This is a re搜索 seminar in which students working in groups investigate trade goods (their production, 循环, and reception) in order to mount an online exhibition. Our focus is on the 循环 of objects between Asia (taken broadly) and Europe (especially France and England) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In-depth case studies will include lacquerwares; gazebos, pagodas and architectural forms; gardens; ceramics; wallpaper; textiles; printed books, 和家具. There will be a one-day field trip up to Denver. Prerequisite: Any 200-level art history course or Consent of 教练. 1个单位——宾利

Popular critiques of capitalism are everywhere today—from presidential debate stages to the digital realms of TikTok and YouTube. But how exactly can we explain capitalism? How did it emerge, and how is it structured? Who or what maintains capitalism, and what role does race specifically play in it? The answers to these questions are not as straightforward as they may seem. Some scholars disagree as to whether race is even a constitutive element of capitalism. This interdisciplinary course reads critical theories on capitalism alongside its literary and 文化 expressions in popular culture to understand how race intersects with capitalism. It traces famous theories on capitalism by thinkers like Karl Marx alongside an important tradition of radical scholarship on the intersections of race and capitalism by people like W.E.B. 杜布瓦、C.L.R. 詹姆斯, 塞德里克·罗宾逊, 埃里克•威廉姆斯, 乔迪•问题了, 南希梁, Patricia Hill Collins, 马克蒋介石, Iyko天, 丽莎劳, 和Jonathan Tran, 等. 这样做的时候, it engages key concepts such as racial capitalism, 晚期资本主义, identity capitalism, 新自由主义, 封建主义, and techno-封建主义. To help situate these critical discourses, this class places theory in conversation with literary and 文化 texts like film, 电视, and literature to see how filmmakers, 作家, and artists have confronted capitalism in the name of social justice.

This is an advanced Chinese language and culture course, that builds on the language progress made in advanced Chinese, emphasizes application of translation and storytelling, and centers on learning Chinese culture and society through the authentic Chinese sources, 原始文本, and online median videos. 学生将阅读, 听, 讲故事, watch online videos, conduct translation practice in oral and written expression, and learn a “other” culture cross-文化ly.

RM300: The Model Minority is an interdisciplinary course that teaches students the social, 政治, 文化, and economic forces that have produced the model minority stereotype. It asks: when did the model minority stereotype emerge in the U.S.，为什么?? How did it come to be organized ideologically and representationally in relation to wider socio政治 forces domestically and globally? And, how did the U.S. and indeed Asia both play key roles in creating the model minority? This course traces the model minority as an evolving racial form alongside institutional and 文化 developments in the U.S. and Asia from the nineteenth century to the present. Reading literary and 文化 production in conjunction with academic discourse from interdisciplinary fields across Asian American Studies, students learn to approach the model minority not simply as a representational figure but also as a conceptual orientation to systems of inequality organized by race, 种族, class, 性别, and (dis)ability in a global capitalist economy.

This is an advanced Chinese language and culture course, that builds on the language progress made in advanced Chinese, emphasizes application of translation and storytelling, and centers on learning Chinese culture and society through the authentic Chinese sources, 原始文本, and online median videos. 学生将阅读, 听, 讲故事, watch online videos, conduct translation practice in oral and written expression, and learn a “other” culture cross-文化ly.