ASIA AM 176Making Fiction Work: Imagining Philippines and its Elsewheres
Asian American Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Philippines and Filipino global diaspora as launching off point for interdisciplinary study of cultural diversity, national identity formation, global migration, labor, rise of Asia, and borderlands. Critical study of difference, not as identitarian, celebratory approach of sameness; rather focus on shared struggles between minoritized groups in U.S. and shared histories of U.S. territorial possessions. May not be repeated for credit.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: one course from course 10, 10W, 20, 20W, 30, 30W, 40, 40W, 50, 50W, 123, 133, M171D or History M144C, Filipino 130A, 152, 155, or consent of instructor.
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ASIA AM 1762 more beneath
- ASIA AM 10History of Asian Americans
- ASIA AM 10WHistory of Asian Americans
- FILIPNO 130AFilipino Short Story
- FILIPNO 6Intermediate Filipino
- ASIA AM 20Contemporary Asian American Communities
- ASIA AM 20WContemporary Asian American Communities
- HIST M144CCritical Issues in U.S.-Philippine Relations
- HIST 176BHistory of Southeast Asia: Southeast Asia since 1815
- ASIA AM 30Asian American Literature and Culture
- ASIA AM 30WAsian American Literature and Culture
- FILIPNO 152Survey of Philippine Literature
- FILIPNO 3Introductory Filipino
- ASIA AM 40Asian American Movement
- ASIA AM 40WAsian American Movement
- FILIPNO 155Topics in Filipino Cinema and Literature
- ASIA AM 50Asian American Women
- ASIA AM 50WAsian American Women
- ASIA AM 123Cultures of/against Empire
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