ASIA AM 178Critical Refugee Studies
Asian American Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of how refugees are represented in government and popular media, and how refugees represent themselves through cultural production. Rather than focus on refugee as victim, study centers refugee as subject of knowledge production for critical analyses of war, empire, militarism, and human rights.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- 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: course 10, 10W, 20, 20W, 30, 30W, 40, 40W, 50, or 50W.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.75 · from text- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 10, 10W, 20, 20W, 30, 30W, 40, 40W, 50, or 50W" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ASIA AM 178
- ASIA AM 10History of Asian Americans
- ASIA AM 10WHistory of Asian Americans
- ASIA AM 20Contemporary Asian American Communities
- ASIA AM 20WContemporary Asian American Communities
- ASIA AM 30Asian American Literature and Culture
- ASIA AM 30WAsian American Literature and Culture
- ASIA AM 40Asian American Movement
- ASIA AM 40WAsian American Movement
- ASIA AM 50Asian American Women
- ASIA AM 50WAsian American Women
10 direct requisites. Showing 17 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.