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GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 due to civil war, poverty and/or economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AAS instability. AAS 547: Directed Reading in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Asian & Asian American Contemporary Asian and Asian Studies AAS 534: English in Asia American Studies Study of the expanding roles of English in This course provides an opportunity for AAS 500: Intellectual History of East South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. graduate students in Contemporary Asian and Asia With more non-native speakers than native Asian American Studies to pursue readings This course examines the major intellectual speakers, and more in Asia than elsewhere, in an area of their interest as part of their traditions of East Asia with an idea that English has acquired new identities. We graduate program studies. Independent intellectual movements not only reflect but will study functions of English in colonial readings in graduate topics in Contemporary also influence historical developments. It and post-colonial times; how it competes Asian and Asian American studies. May be is designed to help students enhance their with, and complements local languages in repeated. Prerequisites: Approval by Director understanding of East Asian thoughts, history, business, advertising, media, education, of Graduate Studies and culture. Topics will cover the intellectual research, administration, judiciary, creative 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) movements in China, Japan, and Korea from literature, call centers, and on the Internet; the May be repeated for credit. ancient times to the early 20th century. evolution of dynamic new Asian Englishes, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) such as Indian English, and their social and AAS 555: Heritage Languages of Asian cultural contexts; controversies regarding Americans AAS 501: Proseminar: Topics & English medium education and its impact English has long been the dominant language Methods in Contemporary Asian and on local languages, relevance of native used in the United States, while the languages Asian American Studies English standards, and implications for of numerous indigenous and immigrant This course introduces students to qualitative theory, description, and method in diverse communities have declined and many and quantitative research methods disciplines, such as, business communication, have died. At the same time, the United commonly used in social sciences and cultural studies, English, lexicography, States¿ extensive global role, the rising humanities, including narrative research, speech recognition, journalism, media studies, geopolitical rise of Asian powers, such as phenomenological research, ethnographic sociolinguistics, teaching English as a second China, India, Japan, South Korean, and others research, case study research, correlational language, and Asian Studies. has highlighted the need to foster greater research, and survey research. Students are 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Asian language and cultural skills among expected to identify a topic of interest of their Americans. In that context, maintaining own choosing within Contemporary Asian AAS 540: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies the existing diversity of languages spoken and Asian American Students and develop a This course is an examination of the critical among American immigrant populations pilot research project. The instructor plays the theory on Inter-Asia cultures and phenomena. becomes as important and effective as role of a facilitator by leading methodological Emphasis is placed on the role of culture teaching the languages to new populations. as well as thematic discussions on research within the writing, documentation, and There is an increasing recognition that the topics initiated by students. This course takes evidencing of history. Attention may be advantages of such multilingualism are not the formats of lectures, workshops, student focused on a particular era, group, institution, only cultural, but also cognitive, diplomatic, presentations, peer critique, and one-on-one type of object, or event. security, commercial, social, and political as well. Retaining knowledge of the home instructor-student conferences. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language is found to promote the minority AAS 545: Acquisition of Asian individuals¿ psychological well-being, AAS 505: The Pacific, Travel and Languages facilitate communication and bonding across generations, and ease the process of adjusting Empire This course will analyze the cognitive to life away from the home country, while This cultural studies course examines the processes involved in the acquisition of Asian promoting a pluralistic outlook and providing cultures of travel (i.e. fiction, memoirs, languages as second or foreign languages. globally valuable job skills. Still, the brunt photography , and filmmaking) in narratives We will start with discussion of first language of the actual effort to foster multilingualism by and about the Pacific, South and Southeast acquisition and compare it with second has been left to individual families despite the Asia. We will student ¿empire¿ by analyzing language acquisition (SLA). Methodologies known fact that parental effort at maintenance narratives about the former colonies of Spain, such as contrastive analysis and error analysis, alone are not enough to prevent an eventual France, Britain and the United States. As we and concepts such as interlanguage, native and shift to English. This new course is a critical discuss the metaphors or tropes of empire, non-native competence, bilingual competence, examination of the nature and extent of we will also examine the concept of empire acceptability, correctness, standard language available support (institutional, social, family, as a historical and contemporary formation, will be critically examined. We will also and other) for maintaining this valuable or what an empire meant in the 19th century consider the variables that affect SLA, resource of Asian immigrants languages. and what is means today in the early 21st including age, context, exposure, attitude, Students learn through through in-depth century. The course begins with the premise cognition, attention and motivation. Special readings, class lectures and discusssions, and that travel narratives and modern visual attention will be given to the applicability of directed research in language communities of culture illuminate the relationship between the current research paradigms and findings to their choice. violence and romance of travel. The course the acquisition of languages such as Chinese, includes modern travel narratives (i.e. novels Japanese, Korean, and Hindi, both in terms 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by Asian Americans) that focus on the lives of their structural characteristics and in their of those who are forced to travel or migrate socio-cultural context. Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 1 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 AAS 560: Empire, Memory and East lies within the Asian continent, and the multilingualism; functional distribution of Narratives of Asian America vast majority of Muslims over the centuries languages in education, media, social media, Asian American literary scholars have focused have been non-Arabic speakers, living across and business; diglossia, code-switching on the tropes of immigration and settlement as south and central Asia into India, China, and and code-mixing, psycholinguistic and major paradigms for mapping the landscape Indonesia. We will survey the importance of neurolinguistic models of multiple language of Asian American writing. The late 1990s, Island as the todays¿ largest Asian religion representation and processing in the brain; however, witnessed the emergence of novels , (numerically speaking) and look at some of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of memoirs, narrative and experimental films the distinctive features of its local variants. language contact and interaction in the the departed from current notions of Asian We will pay special attention to the manner individual and society: accents, interference, American literature and films. A distinct in which teachings were presented in the transfer on various linguistic levels; cohort of writers and filmmakers, who languages besides Arabic that became Islam¿s borrowing, linguistic convergence, emergence are first-generation immigrants, created vehicles, in particular Chines, which witnessed of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, styles, cultural forms that focus on the heimat or the a remarkable synthesis of the Islamic and and non-native varieties; multilingualism homeland, narrating history, the legacies of Confucian worldviews. as a pragmatic and stylistic literary device war, violence, personal and national memory. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) speech acts and multilingual creativity; socio- The seminar considers how these fictional political dimensions of multilingualism: and non-fictional narratives engage with new AAS 572: Topics in Asian Philosophy I multilingualism and identity; accommodation aesthetic and political questions regarding This course presents in-depth student of and assimilation; language maintenance and Asian American writing, filmmaking and the specific topic in an Asian philosophical shift; language rivalry and conflict; spread limits and the possibilities of memory in the tradition.