Workshop course where original works by students are critically discussed as a class under the guidance of an instructor so that the works may be developed further. Students are challenged to explore different thematic preoccupations in their fiction.
Asian American Literature and Culture
Multidisciplinary introduction to Asian American literature and cultural production, with examination of some combination of novels, short stories, poetry, drama, performance, film, visual art, music, and/or new media.
Asian American Literature and Film
Engages students with Asian American experiences with frame of “coming of age.” Uses mixture of novels, short stories, essays and films to explore how Asian populations and communities “came of age” in the U. S. in the twentieth century.
Asian American Images & Identities
Enhances student knowledge of diverse lived experiences of Asian Americans in the United States as depicted in U. S. American society during contemporary times, with an eye toward historicizing as well as critiquing current events and popular culture.
The short story unit of a sequence of humanities units exploring selected topics in an on-site, after-school, early college program for academically motivated high school students.
English Composition 101 and 102
For entering undergraduates, courses designed to introduce students to academic discourse and provide instruction in critical reading, thinking critically and analytic writing.
Asian American Studies 97: History, Theory and Practice of Pilipino Cultural Night
Facilitated student, alumni, faculty, and grad student collaboration of a set of workshop classes covering aesthetic, theoretical, and practical issues around the annual Pilipino Cultural Night within contemporary Filipino American experience.
Pilipino Cultural Leadership: Issues and Critiques
Aesthetic, theoretical, and practical issues surrounding the creation, stewardship and historical context of the production and performance of the annual Pilipino Cultural Night on university campuses.
Issues in Asian American Cultural Leadership
Lectures and workshops around Philippine and Pilipino American history, culture and society. Historical foundations, cultural basics, and leadership facilitation.
UCLA Samahang Pilipino Oral History Project
Directed oral history project, provided oral interview training workshops, supervised student project activities, and edited final transcripts for the project.
Cultural Stewardship and Archival Collection
Directed student archive processing team to collect, process, and catalog existing and donated archival materials for UCLA Samahang Pilipino, a long- standing campus student organization established in 1972.
The Philippine Imagination in the Works of N. V. M. Gonzalez
Development of the Philippine imagination within context of U.S./ Philippine relations, utilizing the varied works of Philippine National Artist, writer N. V. M. Gonzalez.
