ASIA AM 20Contemporary Asian American Communities
Asian American Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Multidisciplinary introduction to contemporary Asian American populations and communities in U.S. Topics include contemporary immigration, demographic trends, sociocultural, economic, and political issues, and interethnic relations.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ASIA AM 20
- ASIA AM 125Transpacific Literature and Theory
- ASIA AM 140XPPower to People: Asian American and Pacific Islander Community-Based Learning
- ASIA AM 176Making Fiction Work: Imagining Philippines and its Elsewheres
- ASIA AM 178Critical Refugee Studies
- ASIA AM 195Community or Corporate Internships in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 197Individual Studies in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 198AHonors Research in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 198BHonors Research in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 198CHonors Research in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 199Directed Research or Senior Project in Asian American Studies
8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 10 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.