ENGL 134AA: CULT OF ASIAN AMER
University of California, Santa Barbara
Intro course on Asian American literature. Studies a wide range of literary texts, supplemented by history, film, and visual art. We pay special atten tion to the politics of representational forms, such as the poetics of erro r enacted by Angel Island poetry, the freak show of the original Siamese Tw ins, the yellowface of Charlie Chan, the deliberate demarcation of document ary history from what Lawson Inada calls "legends" in his internment camp p oems, and the code-switching between standard English and Hawaiian pidgin i n performance poetry. We move beyond an America-centered and (standard) Eng lish-only approach and relocate the cultural meanings of the Asian Americas in transnationalism, diaspora, yellowface, bilingualism, and translation.
Average GPA: 3.35
Grade distribution records: 473 students across 15 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 11 | 2.3% |
| A | 119 | 25.2% |
| A- | 98 | 20.7% |
| B+ | 117 | 24.7% |
| B | 61 | 12.9% |
| B- | 17 | 3.6% |
| C+ | 28 | 5.9% |
| C | 9 | 1.9% |
| D+ | 1 | 0.2% |
| D | 4 | 0.8% |
| F | 8 | 1.7% |
Based on 473 student grade records across 15 terms and 3 professors.
Instructors
- Huang Yu 425 students, Average GPA 3.35
- Blake F D 37 students, Average GPA 3.37
- Champagne A M 11 students, Average GPA 3.24