ASIA AM 30WAsian American Literature and Culture
Asian American Studies · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 30. 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. Satisfies Writing II requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Spring 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
Enforced requisite: English Composition 3.
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confidence 1.00 · from UCLA’s structured dataRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ASIA AM 30W
- 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 30W
- 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 198AHonors Research in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 198BHonors Research in Asian American Studies
- ASIA AM 198CHonors Research in Asian American Studies
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 7 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.