2021 cycle

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D1-Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (2024 Cycle)

In close alignment with the University’s mission, and its focus on engagement, service, and the public good, community-based learning has been a defining feature of our programmatic goals. Taking advantage of our campus location and our ties to the surrounding Asian American communities, AAAS’ goals has always been to design a curriculum that would introduce students to concepts of civic learning and community engagement early on, build capacity in our second and third-year courses so that we have strong community partnerships in place, and design one or two capstone/internship courses to allow students to take on projects that not only create meaningful civic consciousness but also pave ways to connect their chosen discipline to their communities. Thus, we have developed a scaffolded community curriculum that teaches students how to prepare themselves to be competent and responsible citizens and lead an engaged civic life in the Pacific century. For example, two of our signature service-learning courses are AAAS 3510: “Body, Health, Food Justice and API Communities,” and AAAS/HIST 3520: “Oral History of Asian America.” 

1. Knowledge: Mastery of content and processes of inquiry. The AAAS program strengthens the knowledge base of students through the critical investigation of Asian and Asian American histories, cultures, social movements, and racial formation in domestic, transnational, and comparative contexts. Students learn to apply disciplinary Ethnic Studies frameworks and methodologies to understand the structural, ideological, and material forces that shaped the lives of Asians and Asian Americans.

2. Proficiency: Intellectual Skills. The AAAS program equips students with effective critical thinking, writing, and oral communication skills.

3. Place and Community. The AAAS program engages students who learn to analyze the relationships between Asian and Asian Americans and other racial and ethnic communities through intersectional, relational, and comparative lenses.

4. Transformation: Integrative learning. The AAAS program prepares students to apply and integrate knowledge about Asian American Studies by participating in community engagement projects.

D2-Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) - 2024 Cycle

• Understand the histories, cultures, social movements, and racial formation of Asians and Asian Americans in domestic, transnational, and comparative contexts
• Apply critical interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies frameworks and methodologies to understand the structural, ideological, and material forces that shaped the lives of Asians and Asian Americans
• Demonstrate knowledge of Asian American Studies through effective critical thinking, writing, and oral skills
• Analyze the relationships between Asian and Asian Americans and other racial and ethnic communities through intersectional, relational, and comparative lenses
• Apply and develop knowledge about Asian American Studies by participating in community engagement projects