ASIA AM 30Asian American Literature and Culture
Asian American Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 30W. Multidisciplinary introduction to Asian American literature and cultural production. Exploration of cultural politics and creative expression of Asia Pacific Americans in their own terms and in context of emergence and reception of artistic works—from personal, local, regional, national, and to global/imperial. Implicit and explicit comparison of Asian American cultural production to diverse experiences of other aggregated groupings, historic and emergent. Addresses intersectional issues of gendering, sexuality, non-secularity, and socioeconomic conditions.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2027
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 30
- 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.