Southeast Asian Studies Minor

Subject abbreviation: SEAS College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Christina Schwenkel, Ph.D., Director Program Office, INTS 3111

• (951) 827-5521; seatrip.ucr.edu

The SEATRiP Program at the University of California, Riverside—Southeast Asia: Texts, Rituals, Performance—brings together scholars who share an ongoing interest in the arts and humanities and are actively engaged with the languages and expressive cultures of Southeast Asia.

The Southeast Asian Studies minor is an interdepartmental program centered on the study of the arts and cultures of Southeast Asia. The scholars associated with the Program address regionally-specific texts, rituals and performances. They seek to develop better understandings of the forms and practices through which ideas and ideologies are creatively expressed, shaped and communicated within and among different societies of Southeast Asia as week as the Southeast Asian diaspora.

• 1. Lower-division requirements (8 units)

• a) Four (4) units from lower lower-division

lecture courses on Southeast Asian literature and culture:

AST 049/HIST 046/SEAS 047, AST 062/ CPLT 062, AST 063/CPLT 063, AST 064/ MCS 049/VNM 064, AST 065

• b) Four (4) units chosen from above or from

Soil and Water Sciences / Southeast Asian Studies Minor / Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Program / 450 is discussed as both a time-honored and a contempo- rary medium for cultural production, from the courts to everyday experience. Cross-listed with ANTH 126, AST 123, DNCE 123, and MUS 123.

SEAS 136 Anthropological Perspectives on Gender in Southeast Asia (4) Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines the intersections of gender, power, and sexuality in post-colonial Southeast Asia. Revisits early ethnographic claims of gender equality. Addresses current anthropological literature on the effects of colonialism, capitalism, and globaliza- tion on gender roles and relations within national and transnational contexts. Cross-listed with ANTH 136.

SEAS 137 The Vietnamese Americans: The Refugee and Immigrant Experience (4) Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Focuses on the Viet- namese American experience in contemporary society. Emphasizes the relationship of Vietnamese Americans to the larger society and on intergenerational strains and conflicts. Topics include socioeconomic and edu- cational problems, family, religion, and the relationship between Vietnamese Americans and other ethnic groups. Cross-listed with ETST 137.

SEAS 143A Critical Filipino(a) Studies: Histories and Legacies of U.S. Conquest, Colonialism, and Empire (4) Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one of the following courses: ETST 001, ETST 001H, ETST 002, ETST 002H, ETST 003, ETST 004/HIST 004, ETST 005, ETST 005H, ETST 007, ETST 007H, ETST 008, ETST 012, ETST 012H, ETST 012W, ETST 012X, ETST 014; or consent of instructor. Critically examines and theorizes the historical impact and legacies of U.S. conquest and colonialism in the Philippines. Analyzes the origins of Filipino American civic existence and its links to histories of U.S. racial formation, racialized industrialization, and racialized frontier warfare. Cross-listed with ETST 143A.

SEAS 143B Critical Filipino(a) Studies: Interrogating the Filipino American Present (4) Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one of the following courses: ETST 001, ETST 001H, ETST 002, ETST 002H, ETST 003, ETST 004/HIST 004, ETST 005, ETST 005H, ETST 007, ETST 007H, ETST 008, ETST 012, ETST 012H, ETST 012W, ETST 012X, ETST 014, ETST 143A/SEAS 143A, upper-division standing; or consent of instructor. Critically analyzes the emergence of Filipino American community and identity in relation to the U.S. emancipation of the Philippines and the complex restructuring of a neoco- lonial and imperial relation. Examines the theoretical and conceptual premises of Filipino Americanism through counterhegemonic social movements, cultural production, and identity formation. Cross-listed with ETST 143B.

SEAS 145 Buddhism in Southeast Asia (4) Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): RLST 106 or consent of instructor. Explores various texts, magical practices, forms of meditation, rituals, and beliefs of ancient and modern Buddhism, focusing on the ways in which they are transformed by nuns, monks, and the laity in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and California. Cross-listed with RLST 145.

SEAS 149 Southeast Asian Religions (4) Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): one Religious Studies course or upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Introduces aspects of religion in various Southeast Asian countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Provides contextualized readings featuring historical, anthropological, literary, and other discipli- nary perspectives. Cross-listed with RLST 149.

SEAS 150 Islam in Southeast Asia (4) Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-divi- sion standing or consent of instructor. Introduces the religious, intellectual, and cultural history of Muslim Continuation in the Ph.D. program is not guaranteed, but subject to review by the cooperating department. After completion of the M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies, M.A. – Ph.D. track students will need to reapply through Graduate Admissions (fee waived) to the cooperating department for approval and official admission into the Ph.D. program.

University Requirements.

All master’s students must be enrolled for at least three quarters to fulfill the University residency requirement and must hold at least a 3.00 GPA in all upper division and graduate level course work related to the degree. A minimum of 40 units must be completed of which 36 must be graduate level (200 level) or approved upper division undergraduate (100 level) and apply only to the M.A. in Southeast Asian Studies.

Normative Time to Degree Two years