ASIA AM 20WContemporary Asian American Communities
Asian American Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 20. 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. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
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: English Composition 3.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ASIA AM 20W
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
1 direct requisite. Showing 4 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.
ASIA AM 20W
- 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
4 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 4 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.