural perspectives, this class explores the ways in which certain Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been portrayed and, in turn, have portrayed themselves in the visual culture throughout historical time and place.
  

  • APAM 4235 Asian Pacific American Women’s Experience

    4 semester hours

    An interdisciplinary and comparative examination of the histories and experiences of Asian Pacific American women. Topics include social and economic inequality, literary and cultural representation as well as political and community activism.
  

  • APAM 4327 Asian American Psychology

    4 semester hours

    Coverage of major psychological issues relevant to Asian American personality, identity, and mental health, including acculturation, the creation of stereotypes, and intergenerational conflict.
  

  • APAM 4335 Asian Pacific American Politics and Social Movements

    4 semester hours

    Examines Asian American political participation from legal challenges and labor organizing to social protests and electoral politics. Explores Asian Pacific American politics and social movements in light of dramatic changes in domestic and international contexts of the past half a century.
  

  • APAM 4337 Asian Pacific Americans and the American Law

    4 semester hours

    An examination of constitutional, immigration, and civil rights laws and their impact on the Asian Pacific American experience. Discussions may include analysis of historical court cases and legislation pertaining to citizenship, exclusion, and World War II internment as well as the study of contemporary legal issues in Asian Pacific American communities.
  

  • APAM 4450 Specific Ethnic Focus Seminars

    4 semester hours

    An in-depth examination of the experience of a single Asian Pacific American subgroup. Populations covered will vary.
  

  • APAM 4457 Vietnamese American Experience

    4 semester hours

    Comprehensive introduction to the Vietnamese American experience. Review of Southeast Asian politics during the Cold War with emphasis on U.S. policies in Vietnam. Review of contemporary issues in the Vietnamese American community, including economic integration, political mobilization, and community and family dynamics. In-depth study of the social and cultural lives of Vietnamese Americans in Los Angeles and California.

Art History (ARHS)
  

  • ARHS 3351 Arts of Asia: Highlights and Treasures

    4 semester hours

    This course serves as a foundational survey to the arts of the Asian region, and introduces students to the art and architecture of East, South and Southeast Asia from prehistoric to contemporary times. Themes such as belief in the afterlife and empire building as well as the adoption of Buddhism serves as major threads that connect the diverse historical, cultural and artistic traditions of the region. 

    University Core Fulfilled: IINC
  

  • ARHS 4351 Asian Art Since 1945: From Regional Art to Global Impact

    4 semester hours

    This course examines the art and architecture of East, South and Southeast Asia produced since 1945, focusing on local, regional and global visual and political developments that impacted art making. The course will introduce students to both established and emerging artists from Asia, in addition to examining the rising commercial and global profile of contemporary Asian art and artists. 

Asian and Pacific Studies (ASPA)
  

  • ASPA 2100 Asian Civilizations

    4 semester hours

    A study of Asian civilizations though history, literature, art, philosophy, and film. Topics to be covered will emphasize the intellectual, cultural, social, and political factors which shaped the civilizations of Asia and the Pacific.

    University Core fulfilled: Foundations: Studies in American Diversity; Flag: Oral Skills.
  

  • ASPA 3200 Masterpieces of East Asian Literature

    4 semester hours

    This course introduces canonical works in the literary traditions of China, Japan, and Korea, spanning from antiquity through the early 19th century. It explores various ways of interpreting masterworks through such lenses as philosophy, spirituality, religion, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, memory and identity. It also examines the socio-historical contexts that established these works’ cultural significance, the commentaries and adaptations they generated, and the cultural interactions and reverberations within Asia and beyond.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flags: Information Literacy, Oral Skills.
  

  • ASPA 3500 Economic and Political Issues in Contemporary Asia

    4 semester hours

    This course focuses on contemporary economic and political issues in Asian countries such as China, India, and Japan. China surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in February 2011. India has also grown fast, and many in the West look to it as a counterweight to China, in politics as well as in economics. The first part of the course focuses on the recent growth and development of China. Topics include: the socialist era; market transition; growth and structural change; population growth; labor and human capital; rural and urban economies; similarities and contrasts between the rise of the U.S. and the rise of China; impact of China on the world economy and financial system. The second part of the course will compare China with India and Japan.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flags: Oral Skills, Writing.
  

  • ASPA 3600 Introduction to Asian Media

    4 semester hours

    An introductory course to the media and politics of the Asia-Pacific region. This survey seeks to connect leading aspects and themes of the history, politics, economics, and culture of specific leading countries to their media systems. Course materials include historical perspectives as well as contemporary journalism, including New Media technology developments and their impact on politics. Media systems will be analyzed and categorized in the social-science tradition.
  

  • ASPA 3610 Asian Media Practicum

    2 semester hours

    Learn how to best write and think about Asia in all its importance and complexity for public publication on the well-established website of ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL-asiamedia.lmu.edu- with bylines. 
  

  • ASPA 3620 Foreign Perceptions

    2 semester hours

    Viewing issues of international relations through a single national lens is fraught with the danger of debilitatingly narrow parochialism. Via on-line seminars with counterpart students at Asian universities, we view key issues through a sophisticated multinational lens.
  

  • ASPA 3860 Introduction to Asian Literature

    4 semester hours

    An introductory course in Asian literature from China, Japan, and India. Various literary genres such as poetry, fiction, diary, biographies, and drama and their relation to Asian literary tradition will be examined.
  

  • ASPA 3970 Popular Culture in East Asia

    4 semester hours

    This course will explore the role of popular culture in the social production of meaning and creation of identity. The site of study will be popular culture in East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea) and “East Asian” popular culture abroad. It aims to impart to students the theoretical and analytical tools necessary to conduct in-depth interdisciplinary research on the mechanisms, implications, and functions of popular culture. By exploring myriad forms of popular culture–popular literature, film, manga, television, music, posters, fashion, material culture, etc.–that span modern Asian history from the early 20th century to today, students will gain a critical understanding of culture, politics, and history of the East Asian region.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Writing.
  

  • ASPA 4600 Women in Asia

    4 semester hours

    This course employs interdisciplinary methods to examine the problems and issues confronting women in Asia (primarily China, Japan, and Korea) from ancient times to the contemporary era. We will integrate the research methods of gender studies, history, literature, philosophy, media, and cultural of gender studies, and investigate how Asian womanhood is constructed, institutionalized, appropriated, reinvented, and reinterpreted in different socio-historical discourses. We will interrogate the underlying mechanisms that tend to perpetuate Asian women’s marginality and subordination. At the same time, we will pay particular attention to new perspectives on women’s roles in current scholarship and look into women’s ongoing negotiation with their gender identity and their struggles for power and agency.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Writing.
  

  • ASPA 4830 Advanced Asian Media

    4 semester hours

    This is a sequel to ASPA 3600 , but the introductory course is not a prerequisite. This survey course of media systems in the Asia Pacific emphasizes compare-and-contrast methodology. An additional education tool is the University website, ASIA MEDIA (http://asiamedia.lmu.edu), where students discover the origins of the media presentations, develop rigorous analytic tools, and critique that epistemology. This course is sometimes taught in conjunction with an Internet-linked class at the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain, UAE.
  

  • ASPA 4860 Topics in Asian Literature

    4 semester hours

    The subject matter of this course will vary from semester to semester.
  

  • ASPA 4870 Asian Mythology

    4 semester hours

    This class will examine mythology and folktales from various Asian traditions: China, Japan, Korea, and India. The reading materials will be examined through psychological, philosophical, and cultural approaches. The topics for discussion include creation myths, heaven and hell, the mythic hero, metamorphosis, and immortality.

    Junior or senior standing required.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections.
  

  • ASPA 4880 Modern Asian Fiction

    4 semester hours

    This course examines twentieth-century Chinese and Japanese fiction through the study of novels, short stories, novellas, biographies, diaries, and film. The class will also study major literary trends and movements.
  

  • ASPA 4900 Asian Women Writers

    4 semester hours

    This is a cross-cultural study of Asian women writers through the readings of poetry, short stories, autobiographies, diaries, and novels. Most readings are derived from contemporary female writers from China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States.
  

  • ASPA 5000 Senior Integrating Seminar

    4 semester hours

    This requirement enables the students to integrate their work in Asian and Pacific Studies. The actual content of the course will depend on the student’s chosen focus. Students write a senior thesis under the guidance of a faculty member. The thesis, while focused on a particular topic, is intended to be interdisciplinary.

Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies (CLST)
  

  • CLST 3380 Media, Race, and Representation

    4 semester hours

    The course examines U.S. media portrayals of various ethnoracial groups. Considers how gender and sexuality figure into these representations. Emphasis on Latina/o/x, Black, East Asian, Arab, and Indigenous representations, as well as representations of whiteness.
  

  • CLST 4404 Latina Feminist Theory

    4 semester hours

    Focuses on current writings by Chicana feminists and connects this material to African American and Asian American feminist theory. The course traces the development of Chicana feminism and its concern with the interlocking conditions of gender, race, sexuality, and class.

    University Core fulfilled: Flag: Writing.

Film and Television Studies (FTVS)
  

  • FTVS 4437 Asian Cinema

    4 semester hours

    A critical introduction to cinemas from East Asia and The Pacific. It may be offered as a historical survey; focus on a specific historical timeframe; or, offer a historical overview of a particular topic, national, or regional cinema. Note: Includes China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Refer to the specific semester descriptions, as multiple sections/topics may be offered.

    May be repeated for credit once as long as topic is different.

    Lab fee.
  

  • FTVS 4467 South Asian Cinema

    4 semester hours

    A critical introduction to cinemas from South Asia. It may be offered as a historical survey; focus on a specific historical timeframe; or, offer a historical overview of a particular topic, national, or regional cinema. Note: Includes India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, etc. Refer to the specific semester descriptions, as multiple sections/topics may be offered.

    May be repeated for credit once as long as topic is different.

    Lab fee.

History (HIST)
  

  • HIST 1850 East Asia: Origins to 1600

    4 semester hours

    This course explores the origins and development of East Asian states and cultures from the earliest times to the early modern era. Topics include the emergence and development of such essential heritages of East Asia as Confucianism, Sinicized Buddhism, bureaucratic institutions, legal culture, social order, diplomatic relations, and trading networks.
  

  • HIST 2800 Seminar in Asian History

    4 semester hours

    An introduction to history as an intellectual discipline, focusing on the study and writing of history, including historiography and historical methods. Organized around the study of a particular historical issue or episode in Asian history, this is an intensive course on how historians approach problems.

    History majors and minors only.

     
  

  • HIST 3210 Other Europes

    4 semester hours

    Other Europes centersfocuses on the experiences of often marginalized groups in European history, including people of African, Asian, and Middle Eastern descent, religious minorities such as Jews and Muslims, women, queer Europeans, the disabled, and more. What “other Europes” are out there that need examining (e.g., a Black Europe, a Jewish Europe, a queer Europe)? 

     
    HIST Concentrations: Race, Gender, and Culture; Public and Applied History 
    University Core fulfilled: Interdisciplinary Connections. 
  

  • HIST 4423 Asians in America: From the “Yellow Peril” to the “Model Minority”

    4 semester hours

    This class traces the many-faceted histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from cross-cultural and transnational perspectives, beginning with the earliest immigration to the present era.

    HIST Concentrations: Global Economies, Encounters and Exchange; Race, Gender, and Culture.
  

  • HIST 4440 Imagining Asian Pacific America

    4 semester hours

    Using interdisciplinary approaches and cross-cultural perspectives, the class explores the ways in which certain Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been portrayed and, in turn, have portrayed themselves throughout historical time and space.

    HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
  

  • HIST 4610 A Quest for the Nile’s Source

    4 semester hours

    A study of the quest for the source of the Nile River and the interaction of African, European, and Asian peoples in the area.
  

  • HIST 4705 The Inquisition: The Holy Office in Europe, Asia, and America

    4 semester hours

    An examination of the actual historical institutions behind the modern myths of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, from their establishment in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth centuries to their abolition in the early nineteenth century. Topics include the 16th-century proto-inquisitorial efforts to prosecute indigenous idolatry and sorcery by episcopal tribunals; the prosecution of Jews, Protestants, and “illuminated” men and women in the 17th and 18th centuries; and the history of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal’s American and Asian colonies.

    HIST Concentration: Law, Politics, and Society.
  

  • HIST 4830 Women in East Asian History

    4 semester hours

    An exploration of the ways in which specific institutional arrangements, political settlements, and economic changes informed the organization of family and lineages, inheritance practices, work, and thus shaped the lives of women.

    HIST Concentration: Race, Gender, and Culture.
  

  • HIST 5800 Seminar in Asian History

    4 semester hours

    A seminar on a topic in Asian history, in which students will explore the historical literature around a given topic and then produce a work of original research.

    Juniors and seniors only.

    History majors and minors only.

     

International Business Studies (INBA)
  

  • INBA 2880 Exploring Asian Culture

    4 semester hours

    Asia has become one of the most important political, economic, and cultural centers of the world. In particular, East Asian nations like China, South Korea, and Japan provide the world with valuable goods and services and have collectively become powerful enough to be major players in the global economy. These countries are among the most dynamic economic engines in the world. As such, it is critical for students to learn the historical, socio-political, and economic backgrounds of East Asia in order to understand how business works in this region. This course will provide students with an overview of the recent socio-political and economic developments of East Asia and an opportunity to gain first-hand cultural experiences from the two-week field trip to East Asia.

Theatre Arts (THEA)
  

  • THEA 338 South Asian Theatres and Performance

    3 semester hours

    A survey of various South Asian genres of performance contextualized within the specific socio-cultural boundaries and norms of the South Asian society.

    University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flags: Information Literacy, Writing.
  

  • THEA 348 Asian Spirit in Drama

    3 semester hours

    An exploration of the Asian drama throughout major periods.